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This 61-Year-Old Tool Helps You Spot Annoying, Hard-to-See Stop Lights
By Stef Schrader / Published Aug 14, 2020
Why This Crusty Aston Martin DB4 That Sat for 30 Years Might Really Be Worth Almost $1M
By James Gilboy / Updated Aug 13, 2020
The 1938 Dubonnet Hispano-Suiza H6B Xenia Rocks a 7.9L Inline-Six That’s Half an Airplane V12
By Máté Petrány / Published Aug 10, 2020
Why the Original 1991 Viper SR1 Prototype Was a Mad Engineering Gamble
By Máté Petrány / Published Aug 6, 2020
The Final Citroen 2CV Was Built on This Day in 1990
By Máté Petrány / Updated Jul 28, 2020
125 Years of Skoda: From Wooden-Framed Cars to 123,000 Steel Pressings Per Day
By Máté Petrány / Updated Jul 24, 2020
Peugeot’s Electric Car Concepts Date Back to 1941, And They’re Fascinatingly Weird
By Máté Petrány / Updated Jul 23, 2020
Ford Predicted Our Turbocharged Future All the Way Back in 1984
By James Gilboy / Published Jul 16, 2020
The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV That Needs to Make a Comeback in 2020
By Peter Holderith / Updated Jul 12, 2020
The Fascinating Design History of the Domino’s DXP Pizza Delivery Vehicle
By Peter Holderith / Updated Jul 7, 2020
Help Solve the Mystery of This Fascinating French Walking Car From the 1920s
By Peter Holderith / Published Jun 30, 2020
Chrysler’s Radical Space Shuttle Design Was 50 Years Ahead of Its Time
By Peter Holderith / Updated Jun 23, 2020
What Historic Car Nameplates Should—or Shouldn’t—Make a Comeback?
By James Gilboy / Updated Jun 23, 2020
The Mosler Twinstar Was a Dual-Engine, 575-HP ’90s Super Cadillac
By James Gilboy / Updated Jun 19, 2020
Oldsmobile’s Profile Concept is Remarkably Similar to the Tesla Model X
By Peter Holderith / Updated Jun 15, 2020
Did You Know Kia Used to Sell a Rebadged Lotus Elan?
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Jun 10, 2020
See the Original Sketches for the DeLorean Sedan That Never Was
By Peter Holderith / Published Jun 5, 2020
The Peugeot Onyx Was a Copper-Bodied Supercar that Aged Like the Statue of Liberty
By Peter Holderith / Updated Jun 4, 2020
The Incredible Story of the US Army’s Earth-Shaking, Off-Road Land Trains
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 29, 2020
The 1996 Peugeot Touareg Concept Was a Fully-Functional, Life-Sized Toy Car
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 28, 2020
The 2003 Studebaker XUV Attempted to Revive a Classic Name with an Illegal Hummer Clone
By Peter Holderith / Published May 27, 2020
Rare Photo Shows Never-Made Dodge Version of the 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 27, 2020
You Can Lose Hours Looking at These Old Photos of Car Dealerships From Decades Past
By Rob Stumpf / Updated May 25, 2020
Someone Begged Lee Iacocca for a 4-Speed Ford Country Squire With a 428 V8. He Made Just One.
By Caleb Jacobs / Published May 23, 2020
A German Tuning Company Made a Handful of Custom 190E Hatchbacks in the Early ’90s
By Peter Holderith / Published May 21, 2020
This Is the Weird World of Automaker Websites From the Early 2000s
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 20, 2020
Greek Cops Spent the ’90s Hunting Street Racers With Audi RS2s, E30 M3s, Lancia Integrales
By James Gilboy / Updated May 20, 2020
Slot Cars Used to Have Tiny Diesel Engines That Could Push to 60 MPH
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 19, 2020
GM Built a Running Prototype of the Futuristic 1987 Pontiac Pursuit Concept
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 13, 2020
There’s a Massive Antarctic Exploration Vehicle Lost Somewhere at the Bottom of the World
By Peter Holderith / Updated May 13, 2020
The Rotary-Powered 1969 Mercedes-Benz C111 Is The Real Reason Daimler Went With Diesels
By Benjamin Hunting / Updated May 12, 2020
The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Had The Wildest Dashboard You’ve Never Seen
By Peter Holderith / Published May 11, 2020
What’s This One-Off 1964 Pontiac Banshee Prototype Doing at a New England Kia Dealership?
