Moving Stories Blog

  • Last week at the 2015 SEMA show, Ford Motor Company unveiled the 2015 Cobra Jet Mustang. The first Cobra Jet’s appeared in 1968 as “Super Stock” drag racing Mustangs that reestablished Ford as a leader on the dragstrip. However, were it not for the ingenuity of one man and his staff following a mechanical mishap, the Cobra Jet name may have never existed. Bob Tasca (right) was the owner and founder of Tasca Ford; a
  • By Matt Wolfe It is a rare occurrence in the tightly regulated and highly competitive environment that is the auto industry for a concept to be perpetually abandoned and reincarnated. Often when a vehicle, technology, or brand fails, it is left for dead and the industry moves along. This phenomenon makes the rotary’s lifecycle of repeated successes and failures a remarkable feat. On October 27th, rumors were circulating wildly around the Internet that Mazda would
  • Occupying a combined space of 10.9 Million sq. ft., the Highland Park Plant, Packard Plant, and Russel Industrial Center are Detroit’s largest abandoned automotive heritage sites. Once thriving with activity, these monoliths of automotive production fell silent long ago and have haunted the city’s landscape for decades. However, in the midst of Detroit’s comeback, these mammoth’s of Detroit’s past are undergoing a renaissance of their own, providing a portal to what was and what could
  • By Matt Wolfe In the company’s 68 year history of building road cars, only six models have ever left a Ferrari factory equipped with a turbocharger. Previously reserved for high performance applications, turbocharging has become increasingly mainstream across numerous makes and models due to ever more stringent fuel economy requirements and the industry’s current trend towards engine downsizing. Ferrari has experimented with the technology intermittently throughout its history as a performance adder for road cars

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