MotorBuzz
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.
The Clever Reason Some Car Bolts Are Deliberately Made Weak
Engineers intentionally install weaker bolts in critical safety systems as sacrificial components designed to fail first and save your life.
GM's Brilliant $2 Sticker Fix for Minivan Doors That Were Smashing Heads
When your billion-dollar engineering solution is literally a warning label.
He Called 911 on Them First. Then He Drove Into Them. Then He Fled.
Jerry Ross, 72, of Woodstock, Georgia, had already filed multiple complaints with the sheriff about cyclists on Sugar Pike Road before he allegedly pulled up behind a group of ten riders, leaned on his horn, passed with inches to spare in a lane with no o...
Two Million Electric Cars on UK Roads. That Sounds Like a Lot. It Is Not.
The government announced a landmark milestone today. Two million electric vehicles are now registered in the UK, up 15 percent on last year. What the announcement carefully does not lead with: that figure represents less than five percent of all cars on B...
Ford's Electric Mustang Just Ran the Quarter Mile in 6.87 Seconds. Then It Did 6.81.
The Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 is 2,200 horsepower, weighs 1,500kg and has no engine noise to speak of. At the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte last weekend, it became the quickest electric car on the planet by a margin so large it almost does not make sens...
Morgan Just Built Its Most Powerful Car in 117 Years. It Weighs the Same as a Mazda Miata.
The Supersport 400 produces 402 horsepower from a BMW inline six engine, hits 62mph in 3.6 seconds, tops out at 180mph, and weighs 1,170kg. It is handbuilt in Great Malvern, starts at £135,558, and contains a wooden frame. Morgan has not changed its appro...
Your Next New Car May Watch Your Eyes, Measure Your Breath and Decide Whether You Are Fit to Drive
A law signed in 2021 requires every new passenger vehicle sold in the United States to include technology that monitors the driver for impairment and can prevent the car from moving. The technology is not ready. The deadline has already been missed. The l...
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.
You May Already Qualify for a Blue Badge and Not Know It. Here Are All 19 Conditions That Can Get You One.
The Blue Badge scheme is one of the most practical government benefits available to people with mobility issues. Six groups qualify automatically. Thirteen more can qualify depending on their individual circumstances. The badge can mean parking at the des...
Greece Used AI Toll Cameras to Build a Case Against 229 Supercars. One Had Cocaine. Several Had Tampered Chassis Numbers.
Greek tax authorities have seized 229 luxury cars worth more than €10 million after an AI powered system toll camera data cross referenced data with customs and tax records since late 2025. The loophole it closed was breathtakingly simple: keep your super...
Washington D.C. Finally Towed the Audi. It Had 893 Tickets and $262,000 in Unpaid Fines.
An Audi Q5 with Maryland plates spent years running a speed camera gauntlet through the nation's capital, collecting nearly 900 tickets and racking up $262,204 in fines that nobody could force it to pay. A 2024 law finally closed the loophole. The car was...
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...
The World's Largest Car Dealership Has Closed. The Model That Built It No Longer Works.
Cargiant opened in 1976, became a Guinness World Record holder, sold more than a million cars, and made its founder a billionaire. On April 24, 2026, it entered a managed closure. The 46 acres of prime West London land it sat on turned out to be worth mor...
California Sold Your Car, Pocketed the Profit, and Was Under No Obligation to Tell You
For nearly a decade, California's DMV auctioned off towed vehicles, collected more than $8 million in surplus funds above what owners owed, and was not required by law to inform a single person that the money existed. A new bill wants to change that. It s...
An 86 Year Old Widow Was Convicted of a Crime Because an Insurance Agent Pressed F Instead of S
Edna Nightingale read her registration number out correctly over the phone. The Swinton Insurance agent typed one letter wrong. The DVLA's computer flagged her as uninsured. A court convicted her without her present. She spent weeks unable to sleep, convi...
