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Why Do People Still Sleep on the SN95 Mustang? — Heads were likely scratching in 1993, the final year of the Fox Body Mustang. That’s when Ford revised its 5.0-liter V-8’s power output from 225 hp to 205 hp, but training documents for Ford salespeople insisted its per

The Most Interesting Thing You Can Do With a Zucchini This Summer — Add this unique, satisfying Zucchini with Garlic Sauce recipe to the rotation when you've run out of ways to use zucchini or yellow squash!

Days of Thunder Sequel Gets Green Light — Tom Cruise will soon be back on track as Cole Trickle, as the much-anticipated Days of Thunder 2 has been given the go-ahead by Paramount Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter claims that Jonathan Levine will direct the sequel to the 1990…

John Cena To Save the World in Matchbox: The Movie — Following the smash hit that was Barbie, Mattel is bringing its model car brand Matchbox to the screen. Matchbox: The Movie will star John Cena as CIA agent Sean Walker, who heads back home to meet up with the childhood…

Ram’s First Roush-Tuned Truck Is on the Way — Ram has been on a performance kick since it brought back the Hemi V-8, and the company is teaming up with tuner Roush to make additional updates to its best-selling truck. Roush, which is best-known for its Ford-based builds,…

Porsche’s Transaxle Experiment Turns 50 — It’s 50 years since Porsche did the unthinkable. The company, built on rear-engined sports cars, decided to put a motor up front instead. The Porsche 924, which arrived in 1976, wasn’t even originally a Porsche, but it did lead the…

The SP40 Replica Edsel Roadster Parties like It’s 1935 — Driving the Argentine-built SP40 Restomod Speedster, you realize it’s the perfect automotive encapsulation of the old Henry Ford quote, “History is bunk.” Well, actually, Mr. Ford’s full quote, which is as follows:…

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Return to Sender: The Grumman LLV Has Finally Reached the End of Its Mail Delivery Days — The Grumman LLV—for Long Life Vehicle—mail truck is proof that sometimes federal bureaucrats get it right. The aluminum-bodied lump just completed four decades as the principal mail…

GPS Trackers: The Last Line of Theft Defense — A total of 659,880 vehicles were reported stolen nationwide last year. Most of those are used cars like Hyundai Elantras and Honda Accords, which are easy to part out. But classic cars are hardly immune. In 2025, 207 total loss…

5 Tiers of Project Car “Upgrades” — The vast majority of vintage cars are project cars. Whether intentional by the owner or not, keeping up with old iron requires periodic projects and upkeep. While there are always places or ways to spend our hard-earned money on a…

Never Stop Driving #188: Are Chinese Car Bodies Legit? — The hottest recent piece from Hagerty Media, with more than 3.8 million views in only two weeks, is a video about an incredible car-body factory in China. Some 200 miles north of Shanghai, Jiangsu Juncheng Vehicle Industry

Your Project Car Anti-Guide — The path for tackling a project car successfully is varied and meandering, even in the best scenario. Navigating it either forces you to go with the flow, or else you live a frustrated life until you either sell the car or reluctantly get it to a poi

Hantavirus May Be Hiding in Your Classic—Here’s How to Handle It — There is no shortage of risks when driving or maintaining vintage cars, and we all either accept those risks or take action to mitigate them. For example, small changes in driving habits can reduce the risk of get

Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on August 16, 2026 — Can you see anything tonight?

Dragstalgia: A Bit of America in Middle England — The home of drag racing is, and always has been, the United States. But there’s a big following in Europe, particularly in England, where the sport has thrived since 1966, when the first meeting was held at Santa Pod, near…

Future Apple wearables, iOS 27 beta 5, iPhone 20 details - 9to5Mac — Benjamin and Chance talk about all the changes in iOS 27 beta 5, as Apple reportedly takes a fresh look...

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my kitchen counter three weeks ago. The bubbles stopped yesterday. Now I'm genuinely nervous to open it.

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my kitchen counter three weeks ago. The bubbles stopped yesterday. Now I'm genuinely nervous to open it.

Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit | TechCrunch — Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.

