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Cars and Car Design

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Albert Pujols' Cars Well-Suited for Southern California, Even If Slugger Is Not

    A lot has been made about Albert Pujols' struggles at the plate this year. After 28 games as a member of the Los Angeles Angels, Pujols is hitting just .196 with seven RBI's. (He did hit a home run yesterday, ending his longest drought without a homer.)Still the questions persist: Is Pujols putting ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2012

    Drivin' Down the Bunny Trail

    A lot has been made about Albert Pujols' struggles at the plate this year. After 28 games as a member of the Los Angeles Angels, Pujols is hitting just .196 with seven RBI's. (He did hit a home run yesterday, ending his longest drought without a homer.)Still the questions persist: Is Pujols putting ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2012

    All the Pretty Horses

    A lot has been made about Albert Pujols' struggles at the plate this year. After 28 games as a member of the Los Angeles Angels, Pujols is hitting just .196 with seven RBI's. (He did hit a home run yesterday, ending his longest drought without a homer.)Still the questions persist: Is Pujols putting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    The Super Bowl Commercial Post, 2012 Edition

    ​Oy. Every year I keep hoping for a great return to form, and every single year I am disappointed. The Super Bowl was played yesterday -- you may have heard something about it -- and it turned out to not only be a rematch of the 2008 game between the Patriots of New England and the New York G ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    Monsters of Metal Jam Again

    ​Oy. Every year I keep hoping for a great return to form, and every single year I am disappointed. The Super Bowl was played yesterday -- you may have heard something about it -- and it turned out to not only be a rematch of the 2008 game between the Patriots of New England and the New York G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    The Super-Erotic Lamborghini Aventador Gets Rolled Out by STL Motorsports

    Daily RFT doesn't know jack about cars. So when STL Motorsports called a press conference to roll out an obscenely high-end vehicle last week, we knew whom to send: Alex Macfarlane, the local 27-year-old whose attempt to win an outlaw cross-country car race in 2010 become the subject of our feature, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Illinois State Police Uncover Massive Marijuana Shipments in Metro East

    ​Illinois State Police have seized 743 pounds of cannabis valued in excess of $3.4 million during two traffic stops along Interstate 70 in metro East St. Louis within the past 30 days. On August 29, District 11 troopers stopped a silver Ford pickup on I-70 near Troy and located 633 pounds of can ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2011

    Growin' Mobile

    ​Illinois State Police have seized 743 pounds of cannabis valued in excess of $3.4 million during two traffic stops along Interstate 70 in metro East St. Louis within the past 30 days. On August 29, District 11 troopers stopped a silver Ford pickup on I-70 near Troy and located 633 pounds of can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Armed Security Guard Can't Discourage Drive-By Shooters

    Yes, many rent-a-cops are harmless, but some are armed and semi-dangerous.​Just how brazen are St. Louis thugs? Here's an example from early this morning: A little after midnight, an eighteen-year-old male was talking to a security guard for an apartment complex in the 2500 block of Hodiamont in n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    The Black Prius Gets Revenge in the Whole Foods Parking Lot

    One month ago today we brought you a hip-hop ode to the 99 problems experienced in the average Whole Foods parking lot. The boys of Fog and Smog are gettin' real after losing the parking space they wanted to a sneaky black Prius. Oh, the driver of that black Prius, Delia Brown, has a few things to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    The Dive Poets Recommended Tour Essentials: AAA "Plus," Ramen, Canned Meat and Peanuts

    Anna Moffatt and Eric Sargent in Tulsa. Courtesy of the Dive Poets.​Roughly half of St. Louis' finnest fiddlin' folk/Americana outfit, the Dive Poets, took to the road recently -- Jeff York and Renato Durante stayed home with new babies, and Eric Sargent, Karl Eggers and Anna Moffatt comprised ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Bo & the Locomotive Triumphantly Return, Having Only Slept On Cat-Piss Couches Once

    Bourbon Street. Photos courtesy of Bo Bulawsky.​Bo & the Locomotive is gearing up for the release of its first full length, On My Way; it's out July 30th. The band is, in fact, exactly on its way, having just returned from a tour that took Bo and his band through the South. There were especia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    15,000 Cars Stolen In Missouri in 2010; One-Fourth of Them From St. Louis

    The Ford Taurus was the most-stolen vehicle in Missouri last year.​The Missouri Insurance Information Service reports that 15,640 vehicles were stolen in Missouri in 2010. Nearly half (47 percent) of those vehicle thefts occurred inside the borders of St. Louis and Kansas City. The good news? The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Rex Sinquefield Registers His Bentley and His Vote in Osage County

    Sinquefield's 2008 Bentley Continential Flying Spur could provide the city with $3,000 in taxes this year -- if he registered it in St. Louis.​The man who's poured millions of dollars of his own money into an effort to change the tax structure in St. Louis is not registered to vote in St. Louis, e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Middle-Schoolers Out Joyriding, Suspected of Firing Flare that Torched Home, Killed 13 Dogs

    They were out joyriding in a red Dodge Charger when two kids from East St. Louis -- ages 12 and 13 -- allegedly stopped by a home in rural East Carondelet, Illinois, and fired a flare. The device caught a shed on fire with the flames quickly moving on to the home. Inside were 13 dogs -- a dozen mini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Ford to Escape Missouri As Legislators Debate Throwing Automaker Millions in Aid Anyway

    Left, toward Kentucky.​So, here's an interesting twist to the political story du jour in Jefferson City. As you probably know, legislators are meeting in a special session this week to consider offering Ford $15-million in annual tax-incentives for a decade if it upgrades its Claycomo assembly pla ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2010

