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Everything we've published, from track-side reporting to slow Sunday reads.
Portland Reopened IndyCar's Oldest Argument: What a Lapped Car Owes the Leader
Felix Rosenqvist and Will Power came off the podium asking for a real blue-flag rule. Alex Palou, who won the race, and his strategist made the case that the rule is fine as long as everyone lives under the same one.
The XSR900 GP Is Finally Coming to America, and a Smog Filing Gave It Away
A California Air Resources Board executive order dated August 3 certifies Yamaha's half-faired, clip-on-barred 890cc triple as a 2027 model — two years after Europe got it and with no announcement from Yamaha yet.
Ford Is Recalling 86,543 Mach-Es Because a Faster Jig Didn't Let the Glue Cure
The rear side quarter window trim on 2023–2025 Mustang Mach-Es can work loose and come off in traffic. Ford traced it to a supplier fixture that cut the installation time — and, with it, the primer's cure time.
Ford Reportedly Showed Dealers a Four-Door Mustang
At a dealer meeting in Las Vegas, Ford is said to have put an image of a Mustang sedan on the screen — gas-powered, possibly hybrid, aimed at the Charger, and due before the decade is out.
Jaguar Split the Type 01's Cabin Down the Middle
The first interior images of Jaguar's electric four-door GT show a brass-finished spine running end to end, four separate seats, and a dashboard designed to hide most of its technology.
Two Digger Engines and 406 MPH: Andy Green Has a Third Record
The JCB Hydromax averaged 406.320 mph at Bonneville on a pair of hydrogen-burning excavator engines, more than doubling a hydrogen combustion mark that had stood since 2004.
Everybody Loved the Rivian R2. Nobody Has Driven the One That Actually Matters.
The reviews that landed on June 9 were close to unanimous — and every single one of them was of a $57,990 Performance. The $44,990 version Rivian's whole future is riding on doesn't show up until 2027.
Dodge Gave the Six-Cylinder Charger a Clutch Pedal. It Took a Drift Build to Do It.
Two 750-horsepower Chargers built with Hemmings in 60 days are the first manually shifted SIXPACK cars Dodge has shown — and one of them is a four-door built to carry passengers sideways.
Pininfarina Redrew the NSX, and the Only Two Pedals It Left Out Are the Ones You'd Miss
JAS Motorsport's Tensei keeps the pop-up headlights, the naturally aspirated V6 and a six-speed manual. The newly revealed cabin is the last piece before a Paris debut in October.
One Screw, 43,913 Motorcycles: Honda's Rebel Handlebar Recall More Than Doubles
A handlebar lock screw that can back out and drop into the steering head first put 19,406 bikes under recall in March. The expanded campaign reaches back to 2017 — and the final fix isn't ready yet.
The Next Camaro Reportedly Slips to 2029 — Four Doors, Rear-Drive, and a Stick
GM Authority says the seventh-generation car has moved to the 2029 model year on an updated Alpha architecture, built where the last one was. Chevrolet has confirmed none of it.
Market Find: A 190E Evolution II That Spent 36 Years in Japan — #448 of the 502 Mercedes Had to Build
Mercedes built exactly enough Evolution IIs to go touring car racing, and this one was delivered new in Japan and stayed there until it was exported this year. Bidding on Bring a Trailer sat at $201,000 with a week left to run.
Ty Gibbs Waited 131 Starts for a First Cup Win. The Second One Took Four Months.
At Iowa, Gibbs took the final stage and held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell, turning a career that had produced nothing into two wins in one season.
Ford Ran the Timing Belt Through the Oil. Federal Investigators Say the Belt Is Now Starving the Engine.
A belt-in-oil drive is quieter and lower-friction than a chain. NHTSA's new engineering analysis says the 1.0-liter EcoBoost's belt sheds material that clogs the oil pump pickup — and that screen can't be cleaned without pulling the engine.
1.27 Million Ram 1500s Recalled Because the Rear Seat Belt Anchors May Never Have Been Attached
Eight model years of Ram's best-selling truck may have second-row buckle anchors that were never properly secured to the body. Until a dealer looks, Stellantis says move rear passengers to the far side.
The Automatic's Oldest Trick: How a Torque Converter Multiplies Torque With No Gears
It has no gear teeth and nothing that meshes, yet a torque converter can roughly double engine torque off the line. The part doing the work is the one bolted to nothing at all.
A Corroding Door Switch Is Behind Mercedes' Biggest US Recall of the Year
310,667 vehicles, eight model lines, and a failure that starts nowhere near the brakes: a microswitch in the driver's door that stops the car knowing the door is open.
Lucid Pushes Its Affordable Crossover to 2027 After a $1 Billion Quarter
The Cosmos was supposed to be the car that got Lucid out of the six-figure niche. A new CEO just moved it to the second half of 2027, and the quarter behind it explains why.
Corsair Just Bought Trak Racer — Fanatec Now Sells the Whole Rig, Motorcycle Sim Included
Two years after taking over Fanatec, Corsair has acquired the assets of Melbourne cockpit builder Trak Racer, adding aluminium chassis, motion systems, Hot Wheels and Porsche licences, a flight simulator and a $1,999 motorcycle rig to a portfolio that until now stopped at the wheelbase.
Market Find: The Last Manual V12 Lamborghini Heads to Sealed Bidding
A one-off, gated-manual Murciélago LP 670-4 SV finished in a color no other example wears is up for sealed bidding at RM Sotheby's, with the closest thing to a factory guarantee that no more like it are coming.
Market Find: Nick Heidfeld's Ultra-Rare Porsche 959 Sport Heads to Monterey
One of just 29 959 Sport examples built, and one of only two finished with factory air conditioning, this Grand Prix White coupe carries a $5 million to $6 million estimate at RM Sotheby's Monterey sale.
How Electronic Stability Control Reads a Slide and Corrects It Before the Driver Even Feels It
A network of wheel-speed, steering-angle, and yaw sensors checks the car's actual path against the driver's intended one many times a second — and brakes a single wheel to pull it back if the two disagree.
How Regenerative Braking Turns a Drive Motor Into a Generator — And Why It Still Needs Friction Brakes
Lifting off the accelerator in an EV or hybrid doesn't apply a "brake" in the traditional sense — it reverses the motor's job. Here's the mechanism behind that trick, how it's blended with hydraulic brakes to keep the pedal feeling normal, and why one-pedal driving isn't quite what it appears to be.
Inside the Millisecond Damper: How Adaptive Suspension Reads the Road and Rewrites Itself on the Fly
From magnetized fluid to electronically bypassed oil valves, three very different engineering approaches now let a single damper be soft and stiff within the same second.
A CVT Doesn't Shift Gears. It Never Stops Changing Its Ratio.
Two cone-shaped pulleys and a steel belt replace the fixed steps of a normal gearbox with one ratio that slides continuously, which is exactly why a CVT-equipped car never quite feels like it's shifting.
A Marine Bought This BMW R60 in 1960. His Stuntman Son Still Rides It.
Petrolicious profiled Tom McComas and the 1960 BMW R60 his father bought new the week he left the Marine Corps — a bike that stayed in the family through a stolen-and-recovered teenage joyride, a 2,300-mile father-son trip, and a nut-and-bolt restoration.
The Dodge Demon That Drove Him Home From the Hospital Never Left the Family
Stuart Lutz has owned his parents' 1971 Dodge Demon since he was 17, but his connection to the car goes back to his infancy — and 55 years later, it's still parked in his driveway in Orange, New Jersey.
After Thieves Took His First Supra, He Spent Five Years Building the Second One Right
Taj Turner's MkIV Toyota Supra project began with a stolen car and an insurance check — and turned into a five-year build that still stops strangers in the redwoods.
Iker Lecuona Breaks Bulega's 25-Race Win Streak With Maiden WorldSBK Victory at Donington
The Aruba.it Racing Ducati rider held off teammate Nicolò Bulega by 0.165 seconds in Race 1 of the UK Round, ending a decade-long wait for his first world championship win — before Bulega bounced back to sweep the rest of the weekend.
BMW Recalls Nearly 17,000 S 1000 RR Superbikes Over Ignition Lock Failures
Vibration-induced wear inside the ignition lock can cut power mid-ride, killing the dash, lighting, and rider-aid electronics; BMW says a permanent fix is still weeks away.
The Impossible Race: How a Buffalo-Built Car Won a Trip Around the World in 1908
Six cars from four nations set out from Times Square to drive to Paris — the long way, through Alaska, Japan, and Siberia. Only three finished, and the winner didn't cross the line first.