“Mr. Best of Show” Paul Russell Reflects on Five Decades as a Master Restorer — Paul Russell is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and respected figures in the world of classic automobile restoration. Over several decades, he has built a reputation for…

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Is Manic, and Freshly Importable — If you ask Chat GPT to tell you about the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Tommi Mäkinen Edition, it will spit out words like “iconic,” “titanium turbine,” and “Enkei wheels,” and then fur

10 of the Quirkiest Cars from the London Concours — Alright guv’nah, come and ‘ave a butcher’s at all the Ken Dodd la-di-dahs right ‘ere in the jam tart of London Town. It’s the London Concours, held at the Honourable Artillery Company, a hidden gree

been fermenting cabbage for three weeks and it tastes like a tire fire — turns out i've been using tap water this whole time and chlorine kills everything 🤦

been fermenting cabbage for three weeks and it tastes like a tire fire — turns out i've been using tap water this whole time and chlorine kills everything 🤦

Toyota Adds Trailhunter Packages to 2027 Tundra and Sequoia — Toyota has announced a mid-cycle refresh for the 2027 Tundra pickup and the 2027 Sequoia full-size SUV. Alongside an updated exterior and more standard tech on the inside, both body-on-frame ‘Yotas get a…

Never Stop Driving #186: Ferrari Fever — Damn you, Henry Catchpole, damn you. I thought I’d banished the Ferrari F355 from my mind. But your latest “The Driver’s Seat” video for Hagerty’s YouTube channel, in which you drove a restomod version, reawakened all the fond memories I h

Light Is the Memory of the Cosmos | Sohaila Mohammadi | TEDxDarulaman — What if every time you looked at the night sky, you were actually looking into the past? This talk explores one of astronomy's most fascinating realities: because light takes time to travel, every star,…

This Mangusta Is Gorgeous and Rare, and It Just Sold for $433K — In the mid-1950s, Alejandro DeTomaso left his native Argentina to pursue his racing passion in Italy. By the end of the decade, he had settled in Modena and with his American wife, Isabelle Haskell, traded racing…

New Citroën 2CV Previewed as a Cheap, City-Friendly EV — Citroën is about to rekindle a decades-old rivalry. The electric Renault 4 E-Tech, released in 2025, will soon be joined by an electric Citroën 2CV scheduled to make its debut at the 2026 Paris auto show. The model will fea

5 Cars Gaining Value in an Ever-Widening Market — It’s summer, and we’re halfway through the year. That means we’ve also just updated all the prices on Hagerty Valuation Tools, and things are as wild as the last time we checked in. The supercar boom continues…

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my kitchen counter three weeks ago. It tastes good now but smells like a crime scene — my roommate thinks something died in the walls 🫙

Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my kitchen counter three weeks ago. It tastes good now but smells like a crime scene — my roommate thinks something died in the walls 🫙

The 1971–73 Ford Mustang Isn’t Big Enough To Bully Inflation — Muscle Cars were a powerful force in the late 1960s, and America’s original pony car was of course on the quest for beefier torque curves and fatter margins from a stable of V-8 engines in…

Someone mapped every car model's design language across decades — you can literally see when manufacturers started copying each other..

Someone mapped every car model's design language across decades — you can literally see when manufacturers started copying each other..

Someone mapped every street in America by the decade it was built. The oldest roads cluster in ways that actually make sense.

Someone mapped every street in America by the decade it was built. The oldest roads cluster in ways that actually make sense.

1956 Buick Special Estate Wagon: Well, Isn’t That Special! — Buick has changed rapidly in the last thirty years. If someone time-warped from the year of today’s featured car to a Buick showroom in 2026, they would likely look around, pause, then ask where the Buicks…

Final Parking Space: 1999 Mercury Mystique LS with 5-speed and 350K Miles — Two weeks ago, we had a 1993 Honda Civic with 414,982 miles on its odometer as our Final Parking Space subject. That very same day, I visited my favorite Denver-area car graveyard and spotted a Mercury…

$2.1 Million Gets You A Museum Quality 2006 Ford GT Heritage — When an online auction generates over 1000 comments, it’s probably one worth paying attention to. This past week, one comment section swelled to a mind-numbing 1780 chime-ins. They had time to chat, too, since…

Tech Stock Selloff Spreads to Europe | The Opening Trade 6/23/2026 — A selloff cascaded across global markets as investors turned jittery about high-flying tech stocks and frothy valuations. South Korea’s Kospi Index plunged 10% from a record high. The Opening Trade has…

High Fidelity: The Story of House Yamaha — At 9000 rpm, the 1LR-GUE V-10 of the Lexus LFA produces a howl that vibrates your soul. Forget bone conduction; this feels like the plates of your skull achieving valve float, a blend of big displacement bass and golden-era F1 scream.…

US 20-Year Bond Sale to Test Demand as Yield Curve Steepens — The sale of 20-year government bonds this week will test investor appetite for long-term debt following a few record-breaking auctions.

