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Toyota Patents EV That Stalls Like a Real Manual Because Apparently We Miss Frustration
The automaker's new patent makes electric cars simulate the most annoying part of driving stick shift.
How RAF Pilots Built Britain's Sports Car Empire From Wartime Scraps
The secret military origins behind Lotus, Jaguar, and Austin-Healey reveal how fighter pilots became racing legends.
Bugatti's $540,000 TV Costs More Than Three Ferraris and Folds Into Art
The hypercar maker just unveiled a 137-inch television that transforms your garage into a gallery.
That Subaru Rally Gold Wheel Story Everyone Believes? It Never Happened
The internet loves the tale of a shipping mistake creating motorsport's most iconic livery, but the truth is far more deliberate.
GPS Said "Drive Onto The Train Tracks" - So She Did!
There is a photograph circulating from Tuesday evening in Seattle that tells the whole story without requiring a caption. A woman in her seventies is standing beside her red Mazda CX-5, which is sitting on elevated light rail tracks approximately 30 feet...
RAC Staff Sold Car Crash Victims' Data. Now They Are Paying It Back.
Two former RAC customer service specialists who stole and sold the personal details of nearly 30,000 people involved in road traffic accidents have been ordered to pay back more than £118,000 under proceeds of crime legislation. One has already paid. The...
The Mystery Car Stack That Has Utah Locals Talking
Dozens of classic cars piled like cordwood in a remote canyon have created one of America's most baffling automotive mysteries.
Someone Moved a Road Closed Sign and Drove Into Wet Concrete. The Wisconsin DOT Got It All on Camera.
There was a barrier. There was a sign. The sign said "Road Closed." The driver of a Nissan Frontier moved the sign out of the way and drove onto freshly poured concrete anyway. Then the Wisconsin Department of Transportation watched it happen on their hig...
Two Thieves Broke Into Cars in Atlanta. A Robot Dog Called Oppy Tracked One of Them to the Trash Compactor.
On 21 May, two masked men entered the parking garage at Columbia Crest Apartments in Atlanta, moving car to car checking for unlocked doors and rummaging through anything accessible. It was the sort of opportunistic petty theft that happens constantly in...
Ram Got ai to Design a Patriotic American Truck Shirt. The Truck Was a Toyota.
There is a lesson here about what happens when you use a content generation tool to design merchandise for a brand defined by its vehicles, and the tool does not know one truck from another.
Australia's Road Trains Make American Big Rigs Look Like Toys
These 175-foot monsters hauling four trailers across the Outback would be completely illegal on US roads.
Birmingham Set Up a Clean Air Zone. Then Fined Itself £470,000 for Driving Through It.
If Birmingham City Council charged you £472,253 for five years of failing its own emissions standards, you would probably receive a strongly worded letter. As it is the council, the money goes from one internal account to another, the vehicles kept drivin...
Soviet Leaders Secretly Built American Luxury Cars While Denouncing Capitalism
The hand-built ZIL-4104 was reverse-engineered from Cadillacs and Lincolns for communist elites who publicly criticized Western excess.
The First Turbocharged Engine To Ever Race At Indy Was A Semi-Truck Engine
The #28 Cummins Diesel Special brought a 430-hp, 6.6-liter truck engine to the 1952 Indy 500 and earned its place in racing history.
The Ghost Car That Never Was: Why Audi's "Lucca" Legend Doesn't Add Up
A deep dive into automotive mythology reveals how even prestigious brands can become entangled in historical fiction.
The Man Who Invented the Engine That Runs Half the World Vanished Into the North Sea in 1913. Nobody Knows Why.
Every diesel truck, ship, generator and agricultural machine on the planet runs on an idea that came from a man who disappeared without trace on the night of 29 September 1913. The official verdict is suicide. The evidence for that is genuinely persuasive...
