Bridging the gap between People and Policies | Nagakarthik MP Rao | TEDxIIMUdaipur — Policies have the power to transform lives when they are grounded in the realities of the people they are designed to serve. Nagakarthik MP Rao explores the critical gap between grassroots…
Badvril Announce New Album Lethal: Hear "Fever" — The shoegazey San Francisco rock band Badvril came on my radar through Bandsplain host Yasi Salek, who included one of their dreamy, poppy, hard-slapping songs a playlist a couple years back. We posted their debut album In…
Kings of the Road: 20th-Century American Enthusiasts Set the Stage for the Modern Collector’s World — When you stop to think about it, collecting automobiles requires a lot. Money, time, and good roads are the first few things that come to mind, and following the end of World…
Student loan repayment rates an 'unsustainable burden', chancellor told — More than 120 MPs and peers have asked John Healey to carry out an "urgent review" of repayments.
The Busso V-6 Defined Alfa Romeo for a Quarter Century — There is a particular moment, somewhere north of 4000 rpm, when the Busso V-6 stops being an engine and starts being something altogether more theatrical. The induction hardens, the exhaust takes on a metallic edge, and…
Pakistan drop seven players and release head coach — Pakistan respond to their series defeat by England by taking the extraordinary step of dropping seven players, calling up five uncapped players and releasing their head coach.
Piston Slap: Quick-Strutting Or Restoring A Performance GM Suspension? — Adam writes: Hi Sajeev, I’ve been having a long mental debate since your Fire the Parts Cannon post last summer. I’m currently working through a suspension renewal on my 2005 Buick LeSabre equipped with…
FIFA Faces Backlash Over Investment Plan — Bloomberg Senior Sports Reporter Randall Williams says FIFA President Gianni Infantino is under mounting pressure after withdrawing plans to sell a stake in the World Cup following opposition from UEFA and other soccer leaders. He says…
The 2001 Ford Explorer Sportsman Concept Was an Angler’s Dream Ride — By their very nature, SUVs are intended to be many things to many different groups of people. It’s right there in the name—Sport Utility Vehicle. More often than not, this mandate leads to…
Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes — After Fisker's bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean EVs orphaned, a 4,000-member community reverse-engineered software, hacked CAN buses, and kept their cars alive.
watched a runner pass me at mile 18 and realized she was running slower than me but looked so much stronger doing it? like what am i even optimizing for
The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes — Over the past decade, ultrarunning has gone from a fringe pursuit for distance freaks to a hypercompetitive sport attracting big-time sponsors. But a mysterious training condition is suddenly plaguing its ranks, robbing a…
A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night — Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.
Our Two Cents: Cars That Look Shockingly Similar — Thanks to the tales of connective tissue told across the internet for decades, we all have opinions on things that look like other things. Some person looks like another person; that building in Europe looks like one built in…
NZ Market Watchdog Finds Māori Face Insurance Gaps, Cost Barrier — New Zealand’s insurance industry is failing to consistently meet the needs of Māori, with affordability barriers and difficulties insuring collectively owned land leaving them less likely to have cover,…
“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI — Mission Impossible. Oppenheimer. F1. The Odyssey. Top Gun: Maverick. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inception. Dune. Filmmakers and studios who make movies like these love
The Most American Truck is a Honda — Depressing fact: Levi’s no longer sews a single pair of blue jeans in the United States. The state of affairs for the other defining symbol of the American worker, the pickup, is a bit less bleak, but still not what you’d think. Automakers…
Grace Episcopal Church of City Island in Bronx, New York — <p><img alt="" data-width="4032" data-height="2268" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/H3QaKntqmfHribi3gn03baQf5C4wxGRTkPGz6CfV0ls/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1k…
Cars Help Set the Mood in Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo — I don’t pretend to be an expert on surrealist French film, nor do I claim to be an authority on surreal French cars, but every so often, when the two get mashed together, I’m happy to reflect on what I’ve just witnesse
Stellantis’ $7B Plan Means 11 New Vehicles for the U.S. by 2030 — The corporate parent of Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, and Jeep has finally announced its plan for the next five years. Announced during its 2026 Investor Day, “FaSTLAne 2030” is a $70 billion attempt by S
Picture Car Confidential #43: Le Showdown — I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid. And not unlike today’s parents decrying their young’uns’ addictions to TikTok and smartphones, my parents—in particular, my father—were very disapproving of the many hours my two…
Rolex Motorsports Reunion Class Spotlight: Bruce McLaren Trophy 1963-1974 Can-Am USRRC V-8s — There are plenty of exotic-sounding engines running during the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The hills around WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca echo with wailing rotaries and tiny,…
Eleven killed in Algeria orphanage fire — Eleven people were killed and 19 injured after a fire tore through an orphanage in Algiers.
