Give Me One Good Reason to Buy a Fiat!

One good reason is that if you buy the Fiat 500 Abarth, you get a day of the Abarth Experience!  What in the world is that?  It's a day of driving an Abarth (not yours, the Fiat folks provide the cars) and learning how to drive it faster from professional instructors!Several...

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A Little Snow and More Schedule Updates

We finally got hit with a little bit of snow down here in South Carolina, which put a hold on almost all of daily life today, and made the Miata sad to sit in the garage with it's top still down from upper 60 degree weather just a day ago.Additional autocross dates were announced...

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Pre Season

You might be aware that the NASCAR folks are really hitting the pre-season media this week, with lots of teams doing press conferences and other media events. You can see the schedule at this link: NASCAR.   Of course for real professional race teams (unlike us), they have to worry about promoting not only themselves and their drivers, but...

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January 2014 Cars and Coffee Report

Saturday the 25th was the first Cars and Coffee here in Columbia SC C&C Columbia and despite a cold day here in the south, there was a large turnout of automotive enthusiasts (car guys and gals).  You can find some of our photos from the event at our Nixon Motor...

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Catch us on Flickr for ALL the Photos

Now you can catch all the NMS photos on our new Flickr account!http://www.flickr.com/photos/nms-racing/We'll also keep the permanent link on the right hand navigation in our Links section.We don't have much up there yet, but with the first Columbia Cars and Coffee coming up tomorrow and lots of racing action headed this way very soon we're getting...

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The Miata in Martinsville

NMS is looking forward to starting the 2014 autocross season just about a month from now, so while we're gearing up with a few car modifications and a new tweak to the helmet decals just for fun, I thought we'd take a look back just a few years ago with the 04 Mazdaspeed Miata.Brian...

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Better Than Ever

Today we launch a slight re-design of the site with the addition of navigation tabs just below the header.We now have dedicated pages to keep you in the loop with our overall points standings as we progress through the season as well as a little more background on us and our cars.We'll also be keeping a dedicated page with our racing schedule with...

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2014 Autocross Schedule Announced

Good news, race fans.  The 2014 SCR SCCA autocross schedule was released today.  All dates remain tentative but the team is beginning to build their season schedule and travel plans.  This year there are are a greater number of CCR events that may be attended...

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Auto Shows

Our last two blogs talked about the new car auto show in Greenville SC, and I probably forgot to mention that it was sponsored by Motor Trend magazine. Whether you like your car magazines hard copy in your hands, or read them digitally, there is probably a car magazine for just...

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SC International Auto Show Part 2

In our last blog post, Brian talked about his visit on Saturday with test drives of several new cars.  Today I visited the show in Greenville, and while I didn't test drive anything, I had a good time walking around and looking at a lot of new cars. Also looked at some...

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SC International Auto Show

This weekend is the South Carolina International Auto Show in Greenville, SC.  I made it to the show this morning and here's a few of my highlights...The show is smaller than many of the other shows around, but does feature a good number of manufactures and the chance to...

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Coming to Grips with Cold Weather

South Carolina finally got hit with some real cold weather for the first time in a while and certainly the first real cold weather since I've had summer performance tires on the Miata.  It was about 20 degrees yesterday when I was on my way home from the gym and after a...

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Car Show Freak Out!

     Probably every brand of automobile has it's fans and a car club that celebrates their rides.  Performance cars like Mustangs, Camaros, Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, and Corvettes have lots of clubs all over the place, and sponsor events such as car shows,...

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Mail Call

     While the internet seems to have taken over life as we know it, some of Nixon Motor Sports favorite things still come in the good old fashioned mail!  Whether it's car parts that are on order, or the cool racing gear that you probably can't find at your...

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Charlotte Cars and Coffee = Chilly

     Those of you that live in the northern part of the planet will laugh when I tell you that it was cold in Charlotte this morning, since it was only 27 degrees, so let's go with "chilly" to describe today's Cars and Coffee. A few of the highlights included...

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Season 3 of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"

     Do you need a sense of humor to drive a car? How about to work on one? Not sure about that, but I'll bet a sense of humor helps a lot when your car breaks down. One guy that is into cars is comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and if you didn't know, he has a show on the internet that is pretty much unlike anything else.     Instead...

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Happy New Year 2014!

     As we start a New Year, NMS is looking forward to another fun filled year of auto crossing, and other related car events throughout the year.  Last year was our first try at autocrossing, and driving in those few events just makes me want to do more...

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