Odd and Interesting

The automaker's new patent makes electric cars simulate the most annoying part of driving stick shift.

The hypercar maker just unveiled a 137-inch television that transforms your garage into a gallery.

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...

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...

Dozens of classic cars piled like cordwood in a remote canyon have created one of America's most baffling automotive mysteries.

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...

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...

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.

These 175-foot monsters hauling four trailers across the Outback would be completely illegal on US roads.

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...

A routine maintenance visit for the Formula 1-derived hypercar cost more than most people's annual salary.

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...

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.

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.

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