What will happen to Trump’s agenda after Lindsey Graham’s death? — Graham, an ex-Trump critic, had turned into staunch supporter of the US president’s domestic and international policies.
Buzz Buzz: Dodge Teases the Return of the Super Bee — The video is just 15 seconds long and features exactly zero shots of an actual car, but it’s hard to mistake the latest teaser from Dodge as anything else: Super Bee is coming back early next month. As someone with a…
Factory Tuned: We Drive Ford’s 800-hp Mustang, 700-hp F-150, and 300-hp Maverick — From the tall perch of a Ford truck, the long stretch of pavement ahead of me at Michigan International Speedway looks inviting. Ford brought media out to sample a host of new kit from the…
Priced out of an Acura NSX? Here Are 4 Mid-Engine Alternatives — When the Honda/Acura NSX debuted in 1990, it represented a major change in the market for mid-engine sports cars. It brought exotic looks and precision handling matched with an easily serviceable Honda drivetrain an
As Israel pushes past the Litani, Lebanese question the purpose of UNIFIL — Israel has pushed past the Litani River, with the UNFIL peacekeeping force helpless to prevent an invasion.
There's a heat map of every marathon finish line ever crossed... and the patterns are somehow more chaotic than you'd expect 🏃♂️📍
Lanchester: The Other British Luxury Car Drafted into WWI — As any student of history knows, part of the fun of flipping back through the record of how things actually happened is ruminating on how things might have happened differently. In another universe, Lee Harvey…
Hagerty Road of the Year 2026: Pennsylvania Route 144 — Packing hundreds of curves along its 109-mile length, Pennsylvania Route 144 runs north-south and almost perfectly bisects the mountainous northern half of the Keystone State. Paved nearly a century ago…
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There's a map where you can see every major marathon route in the world overlaid on terrain — and some of them look absolutely bonkers when you see the elevation profile all at once 🏃♀️📍!
2027 Lexus IS Is Stayin’ Alive With Special Appearance Package — The current-generation Lexus IS debuted in 2014, so it’s much older than its main rivals, yet it’s sticking around for 2027. The 2027 Lexus IS inaugurates a new Special Appearance Package that includes…
A Primer on Car Batteries — One of the components in our cars that we take most for granted is the battery—at least, until that morning when you come to start your classic and find it has packed up, often with no prior warning. But not all batteries are equal. Where,…
Volkswagen Meets Veneer in This Wood-Bodied Beetle — Volkswagen’s Beetle was popular for several reasons. It was affordable, it sipped fuel, and it was easy to service and repair. It also lent itself to customization if the factory proportions, power, or stance weren’t just…
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on July 21, 2026 — It's a new Moon phase tonight.
American Beef, Italian Toppings: 5 Cars with Mixed Heritage, and What They’re Worth — The combination of European styling flair and a sophisticated chassis with the brute force of a big American pushrod engine. It’s the best of Old World and New working together,…
Car and Driver: New Car Reviews, Buying Advice and News — Covering the auto industry since 1955 with reviews, analysis, and advice for car owners and buyers.
Second crypto billionaire donates record $49m to far-right Reform UK — The two donations increase the total sum of money pledged to Reform since Friday to $97m.
