Cars and Car Design

The Six Best Songs With Ridiculously Long Titles

Last week, Kieran Hebden from Four Tet announced a new single entitled "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix and Daphni Played on Boiler Room." It's an okay track with an awful title, but you have to give Hebden props for taking the plunge. Here a ... More >>

10 Coolest (and Craziest) Cars of the 2013 St. Louis Auto Show

I have been attending the St. Louis Auto Show for probably twenty years now. I can recall back when the Caprice-based Impala was a concept. The Viper and Sunfire as well. The Acura NSX. And I saw them all, live and in person. Over acres and acres of jam-packed floor space. Every manufacturer and n ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why do Mexican men love classic cars?

Colin Hay

8 p.m. Friday, September 14. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Man Critically Injured in Overnight Shooting in Wells-Goodfellow

St. Louis police were called to the 2500 block of Hodiamont Avenue last night for a reported shooting. They found a 17-year-old black man down in a breezeway with a gunshot wound to the chest just after 1:30 a.m. He was taken to an area hospital where he's listed in critical but stable condition.Wit ... More >>

Brandon Jones Killed by Police During Interrupted Robbery

Police were called to the 6200 block of Famous Avenue in Dogtown on Tuesday for a reported burglary in progress. When they arrived just after noon, the burglary turned into a shoot-out and pursuit that still continues today.According to the police incident summary, the responding officers, a 48-year ... More >>

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 >>

Drivin' Down the Bunny Trail

All the Pretty Horses

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 >>

Monsters of Metal Jam Again

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Earache My Eye

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 >>

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 >>

Bottle Rockets

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

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.

Andrew Jackson Jihad

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

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 >>

Car Crazy

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 >>

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.

All-Ford Exhibit

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 >>

Behold: Beer

It’s time to celebrate!

Rough 24 Hours

Is a Chicano Studies major worth a hill of frijoles?

The Mexican wants to know.

Is a Chicano Studies major worth a hill of frijoles?

The Mexican wants to know.

Beemer Me Up

Drive for the cure

Non-Crash Course

BMW Ultimate Driving Experience

Chilling Out

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

Cast the First Stone

Then watch it bounce

A Car Is Born

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

2 the Extreme

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

Quantum Jeep

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

Maserati with the Paper Lions and Southern Rise

Thursday, October 10; Lemmon's Basement Bar

Old West Rest

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

Cannonball Fun

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

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

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

The Starship Hits the Fan

St. Louis gears up for Archon 24

Fu Manchu with Sevendust and P.O.D.

Thursday, March 2; Pop's

Wheel Be Seeing You

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