Fifty Years Since Bergwerk: The Crash That Ended Formula 1's Deadliest Circuit
On August 1, 1976, Niki Lauda's Ferrari caught fire on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. He survived, nearly won the title anyway, and the sport never raced a championship round on the full circuit again.
A Connecticut Barn Find Jaguar XK120 Comes Back to Life After a Five-Year Rebuild
Found as a bare frame off a back road near his home, Westport artist Paco's XK120 took five years to return to the road — and it's kept his family driving together ever since.
A Derelict GM EV1 Is Coming Back to Life, With GM's Help
Pulled from a Georgia tow yard for $104,000, EV1 serial number 212 is being rebuilt by its new owner and a YouTube restoration shop, with General Motors quietly supplying parts from its own historical stash.
For the First Time, All 20 BMW Art Cars Are Under One Roof in Munich
A free exhibition at BMW Welt brings together five decades of the automaker's Art Car program, from Alexander Calder's 1975 Le Mans racer to Julie Mehretu's 2024 hypercar.
RADwood Brings Its '80s and '90s Car Show Back to Tacoma, This Time Free to Spectators
The traveling nostalgia show that turned Fox-body Mustangs and Radwood-era Japanese coupes into concours material returned to Griot's Garage in Tacoma on July 18, with Hagerty video host Jason Cammisa as the marquee guest.
Lamborghini Will Gather Over 40 Miuras on Pebble Beach's 3rd Fairway for the Car's 60th Birthday
For the first time in the Concours d'Elegance's history, a fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links will be opened to a single-marque tribute, as Lamborghini assembles what it calls the largest gathering of Miuras ever staged.
Toyota Holds the Line on 2027 C-HR EV Pricing, Adds Standard AWD
The electric C-HR carries into its second model year with a base price of $37,080, dual-motor all-wheel drive as standard, and roughly the same 287-mile range.
Mitsubishi Teases Ladder-Frame Chassis of Next-Gen Pajero Ahead of September Reveal
A new underbody shot confirms the revived Pajero, sold as the Montero in North America, will ride on a Triton-derived ladder frame with Mitsubishi's S-AWC system, ahead of a September 2 world premiere.
Ford Prices Its Sub-$30,000 Electric Truck, Names It Fathom
The first vehicle off Ford's new Universal EV platform starts at $29,945 with destination, but the automaker still isn't showing what it looks like.
Rockford Fosgate Adds Three Factory-Fit Audio Kits for Polaris RZR and Sportsman
The Tempe, Arizona audio maker rolled out a rear-door speaker upgrade, a boosted subwoofer kit, and a new front-rack system built for Polaris off-road vehicles.
Michelin Launches XHA3 Radial Tire for Loaders, Dump Trucks and Graders
The new construction-equipment tire adds a sensor-free visual inflation indicator and claims up to 20% longer wear life than its predecessor, with U.S. availability beginning this year.
AWE Tuning Launches New Exhaust Suite for the BMW G42 M240i
The Pennsylvania-based exhaust maker says its straight-through 3-inch system frees up 65 percent more flow than stock, with Touring and Track editions built around the B58 inline-six.
American Force Adds Seven New Forged Wheel Designs to Its Lineup
The Wheel Pros-owned truck wheel brand expanded its monoblock forged catalog with seven new styles spanning sport truck, dually, and big-and-tall applications.
A Widebody R32 GT-R Wears a Hand-Painted Tribute to Japan
Osmond Seangsuwan's Liberty Walk-kitted 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R pairs a 500-whp RB26 with a custom cherry blossom and Great Wave livery, as featured by PASMAG.
Icon 4x4 Grafts a Vintage C10 Body Onto a New Silverado Underneath
The Chatsworth, California shop's Chevrolet C Modern Retro Series keeps a 1967-72 pickup's sheet metal and patina while running new Silverado chassis, drivetrain, and electronics beneath it — starting at $450,000.
At 14, Camren Sorensen Becomes Formula Drift's Youngest-Ever Winner in Indianapolis
Sorensen topped the PROSPEC podium at Indianapolis Raceway Park, beating his own sister in the Top 8 along the way, on a weekend the PRO main event was wiped out by flooding.
Paweł Korpuliński Wins Drift Masters Round 5 in Riga, Extends Championship Lead
The Polish driver beat breakout finalist Kevin Piskolty at Bikernieku Trase to open a 52-point gap atop the 2026 Drift Masters European Championship standings.
Bearman Says Hamilton's Ferrari Revival Complicates His Own Title Dream
The Haas driver says he is in no rush for a Maranello seat, but admits Lewis Hamilton's turnaround season has changed the picture for any young Briton hoping to wear red.
Sami Pajari Wins Rally Finland as Toyota Sweeps the Podium
The Finnish driver took his second win of the season on home gravel, while championship leader Elfyn Evans extended his points advantage with third place.
Wayne Taylor Racing Snaps Winless Streak as Pfaff and Lamborghini Score a Historic First at Road America
Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor won a caution-strewn six-hour GTP race in the No. 10 Cadillac, while Pfaff Motorsports gave the new Lamborghini Temerario GT3 its first-ever IMSA victory.
Alex Palou Wins Rain-Delayed Nashville Race, Stretches IndyCar Points Lead to 83
Palou beat a trio of Team Penske drivers at Nashville Superspeedway for his fifth win of 2026, moving closer to a record-tying fourth straight IndyCar championship.
Stellantis Recalls More Than 1.27 Million Ram 1500 Pickups Over Rear Seat Belt Anchors
NHTSA says the second-row seat belt buckle anchors on certain Ram 1500 trucks may not be properly secured to the body structure, raising the risk of injury in a crash.
BMW to Cut 8,000 Jobs by End of 2027 as China Sales Slump Hits Profit
The voluntary redundancy program, the largest in BMW's history, targets white-collar roles in Germany while leaving production staff untouched.
BMW Recalls 29,119 Plug-In Hybrid Sedans Over Starter Fire Risk
A corroded starter relay in the 330e, 530e, and 740Le iPerformance sedans can short-circuit and, in rare cases, ignite a fire — even while the car is parked and switched off. BMW is telling owners to park outside until it's fixed.
A Dual-Clutch Gearbox Has Two Transmissions Inside One Case, Each Waiting on the Other
A manual has one clutch and a pause between gears. A torque-converter automatic hides that pause in fluid. A dual-clutch transmission skips it entirely by pre-selecting the next gear on a second clutch before the first one lets go — a trick Porsche raced at Le Mans years before Volkswagen ever put it in a Golf.
Ram Brings Back the Rumble Bee Nameplate — This Time With a 777-HP Hellcat Option
Twenty-one years after the original limited-run 5.7-liter Hemi truck, the 2027 Rumble Bee returns as a full four-model lineup topping out at a supercharged, 170-mph street truck — undercutting the outgoing TRX SRT by $5,000 in the process.
Formula Drift's Indianapolis Debut Ends Early — Storms Cancel the PRO Round for the First Time in Series History
Round 5 was supposed to be Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park's first taste of Formula Drift competition. Instead, severe storms, lightning, and flooding forced a grandstand evacuation and, after five hours of trying to save the track, the first PRO Championship cancellation in the series' 23-year history.
The 75th Pebble Beach Concours Is Giving Japanese Le Mans History Its Own Class
Ferrari headlines the 2026 field as the diamond-anniversary featured marque, but a new class built around Mazda, Toyota, and Nissan's Le Mans campaigns says as much about where the world's most tradition-bound car show is headed as any of the six-figure restorations parked on the 18th fairway.
A Supercharger Doesn't Wait for Exhaust. It's Bolted Straight to the Crankshaft.
A turbocharger scavenges power the engine would otherwise waste as exhaust heat. A supercharger skips that step and takes its power directly off the crank by belt or gear — trading efficiency for boost that's there the instant the engine is turning.
A Suspension Part on 1.2 Million Teslas Can Detach Without Warning, NHTSA Says
The agency's Office of Defects Investigation has logged 156 complaints about the front lower lateral link failing on 2018-2020 Model 3s and 2021-2023 Model Ys — and says most owners got no advance warning before it happened.
Market Find: A 1969 Porsche 911S Race Car That Once Carried Monte Shelton's Number 57
Converted to a vintage racer in the early 1990s and campaigned by one of America's most decorated Porsche drivers, this Martini-liveried 911S comes with a factory Certificate of Authenticity and SCCA logbooks naming him as the driver. A Spain-based dealer has it listed at $106,000.
