GM engineer's home-built race cars inspire Hummer EV features
Mike Colville is a self-described "car junkie." He's built 12 cars by hand in his Michigan garage over the years. But they aren't just any cars. These babies can fly across a desert floor at insanely high speeds, then they slow to a crawl, creeping over the top of a rocky mountain. Colville's cars have competed in Ultra4 endurance races where he was a professional racer for eight years. "It was scary, fun, exhilarating and I'm proud," Colville, 42, said recently of the endurance off-road races where truck-like buggies race at speeds of more than 100 mph across open deserts and ...