The Elements of a New Honda Element Must Be Rooted in the Original — Are you an enthusiast of weird, chunky Hondas that look like rolling toasters? Well, rejoice, because Automotive News is reporting that the Japanese carmaker is planning to reintroduce the Element for 2029.…
The Hopped-Up Sixes That Built BMW’s M Brand — There is a particular clarity to a great naturally aspirated straight-six at full stretch. Not just noise, not just speed, but a sense of mechanical alignment, as though every moving part has agreed on a single purpose. Few…
The Story of the Small Truck: Past, Present and Future — Want a small truck? As you’ve likely learned, pickings are slim. It was that way in the 1970s, until Japanese manufacturers dipped a toe into the water, both for their own brands and for domestic OEMS. Then there was some…
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5 Classic Chargers (and a Coronet) to Celebrate the Model’s 60th — Today, we know the Dodge Charger—vintage and modern—as a performance car with serious street cred. Did you know that when the concept version debuted in 1965, the Detroit Free Press was most impressed by its…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12 have surprise upgrade that wasn’t announced — Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are here, and new findings reveal they each have a surprise upgrade not mentioned by Apple.
Against All Oddities: My Eagle is a Nest of Surprises — My half-lifelong dream of procuring an AMC Eagle has been realized, as you may have read. When it finally came, fulfilment came more easily than I thought, figuratively rolling out of its nest and falling to my feet. Of…
The Deadliest Decade: The Battle for Aero Supremacy — Thus commenced the Battle for Aero Supremacy. Not another race passed where a new wrinkle wasn’t introduced. It wasn’t immediately clear whether this was a testament to the technical ingenuity of Formula 1 or to…
6 RUFs Under One Tent at Broad Arrow’s 2026 Quail Auction — Since the mid-1970s—long before “restomodding” and “reimagining” old 911s became a thing—Ruf Automobile GmbH, aka RUF, has been churning out Porsche-based builds with incredible attention…
Inflation Hit the Collector Car Market This Month — The Hagerty Market Rating has fallen for the third consecutive month, dropping 0.23 points to 58.67. It has now been a year since the Market Rating was last above 60. It hasn’t been that low, for this long, in a decade and
Final Parking Space: 400k-mile 1993 Honda Civic LX Sedan — The fifth-generation (1992–95) Honda Civic now stands with the 1932–34 Ford and 1955–57 Chevrolet as an all-time favorite of American racers, customizers, and cruisers. Since the oldest examples of the EG Civic are…
How a Lexus SC400 Ended Up on America’s Rally Stages — On the second day of the Ridge Rally in Tehachapi, California, a few thousand feet above Jawbone Canyon, I stood behind an outcrop of boulders in a dirt turnout. This was where I’d hoped to capture a few photos…
Wong stars for Southern Brave as they beat Sunrisers by five wickets — Issy Wong takes three wickets to help Southern Brave make it two wins from two in the women's Hundred, as they beat Sunrisers Leeds by five wickets at Headingley.
Zambia to vote as economic hardship tests government reforms — Debt restructuring, inflation and copper revenues are emerging as key issues in the vote.
A Rare Color Set the Price on This $4.6M Carrera GT — In January 2022, we noted the $1.9M sale result for a Guards Red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT with just 780 miles as the most expensive car ever sold on Bring a Trailer. At the time, Hagerty’s #1 (concours) pricing for…
my dad's been driving the same '98 honda civic for 26 years. asked him why he never upgrades and he said 'because i know where all the weird noises come from' 🚗
Final Parking Space: 1981 Toyota Corolla Deluxe 3-Door Liftback — I’ve been focusing on Detroit machinery for this series over the past few months, with some European iron mixed in here and there, and nearly half a year has passed since our last Japanese FPS vehicle. Since
7 Car Parts You Can Restore in a Day — Restoring a car takes time. Lots of time. Even TV shows that say a restoration can be done in a week work ’round the clock every single one of those days, with a crew of people large enough to require a catered lunch. A proper…
Roku is destroying the clean home screen that convinced me to buy it in the first place — Roku sold me on a clean interface, then buried it under ads and recommendations.
11 Cultural Hits of Route 66 at 100 — The best thing about U.S. Highway 66 is that it isn’t really a highway. Although the official designation dates back 100 years, to 1926, much of the road existed before that as stretches of state and municipal byways. Route 66 is thus a kind