A Sweet Sickness: The Flathead Movie plays out like you happened into a shop in the middle of the day.
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Tony Borroz grew up in a sportscar oriented family, but sadly, it was British cars. His knuckles still show the marks of slipped Whitworth sockets, strains to reach upper rear shock bushings on Triumphs, and slight burn marks from dealing with Lucas Electric “systems.” He has written for a variety of car magazines and websites, Automoblog chief among them. Tony has worked on popular driving games as a content expert, in addition to working for aerospace companies, software giants, and as a movie stuntman. He lives in the northeast corner of the northwestern most part of the Pacific Northwest.
Brainless characters, lack of a plot, or a script full of clichés. Whatever the case, here are five of the worst car movies ever made.
Steve McQueen stars as an American endurance driver racing the 24 Hours of Le Mans, filmed on location in 1970.
Between 1997 and 2014, Tom Kristensen won the world’s toughest motor race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, a record nine times. This is his story.
Cosworth: The Search For Power traces the company's complete history, including the legacy it left in racing with the DFV engine.
Four villainous men risk their lives transporting volatile nitroglycerin across the South American jungle.
Some are classics, and some are newer, but any one of them will make for a great movie night.
Fargo, the highly praised and award-winning film by the Coen brothers, is rarely mentioned as a car movie, but it qualifies in a few odd ways.
The Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive has been an unqualified hit. Engaging and entertaining, the series has brought in legions of new fans to F1 and entertained veteran gearheads such as myself since it debuted in 2018. If the Netflix production whetted your appetite for speed, then there’s a book...
Le Mans 100 by author Glen Smale is a compendium of every race held at Circuit de la Sarthe over the last century.
Triumph Cars: 100 Years tells the story of the rise and fall of one of the best makers of pure, driver-centric sports cars.
America’s Greatest Road Trip! Key West to Dead Horse: 9,000 Miles Across Backroad USA is a book that might inspire you to get out and drive!
It would be easy to mistake Lamborghini 60 Years as just another coffee table book. Large in format and loaded with gorgeous...
Porsche 356: 75th Anniversary tells the story of Porsche’s original sports car, from the first Gmund coupe to today’s beloved collector car.
NASCAR 75 Years captures the most significant moments of the sport throughout the decades. It's a perfect gift for any NASCAR fan.
The BMW Century showcases how the company’s visionary team systematically rebuilt BMW post-World War II.
Beyond the Visible is a five-part mini-series highlighting the Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN. The episodes are available on the Alfa...
Every so often, a movie features a car chase or two that really knocks it out of the park. You know, the sort of movie, even years later, people are still talking about the car chase. After bouncing it back and forth at the Automoblog office, here are our picks for the...
Ronin is entertaining from start to finish. The casting is excellent, the script flows, and it still appeals to a wide...
If you liked the original animated series, the full-length picture is definitely worth adding to your watch list.
Best Car Movies On Hulu: Quick Overview Say you’re a gearhead, and Hulu is your steaming service of choice. What, prey tell, are your options if you’re in the mood for some commercial-free, car-oriented entertainment? Though movies can appear and disappear from time to time, here are the best car...
Mildred asks Johnny, “What are you rebelling against?” Johnny Strabler replies, “What’ve you got?” And that, in addition to being...
Thunder Road was arguably the first honest look into the post-war moonshine culture that gave birth to NASCAR. If you...
The unspoken question (and answer) of Rapid Response is this: Can auto racing ever be completely safe? And the answer is no, but the book’s author has made it his life’s work to try. Rapid Response, My Inside Story as a Motor Racing Life-Saver is a memoir written by Dr....
Although it’s now older than most car movies, Winning is a good examination of the American racing scene in the late 1960s....
Audi has just dropped the big one: They will officially enter Formula 1! This has been rumored for literally years,...
A documentary about Max Mosley, unironically called Mosley: It’s Complicated, is now available on Amazon Prime. It’s a fairly thorough look into the guy that started a race team and ended up literally running the whole show. That is until one of the most lurid scandals in British tabloid history brought him...
Monster Truck Championship! I have no real depth of knowledge when it comes to monster trucks (I’m more of a...
Logitech G920 Review Summary Logitech G920 Review: Quick Take Logitech recently sent us one of their Driving Force racing wheel...
Not five minutes into Trading Paint, the clichés are flying thick and heavy: track announcer expositions, up-and-coming driver, old hand running the team, vengeful antagonist, flashback to romantic loss, the whole enchilada. And then, we cut to a quiet aerial scene of a lake. “Bass fishing?!” I ask out loud. We cut...
