With little fanfare or widespread media attention outside of Indiana, Carbon Motors filed for bankruptcy on June 7. It would seem that the saga of their purpose-built police cars with powerful BMW diesel engines has finally come to a sad and ignominious end.
Mazda hasn't formally announced it yet, but the car you're looking at is almost certainly the 2014 Mazda3
Easily one of the most notorious disasters of the 1990s was the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996, which killed 230 people on their way from New York's JFK Airport to Paris. The probable cause of the crash was determined to be an accidental fuel tank explosion, but a new documentary is challenging that theory.
Why Your Local Chevy Dealer Might Not Have The Corvette Stingray
Want the 2014 Corvette Stingray
The tale of Irv Gordon's three million mile 1966 Volvo P1800S
Road Rage Leads To Ridiculous Fight Between Old Cop And Old Lawyer
Remember when we talked about what you're supposed to do after a car accident
Mistress Of Man Murdered By Mob Crashes Car Into Open Grave
Here's a "you can't make this stuff up" story to start your day: A woman was arrested in Staten Island and charged with drunk driving after police say she drove her Chrysler Sebring into an open grave while visiting the mausoleum of her dead boyfriend, who was killed in a possibly Mafia-related crime in 2008.
'The Four-Cylinder Baby Benz Is Back'
Yesterday we brought you MotorWeek's 1994 test of the then-new Mercedes-Benz C-Class
The Most Dangerous Way To Test A 'Bulletproof' Mercedes
Auto journalists, like The Smoking Tire's Matt Farah, are tasked with evaluating cars both new and old, putting them through their paces, and seeing if they live up to manufacturers' hype. If you have an armored Mercedes-Benz, and if you're brave enough, that means getting shot at while you sit inside.
To be fair, that's an AP story, and it's what everyone expected and reported this morning, including us.
