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To get to Roland George’s shop in Brooklyn, you take the A or C trains out to the Shepherd Avenue station, deep into…

The Ford Explorer emerged mewling and blinking sometime during the Cretaceous period. The year was 1990.…

A story about a Buick is not exactly one that grips the imagination. Maybe not here. But allow me to explain.

Taylor Congleton grew up on the water, in South Hero, Vermont—an island in the midst of Lake Champlain, tucked…

I’m a car guy. A real, genuine car guy. I love cars. Every day I wake up in the morning in my race car bed and I…

On Aug. 13, in the Eifel Mountains of Germany, while rounding the Südkehre at the Nürburgring Nordschleife with…

“El Gallo Grande” is an eye-searingly yellow 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight sedan with the half-crowing head of an…

You can do all kinds of stuff with your Amazon Echo, like order a pizza, listen to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious…

These days, your average Le Mans prototype race car doesn’t so much resemble a car you can buy as it does a…

Have we got a car for you! A bona-fide classic! The best in Gallic ingenuity and Space-Age thriftiness! A funky…

“Some women refuse to be a slave of routine,” said Pathé News in 1962, the year Beryl Swain entered the Isle of Man…

Elio Motors was founded in 2009 for an ambitious effort: bringing 3-wheeled, fully-enclosed trikes capable of…

If you want to get a perfect drift shot like the one above, it’s easy! You just need a few things.

When Honda introduces the world’s first adventure scooter on August 30th, what they’re tentatively calling the…

This ain’t your mother’s car review. Hell no, amigo. This is a bare-knuckled, down-and-goddamn-dirty,…

There is often no glory in muckraking. The researchers at West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels…

There may be a new Toyota Supra! There may always be a new Supra around, in fact, something we’ve been dreaming…

You might not expect the Craigslist sale of a 1998 Ford Explorer to garner much attention, never mind ending up on…

We don’t do this very often. Opening up Our Modest Car Collection to yahoos off the street, even if they’ve put on a…

Ninety percent of the human population, give or take, already regards the automobile as an appliance. At best. The Pe…