Alex Bowman Is Retiring From Full-Time NASCAR After 2027. He Wants You to Know It's Not the Injuries.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver — three Daytona 500 poles, eight Cup wins, a broken vertebra and a bout of vertigo along the way — says the decision is about what's next, not what's gone wrong.
Volkswagen Is Recalling 57,851 Atlas SUVs Because the Backup Camera Can Just Not Turn On
A low-voltage electrical glitch can leave the rearview camera dark exactly when drivers shift into reverse — the fix is free, but owners won't get formal notification until mid-September.
Mercedes Just Renamed Its Smallest EV — and Gave It an 800-Volt Platform to Match
The GLA Electric replaces the EQA nameplate entirely, borrowing the electric CLA's fast-charging architecture and adding a grille with 608 individually lit points.
MOZA Racing Is Now an Official Hardware Partner of the Gran Turismo World Series — and Building a GT7 Wheel
The sim racing brand's biggest product drop yet — a $2,999 motion rig, a 16 Nm direct drive wheelbase, and more — landed the same day Polyphony Digital named it an official peripheral partner, with a native PlayStation wheel controller now in development.
Audi Is Launching Its New Flagship in the US First — Ever. The Reason Is a 591-HP V8 Nobody Else Gets.
The three-row Q9 and its SQ9 performance sibling mark the first time an Audi model has debuted in America before anywhere else on earth, arriving with a US-exclusive twin-turbo V8 as the brand tries to reverse a sales slide made worse by tariffs and the expired EV tax credit.
A 2026 Engineering Grad Just Spent Five Days Learning to Shape Aluminum by Hand From One of the Last People Who Still Builds Cars That Way
The Piston Foundation and Minnesota coachbuilder Runge Cars ran their first mentorship workshop this month, pairing Piston Scholar Vincent Ramirez with self-taught metalsmith Chris Runge to hand-form bodywork the way it was done before CNC machines existed — documented by Petrolicious as the pilot for what both organizations hope becomes a recurring program.
Wekfest's Pacific Northwest Stop Filled the Seattle Convention Center for One Day Only
Roughly 300 hand-picked builds and 20 vendors packed the Arch building on July 26 as Wekfest's touring show returned to Seattle — the same week a separate, first-of-its-kind live RWB double build drew its own crowd across town.
IndyCar Is Replacing Its 14-Year-Old Chassis. Matt Damon Made the Announcement.
The Dallara IR-28 — about 100 pounds lighter, wider in the cockpit, and running a new hybrid system nearly 14 times the energy capacity of the current one — replaces the DW12 platform IndyCar has raced since 2012, arriving for the 2028 season after delays pushed it back a year.
Lando Norris Won a Race He Wasn't Even Leading for Most of It
Norris converted pole into his first victory of the season at the Hungaroring, but it took a mid-race retirement for teammate Oscar Piastri, a penalty-wrecked weekend for Lewis Hamilton, and 58 laps of somebody else running up front to get him there.
McLaren Just Built the Last Car of Its Kind. It's Also the Most Powerful.
The 788HS closes out the Super Series lineage that started with the 720S in 2017, packing 788PS from a twin-turbo V8, the highest power-to-weight ratio of any Super Series McLaren yet, and a production run capped at 200 cars split evenly between coupe and Spider.
Porsche Will Cut 5,000 More Jobs — and Spend €2.1 Billion to Keep the 911 Made in Germany
The Future Package, agreed by Porsche's Executive Board and works council on July 27, brings the total jobs affected by the automaker's restructuring since early 2025 to roughly 9,000, even as the company commits fresh investment to Zuffenhausen and Weissach through 2035.
Corey Heim Just Became the First Part-Time Driver Ever to Win the Brickyard 400
Racing a partial Cup Series schedule ahead of a full-time 2027 move, the 24-year-old Truck Series champion led a race-high 58 laps and held off Christopher Bell by 0.287 seconds — the second-youngest winner in the race's history, behind only Jeff Gordon.
Ducati Built Its First-Ever Supermoto. It's the Only Ducati Sold With Slick Tires From the Factory.
The Desmo450 SM, previewed at World Ducati Week during the brand's centenary year, adapts the Desmo450 MX motocrosser's 449.6cc single for supermoto racing — and was already winning FIM Supermoto World Championship rounds under four-time champion Marc-Reiner Schmidt before Ducati has even released its final specs.
Ford's New Bronco Package Costs $13,695, Caps Out at 1,000 Units — and It's Only the First of an Annual Series
Desert Rising, the debut drop in Ford Custom Garage's new Horizon Series, dresses a Bronco Outer Banks in magenta accents pulled from Utah's Coral Pink Sand Dunes, and keeps the factory warranty intact because Ford installs it, not an aftermarket shop.
A Car With ABS Can Steer While Braking Hard. One Without It Usually Can't.
The whole system comes down to a speed sensor at each wheel and a valve block that pulses brake pressure on and off dozens of times a second — the same basic architecture Mercedes-Benz and Bosch put into a production car for the first time in 1978.
Ford Already Recalled This Seat Defect Once. It's Back — on Cars That Were Already Fixed.
The expanded, 387,911-vehicle recall covers 2020–2026 Explorers and 2020–2027 Aviators after Ford found the same second-row seat switch binding on SUVs that had already been repaired under a June 2025 campaign for the identical problem.
A Wankel Rotary Engine Has Two Moving Parts. A Piston Engine Has Dozens.
No pistons, no connecting rods, no valves, no camshaft — the entire four-stroke cycle happens because a triangular rotor spins inside a housing shaped to make room for it in the right places, at the right times.
NHTSA Won't Call Tesla's Door Handles Defective. It's Writing New Rules for Every Automaker Instead.
The agency denied a petition to investigate the Model 3's manual door release as a defect, but granted a separate one to develop a federal standard requiring an emergency exit that works with no power and no hunting through a door panel — after a bill in Congress cited 15 deaths tied to similar entrapments.
Royal Enfield Is Selling Only 100 of Its Rough Crafts Shotgun 650 — and Just 10 Go to the US
The gloss-and-matte-black special edition, built off Taiwanese customizer Winston Yeh's one-off Caliber Royale show bike, sells in a first-come, first-served online drop that rolls out region by region starting July 27 — with a $7,999 price tag $1,100 above the standard Shotgun 650.
Ford Recalls 565,691 Broncos Over an Engine-Bay Wiring Harness That Can Short and Catch Fire
The recall spans every Bronco and Bronco Raptor built from 2021 through 2026 — though Ford says only about 1 in 100 of them actually has the defect. Owner letters don't go out until late August.
Market Find: The Prototype Ferrari Built Before the 330 GTC Existed, Listed by Fantasy Junction
Chassis 6431 spent nearly two years as Ferrari's internal development car for the 330 GTC — reportedly evaluated by Enzo Ferrari himself — before it ever reached a customer, and it still carries factory details no production car got. Fantasy Junction has it listed at $795,000.
Formula Drift Brings Its Tour to Indianapolis for the First Time Ever
Round 5 of the 2026 PRO Championship lands at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 30-August 1 — one of three brand-new venues on this year's schedule, and a track with zero prior drift setup data for any team to lean on.
Rob Dahm Took His Three-Rotor RX-7 Up Pikes Peak — Not the Car You'd Expect
The rotary-engine YouTuber best known for a quad-rotor, all-wheel-drive RX-7 brought a different car to the 2026 Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb: a purpose-built, three-rotor hillclimber that finished 13th in the Pikes Peak Open division.
His Supra Got Stolen. So He Bought Another One and Built It Exactly Right.
Taj Turner's first MkIV Toyota Supra was stolen mid-build. Five years, a Stuhagen hybrid twin-turbo setup, and a full interior rebuild later, strangers still stop him at gas stations in the middle of nowhere to ask about it.
Ford Recalls 741,195 SUVs and Trucks Because Park Doesn't Always Mean Park
A transmission fault that lets the park pawl engage while a vehicle is still moving spans Expeditions, Navigators, Explorers, Aviators, and F-150s built across four model years — and the permanent fix isn't ready until next spring.
"Offset" and "Backspacing" Describe the Same Wheel, From Two Different Directions
ET30 stamped into a wheel and a 4.75-inch backspacing measurement are two ways of answering the same question — where does the tire actually sit relative to the fender — and confusing them is how a fitment order goes wrong.
