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These 5 British Classics Are Ready for Summer — Hagerty Marketplace is teaming up with respected Missouri-based restoration shop It’s Alive Automotive to auction off 10 British classics built between 1948 and 1976. Most are convertibles, so your summer ride might be in the

Piston Slap: Why Ford Made the One-Piece Styleside Truck — Hagerty Media reader DUB6 writes: Sajeev, As a guy who has owned pickup trucks since the 1960s and used them for everything from street racing to work trucks to four-wheeling and hunting to ranch work, I know that cabs an

This Bugatti Mistral Marks the End of an Era — It’s curtains for the Bugatti Mistral. The brand has built the final example of the limited-edition, W-16-powered roadster in its Molsheim, France, factory. Bugatti is now turning its attention to the upcoming Tourbillon,…

What is really happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality — Other

I can’t work on my Mac without this little keypad anymore - 9to5Mac — Offloading keyboard shortcuts to a programmable macro keypad is the best productivity hack I’ve ever done.

New Exhibit at Union Station Celebrates Ford’s Role in the American Story — There is no shortage of celebrations taking place this summer in honor of America’s 250th anniversary, but one of the coolest might just be Driving America Forward: A Ford Experience at…

Final Parking Space: 1982 Renault Le Car DeLuxe 3-door — Four of our last five Final Parking Space subjects have been red-white-and-blue-flag-waving American cars and trucks, each equipped with a manual transmission. This week, we’re going to stick with the run of…

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out — Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario.

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

Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel Bikes, Reviews, Races — Cyclocross Magazine is a print and digital magazine and website for the cyclocross and gravel communitiies.

Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross and Gravel Bikes, Reviews, Races — Cyclocross Magazine is a print and digital magazine and website for the cyclocross and gravel communitiies.

Skip the Porsche Macan EV—This plush German rival is cheaper and has more range — Why spend more when this German rival goes farther for less?

Far-right Israeli incursion heightens tensions at Al-Aqsa ahead of election — Israeli far-right Minister Ben-Gvir joins provocative incursion at Al-Aqsa, escalating tensions ahead of elections.

RaceFans – Formula 1, IndyCar, WEC, F2 and more independent motorsport coverage — Independent F1 coverage.

A Gambler 500 Mea Culpa — In a vacant grass lot behind the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, a second-gen Honda CR-V revs its engine in the afternoon sun. The ear-splitting tones easily crack 115 decibels. Wha-POW, wha-POW, wha-POW, wha-POW!   The…

4 Miles and $73,500 for a 2006 Pontiac GTO — Among the more memorable drives in a person’s life is that first one home from the dealership after buying a new car. It’s rarely an eventful one, but the freshness and the excitement are bound to put a smile on any face.…

2026 Toyota GRMN Corolla Is a Hotter, Track-Ready Hatch — In June 2025, we got the opportunity to ride around in a hotter version of the Toyota GR Corolla that was still under development. Fast-forward to June 2026, and the camouflage has come off. The 2026 Toyota GRMN Corolla re

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 could have a record-breakingly bright display — A smartwatch display with a maximum brightness of 5,000 nits?!

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You — Polestar is done in the U.S. market. Its sister brand Volvo, owned by the same Chinese parent company, was spared. No one has explained why.

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

EM Assets Buoyed by Easing US Rate Worries, Gains in AI Leaders — Emerging-market stocks and currencies gain as a retreat in a key US inflation measure strengthened hopes that the Federal Reserve may not have to raise interest rates soon.

Bovensiepen 05 GT Is an M5 Touring-Based Follow-up to the Alpina B5 — Alpina began writing the next chapter in its story when it joined the BMW Group in January 2026. The Bovensiepen family that started the company is no longer involved in running it, but it’s staying in…

2027 Ram 1500 Rumble Bee Priced in Muscle Car Territory — Ram turned its attention to the long-dormant street-oriented sport truck segment when it unveiled the 1500 Rumble Bee in May 2026. This revived hive includes four V-8-powered pickups developed to deliver on-road…

The Qvale Family’s 80-Year Love Affair with Cars — The British car industry owes a lot to the Qvale family. Without the Qvales, the likes of Jaguar, MG, Austin Healey, and Rolls-Royce may never have made such inroads into the U.S. market. Norwegian-born Kjell Qvale was a dr

Cab Forward: The Eagle Vision and the Story of Chrysler’s LH Cars — As soon as I saw John McIntosh’s mint-condition 1993 Eagle Vision roll into my local cars and coffee, I felt acutely aware of how long it’d been since I’d seen one so nice. Like many old sedans and family cars,…

The man who would change Russia | The Economist — One of Russia’s richest oligarchs, Andrey Melnichenko, has warned of the looming disaster facing his country. He spent 60 hours talking to The Economist’s Russia editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, laying out an alternative vision for…

7 Cars We’re Watching from the 2026 Iconic Auctioneers BRDC Classic Sale — British auction house Iconic Auctioneers is hosting a huge sale at the Silverstone Circuit on July 25, 2026. Browsing the auction catalog is a little like flipping through one of those “100…

What Would You Do with a VW Beetle? — We are talking about the air-cooled Beetle, I might add. The original VW Bug was a global icon for so many decades. People from just about every country and every generation have memories of said Volkswagen product, and that’s something

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…

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.…

American All-Stars: 4 World’s Fair Moonshots to Reunite at 2026 Pebble Beach Concours — The Chicago World’s Fair opened in 1933, during the centennial of the city’s founding. But planning for the event began in 1928, well before the October 1929 stock market crash that…

1972 Chevrolet Impala: One Million Strong — One Million Dollars! No, wait, that’s Dr. Evil’s schtick. Back in the good old days of 1972, Chevrolet built and sold over one million full-size automobiles. Impressive, by any standard. Today, in 2026, Chevrolet sells…

Against All Oddities: The Foundry Hits Its Stride — It’s been a while since we’ve had a Troutman Foundry update. For the uninitiated, the locale is an ex-foundry in Statesville, North Carolina, that, with plenty of help, I’ve converted into a car storage and repair facility

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…

One-Owner 2002 Subaru WRX Has “First Car” Written All Over It — You have an 18-year-old son or daughter. (This is hypothetical; we have no actual knowledge that you have an 18-year-old out there somewhere, so calm down.) He or she is about to depart for college. And…

The Router for Voice AI | Speko — Every speech model, benchmarked language by language, wired into one API.

