Interesting
Why 1960s Dashboard Lighting Still Beats Your Tesla Screen
Electroluminescent gauge clusters from the Kennedy era created a glow so perfect that modern digital displays look crude by comparison.
GM's Brilliant $2 Sticker Fix for Minivan Doors That Were Smashing Heads
When your billion-dollar engineering solution is literally a warning label.
Wisconsin Just Posted a 17.3 mph Speed Limit. That Is Not a Typo. That Is the Point.
The Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility in Appleton, Wisconsin, has installed a speed limit sign reading 17.3 mph. Not 15. Not 20. 17.3. Officials are completely aware of how strange it looks. The strangeness is the strategy.
A Truck Weighing Three Tons Drove Over a $250,000 Lamborghini and the Driver Did Not Notice Until She Was Already Parked on Top of It
Ramón Ferrer had owned his black Lamborghini Huracán for five months. On April 22 he drove it to the gym in Lake Nona, Florida. A lifted Chevrolet Silverado came around a corner, did not slow, and drove straight over the front end. He was still inside. No...
Lyme Regis Residents Say Their Town Has Been 'Grotesquely Vandalised' by 20mph Road Signs
Dorset Council painted dozens of large speed limit roundels across one of England's most loved coastal towns. Some have appeared three in a row on the same stretch. Two have been painted on a riverside footpath where only the occasional delivery van passe...
The Surgeon, the Side Hustle and the Clerk Who Noticed
A Georgia doctor faces 19 charges after authorities say he built a rental car fleet from at least 13 stolen vehicles. A single suspicious title brought it all down.
This Chevy Owner Hasn't Bought Gas in Three Years Thanks to Sawmill Scraps
Wood gasification technology from the 1940s is making a comeback as drivers convert pickup trucks to run on lumber waste instead of premium fuel.
Mechanics Are Finding Live Snakes and $50,000 Violins in Customer Cars
Auto technicians reveal the strangest discoveries they've made during routine repairs, from exotic pets to priceless antiques.
Before He Changed The World With Inexpensive Cars, Henry Ford Was The Fastest Man On Four Wheels
In 1904, Henry Ford took the Ford 999 race car to 91.37mph on the frozen surface of Lake St. Clair, north-east of Detroit.
Virginia Bans Renewal Of Robert E. Lee License Plates Because We Don't Celebrate Losers
Virginia's policy for custom license plates means there are hundreds of options, but one of the most controversial has been removed from the catalog.
Four Men STEAL Four Luxury Cars. One Parking Attendant. One Gate.
A gang walked into a Hell's Kitchen parking garage before 6am on Easter Sunday and tried to drive out with a McLaren Artura, a Mercedes G63, a Range Rover Sport and a Volvo. A single garage worker stopped them with a button.
The Council Wouldn't Fix the Road. So He Built His Own. And Charged for It.
When a landslip cut off Bath from its neighbouring villages, one businessman put his house up as collateral, built a 400 metre road through a farmer's field in three days, and started collecting £2 a car. Over 163,000 journeys later, the council was still...
The Creepy Giants Watching Your Highway Drive Started as Wholesome Muffler Shop Mascots
Those towering fiberglass men staring down from America's roadsides were born in a Venice Beach workshop to sell car repairs, not nightmares.
The Chevy Vega Was a Terrible Car. The Way They Shipped It Was Genius.
GM needed to move thousands of compact cars across a continent as cheaply as possible. The solution was to stand them on their noses — and redesign the car around that fact.
The Porsche 930 Turbo: Why They Called It the Widowmaker
Porsche built one of the greatest sports cars ever made in 1975. It also accidentally built one of the most dangerous. Here is why the 930 Turbo earned a nickname that still follows it today.
Florida Man Drives Missile Truck Down the Interstate. Florida Man Sees No Problem With This.
A Ford Maverick, a metal rack, two plastic missiles, and a multi-agency bomb squad response. Just another Sunday on I-4.