Toyota's 641-HP GR GT Finally Ran Up Goodwood's Hill — Undisguised, and With a Track-Only GT3 Sibling in Tow
The hybrid V8 supercar and its all-aluminum-chassis racing twin made their European debut at the 2026 Festival of Speed, still targeting a 2027 showroom launch.
Antonelli Beat Leclerc by Under Two Seconds at Spa — and Hamilton's Penalty Handed Him a 45-Point Title Lead
The Belgian Grand Prix went to Antonelli for his sixth win of the season after Hamilton's Ferrari understeered into teammate George Russell's Mercedes on the opening lap and put Russell out on the spot.
Jeep Killed the Cherokee in 2023. It's Back — as a Hybrid Crossover Reviewers Actually Like.
The revived Cherokee is Jeep's first-ever regular hybrid, and first drives agree it's a real improvement over the SUV it replaces. They also agree it has almost nothing to do with the badge's off-road history — starting with the door handles nobody asked for.
Someone Is Quietly Building a Free Library of 58,000 Car Brochures
Auto Catalog Archive has no ads to speak of and no paywall — just a search bar, a brand index running from Acura to Zeekr, and a genuinely staggering pile of scanned manufacturer literature spanning nine decades.
A 268-Year-Old Essay on Taste Explains Why Car Critics and Car Buyers Disagree So Much
David Hume never saw a car in his life, but 'Of the Standard of Taste' is basically a users' manual for the gap between what the enthusiast press loves and what actually sells.
He Fixes Multi-Million-Dollar Ferraris for a Living. The Car He Actually Drives Is a $10,000 BMW He Found Parked on a Street.
Ethan Moore talked his way into a job at a Bay Area classic-restoration shop at 16 by naming cars off the lot. His own daily driver is a track-built 1995 E36 M3 he bought because of its color.
The US Government Just Barred Polestar From Selling Any Car Here Past This Model Year
A Commerce Department rule aimed at Chinese-linked connected-vehicle tech cuts off Polestar's US sales after the 2026 model year — and its 32 dealers found out with no real plan for what comes next.
Alex Palou Won Nashville by Less Than a Second and Stretched His IndyCar Points Lead to 83
A rain-delayed Music City Grand Prix went to Palou over Josef Newgarden by 0.8731 seconds — his fifth win of the season as he chases a fourth straight title.
An Open Differential Sends Power to Whichever Wheel Needs It Least. Here's What Fixes That.
Clutch packs, viscous fluid, or helical gears — three different ways of solving the same problem: keeping torque going to the tire that can actually use it.
Joey Logano Led 323 of 450 Laps to Win the First Cup Points Race at North Wilkesboro in 30 Years
The Window World 450 came down to a green-flag pit strategy Logano never lost, with Denny Hamlin unable to close the gap and only six cars finishing on the lead lap.
Singer's Restored Porsche 911s Are Now the Centerpiece of Goodwood's Biggest Display
Singer Vehicle Design's Classic, Classic Turbo, and DLS now hang from a Gerry Judah sculpture in front of Goodwood House — with 19 Singer cars spread across the 2026 Festival of Speed grounds.
Zenvo's 1,850 HP V12 Hybrid Hypercar Just Showed Its Production Face at Goodwood
The Danish manufacturer brought two Aurora Tur validation prototypes to the 2026 Festival of Speed, ahead of customer deliveries targeted for the second half of 2027.
Jay Leno Owns 340 Vehicles. Almost All of Them Run.
Before the Tonight Show, Jay Leno was a working mechanic in Massachusetts. Decades and roughly $100 million in cars and motorcycles later, that's still how he treats his own collection.
BMW's #15 Car Won in Brazil by Less Than a Lap's Margin, and Reopened the Whole WEC Title Fight
Kevin Magnussen, Dries Vanthoor, and Raffaele Marciello held off a late-race Ferrari charge at Interlagos, while their teammates in the #20 car retook the championship lead on points.
Subaru Is Recalling 541,000 SUVs Over a Label That's Been Wrong Since 2018 — Not a Broken Part
The Ascent, Forester, Forester Hybrid, and Crosstrek Hybrid are all affected by a certification label that understates how much weight the rear axle can actually carry.
A Turbocharger Doesn't Make Power. It Makes the Engine Stop Wasting Exhaust.
The whole trick is a shaft connecting two fans that never touch the same air twice — one spun by exhaust gas that would otherwise go straight out the tailpipe, the other stuffing extra air into the cylinders because of it.
Kia Tells Nearly 463,000 Telluride Owners to Park Outside Over Seat Fire Risk
A power seat motor that can overheat and ignite has triggered Kia's second recall of the same fix in two years, covering 2020-2024 Tellurides after 18 reported seat fires.
Ducati Built Its First Ever Race-Only Supermoto for Its 100th Birthday
The Desmo450 SM previewed at World Ducati Week is a purpose-built S1GP racer, not a detuned motocrosser with street wheels — full specs and pricing follow in September.
Adrian Newey Finally Got to Drive the Car He Sketched on a Christmas Break
The Red Bull RB17 hypercar ran under its own power in public for the first time at Goodwood — with the man who designed it, and no longer works for the team that built it, behind the wheel.
Market Find: A 1973 Toyota Celica GT With the Engine America Never Got, Listed by JDM Legends
This Japanese-market Celica GT left the factory with a Yamaha-designed twin-cam head under the hood — a car the US lineup skipped entirely in favor of a single-cam four. JDM Legends has it listed at $34,900.
Hyundai Just Made Its Fake Gearbox $6,300 Cheaper — Here's How the Ioniq 5 N Pulls Off the Trick
The 2026 Ioniq 5 N drops to a $59,900 starting price without losing a single horsepower. What it keeps is N e-Shift and N Active Sound+, the two systems that make a single-speed EV feel and sound like it's rowing through an eight-speed gearbox.
The Aero Shop That Wind-Tunnel-Tests Wings for Cars That Never Leave the Track
Voltex has spent 25 years building the GT wings and splitters that define Japanese time attack — parts developed for one job only: shaving tenths off a lap at Tsukuba.
The Brand That Turned Luxury Sedans Into Rolling Living Rooms
Junction Produce didn't set out to build an industry — it made bodykits for its own crew in the early '90s until strangers at car shows started asking to buy them. Now it's the name most associated with Japan's VIP style.
The Bodykit Brand That Defined an Entire Generation of Toyota Sedans
Vertex never touched a Supra or an RX-7. Its whole reputation was built on the Toyota Chaser and Mark II — the sedans that carried Japan's VIP and drift scenes at the same time.
The GT-R Tuner That Never Bothered Chasing Big Horsepower Numbers
Mine's has been quietly refining Nissan's Skyline and GT-R since 1985, and its founder's whole philosophy comes down to one idea: balance beats a bigger number on the dyno sheet.
Street Takeovers Aren't Car Culture. They're Why Car Culture Keeps Losing Its Venues.
Every intersection blocked for donuts and every viral crash makes it harder for the next legitimate car club to get a permit. The people actually building the scene are the ones paying for it.
Mazda Keeps Solving Problems the Rest of the Industry Already Gave Up On
A gasoline engine that ignites like a diesel. A roadster tuned by researching how a rider feels on a horse. Mazda's engineering department has a habit of taking the hard, unfashionable path — and it keeps working.
Bomex Made the Bumper on the Most Famous Movie Supra Ever. It Never Actually Went Away.
Alligator Co. built Bomex into one of the defining names in JDM aero through the '90s, from a Tokyo Auto Salon award to Brian O'Connor's Supra. Nearly 35 years later, Bomex Aero is drawing a new generation on Instagram.
Park Place Bellevue Turns Its Showroom Lot Into 'Monopoly Street' for RWB Seattle
The Pacific Northwest's biggest exotic-car dealership is hosting a free evening meet built around RWB Seattle's widebody Porsches — its second collaboration with the Rauh-Welt Begriff crew this year.
Honda Kills the Prologue — and With Its 0 Series Plans Already Scrapped, It's Left Without a US EV
The GM-built Prologue ends production in December after just two model years on sale. Honda canceled its home-grown 0 Series SUV and Saloon for North America back in March, so there's no announced successor waiting behind it.
NASCAR Cup Racing Returns to North Wilkesboro for Points — First Time Since 1996
The Window World 450 on July 19 is the first Cup Series points race at the legendary short track in 30 years, run at 450 laps on a circuit that didn't exist in its current form until a 2024 repave.
iRacing and INDYCAR Just Announced the Series' First Standalone Video Game in Two Decades
"INDYCAR Racing The Game," built by iRacing Studios, is headed to PS5, Xbox, and Steam in early 2027 — timed to land ahead of that year's Indianapolis 500.
