The headline of this February 1932 Popular Science article, "USE CAR EXHAUST TO CLEAN CUSHIONS" at first glance seems as sensible as "USE HUMAN FECES TO CLEAN TEETH," but when you really see what's going on, you'll accept it's not a terrible idea. Just a lousy one.

We take hyper-realistic 3D scanned and rendered cars for granted today. They're in movies, video games, fake spy shots, everywhere. The fact that it can be done at all still feels like science-fiction. The origins of it all are humbler and older than you'd think: In 1972, with students, yardsticks, and a VW Beetle.

So you have a GPS. Good for you! But did you know that the directions it gives you aren't orders, but recommendations? It's true! Well, someone should tell this guy who drove down the stairs of New York's Riverside Park.

KERS, as we've all explained to our grandmas, is the Kinetic Energy Recovery System that's in use on F1 cars to give them momentary bursts of power, like the TURBO button in a video game. The system uses energy recovered from braking, and there's something very satisfying about storing wasted energy and then spitting…

Aston Martin just passed the technical and safety tests from Ze Germans, so it can start the Nürburgring 24 next month with it's twin-turbocharged hydrogen-hybrid V12 Rapide S. It will be the first hydrogen car to race the famous track.

The talk of the country is still the bombers that terrorized Boston just two weeks ago. There's still much to learn about what motivated the alleged bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, but we just found out that one of the unsung heroes of their capture is Mercedes and their advanced GPS telematics system.

A while back, I had a delightfully terrible idea to use spacecraft-type maneuvering rockets to make a better-handling race car. I thought I was pretty clever, but then I saw this picture of a Corvair with a rocket strapped to its side way back in the '60s.

I've been very impressed with the power of collective minds, lately, as they got my car back for me, and as a group, Jalopnik readers/commenters have a pretty good track record of getting things done. So I'm hoping to enlist your collective help on a little research project about an unsung hero: this iconic…

The all-carbon wheels on the Koenigsegg Agera R are so light, you can toss them into the air and catch them.

Called the ME.WE Concept, Toyota's newest answer to these challenging times is is four-wheel drive electric car with highly customizable Polypropylene body panels which can be used as a pick-up, a convertible, an off-roader or a small city car depending on your needs.