CarComplaints.com | Car Problems, Car Complaints, & Repair/Recall Information — Free help for car problems, repairs and recalls. What

CarComplaints.com | Car Problems, Car Complaints, & Repair/Recall Information — Free help for car problems, repairs and recalls. What

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…

Emergency! The Evolution of the Ambulance — We’ve all been there. In a lackadaisical state, on our way home from work, or school, or whatever errand we’re out running. Suddenly you’re snapped back to attention by the wail of sirens, the flash of lights, and the abrupt crack

This Man Was Gifted His Dream Car by the Notorious Hacker He Put in Prison — Shawn Nunley stopped Kevin Mitnick with a cassette recorder. Decades later, Mitnick left him enough to buy his dream Porsche 911 GTS.

Want the best bass out of your headphones? Here's what to look for — Before you go spend money on new headphones, try these adjustments. You can probably improve the sound on the ones you have.

5 Old Favorites Losing Value in a Cooling Market — We’re well into the driving season, and another update to Hagerty Valuation Tools is here. Last week we discussed cars that saw remarkable increases in value. Unsurprisingly, supercars were the clear winners… again.…

Should We Buy Green or Buy Less? | Adithis Arvind | TEDxNewbury Park HS Youth — In a world of increasing waste and consumption, we must prioritize buying less products over simply purchasing green products in a way to reduce our impact on the environment. Doing so can bring one…

Ferrari’s 12Cilindri Manuale Suggests Tails Can Wag The Dog — Automakers have a history of listening to customer feedback, even if they don’t make a big deal about it. Manual conversion kits for F1-transmission-equipped Ferrari 360 and 430 models, and even the later…

Unpopular opinion but: everyone buys the wrong car because they're shopping for who they think they'll be instead of who they actually are. Your commute won't suddenly become fun.

Unpopular opinion but: everyone buys the wrong car because they're shopping for who they think they'll be instead of who they actually are. Your commute won't suddenly become fun.

Today's Hurdle hints and answers for August 10, 2026 — Everything you need to win.

Sony delays its new PS5 fight stick — The FlexStrike fight stick had been set to launch on August 6th.

8 Motorcycles Climbing and Falling This Summer — The hobby of vintage cars and motorcycles is fascinating in how the interest in certain vehicles ebbs and flows over time. This often is followed by swings in pricing as the interest affects the numbers of shoppers driving the…

Offy: Four Letters. Four Cylinders. Four Decades as the Engine to Beat. — Chew on that for a bit. We now live in an age when memes are born, flourish, and are forgotten over the course of a week. So how did the Offy manage to spend four decades as the undisputed heavyweight…

National S’mores Day: Get a free pastry at Paris Baguette — PB Rewards members can get a free pastry with the purchase of any campfire-inspired menu item.

The Production Design of ‘Cape Fear’ Hangs Dread in Its Spanish Moss — McCall discusses working with actor Patrick Wilson and showrunner Nick Antosca and shooting on location in Atlanta, doubling the city for Savannah.

How to build a circular LCD clock — In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven! :D Looking at it was always a bit annoying.

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

My LS-Swap Corvette Takes a Road-Trip Test — Project cars can be an endless assault of firsts for an extended period of time. At some point, as we take on more (and more varied) projects, tasks begin to relate to each other. Once we begin to understand a project at the…

Extra Value Wheels: 7 of the Hottest American Cars Since 2020 — There are always winners and losers in any market, and the classic car market is no different. As we celebrate this big summer of America’s 25th decade, Hagerty decided to look into the depths of its data to see…

Original Owner: ’71 Malibu Went from Family Car to 12-Second Hotrod in 40 Years — Dan Hawkins was three years old in 1989 but said he remembers his Uncle Greg coming around to his house in a silver 1971 Chevelle Malibu 350 convertible. Both Greg and Bill, the younger of his…

Gordon Murray Le Mans GTR Logs First Public Test Miles at Le Mans — One of Gordon Murray’s most ambitious projects reached a significant milestone in France this year. Unveiled in 2025, the sold-out Le Mans GTR by Gordon Murray Special Vehicles (GMSV) made its dynamic…

Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review — Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up.

Runna now adapts training paces based on heat and humidity - 9to5Mac — Starting today, Runna subscribers can use the new Adapt for Heat feature, which automatically adjusts pace targets based on local heat and humidity.

Catching Up with Michelin’s M3 Lightweight and the Man Who Revived It — It was the night before tech inspection, and Ed Gliss had just finished a final shakedown of Michelin’s 1995 BMW M3 Lightweight at the tire company’s proving grounds in Laurens, South Carolina, where he

6 of Our Ideal Road Trip/Car Combinations — Summer’s nearly upon us, and so is the time when Hagerty picks its Road of the Year. Naturally, our minds got to wandering about which car would pair best with a certain road trip. Some answers are pie-in-the-sky; others might jus

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