By Caleb Jacobs / Updated Apr 19, 2020
The 2001 Dodge Super8 Hemi Concept Showed Us the Future Almost 20 Years Ago
By Benjamin Hunting / Updated Apr 15, 2020
Mysterious Mid-Engined Ford Prototype Identified as Mockup of 1967 Mach 2 Concept
By James Gilboy / Published Apr 15, 2020
How an American Heiress and an Outcast Jewish Racer Took On Hitler’s Best
By Neal Bascomb / Updated Mar 28, 2020
The First Ford Bronco Was Almost Named the Ford Wrangler
By Stef Schrader / Updated Mar 20, 2020
Mussolini-Owned 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C Unearthed, Headed for Full Restoration
By Chris Teague / Published Feb 23, 2020
That Should Fit: How Chrysler’s Legendary Jeep Wrangler-Plymouth Prowler Test Car Came to Be
By James Gilboy / Updated Feb 20, 2020
The GM EV1’s Interior Is a Fascinating 90s Vision of the Future
By Rob Stumpf / Published Feb 4, 2020
105-Year-Old Receipts Show the Car Purchases and Mods of an Early Enthusiast
By Jonathon Klein / Updated Dec 23, 2019
Historic Vehicle Society Denounces Converting Classic Cars to Electric Power
By James Gilboy / Published Oct 19, 2019
This 87-Year-Old Man Has Owned and Driven the Same Ford Model T Pickup Truck for 70 Years
By James Gilboy / Published Jul 29, 2019
Unseen Photos of James Dean’s Fatal Porsche 550 Spyder Wreck Heading to Auction
By Chris Chin / Published Jul 28, 2019
This 1974 Pontiac Grand Camino Is the Chevy El Camino’s Cousin That Never Was
By Chris Chin / Published Jun 29, 2019
Five Cars That Belong in Michelangelo’s Garage
By Ben Keeshin / Updated Jun 28, 2019
Please, Look Beauty Straight in the Headlights
By Ben Keeshin / Updated Jun 24, 2019
11 Facts About the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 You Never Knew
By Sean Evans / Updated Jun 22, 2019
Original Molding for First-Ever Ford Mustang Concept Unearthed, Listed for Sale Online
By Chris Teague / Published Jun 5, 2019
The 7 Sexiest Cars Without Grills (Before the Tesla Model S)
By Ben Keeshin / Updated May 29, 2019
The Savage and Noble History of Baja Racing
By Mike Guy / Updated May 28, 2019
Historic WWII Submarine Museum Refloated Decades Later by Midwest Flooding
By Kyle Cheromcha / Updated May 24, 2019
The Real Star of This Horror Flick Is a Vintage Mercedes
By Ben Keeshin / Updated May 16, 2019
Why Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires Were Way Ahead of Their Time
By Rob Stumpf / Updated Mar 11, 2019
Three Little-Known Facts About the Original Acura NSX Supercar
By Jerry Perez / Published Feb 15, 2019
Watch a 1963 Jeep Gladiator Turn 57 Years Younger in Super Bowl LIII Ad
By Eric Brandt / Updated Jan 30, 2019
These Surreal Vintage Photos of the Early Michelin Man Are Straight Nightmare Fuel
By Kyle Cheromcha / Updated Sep 11, 2018
This Long Lost Experimental Mustang Shelby GT500 Was Just Found in a Texas Field
By Eric Brandt / Updated Aug 20, 2018
First Ford Mustang Buyer Never Sold Her Car, Now Worth $350,000
By James Gilboy / Published Aug 14, 2018
How A Cycling Speed Record Was Nearly Set With a Porsche 935 Turbo
By Chris Constantine / Updated Aug 7, 2018
History Channel Documentary on Detroit and Michigan Central Station Airs This Sunday
By Jerry Perez / Updated Jun 30, 2018
Photo Gallery: Detroit’s Michigan Central Station Through the Years
By Jerry Perez / Published Jun 21, 2018