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5 Tips for Your Next Engine Pull — There are few bigger tasks than removing the powerplant or drivetrain from your project car. After all, you are making the conscious choice to take what might be a running and driving car and, within an afternoon, to significantly increase the…

Carry Trades Are Riding High on Wall Street — The popular but often risky strategy is getting a boost as investors bet the dollar will weaken.

Warsh's Pushback On Guidance Adds Volatility: Lyngen — Ian Lyngen, Head of US Rates Strategy at BMO Capital Markets, and Stephanie Roth, Chief Economist at Wolfe Research, join Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." US Treasuries fell a day after the Trump administration’s…

Cars Are Meant to Be Driven, but Collectors Pay a Premium for Ones That Aren’t — “It smells like the mid-2000s in this thing.” Dylan Mashburn was describing, in rapturous tones, the rush of finding a 2003 Ford Mustang Mach 1 with 62 miles. “To sit in that car and turn it…

How an Automotive Artist Pieced Together This Stunning McLaren M6GT — “All real race cars have to be right-hand drive,” Randy Grubb says, beaming, as he opens the right-side door of the low-slung, V-8–powered missile he only recently completed. “They have to be, not because…

Mechanic told me my 1998 Honda had another 200k miles in it if I just stopped using the air conditioning. I've been driving hot for three years now and she's still purring.

Mechanic told me my 1998 Honda had another 200k miles in it if I just stopped using the air conditioning. I've been driving hot for three years now and she's still purring.

California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year — The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump.

That Famous NASCAR Boom Tube Exhaust Sound Was an Accident — The design of race car exhaust has been a fine science for decades, but few designs have been as notable—or have had the ear-splitting appeal—of the “boom tubes” of NASCAR stock cars in the early 2000s.…

2026 Morgan Plus Four Manual: Sticking to Tradition — When you drive a Morgan—any Morgan—be prepared for conversation. It’s mere moments after I park next to a pair of 1930s MGs and a Triumph that the questions begin, chief among them being “Is it still made from wood?” Yes,…

D'oh! I can't believe I did that! Graceful ways to handle awkward moments — Yes, there is a way to gracefully address that you've been walking around with spinach in your teeth. Here are tactics to quickly defuse your most embarrassing, cringe-inducing moments.

Piston Slap: Torque Converting Faults Become Engine Problems? — Brian writes: Hi Sajeev, I enjoy your column so here’s one that is frustrating me. I recently purchased a ’72 Corvette that has a base 350 / TH400 drivetrain. The engine has been modified with an…

Bugatti W16 Mistral Blanc Éternel Bridges Tradition and Tech — In 2011, Bugatti teamed up with a Berlin-based porcelain maker named Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM) to design a distinctive, one-off Veyron Grand Sport called L’Or Blanc. The model stood out as one of…

10 Hero Cars of Group B Rallying — If you watch archive footage of Group B rallying today, it’s enough to make you wonder how on Earth it was ever allowed in the first place: screaming, turbocharged four-wheel-drive cars with a vague appearance of something in your local…

Adventures in Induction Heater Land — There’s a lot of hype about induction heaters, the stuck-nut removers that look like a hair dryer and get nuts and bolts glowing cherry-red so you can presumably spin them off with a wrench held delicately by two fingers like you’re eating…

Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and Homo erectus — Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins

EMC’s Wolf 620GE Is a 430-HP Old-School 4×4 — Whether it’s a product of Coventry or Graz, boxy, European off-roaders have a habit of evolving into ever more luxurious versions of their formerly utilitarian selves. Expedition Motor Company (EMC) has an offering that…

That Time When Even Our Tires Celebrated Our Country’s Milestone Birthday — As may be appropriate for the 250th birthday of our country, allow me to present the tale of my profoundly patriotic car. You can salute me later. It was 425 miles from my home to the University…

Half a Million Miles and Counting, This Volvo 142S Is Ready for Its Second Act — Not long ago, we featured a 2006 Ford GT with just 8 miles on the odometer, which sold for an eye-opening $2.1M. It wasn’t the first “wrapper car” we’ve covered, nor will it be the last.…

Hagerty Indexes Trend Upwards Despite a Picky Market — The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes—first published in 2009—are a series of stock market-style indexes that average the condition #2 (“excellent”) values of representative vehicles, or “component” cars, from a particular…

Gallery: Every Car from Dawn Patrol at the 2026 Pebble Beach Concours — We kicked off the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance with the annual Dawn Patrol ritual of coffee, donuts, and anticipation of the first show cars rumbling onto the show field. The rush for the coveted Dawn…

Meet the Modern-Day Daytona Shooting Brake — In 1972, Luigi Chinetti Jr., Ferrari’s U.S. importer, commissioned a one-off shooting brake based on the 365 GTB/4 Daytona. Chinetti customer Bob Gittleman wanted something unique, and, with the aid of American designer Gene…

3 Winners and 3 Losers from the Classic Chevy Market — A couple of weeks ago, we reported on the market winners and losers from Ford in the latest Hagerty Price Guide update. This week, we’re talking about cross-town rival Chevy. The gainers haven’t gained as much,…

