Mickey Thompson was known as the fastest man on four wheels. The racing legend earned the sobriquet ‘Speed King’ after breaking the American land-speed record in 1960, clocking in at almost 407 mph on ...

We saw some good deals on Goodyear and Cooper tires at Walmart last week, around Black Friday. But as of this weekend, a whole bunch of Mickey Thompson all-terrain and mud-terrain off-road tires are ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

STOW, Ohio, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mickey Thompson Tires & Wheels is proud to introduce the Street Comp GHT, next-generation Ultra Ultra High Performance (UUHP) summer tire built for ...

LOS ANGELES – A California appeals court has upheld convictions in the murders of auto racing great Mickey Thompson and his wife. A three-judge panel on Monday said it found no prejudicial errors in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An appeals court upheld convictions Monday in the murders of auto racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife. A three-judge panel on the 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously ...

Michael F. Goodwin, 56, was arrested Thursday (December 13) for two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder of auto racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife, Trudy. The couple ...

Come celebrate the life and fast times of motorsports legend Mickey Thompson with the people who knew him best: his son, Danny Thompson; his first wife and Danny's mother, Judy Thompson Creach; fellow ...

Mickey Thompson may be best known for his exploits on the race track, but he had room in his heart for cars of all shapes and sizes. And now the sports car he used to get from one track to the ...

In a way, the surprising thing was not that Marion (Mickey) Thompson was dead, but that he had lived so long. He had been flirting with death all his life. How he died was even more out of character ...

Two months before General Motors made the Z06 option available on the C2 Corvette, it sent out 15 examples of Z06-equipped Corvettes to various racing drivers and teams so they could field the cars in ...

LAS VEGAS — Astute movie viewers may already have been clued in by a brief "Easter egg" in the film "The Batman," but now the rest of us know that the uber-performing Batmobile from the film owed some ...