Odd and Interesting

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.

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...

Dorset Council painted dozens of large speed limit roundels across one of England's most loved coastal towns. Some have appeared three in a row on the same stretch. Two have been painted on a riverside footpath where only the occasional delivery van passe...

A Georgia doctor faces 19 charges after authorities say he built a rental car fleet from at least 13 stolen vehicles. A single suspicious title brought it all down.

Wood gasification technology from the 1940s is making a comeback as drivers convert pickup trucks to run on lumber waste instead of premium fuel.

Auto technicians reveal the strangest discoveries they've made during routine repairs, from exotic pets to priceless antiques.

A gang walked into a Hell's Kitchen parking garage before 6am on Easter Sunday and tried to drive out with a McLaren Artura, a Mercedes G63, a Range Rover Sport and a Volvo. A single garage worker stopped them with a button.

When a landslip cut off Bath from its neighbouring villages, one businessman put his house up as collateral, built a 400 metre road through a farmer's field in three days, and started collecting £2 a car. Over 163,000 journeys later, the council was still...

Those towering fiberglass men staring down from America's roadsides were born in a Venice Beach workshop to sell car repairs, not nightmares.

Porsche built one of the greatest sports cars ever made in 1975. It also accidentally built one of the most dangerous. Here is why the 930 Turbo earned a nickname that still follows it today.

A Ford Maverick, a metal rack, two plastic missiles, and a multi-agency bomb squad response. Just another Sunday on I-4.

Ricardo Otero, 41, of Soledad, California, had a court hearing scheduled on Tuesday morning at the Salinas Courthouse. He was already facing an auto theft charge from November 2024 and a jury trial set for July. He pulled into the courthouse car park at 1...

A Melbourne aerospace engineer hit 690 km/h in the Australian outback on a drone he built for $3,000. The official Guinness record belongs to a father and son team in South Africa. Neither is finished.

Decades before Alexa and Siri, luxury cars were already watching your every move and commenting on it.

The viral moment everyone thinks they know happened in 2009. The business it symbolised had already been dying for years before anyone on the internet noticed. By the time the clip went global in 2018, Orange County Choppers was worth nothing.

Evidence shows at least three astronauts were alive and fighting to survive during the 65,000 foot plunge to the Atlantic.