We write about cars the way people actually talk about them.
Tarmac n Torque started the way most good car obsessions do — I couldn't stop texting friends about stories nobody else was covering, so eventually I just built the thing myself. It's a one-person, fully independent outlet running purely on curiosity and too much coffee, with zero manufacturer ad budget around to tell me what I'm supposed to like this month. I don't have a home team, either: Japan or America, turbo or supercharged, bone stock or fully built — I'd rather chase the best story than defend a side just to sound like I have a stronger opinion.
What we cover
News & Features
Fast-moving industry news and long-form stories about the cars, drivers, and moments that don't fit in a press release — from market shifts to the culture around driving.
Motorsports
From F1 pit lane engineering and WEC's hypercar renaissance down to privateer GT4 teams grinding it out on their own budget.
Drift & Stance
Option2-style drift cinema, Wekfest and the touring show circuit, and the JDM culture that built the aesthetic everyone else is now copying.
Builds & Restorations
Widebody rotary swaps, thousand-horsepower daily drivers, barn finds brought back from the dead — garage work covered with the respect it deserves.
Aftermarket
Turbos, superchargers, wheels, bodykits — covering both the Japanese and U.S. sides of the parts industry without picking a team.
Motorcycles
New model-year lineups, café racer concepts, and the rallies and vintage festivals that bring two wheels into the same conversation as four.
Events
A running, honestly-curated calendar of meets, track days, concours, and shows across the country — the ones worth setting an early alarm for.
Who's behind this
One person, way too many opinions about cars.
Mitch Hanchett
I write, edit, and publish everything here myself — news, features, builds, restorations, the events calendar, all of it. If the tone shifts a little from one piece to the next, that's just one person covering a lot of ground, not a big masthead.
The Sunday Idle
One email a week: the best story we ran, three events worth the drive, and nothing else.