How Japan Turned the Widebody Kit From Street Rebellion Into a Global Business
Every RWB Porsche, Rocket Bunny 86, and Liberty Walk Lamborghini traces back to the same source: 1970s-80s bosozoku culture, and a handful of Japanese builders who grew up in it.
Stellantis Recalls 12,592 New Ram 1500s Over Headlights That Can Just Stop Working
A wiring defect in premium headlamp assemblies built between late October 2025 and mid-February 2026 can make the parking lights and daytime running lights flicker or fail outright.
One Man, One Volvo, 3.25 Million Miles
Irv Gordon bought a Volvo P1800S in 1966 and simply never stopped driving it — through three million miles, three Guinness certifications, and a Volvo factory relationship that lasted until he died.
A Propane Delivery Route Led to a Scientist's Forgotten Cobra
Tom Cotter's Barn Find Hunter series has uncovered hundreds of cars, but the one that belonged to a chemist who helped develop Prozac is the one that sounds made up and isn't.
The Day a Cave Ate Eight Corvettes — and the Museum That Turned It Into a Feature
A collapsing cave under the National Corvette Museum's Skydome swallowed eight cars on camera in 2014. Instead of hiding the damage, the museum spent a decade restoring some of it in public — on purpose.
The Kei Truck Wasn't Built to Be Loved — It Was Built to Dodge a Tax Bracket
Japan's tiny, boxy farm-and-delivery trucks exist because of a 1949 regulation capping engine size and dimensions. Seventy-five years later, they're a genuine cultural fixture — and a fast-growing US import.
'Itasha' Means 'Painful Car' — the Owners Wear the Name as a Badge of Honor
Wrapping a car in full-body anime character art is a distinctly Japanese phenomenon with its own conventions, its own etiquette, and a name its own builders coined as a joke at their own expense.
The Mountain Road Every Initial D Fan Knows Isn't Fictional — It's Gunma Route 33
Manga artist Shuichi Shigeno renamed it Mount Akina, but the real mountain is Haruna, 150 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, and its actual hairpins are the ones drivers still go looking for.
One Chiba Shop Has Tuned Nothing But Rotary Engines Since 1974
RE Amemiya's name isn't a brand exercise — 'RE' stands for Rotary Engine, and founder Isami Amemiya has spent over five decades building his entire business around a powerplant most tuners consider too finicky to specialize in.
Osaka's Loop Racers Turned a 10-Kilometer Elevated Highway Into Their Own Underground Circuit
The Kanjozoku built their reputation on cheap Honda Civics, not exotic horsepower — running laps of Osaka's Hanshin Expressway Loop after dark since the late 1970s, long before anyone outside Japan had heard the name.
There's No Schedule, No Entry Fee, and No Organizer — It's Just a Highway Rest Stop Where the Cars Show Up
Daikoku Parking Area opened in 1989 as a truckers' rest stop on Yokohama's Bayshore Route. Nobody ever officially decided it should become one of the world's most famous car meets — it just did.
The World's Smallest Production Car Has No Reverse Gear — You Just Pick Up the Back End
The Peel P50 weighs 130 pounds, was advertised to seat 'one adult and a shopping bag,' and is small enough that Jeremy Clarkson once drove one through the hallways of the BBC.
The Man Behind the DeLorean Was Arrested Trying to Save It With $24 Million in Cocaine
John DeLorean's company was months from collapse in 1982. His solution — walking into an FBI sting — is stranger than anything in the movie his car ended up starring in.
Only 51 Tucker 48s Were Ever Built. Here's What Actually Killed the Company.
Preston Tucker's 1948 sedan had safety features decades ahead of Detroit. The company that built it collapsed within a year — and the reason isn't the industry conspiracy the movie tells you it was.
NASCAR Didn't Ban the Superbird. It Just Made the Engine Too Small to Matter.
Plymouth's winged aero cars won 38 of 48 NASCAR races in 1970. The rulebook that followed didn't outlaw the wing — it just made the whole car pointless to build.
Dodge Built a Motorcycle With a Viper V10. It Was Never Legal to Ride on a Public Road.
The Tomahawk had four wheels arranged like a motorcycle's two, an 8.3-liter 500-horsepower engine, and a theoretical top speed nobody ever tested. Dodge sold reproductions anyway — for $555,000 each.
Renault Put a Championship-Winning F1 Engine in a Minivan
To celebrate the Espace's 10th anniversary, Renault and Matra built one with a genuine 820-horsepower Williams Formula 1 V10 in the back. It still exists.
Ferrari Backed Out of a Handshake Deal. Ford Spent Millions Getting Revenge at Le Mans.
Henry Ford II tried to buy Ferrari in 1963. When Enzo Ferrari pulled out at the last minute, Ford's response was to build a car specifically to beat Ferrari at its own race.
For Four Years, Rally Cars Had Almost No Rules. Then It All Ended in One Season.
Group B let manufacturers build 500-horsepower, sub-2,000-pound monsters with almost no restrictions. Two crashes in 1986 ended the entire class in a matter of weeks.
He Sold His BMW 2002 to a Friend. Twenty-Six Years Later, He Bought It Back.
Rob Siegel has owned roughly 70 BMWs and written about cars for 35 years, but the one he calls "Bertha" — bought back in what he describes as a whisky-soaked moment of weakness — is the one with the story that actually needed a book.
He Invented the Modern Seatbelt in a Year. His Employer Gave the Patent Away for Free.
Nils Bohlin spent years designing aircraft ejection seats before Volvo hired him to fix a problem that had been killing people in cars for decades. What Volvo did with his solution is the more remarkable part.
The Real Bullitt Mustang Spent 28 Years Hidden in a New Jersey Garage
The actual hero car from the most famous chase scene in movie history was daily-driven by a schoolteacher's wife until the clutch died, then vanished from public view for nearly three decades before selling for $3.74 million.
Quattro, DCCD, and ACD Solve All-Wheel Drive Three Different Ways
Audi, Subaru, and Mitsubishi all built legendary AWD systems, but each one is a direct product of the chassis it was designed around — not just three brands doing the same thing differently for marketing reasons.
"Limited-Slip Diff" Covers Three Genuinely Different Machines
Mechanical clutch-type, electronically actuated, and true torque-vectoring differentials all get called an LSD, but they solve the same problem with three completely different control philosophies.
The First RWB Porsche Wasn't a Business Plan — It Was a Wrecked 930
Every widened, low-slung RWB Porsche on the road today traces back to one damaged car that came into a Tokyo body shop in the late 1990s, and one mechanic who decided to rebuild it into the shape he'd always pictured.
James Deane Learned Car Control Doing Donuts in an Irish Field
No factory academy, no karting pedigree — just a farm kid, a €200 Ford Sierra, and a mountain pass mentality that turned into five Formula Drift championships.
Ken Block Built the Hoonitruck as a Tribute to His Dad's Old F-150
A 914-horsepower, twin-turbo, all-wheel-drive gymkhana truck sounds like pure spectacle. The reason it's a 1977 Ford F-150 specifically is a lot more personal than that.
Why Rally Cars Pop, Bang, and Spit Flame Between Gears
Anti-lag isn't a sound effect. It's a deliberate, destructive trick to keep a turbo spinning at full speed with the throttle closed — and it's been burning through rally turbochargers on purpose since Formula 1 first tried it in the 1980s.
"Any Color So Long As It's Black" Was a Chemistry Problem, Not a Preference
Henry Ford's black paint wasn't a style choice — it was the only finish that dried fast enough to keep an assembly line moving. Everything since has been chemistry catching up to what car buyers actually wanted.
Nobody Can Actually Prove Who the 'King of the Dragon' Is — and That's the Whole Point
Somewhere in the 318 curves of Tennessee's Tail of the Dragon, a red FD RX-7 supposedly runs faster than anyone else on the road. Car media has gone looking for the driver. Nobody's confirmed who it actually is.
This '70 Chevy C20 Looks Untouched. Underneath, It's a Brand-New Silverado.
Jonathan Ward's ICON 4x4 built a truck that deliberately looks like it was never restored — because the whole point of the Derelict series is hiding a modern chassis under fifty years of honest wear.
326 Power Is a Number Puzzle That Became One of JDM's Biggest Brands
The name is a phonetic pun on founder Mitsuru Haraguchi's own name. The company exists because his modified suspension knuckles got too popular to keep to himself.
