News & Features
Everything we've published, from track-side reporting to slow Sunday reads.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.