MotorBuzz
AC Cars Just Built the First Cobra With a Roof. It Only Took 64 Years.
Britain's oldest active car manufacturer has, in 125 years of operation and more than six decades of building the Cobra, never once put a fixed roof on a production model and handed it to a customer. Until now.
Eight Suspensions, No Endorsement, 150mph on I-95. Florida Has Jailed Him.
There are people who get one licence suspension, learn something from the experience, and drive more carefully afterwards. Jose Manuel Gaviria Munoz, 24, of Greenacres, Florida, got eight suspensions.
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.
A New Ford Escort RS That Revs to 10,000rpm. All 150 Are Already Gone.
The Boreham Ford Escort Mk1 RS was revealed in final production form at the London Concours this week. By the time most people read about it, every single one of the 150 examples had already been accounted for. If this feels unfair, consider that the car...
The Car Is Gone. The Driver Is Alive. Look at the Photograph and Ask How.
That photograph is not a sculpture or a demonstration. It is what is left of a Chevrolet Corvette C8 after a Thursday afternoon on a California road. The driver walked away from it. Barely, but he did.
The Man Inside the DVLA Who Cleaned Up Stolen Cars and Gave Wrecks a Fresh Identity
Every time you buy a used car in Britain, you are trusting a database. The vehicle's history, its previous keepers, its accident record, whether it was ever declared a total loss, whether it was stolen and recovered all of it sits in records held by the D...
F1 Used to Be Dangerous and Spectacular. Now It's a Knob Twiddling Contest.
I turned it off halfway through. I am not proud of that, but I am not going to pretend otherwise either.
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.
The Artist Who Made Car Guts Beautiful Just Left Us
Jiro Yamada turned technical drawings into masterpieces that revealed the hidden poetry of pistons and gearboxes.
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.
VW Golf Could Return to America as Budget Alternative to GTI
Volkswagen eyes Mexican production to bring affordable European hatchback back to US shores.
We Are Living in the Age of Ugly
Something has gone badly wrong with car design. Three cars. Three manufacturers. Three separate decisions that somehow arrived at the same conclusion: that nobody in the room had the authority, or the courage, to say the thing looked terrible.
The Billionaires Who Want to Disappear Beneath the Waves
Superyachts have a visibility problem. A 90-metre vessel anchored off a Mediterranean island is a public statement. It attracts photographs, protesters, journalists and occasionally paint. The logical solution, if you have several hundred million dollars...
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...