A Kid Who Hung Around an Osaka Wharf Drift Crew Is Now Racing in Its Colors
Crazy Max started in 1998 as one guy, two friends who quit within a month, and 100 already-ordered stickers he couldn't return. Twenty-eight years later, a driver who grew up around the crew is racing D1 Lights in Crazy Max livery.
Coilovers vs. Lowering Springs: What You're Actually Buying
Both drop your car's ride height. Only one of them is actually built to handle the spring rate it's running — the difference comes down to what's happening inside the damper.
Cadillac's No. 31 Just Made It Two Straight GTP Wins at Watkins Glen
Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber, and Frederik Vesti led 143 of 182 laps from the pole to win the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen — the Whelen Engineering Cadillac's eighth consecutive GTP podium.
Mazda Actually Leased a Hydrogen-Burning RX-8, and the Engineering Behind It Still Holds Up
The RX-8 Hydrogen RE ran on gasoline or hydrogen at the flip of a switch, and the reason Mazda picked a rotary for the job says a lot about why the Wankel engine existed in the first place.
Ford Recalls 741,195 Trucks and SUVs Over a Park System Flaw That Can Let Them Roll Away
A transmission valve body issue can let the parking pawl engage while a vehicle is still moving, damaging the park system — and Ford says it already has 24 property-damage claims and 9 alleged injuries tied to the defect.
Honda's New CB1000F Is a Street Bike Built Around a 46-Year-Old Race Livery
The retro-styled naked bike borrows its engine from the CB1000 Hornet SP and its paint from Freddie Spencer's factory Superbike racer — and it's already in US showrooms at $10,599.
Marc Marquez Just Matched a 50-Year-Old Record — and Cut His Title Deficit From 102 Points to 18
Marquez led every lap of the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring for his 10th premier-class win at the circuit, tying Giacomo Agostini's all-time record for wins at a single track — and turning a season that looked lost a month ago into a real title fight.
You Don't Need a Ferrari. You Need a Story.
The cars that actually hold car culture together aren't the ones worth six figures — they're the ones somebody's kept alive for decades out of pure stubbornness.
Saga the 240: Why an Instagram Wagon Build Is Still the Best Argument for Old Volvos
@sagabrick daily-drives a 1989 Volvo 240 Estate and posts the unglamorous parts — rain-soaked commutes, tire dressing, trim restoration. It's a good excuse to explain why the 240 earned its indestructible reputation in the first place.
Toyota Killed the Cheap RAV4 Engine, and Somehow Nobody's Actually Mad
The redesigned 2026 RAV4 is hybrid-only, up to 236 horsepower, and rated at 41 mpg combined — reviewers are calling it the best hybrid SUV around. Good luck finding one at sticker price.
Touge: How Japan's Mountain Passes Became the Birthplace of Drifting
Before D1GP, before Initial D, there was just Keiichi Tsuchiya, a Toyota AE86, and a series of switchbacks nobody built for racing.
Why Enthusiasts Are Swapping to Lithium-Ion Starter Batteries — and What's Actually Different Inside Them
Brands like Antigravity Batteries have spent over a decade convincing racers to give up the lead-acid battery. The chemistry behind why is more interesting than the weight-savings sticker.
BMW's Starter Recall Keeps Growing — Now It's Reached the Plug-In Hybrids
A new NHTSA filing adds roughly 29,000 more US vehicles, including 530e xDrive and 740Le xDrive models, to a starter-fire recall that already covered 87,000 cars earlier this year.
Bubba Wallace Was Second at Atlanta. A Yellow-Line Violation Sent Him to 29th.
Ryan Blaney swept pole and win at the Quaker State 400, but the race's defining moment was NASCAR stripping Wallace of a career-boosting runner-up finish over a final-lap boundary call his team spent 31 minutes contesting.
Ducati Puts Its Desmodromic Valvetrain in a Street-Legal Enduro for the First Time
The Desmo450 EDS borrows its 449.6cc single from Ducati's motocross bike, retunes it for the trail, and becomes the only dual-sport in its class running desmo valve actuation. It lands at US dealers in August starting at $12,995.
NR Style Is Building the Internet's Deepest Archive of 86/BRZ Drift Culture
The Japan-based site's Theatre section runs from Smokey Nagata's Top Secret GT86 to a 13B rotary-swapped GR86, with the Drift King himself in the credits.
The Road to Final Bout 9: Inside Mack Geggie and Cardiac Arrest's Season-Long Chase
Only five teams punch a ticket to Final Bout 9 this September. Photographer Mack Geggie and Cardiac Arrest have spent the season chasing something no one's finished before: every Special Stage on the calendar.
How the Toyota 86 Quietly Became the Modern S-Chassis
Nissan stopped building S-chassis cars in 2002. Toyota and Subaru's affordable, rear-drive answer has spent over a decade filling the gap the 240SX and Silvia left behind.
Smokey Nagata Was Building Viral JDM Legends Before the Internet Existed
The gold GT-300 Supra was born in a shop he wasn't supposed to be using. Three decades later, Top Secret's founder is still the name behind Japan's most infamous top-speed builds.
The Mid Night Club: Inside Japan's Most Disciplined Underground Racing Scene
For over a decade, a secretive group of Tokyo businessmen ran 160-mph-plus races on the Wangan under a code stricter than most sanctioned motorsport.
StreetHunter Designs Went From a YouTuber's Garage to a Widebody Catalog Spanning Six Platforms
TJ Hunt didn't set out to run a body kit company — he just kept installing other people's kits and thinking he could do it better.
Why the Toyota 86 Became Gen Z's Favorite Canvas for Going Overboard
Cheap, rear-wheel-drive, and endlessly documented online — the 86/BRZ platform turned into the car a younger generation of builders learned to fabricate on, sometimes literally printing their own bodywork.
Before It Had a League, American Drifting Was Just Parking Lots and Borrowed Tracks
Formula Drift didn't invent the sport in the US — it professionalized a grassroots scene that had already been sliding cars sideways for the better part of a decade.
Zilvia.net Is Gone. It Takes 27 Years of S-Chassis Knowledge With It.
A forum that outlasted three console generations shut down after a data breach — and there's still no plan to archive what was on it.
A 21-Year-Old Turned an Architecture Background Into His Own Toyota 86 Aero Brand
Elfaera's Yuri isn't the first person to make his own body kit for the 86/BRZ platform — he's part of a small but growing line of builders using the car as a design portfolio.
Gabe Newell's Son Just Made His Le Mans Debut in the Family Aston Martin
Gray Newell didn't start racing until he was 23, after giving up on a video game studio. This June he lined up at Le Mans in a factory Aston Martin GT3 for the team his father built to fund children's hospital research — and finished third in class.
McLaren Just Finished the Road Car Bruce McLaren Never Got To
Fifty-six years after a fatal testing accident ended the M6GT road car program, McLaren Special Operations spent 3,000 hours completing one — and unveiled it at the same estate where its founder died.
Wine, a Winery Lawn, and a Ferrari 365 GTB/4: Inside Woodinville's Avants Classics on the Green
Chateau Ste. Michelle hosted the 6th annual running of the Pacific Northwest's most unlikely car show this weekend — one built, by its founder's own admission, to import a little bit of Pebble Beach's marine layer into Washington wine country.
Goodwood 2026 Recap: An All-Electric Shootout Podium, and Adrian Newey Drove the Car He Designed for the Team He Left
The 33rd Festival of Speed ran under a 'Rivals' theme, and the closing Sunday Shootout delivered one of its own — a battery-powered Mustang beating a Formula E prototype to the line, with the fastest combustion car more than three and a half seconds back.
Rivian Just Raised Its Delivery Forecast — And R2 Is Why
A quarter after federal EV tax credits disappeared, Rivian delivered more vehicles than it guided for and raised its full-year target, with its just-launched cheaper SUV doing a lot of the lifting.
Market Find: A 1970 Mazda Cosmo Sport With Its Original 10A Rotary, Listed by JDM Legends
Only 1,176 Cosmo Sports were ever built, and this Series II car — restored in Japan and now titled in Utah — still has the twin-rotor engine it left the factory with. It's listed at $125,000.
A Year After Breaking His Back at This Track, Tom Dillmann Won There Again
Dillmann and Jeremy Clarke took Inter Europol Competition's ORECA to the overall win at the Chevrolet Grand Prix — twelve months after a mechanical failure put Dillmann into the Turn 3 wall at the same circuit.
How the Wankel Rotary Actually Works: The Engine With No Pistons
No pistons, no valves in the traditional sense, and a spinning triangle instead of anything that moves up and down. Here's the actual mechanical case for — and against — Mazda's signature engine.