I Built The World’s Only 2026 WWII Jeep. It Nearly Broke Me - The Autopian — “David, you need to call eBay and give them a heads up. You’re supposed to leave soon!” my wife told me every night as I walked into the house, demoralized, covered in grease, mumbling about how doomed…

Crude oil futures drop after Trump promises an Iran deal will be signed Friday — Oil prices had already fallen quite dramatically on Thursday and Friday, in anticipation of an imminent deal. President Trump has posted online that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen after the deal is

The Drive: Latest Car News, Car Reviews, and Culture Stories — Reporting on the auto industry and car culture with breaking car news, model reveals, exclusive scoops, new car reviews, features, and more.

183-MPH Land Speed Lincoln Mark VIII Is A Sub-$20K Dream Come True — Time is running out on telling firsthand stories behind Lincoln’s Mark VIII luxury sports coupe, but occasionally we get to do just that. From its indium-plated grille to that aluminum differential…

Inside Rad Rides by Troy, Birthplace of Killer Customs — Troy Trepanier and his talented crew of fabricators, CAD modelers, metal shapers, and painters have been building record-setting and award-winning cars for decades. Rad Rides by Troy operates out of a series of buildings…

'Absolute dime' - best shots from second round of Women's Open — Enjoy the best shots from day two at the Women's Open, featuring Nelly Korda and England's Charley Hull.

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Why is Pezeshkian urging an end to Iran’s ‘no war, no peace’ status? — The Iranian president calls for an end to deadlock with the US, declaring it the right moment for a lasting agreement.

An Anglia Restoration Inspired by Harry Potter — I have been an avid Harry Potter fan for quite some time, and when the opportunity presented itself to create a replica from the second movie in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I knew I had to make this a…

‘No surprise’: Netanyahu rejects US-backed Gaza plan — Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti says Netanyahu's rejection of the US-backed Gaza plan is no surprise.

This guy rebuilt a 1987 Ferrari Testarossa engine in his garage and documented every bolt, the mad respect I have for his patience is unhinged 🔧

This guy rebuilt a 1987 Ferrari Testarossa engine in his garage and documented every bolt, the mad respect I have for his patience is unhinged 🔧

Ode to a Volkswagen Maestro — Ken Jansen is one of those guys in the trades without whom the world would simply come to a stop. And in fact, as they retire and die off, the world kind of is coming to a stop. Have you ever found yourself wailing into the void, “Why does nothing…

The Scott Flying Squirrel Is an Obscure British Throwback — It fires up with a defiant snarl: a loud, aggressive, high-pitched, cackling two-stroke cacophony that has more in common with a Grand Prix race bike from the ’90s than with a roadster built shortly after the end of Worl

Salah close to Trabzonspor move - Sunday's gossip — Mohamed Salah edging towards a move to Trabzonspor, Bayern Munich keen on Manchester United striker Benjamin Sesko and Man City boss Enzo Maresca wants to work with Chelsea winger Pedro Neto again.

Oman trying to contain extensive oil spill from stricken tanker — The Caroline Bezengi is believed to be part of Russia's 'shadow fleet' that Moscow uses to circumvent Western sanctions.

Bugatti Bids Farewell to the Man Who Helped It Return Home — Bugatti hasn’t always called Molsheim home; It was briefly based in Italy’s Motor Valley, where it built the EB110 in the now-abandoned Blue Factory. It returned to its historic French headquarters after joi

1 of 99 2025 Bugatti Mistral up for Auction in Monterey — Bugatti recently ended production of the Mistral, one of its final W-16-powered cars. The roadster was limited to 99 units and sold out before it was unveiled, but you’re not out of luck if you missed the…

One-Family, Low-Mile ’78 Ferrari 308 GT4 Is a Rare Specimen — Though it is over 50 years old, the Ferrari 308 GT4 Dino remains controversial among automotive elitists, contrarians, drivers, designers, and anyone with an interest in Ferrari’s history. Is the 308 GT4 a…

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…

“We Had to Reboot the Entire System:” Inside Maserati’s Reset — Maserati is turning 100 years old in 2026. It’s also commemorating a victory from that inaugural year in the storied Targa Florio race, with Alfieri Maserati behind the wheel. As the brand…

Never Stop Driving #194: The Robot Arrival — Who’s the better driver, the average American or a Waymo robot? According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the answer isn’t even close—the robots are far safer. According to a recent IIHS report, Waymo vehicles in…

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