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Troy, New York is a city of around 51,000 people on the Hudson River. It is now also a case study in what happens when a police department installs a surveillance network without asking anyone.

The original DeLorean was built in Belfast, powered by a French engine, designed by an Italian and funded by the British government. The one doing donuts in front of Samson and Goliath last week runs a Chevrolet V8 and belongs to a French drift driver fro...

Here is what AMG engineers apparently spent years perfecting for the most powerful car the company has ever built: a depressing playlist.

When stealing cars leads to stealing chart toppers, prison sentences get complicated.

Tesla's Wade Mode pressurises the battery pack, raises the suspension, and lets a Cybertruck ford shallow freshwater obstacles up to around 32 inches deep. It does not make a 6,600-pound stainless steel vehicle float. The distinction matters.

On the afternoon of Friday 15 May 2026, Bluebird K7 rose onto the plane on Coniston Water. The last person to do that was Donald Campbell, on the morning of 4 January 1967, seconds before the boat became airborne, broke apart, and killed him.

Craft beer has quietly made the maths of drink driving much harder to get right. Most drivers have not caught up.

Nobody went into this war with their eyes shut.

University research shows machine learning can extend battery life by 22.3% without slowing down charging times.

The dashcam footage lasts about two minutes. It ends with a toddler climbing out of an inverted car and trotting toward a state trooper.

For years, police could arrest you for stealing a car but had to hand back the gadget you used to do it. That loophole is closed.

The Department of Justice has subpoenaed Apple, Google, Amazon and Walmart for the personal data of at least 100,000 people who downloaded or bought a car tuning app. You don't have to have done anything wrong to be on that list.

This millennium has produced two genuinely confronting automotive launches. One was the Cybertruck. The other, from a company that used to make the most beautiful cars on earth, is somehow worse.

The short answer is yes, sometimes. The longer answer depends entirely on where in the engine you are planning to put one.

The company that makes diggers is back on the salt flats. This time it is burning hydrogen.

A generation of mechanics learned their trade with instruments that would mystify today's technicians.