First Drive Verdicts: The Porsche Cayenne Electric Turns EV Skeptics Into Believers
Up to 1,139 horsepower, an 800-volt architecture that charges in under 16 minutes, and a chassis reviewers say drives smaller than its nearly three-ton curb weight. The bill for all of it is the real story.
The EV Market Right Now: Global Records, a Cooling US, and a Tax Credit Hangover
Globally, electric cars have never sold faster. In the US, first-quarter 2026 sales fell 27% year over year — the clearest sign yet that the end of federal tax credits reset the market rather than ended it.
Ducati Turned 100 This Week — And Marked It With Bulega Beating a Field of MotoGP Stars
World Ducati Week's centennial edition at Misano paired a night-long birthday celebration with the closest thing motorcycle racing has to an all-star game, ridden entirely on identical factory Panigales.
Ferrari's 1,050-HP 849 Testarossa Finally Turns a Wheel in Public at Goodwood
The Amalfi and 296 Speciale A also made their dynamic debuts on the Hill, but the flagship hybrid hypercar — revealed last September and never driven publicly until now — was the one everyone came to watch.
Fanatec and Nissan Are Building an Officially Licensed Sim Racing Wheel
Corsair's Fanatec brand has signed a licensing deal with Nissan for a dedicated sim racing steering wheel — the automaker's first serious step into premium racing-sim hardware, with specifics still under wraps.
How to Actually Import a Car From Japan: The 25-Year Rule, Step by Step
The door-jamb date decides whether a car is legal to bring home. Here's the real process — auction to driveway — plus what a reputable importer actually does for you.
The Long Road Home: A Teenager's Gas-Station Sighting Became a Decades-Long Shelby GT350 Restoration
Dave first saw the 1967 Shelby GT350 roll past as a kid, driven by the Vietnam veteran who'd bought it new. He tore the car apart in 1976. It took thirty more years to put it back together.
Emelia Hartford Just Became the Fastest Woman to Ever Race Up Pikes Peak
In a 'base' Corvette ZR1 with no hybrid boost and no all-wheel drive, Hartford beat the previous women's record by more than six seconds — a record that had already been lowered earlier the same day.
Rob Dahm's Quad-Rotor AWD RX-7: Inside One of Car YouTube's Longest-Running Builds
Started as an 18-year-old's stock twin-turbo FD, Rob Dahm's RX-7 has spent more than seven years becoming a four-rotor, all-wheel-drive, four-figure-horsepower science project — and by his own account, it's still not finished.
Kia Recalls Nearly 463,000 Tellurides Over a Seat Switch That Can Catch Fire
A damaged power seat switch can leave the seat motor running until it overheats — and the recall supersedes an earlier fix that sometimes made the problem worse.
From the AE86 to the Devil Z: How Anime and Action Movies Built Car Culture's Mythology
Initial D made the Hachiroku a legend, Wangan Midnight turned the Shuto Expressway into a battleground, and a Vibe magazine article about NYC street racing eventually became a nine-film franchise. Fiction didn't just reflect car culture — it recruited half the people in it.
BYD's Denza Z Coupé Just Out-Powered Nearly Every Combustion Hypercar Alive
Three motors, 1,582 hp, and a 217 mph Racing variant — Denza revealed the production Z Coupé at Goodwood as a direct, explicit shot at the Porsche 911.
Norton's Manx R Is Back With a 206 HP V4 and a Four-Tier Price Ladder
The reborn Manx nameplate returns as a ground-up V4 superbike — full production specs, four trims, and UK deliveries already underway.
Chase Briscoe Ends His Slump With a Joe Gibbs Racing Sweep at Chicagoland
Briscoe's first win since Talladega led a JGR 1-2-3 finish in NASCAR's return to Chicagoland — and seven Toyotas finished in the top ten, a manufacturer record.
Windermere Reserve Wants to Sell Central Florida Collectors a Neighborhood Built Entirely Around Garages
Seventy climate-controlled "motor condos," a clubhouse, and a gate — the pitch is a residential community where every neighbor showed up for the same reason you did.
Ford Recalls Over 67,000 Mustangs Over a Wiper Motor Chip That Can Fail in Cold Weather
A faulty chip can leave the wipers stuck on high speed and drain washer fluid, part of a wider 110,626-vehicle recall action across two separate Mustang campaigns.
Roush's New Supercharger Puts 810 Legal Horsepower Under a Stock-Looking Mustang Hood
The 2026 Roush Mustang Supercharger bolts in with zero cutting or drilling, and it's now 50-state legal.
HRE Marks 20 Years of Monoblok Wheels With an All-New Structural Design
The Series P3 debuts with the P301 — a five-spoke mesh wheel built around an integrated structural disc, fit for cars like the Porsche GT3 RS and Ferrari F80.
3D Printers Are Turning Garages Into Body Kit Shops — and Bugatti's Taking Notes
From a widebody Miata kit designed in Fusion 360 and printed on a desktop machine to Bugatti's titanium brake calipers, additive manufacturing is reshaping what "aftermarket" means.
How a Vietnam-Era Helicopter Fix Became a Multibillion-Dollar Car Care Industry
Paint protection film started as 3M's answer to rotor-blade damage in the 1960s. Now it's a self-healing, publicly-traded business anchoring modern car care.
It's 7/7: Inside the Cult That Never Stopped Celebrating the Rotary
From Yokohama's Daikoku PA to a Queens tuner collective, July 7th has become the RX-7 and Wankel engine's unofficial holiday — rooted in a Le Mans win no other rotary has matched.
Bridgestone's New Track Slick Claims a Faster Lap With a New 'Sprint' Tire Option
The Racing Battlax V03 lands in Europe and North America in 2026, with a Sprint-spec rear tire built specifically for qualifying-length runs.
Larry Kosilla Left Wall Street to Wash Cars. Now He's the Most-Watched Detailer in the Country.
The AMMO NYC founder turned a Harrison, NY car wash into an educational empire — and a philosophy he calls 'drive and protect.'
Antonelli Passes Hamilton at the Midpoint to Win the British GP Sprint
Hamilton started from pole at Silverstone but was overtaken mid-race — finishing 2.745 seconds behind as the home-crowd storylines piled up.
Ferrari's New 12Cilindri Manuale Has a Clutch Pedal and Gated Shifter — Wired to Nothing
The 1,499-unit limited edition adds a full manual-look interior on top of the standard eight-speed dual-clutch, unchanged underneath. Ferrari calls the system "Manuale By-Wire."
Scott Dixon Is Leaving Chip Ganassi Racing After 24 Years
The six-time IndyCar champion turned down a multiyear extension to join Arrow McLaren for 2027 — and he's not the only headline name changing seats this off-season.
Survey Says: Americans Rank Muscle Cars Above Baseball as a National Symbol
Hagerty's 2,000-person survey found the road trip and the muscle car both out-scored baseball, apple pie, and rock 'n' roll on "iconically American."
McMurtry's Fan-Powered Track Car Just Went From Prototype to a £995,000 Production Reality
The Spéirling PURE makes 1,000 hp, hits 60 mph in 1.55 seconds, and can generate 2,000 kg of downforce before it's even moving — only 100 will be built.
The Collector Car Market Is Cooling — Except at the Very Top
Hagerty's broad market index just logged its sixth straight month of decline. The March auction season still did $255.9 million in business.
Wekfest San Jose 2026 Packed the Convention Center With Liberty Walk, RWB, and VIP Builds
The tour's home-turf Bay Area stop drew a curated floor spanning GT-Rs, widebody Supras, time-attack cars, and full VIP sedans on June 28.
Genesis Just Locked In a Debut Date for Its Flagship Electric SUV
The GV90 breaks cover September 9 — expected to be the first vehicle built on Hyundai Motor Group's next-generation EV platform.
Tariffs Are Quietly Reshaping the 2026 Price Sheet
Volkswagen raised prices across the board. Toyota's profits took an eight-billion-dollar hit. The tariff bill is coming due at the dealership.
Ai Ogura Ends a 22-Year Drought With His First MotoGP Win
No Japanese rider had won a MotoGP race since Makoto Tamada at Motegi in 2004 — until Ogura came from behind at a chaotic Dutch TT.
Ogier Wins a Dramatic Acropolis Rally as Neuville's Double Puncture Costs Him the Lead
"The Greek gods finally supported me," Ogier said afterward. Neuville lost 53.5 seconds to a puncture on the second-to-last stage and still finished second.
