Odd and Interesting

Andreu Silivaniuk concealed contraband inside Bentley car parts and used rotating licence plates to evade detection, receiving four-year sentence.

The future Grand Tour presenter embedded a crude acrostic in the magazine's 1992 Road Test Year Book, ending his staff job but launching his television career.

Dutch sculptor turns air-cooled icons into permanent stone tributes, one component at a time.

The JS50 diesel microcar completed the Nordschleife in 51 minutes, proving you don't need speed to make history.

From gentlemen's sport to criminal act, the strange evolution of drink driving laws across a century of motoring.

With three crashes outside her home in four years, a Forest of Dean resident has turned to local folklore and fake bear warnings to slow traffic.

Sixty two high end motorcycles, two Olympic medals, artwork, and drugs seized in raids targeting the former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged Sinaloa Cartel member. The FBI has a $15 million bounty on his head. He's still on the run.

"The reaction is always either confusion or just hilarity," the creator says.

Manual transmissions teach higher levels of car control, mechanical sympathy, multitasking brain power, and more fuel efficient driving. They also make city traffic miserable, slow you down on track, and are nearly extinct. The debate rages on while the m...

Submit a claim, pay £590 in repairs, receive £390 if you're lucky, which you're not because councils reject 90 percent of claims anyway. Welcome to driving in Britain where the potholes outnumber the solutions.

People have been left baffled by the weird wires going over motorways in some areas of the UK. Turns out they serve a very specific purpose. They just don't serve it very well.

Two French brothers were stunned when they were informed they had inherited assets left behind on their late grandfather's property. Expecting little more than forgotten belongings, they instead discovered dozens of rust covered cars hidden in sheds acros...

Robotic arms weld, assemble, and inspect in pitch darkness. Not because of power cuts, but because there's nobody there to see. Welcome to manufacturing's new reality.

Your average family saloon can hit 150mph, yet motorway limits rarely exceed 70mph. The answer involves engineering necessity, global markets, and a counterintuitive truth about safety.

Squeezing in that extra bit of fuel after the automatic shutoff damages a system you didn't know existed and costs hundreds to repair. The pump clicks for a reason.

When summer temperatures hit triple digits, Los Angeles roads can reach 165 degrees. The city's solution is a coating originally designed to hide spy planes from satellites.