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If only Tyrrell F1 had read up on the Pat Clancy Special, the first six wheel weirdo to try its luck.

Blink and you might miss it.

"The strike was blinding and deafening and the smell of used model rocket engines lingered for some time afterwards."

The sinister-sounding Sigma Group existed for one purpose: Bringing peace to the streets of Greece.

Tesla Motors remain the undisputed leaders in EV tech at the moment, but this Chinese company has a good shot of disrupting their stronghold.

Horsepower ain't cheap but Donut Media crunched the numbers and found the cars with the best horsepower without breaking the bank.

Sometimes all a car needs is a through washing and detailing to be restored to a beautiful, pristine state.

Lia Block got an epic lesson in doing donuts from her professional rally driving dad in a 1972 Ford Escort Mk2 RS.

A father gives useful, practical advice on replacing a tire.

Talk about custom.

Deaths from accidents are the biggest source of organs for transplant, accounting for 33% of donations, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, UNOS, which manages the nation's organ transplant system. But since the coronavirus forced Californians indoors, accidents have declined.

In this chapter of man-made machine versus nature, nature wins.

Everything about Korea's culture, legal system, and road network is built to make car enthusiasm impossible. These are the people who find a way.

Car traffic took a big dip beginning in late March, and headlines celebrated clean air around the U.S. But an NPR analysis of EPA data tells a more troubling story.

For reference, a top-end Tesla Model S on Ludicrous mode can do 0-60 in about 2.3 seconds.

This modified Honda Civic recently broke records during a quarter-mile run. For reference, a top-end Tesla Model S on Ludicrous mode can do 0-60 in about 2.3 seconds.

The seven-seater would have had almost twice the range as Tesla's Model X.

Waymo is still the one to beat. But in a post-COVID world, autonomous will enable more of our contactless needs.

From reliable Saabs to boat-sized Mercedes, what kind of bougie, boxy '80s sedan are you?

Dieter Klein has travelled to remote corners of Europe and the US to find and photograph abandoned cars.

Pontiac's streamlined concept had many features that have only recently made it onto your driveway.

2020 could be the year that hype comes back to bite the developers of self-driving cars.

It's also basically unknown in the US — but it's big in Japan.

It was listed as being $930 on Alibaba when I bought it; of course, like everything else, it's actually way more expensive by the time you factor in batteries and shipping and customs and all kinds of tedious handling stuff.

The town of Stringtown, Oklahoma generated $483,646 in traffic fines during fiscal year 2013 — making up 76 percent of all Stringtown revenue. What's the deal?

Collecting model cars? It's a bigger pursuit than you might imagine, at least among automobile aficionados. Put away thoughts of a Hot Wheels grab-bag carted around in a rolling plastic storage case. These 1:8 replicas are hand assembled and usually start in the low five figures. One-off special orders can run to $85,000.

It's definitely not your grandfather's Oldsmobile. Neither will it be your grandson's, sadly.

A very unlucky driver in a Toyota Hilux in Melbourne, Australia went the wrong way and couldn't reverse course.

In the fight between Ford and Dodge, Ford takes this round.

Exploring Monowi, Nebraska (population: one) in a Nissan 370Z to understand what it's like to be left behind.  

Today's state-of-the-art driverless vehicles have origins dating back to the 1920s, including one automaker who feuded with Harry Houdini.

"When the Bronco went away, it became even more popular in its absence."

This project is incredibly overwhelming for a non-engineer like me, and I wouldn't even know where to begin. There is art in the machine and from the machine these students have created art.

In 1970, Plymouth hoped to persuade Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro buyers to choose their Barracuda instead. One of Plymouth's tactics was to offer greater customization options — which led to this odd rendering.

A Dominos delivery man got his vehicle stolen by a fast-talking criminal who got pulled over immediately for a lane violation and then miraculously was let go. Fortunately, the car was recovered an hour later.

The Humen Pearl River Bridge in China had to be temporarily shut down this week after it started undulating in the wind. It looks, uh, worrisome.

We investigated how impossible this was.

If only this guy had stayed home and not made a huge fool of himself.

Just because there's a bottleneck in traffic doesn't mean you have license to do this.

An appreciation of the stretch limo, a status symbol that will never line the block again.

The 2010s were a high point for automotive styling, but the decade also had more than its share of low points.

Modern design and taste cannot spare us from continuing visual horror.

While the Ford F-15 remains the best selling vehicle in the United States, trucks are rare in Europe.

Meet Bryan Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving.

Over the weekend, I was very nearly in a head-on collision with a huge SUV in my Nissan Pao, a situation that could have ended very, very badly for me. The incident has made me think about how we talk about car safety.

A Utah Highway Patrol trooper got a pint-sized surprise when he pulled over a 5-year-old driver who was swerving so badly he thought the driver needed medical attention.

Having the awareness and reaction to a car hurtling at you is definitely life saving.

Of all the vehicle we imagined tackling a mountain bike trail, the Porsche 911 Cabriolet was on the bottom of the list.

This scooter driver did a 360 degree spin in the air after getting rammed into by this car. Fortunately, he wasn't seriously injured and they settled the matter without involving the police.

When Peter Pan meets Grand Theft Auto.

The car did not pass any modern safely tests, had a reputation for maximum affordability and minimal reliability, and was beloved by thousands of Russians.

The length of almost two football fields, the cargo ship Jupiter Spirit arrived in Los Angeles' harbor on April 24 after an almost three-week journey from Japan, ready to unload its cargo of about 2,000 Nissan Armada SUVs, Rogue crossovers and Infiniti sedans in a quick, half-day operation.

What seems like a simple hobby can take you across the world.

A train was caught on camera slamming into a truck carrying a boat stalled on the tracks in Norway. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.

Matt Burton got the shock of a lifetime when the front latch of his Lotus Elise sports car's roof failed and the whole thing gave way.

He was a racer and a hell of a character. We look back on Simpson's life and his impact on the racing world.

The police car wanted to warn other drivers that there was an accident ahead, so apparently this is the way they decided to go about it.

How do you travel full-time — with a family? These families are reinventing what it means to hit the road.

Rolls-Royce are known for making some of the world's most luxurious cars. What is the manufacturer doing to the car to make it cost so much?

Many drivers depend on navigation apps like Waze and Google Maps to avoid gridlock but it turns out, research suggests they're making the problem worse.