This $24,950 Electric Pickup Is Betting That Simple Sells
No infotainment, no power windows, no speakers standard — just a 205-mile estimated range and a chassis built for owners to customize themselves.
The R34 GT-R's Whole Model Year Is Now Legal to Import
The 25-year import rule just cleared 2001 — meaning the R34 GT-R V-Spec II, the Evo VII, and the DC5 Integra Type R are all fair game in the US now.
StanceWorks Is Building a Ferrari F40 With an 812 Superfast V12 and a Hand-Built Chassis
Mike Burroughs paired genuine F40 GT1 race bodywork with an F140 V12 on a fully custom tube chassis — and he's targeting a SEMA 2026 showcase.
Romain Dumas Wins Pikes Peak Again, This Time in a 1,400-HP Electric Mustang
The 104th Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb went to Ford's Super Mustang Mach-E in 8:18.202 — Dumas's sixth King of the Mountain title, and revenge for a windy 2025 that went to a prototype instead.
James Deane Wins Formula DRIFT Round 4 in the First All-Irish Podium in Series History
Deane, Jack Shanahan, and Conor Shanahan swept the podium at Stafford Motor Speedway — and Deane now leads the championship.
Toyota Wins Le Mans 2026, Ending Ferrari's Five-Year Hypercar Streak
Conway, Kobayashi, and de Vries brought the #7 GR010 home first after 381 laps — Toyota's sixth overall win at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
Toyota Is Testing a Mid-Engine, All-Wheel-Drive Sports Car — an MR2 Successor in Everything but Name
A turbocharged 2.0-liter, an FT-Se-inspired shape, and a production timeline still years out. Nothing about it is officially confirmed yet.
A New Mid-Mount Turbo Kit Targets 600+ WHP on the 370Z and G37
Bull Boost Performance's patent-pending kit is built specifically for manual-transmission VQ37VHR cars.
Hagerty's 2026 Road of the Year Is a 109-Mile Pennsylvania Backroad Almost Nobody Drives
Route 144 climbs through the Pennsylvania Wilds and descends a canyon along Hall Run Creek — a century-old lumber road turned recreation corridor.
Roush's 810-HP Mustang Supercharger Kit Is Now 50-State Legal
The S650 GT and Dark Horse kit clears every state's emissions rules — a real hurdle for any bolt-on this size to clear.
The Mitsubishi Pajero Is Coming Back After a 5-Year Hiatus
One of the most decorated off-roaders in Dakar Rally history returns this autumn, built on the new Triton pickup's ladder-frame chassis.
Ferrari's First EV Is Here: Meet the Luce
Four motors, over 1,000 hp combined, a cabin co-designed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and a €550,000 price tag — Ferrari's electric era starts this fall.
Volkswagen's First Electric GTI Just Debuted at the Nürburgring
Fifty years after the original Golf GTI, the badge goes electric on the ID. Polo — 226 PS, a sub-7-second 0-100, and pre-sales opening this fall.
The Honda Accord Turns 50 — and Its Next Chapter Might Be Its Sportiest Yet
From a 68-hp hatchback in 1976 to 25 million sold worldwide, with a fastback hybrid concept hinting at where it goes next.
Wekfest Japan Draws 500 Curated Cars to Nagoya for Golden Week
From a widebody FD RX-7 to an ADRO-kitted A90 Supra, this year's show reinforced why Wekfest's Japan stop still matters to a scene it helped export.
NYC Council Moves to Ban Exterior Car Speakers After a Wave of Loud Meetups
Deputy Leader Sandra Ung's bill follows a street takeover in Middle Village and an NYPD speaker confiscation near Citi Field.
EV Widebody Kits Are Now the Fastest-Growing Corner of the Bodykit Market
Larte Design's kit for the Tesla Model S and Avante Design's kit for the Porsche Taycan are leading a segment nobody expected five years ago.
Kia's Affordable EV3 Is Finally Coming to the US
Two battery options, up to 320 miles of estimated range, and a starting point aimed squarely at the sub-$40K gap in America's EV lineup.
Speed Academy Turned a Junkyard K-Swap Into a 530-Whp Integra
A high-mileage K20Z3 with completely stock internals, a Precision 6062 turbo, and a target that got blown past on the dyno.
Harley-Davidson's RMCR Concept Is the Café Racer the Brand Has Never Officially Built
The Revolution Max Cafe Racer runs Harley's liquid-cooled V-twin in a genuinely stripped-down, clip-on-bar concept — with no production commitment yet.
GM Is Helping an Owner Restore One of Its Own EV1s — by Parting Out Another One
GM sacrificed a second, never-leased EV1 to supply parts for "Project V212," and is targeting the car's 30th anniversary for completion.
Brembo's 'Beyond EV' Kit Is Built Specifically for How Electric Cars Actually Brake
A coated-disc and matched-pad system engineered around regenerative braking behavior, aimed at the fast-growing EV and hybrid aftermarket.
Florida Lawmakers Pass a Bill Replacing Decibel Limits With a Broader Noise Ban
HB 543 swaps fixed dB thresholds for a "plainly audible" standard, citing how hard decibel meters are to enforce with in the field.
Ford Will Now Pre-Install a Whipple Supercharger on Your F-150 or Mustang
Ford Racing Parts is offering the kit as a dealer-installed, pre-delivery option — pushing the Mustang GT and Dark Horse as high as 810 horsepower.
Volk Racing's TE37 GRAVEL III Brings a Rally Icon Into Its Third Generation
RAYS Engineering's gravel-spec version of the legendary TE37 gets an update — one of the most recognizable wheel designs in rally and Group A history.
Formula DRIFT Launches Its Own In-House Content Studio
FD Studios signed Larry Chen Photography — the series' official photographer since 2012 — as its first outside creator partner.
The 2026 Audi A6 Is Quicker Than It Has Any Business Being — Then It Hands You an iPad for a Dashboard
Redesigned for its ninth generation, the 'base' A6 makes 362 horsepower and hits 60 in 4.5 seconds standard. Reviewers agree that part rules. They can't agree on whether the all-screen cabin is the smartest interior in the class or the reason to wait.
The Only White Ferrari 250 GTO Ever Built Just Sold for $38.5 Million
"I didn't think I'd be able to buy it, but I decided to play anyway," said the buyer — setting a new company record for Mecum in the process.
Triumph Is Launching More Than 20 New Models in 2026
The Daytona 660 gets adjustable Showa suspension and standard sport tires, while the Tiger Sport 660 and Trident 660 both pick up more power.
BBS Unveiled Three New Wheels at Tokyo Auto Salon — Including a Street-Legal E88 Homage
The MAG-R, FL FORTEGA, and RT88 cover a magnesium wheel built for the BMW M3, an EV-focused alloy, and a road-going version of BBS's motorsport-only E88.
Harley-Davidson's 2026 Lineup Adds a Solo Trim Package Across Three Classics
The Heritage Classic, Street Bob, and Street Glide all get a stripped-back solo-seat treatment as part of a 13-model refresh.
Rocket Bunny's New 'Pocket Bunny' Kit Turns a Kei Car Into a Miniature R32 GT-R
TRA Kyoto's latest widebody conversion doesn't just widen a car — it turns a Suzuki Twin kei car into a shrunk-down Skyline GT-R, debuted at Tokyo Auto Salon 2026.
Mickey Thompson Just Revived Its Classic Wheel as a Modern Forged Monoblock
The MT Classic Forged blends the original wheel's vintage look with 6061-T6 forged construction, arriving at retailers in early 2026.
First Drive: The 2026 Honda Prelude Is Back, and It's a Hybrid
Honda's coupe returns after a 26-year absence with Civic Type R chassis tuning and a 200-hp hybrid powertrain — no manual, no limited-slip diff.
One Man Spent Decades Collecting 1,300 Cars. Now They're Being Sold Off, No Reserve.
Greg Rusk's private hoard — 259 Chevrolets, 105 Cadillacs, a 1953 Jaguar XK120, and a King Midget microcar among them — is heading to auction in waves.
Wilwood Built a Big Brake Kit for the Van-Life Crowd's Overloaded Sprinters
The AERO-DM direct-mount kit targets 2022-2024 Sprinter 2500 AWD conversions that routinely exceed factory GVWR once cabinetry and gear go in.
Work Wheels Revives the Cult-Favorite VS KF as the New VS KF♯
Eight years after being discontinued, Work's 3-piece VS KF returns with updated load ratings, more finish options, and a limited Chrome Edition.