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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.
He Drove a Stolen Car to His Own Stolen Car Trial. The Cops Were Already Watching the Car Park.
Ricardo Otero, 41, of Soledad, California, had a court hearing scheduled on Tuesday morning at the Salinas Courthouse. He was already facing an auto theft charge from November 2024 and a jury trial set for July. He pulled into the courthouse car park at 1...
Two Guys in a Garage Just Built a 400mph Drone. Then Someone Built a Faster One. Then the First Guy Did It Again.
A Melbourne aerospace engineer hit 690 km/h in the Australian outback on a drone he built for $3,000. The official Guinness record belongs to a father and son team in South Africa. Neither is finished.
The Creepy 1980s Car That Wouldn't Stop Talking to You
Decades before Alexa and Siri, luxury cars were already watching your every move and commenting on it.
When Racers Had Balls of Steel: The Track That Invented Motorsport and the Bentley That Still Bears Its Name
In 1932, a baronet with chronic malaria, a polka-dot silk scarf and a supercharged Bentley pointed himself at a crumbling concrete banking and pressed the accelerator. The front wheels left the ground. The car reached 137.96 miles per hour. His name was T...
The Man Who Built the Most Iconic Car in Hollywood History Was Arrested for Cocaine. That Was the Least of His Problems.
John DeLorean was the most glamorous figure in the American car industry. He designed the Pontiac GTO, lived in a Fifth Avenue duplex, married a supermodel, and charmed the British government out of $120 million. He built 9,000 cars and then he was filmed...
The rise and fall of Orange County Choppers: From $40M empire to bankruptcy
The viral moment everyone thinks they know happened in 2009. The business it symbolised had already been dying for years before anyone on the internet noticed. By the time the clip went global in 2018, Orange County Choppers was worth nothing.
Challenger's Crew Cabin Fell Intact for Nearly Three Minutes While NASA Watched Helplessly
Evidence shows at least three astronauts were alive and fighting to survive during the 65,000 foot plunge to the Atlantic.
Driver Breathed Poison for Months After Ignoring Exhaust Smell in Car
What started as an annoying odor nearly became a death sentence.
An Off-Duty Cop Road-Raged a Teenager's Jeep Off the Highway. Then He Drove Away.
A 17-year-old was minding her own business on I-25 when two vehicles brake-checking each other at high speed forced her off the road. Her Jeep rolled. She walked away. One of the road ragers was a police officer. He left the scene.
Somewhere in England, an Abandoned Mill Is Hiding 60 Years of Classic Car History
Urban explorers have uncovered what may be the most quietly extraordinary automotive time capsule in Britain: a disused mill housing dozens of historic vehicles spanning six decades, untouched since the doors closed in the 1980s.
He Bought a $600 Car, Registered It in His Ex's Name, and Left It at the Airport. The Parking Bill Hit $105,000.
Brandon Preveau worked at O'Hare. He drove a purple 1999 Chevy Monte Carlo to work. He registered it in his girlfriend's name. Then they broke up, he parked it, and he walked away. The car sat there for two and a half years. The bill became the largest pa...
A New Zealand Newspaper Delivery Driver Just Hit 2 Million Kilometres in the Same Toyota Corolla. Original Engine. Original Transmission. Still Going.
Graeme Hebley of Upper Hutt has driven his 1993 Toyota Corolla station wagon more than 2 million kilometres on its original engine and drivetrain. He bought it in 2000 for daily newspaper deliveries and has no plans to stop.