In the car world, we hear the word “preservation” quite a bit. For many, it means an uncompromising reverence for all-original classic automobiles that are just as they were when they were new, or ...

An Italian startup has unveiled an old-school speedster that pays homage to the country’s racing heritage. Although the Automobili Mignatta Rina is built on a state-of-the-art carbon fiber monocoque, ...

Earlier in 2025, a group of investors took everybody by surprise when they announced plans to resurrect the long-dormant Yugo brand. The news broke in February; It wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. At the ...

Students in the auto restoration program at McPherson College, which is expanding its curriculum to include mechanical engineering this fall. Courtesy McPherson College/Corey Nolen There are roughly ...

That’s the issue Chrysler had, because they had a very important product to launch, and they needed to make a big splash. Or, as it turned out, crash: Chrysler President Bob Lutz picked up Detroit ...

For many people, thoughts of amateur motorsport conjure images of sweltering days standing in dusty pits, sweating in Nomex suits during heats, and then slathering on extra layers of sunscreen and ...

Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun scheme up and build amazing engines for their land speed race car, which has taken on El Mirage and the Bonneville Salt Flats. We’ve toured their Southern California shop ...

Door 25 is just one of dozens, all identical and with faded blue paint, lining both sides of an alleyway in a storage facility near Charlotte, North Carolina. But when Tom Cotter lifted that overhead ...

The thing about the lies we tell ourselves is that they are occasionally required to allow us to navigate the world without going insane. Little, or sometimes not-so-little, these untruths shield our ...

If you’re a fan of T-buckets, then you’re probably familiar with Norm Grabowski. The late hot-rodder rose to prominence when he built the forerunner of the T-bucket, his 1922 Model T known as “Kookie, ...

For the third weekend in a row I walked into the garage, looked at the frame of my Honda XR600R, then down at the floor. I checked the freezer for something that was never there and bee-lined back out ...