    Earache My Eye

    Left, toward Kentucky.​So, here's an interesting twist to the political story du jour in Jefferson City. As you probably know, legislators are meeting in a special session this week to consider offering Ford $15-million in annual tax-incentives for a decade if it upgrades its Claycomo assembly pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    RIP: Donald N. Frey, Native St. Louisan and Father of the Ford Mustang

    What better way to commemorate the passing earlier this month of native St. Louisan Donald N. Frey, creator of the Ford Mustang, than to show Steve McQueen's famous chase scene in the 1968 film, Bullitt? That's right: There isn't a better way. (Click here for Frey's obit in Sunday's New York Times.) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    From Staycation to "State Journalist," Tom Uhlenbrock Reclaims the Travel Beat

    Wikimedia CommonsHave station wagon, will travel. ​Attention, unemployed journalists everywhere! Tom Uhlenbrock has figured out how you can keep your credibility and your expense account: Get hired by the government. OK, it might not work for everybody, but it worked for the veteran travel writer. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Charles W. Kemp, 18, Shot and Killed After He Allegedly Tried to Steal Pickup Truck

    Charles W. Kemp, 18, didn't have to pop the lock with a screwdriver, or bust out the window of the pickup he was trying to steal on Sunday morning. It was unlocked and the engine was already running.But while the theft might have appeared easy, Kemp probably didn't count on the truck's owner sh ... More >>

  • Music

    October 7, 2009

    Bottle Rockets

    9 p.m. Friday, October 9, and Saturday, October 10. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

  • Music

    September 16, 2009

    Maserati

    9 p.m. Friday, September 18. The Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

  • Music

    August 12, 2009

    Andrew Jackson Jihad

    8 p.m. Saturday, August 15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Missouri Car Thieves Motto: Steal American

    en.wikigta.org​Ever wonder how one of Detroit's finest automobiles became the stripped hoopty cruising down Kingshighway? According to data compiled by a Missouri insurance group, it's because the Show-Me State's car thieves love to swipe rides that were made in the USA.The most popular ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2009

    Car Crazy

    en.wikigta.org​Ever wonder how one of Detroit's finest automobiles became the stripped hoopty cruising down Kingshighway? According to data compiled by a Missouri insurance group, it's because the Show-Me State's car thieves love to swipe rides that were made in the USA.The most popular ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    RFT Writer to Appear Friday on KMOX Regarding Dissapearance of Boy, 9

    Christian Ferguson in an undated photograph from the 1990s. Says his mother, Theda Thomas: "Some people never knew he could walk and talk, how he loved to sing, how he prayed all the time."Christian Ferguson went missing six years ago Saturday. He was nine years old. His father, Dawan Ferguson, told ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Hey St. Louis! Did Your Bling Get Confiscated in a Drug Bust? The DEA Wants to Know.

    Lose your Cadillac Escalade in a drug bust, and you're a completely innocent party? The DEA wants to know!For the past several weeks the Drug Enforcement Administration has been running advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications asking people to identify thousands of i ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2009

    Wild Rides: Sometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the hybrid Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure.

    Lose your Cadillac Escalade in a drug bust, and you're a completely innocent party? The DEA wants to know!For the past several weeks the Drug Enforcement Administration has been running advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications asking people to identify thousands of i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2009

    All-Ford Exhibit

    Lose your Cadillac Escalade in a drug bust, and you're a completely innocent party? The DEA wants to know!For the past several weeks the Drug Enforcement Administration has been running advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications asking people to identify thousands of i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Wednesday, March 18: Morning's Newz

    A man in southwestern Illinois is blaming the sleeping pill Ambien for a recent brush with the law. The man says he took the drug and the next thing he remembered was waking up in a jail cell where police charged him with attempting to break into a home and resisting arrest. The man aptly calls his ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2009

    Car Crazy

    There's a lot on view

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2008

    Behold: Beer

    It’s time to celebrate!

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2007

    Rough 24 Hours

    It’s time to celebrate!

  • Home Entertainment

    June 13, 2007

    Car Lust

    Take a ride with Forza 2, the greatest car sim ever.

  • News

    May 30, 2007
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    May 23, 2007
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    August 10, 2005

    Beemer Me Up

    Drive for the cure

  • Calendar

    July 20, 2005

    Non-Crash Course

    BMW Ultimate Driving Experience

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Chilling Out

    From pool-sneaking to nudist camps, we offer cool ways to beat the heat

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2004

    Cast the First Stone

    Then watch it bounce

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2004

    A Car Is Born

    The St. Louis Auto Show has things that make you go vroom

  • Film

    June 4, 2003

    2 the Extreme

    The high-speed sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious delivers more noise and more flash

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2003

    Quantum Jeep

    Female four-wheel-drive aficionados make tracks to monthly meeting

  • Music

    October 9, 2002

    Maserati with the Paper Lions and Southern Rise

    Thursday, October 10; Lemmon's Basement Bar

  • News

    August 21, 2002

    Old West Rest

    Joe Arena's cowboy obsession and the frontier trappings of his assisted-living home

  • Calendar

    June 13, 2001

    Cannonball Fun

    The History Channel's Great Race brings vintage jalopies rolling into Kirkwood

  • Calendar

    January 31, 2001

    It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

    The 2001 St. Louis Auto Show has a vehicle for everyone -- from classic to concept

  • Calendar

    September 27, 2000

    The Starship Hits the Fan

    St. Louis gears up for Archon 24

  • Music

    March 1, 2000

    Fu Manchu with Sevendust and P.O.D.

    Thursday, March 2; Pop's

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    Wheel Be Seeing You

    A first-timer's guide to this year's auto show

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