1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (742+ words) There’s a number making the rounds: 932 miles of range, five seconds to refuel. It’s a spectacular pair of figures. It’s also nowhere on NamX’s website, which is a strange place for a manufacturer’s headline specs to not be. So let’s…...

1+ day, 17+ min ago   (196+ words) Here’s where you need to slow down, because that phrase is doing a lot of unearned work. India is the world’s largest two-wheeler market and it isn’t close — SIAM’s data put domestic two-wheeler sales at roughly 1.9 million units in a…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (393+ words) Charity lots break normal valuation math because the underbidder isn’t competing on the car. He’s competing on the room, the announcement, and the relationship with Maranello that a nine-figure-net-worth collector considers a strategic asset. A first-in-line Ferrari with a philanthropic…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (959+ words) John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week. He's drawn…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (934+ words) Backfire News Eighteen months ago, somebody paid $271,555 for a 2023 Dodge Challenger Hellcat wearing a hand-built carbon-fiber body designed to look like a 1968 Dodge Charger. This week, that exact same car is back on Bring a Trailer, and as of this…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (298+ words) Hyundai’s maddest EV just got a lot easier to sign for. On July 15, Hyundai Motor America announced that the 2026 IONIQ 5 N starts at $59,900 before a $1,600 destination charge, a $6,300 reduction from where the 2025 model landed. That’s a sticker-price cut, not a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (771+ words) Thirty-five stories. Five days. No shortage of horsepower, controversy, wreckage, racing drama, or genuinely useful advice. This is your complete Backfire News weekly automotive news roundup for July 13–17, 2026. From a salvage-yard Corvette countdown and a looming diesel-rule rewrite to a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (267+ words) If you own a diesel pickup, run a fleet, or just like knowing how the sausage gets made in Washington, this one is worth understanding beyond the press release headline. It isn’t a full repeal. It’s a renegotiation of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (774+ words) John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week. He's drawn…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1114+ words) Shawn Henry has spent years writing about cars, and it shows—not in a resume kind of way, but in how he talks about them. He's the type who'll notice the weird trim option nobody remembers and actually know why…...