2027 Jeep Wrangler Laredo Pairs Retro Looks with Modern Off-Road Capability — Jeep has reached into its deep toy box of heritage trims for the ninth of its Twelve 4 Twelve releases to bring back the Laredo trim for 2027. The 2027 Jeep Wrangler Laredo will offer unique badging…

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…

Getting to the Bottom of Ford’s $28,350 Fathom — Vaguebooking is defined as a cryptic message posted on social media, with the intention of eliciting a response from followers. There’s a new Ford on the way, and it might be among the most anticipated vehicles in…

Lit Hub Daily: August 31, 2026 — “Terror wasn’t the only weapon the Nazis used against the American prisoners. Sometimes, they used propagandistic persuasion as well.” On the myths and facts of Dresden in Slaughterhous…

Two Friends, a Big-Block Mopar, and the 100-Year-Old Mother Road — Markku Jaakkola has been a fan of American cars since he was a child. Growing up in Finland, American cars weren’t easy to come by. Still, Jaakkola found some like-minded enthusiasts who shared a passion for…

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels — A list of illustrated literature in the cyberpunk genre spanning Western comics, Japanese manga and graphic novels. Includes relevant themes, summaries and value to cyberpunk fans.

US defence chief Hegseth puts Iran war cost at $37.5bn so far — Latest cost comes as Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine seek a $1.5 trillion budget, including $70bn for Iran war.

11 Tools Every DIYer Has to Have — Fact: it takes tools to work on cars. Even if you were He-Man incarnate under a Hudson, you aren’t getting a drain plug out with your bare hands. Things just don’t work that way. So if maintaining your car yourself is something…

Queens Of The Stone Age Announce New Album 'Perfecth' — Right now, Queens Of The Stone Age are out on a big stadium tour with Foo Fighters, Mannequin Pussy, and Gouge Away. Last month, they released “Easy Street,” a Nikki Lane collab with a beautifully ridiculous video, and…

Who is frontrunner to be the UK's next chancellor? — Andy Burnham will be moving into Downing Street next week, and a question remains over who will be his neighbour in Number 11.

For Summertime Cruising, Few Cars Top My ’73 Riviera — This 1973 Buick Riviera GS is the beautiful queen of my driveway. My dad owned it before me, but before that, all I know of its history comes from a faded pink bill of sale I found in the glovebox. It is from Ken Logan…

Our Two Cents: Our Choice For An Elegant Car — The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance tends to be a busy week for everyone here at Hagerty Media. We cover a significant amount of vehicles new and old, highlighting the scene from multiple viewpoints, and last week was no…

An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong — <p>There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it&#x27;s tedious, time-consuming, and doesn&#x27;t…

Neon Rides Shines a Light on Wild Vehicles from the Radwood Era — “What will remain of the 1980s?” That’s the question the Italian pop singer and songwriter Raf, best known for the 1983 hit “Self Control” (you may be familiar with Laura Branigan’s version, which ranked fourth…

7 Fun Cars for Hauling Around the Kids — Nothing alters your life quite like introducing children into it—whether they&#8217;re your own or somebody else&#8217;s. And nothing quite alters a child&#8217;s life quite like introducing them to fun cars—whether they&#8217;re your…

12 Important Cars from the 2026 Broad Arrow Quail Auction — This year, Broad Arrow moved its Monterey auction from the Monterey Jet Center to the more spacious Quail Golf Club in nearby Carmel, becoming the official auction partner of the glitzy &#8220;The Quail by The…

McLaren Builds Its First Road Car &#8230; Again — The past year has been a wild one for McLaren, whose automotive division was officially taken over by Abu Dhabi-based investment firm CYVN Holdings last spring. McLaren debuted its Le Mans–bound race car, started McLaren Golf…

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…

What&#8217;s Your Craziest Auto Parts Recycling Story? — Auto parts aren&#8217;t only for the vehicles they were initially designed for. They can be so much more. Just ask owners of VW-sourced Bentleys, or any automaker that has multiple brands at various price points: a part…

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

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…

Taxi! The History of NYC&#8217;s Iconic Yellow Cabs — The reviews are in for Jennifer Lopez&#8217;s most recent rom-com outing, Office Romance, and sad to say, but it appears not to have quite risen to the occasion. The usual set pieces are in place, but something is missing.…

According to You: Worst Makeshift Repairs — Not all makeshift repairs are created equal, but odds are that any one of them will make a fantastic story. That was my hope when asking Hagerty Media readers to share their worst (best?) repair performed when the chips were down.…

Gallery: The Woodward Avenue Antics of Roadkill Nights 2026 — Last Saturday was a beautiful day for street racing on Detroit&#8217;s famous Woodward Avenue. That sentence would be highly suspect any other weekend of the year, but on August 8, the town of Pontiac, Michigan—with…

A new font promises to hide your text from AI. — Can you read the text above? Because large language models can’t. The design and tech company Mixfont has created Decoy Font, which promises to hide your text from AI crawlers. As covered in Dezeen…

Inspect, annotate, and give feedback on any live interface | Mesurer — Mesurer runs directly where you build. Share feedback with your agents and your team.

Apple Surprise and Shine event: What to expect — A new CEO, iPhones, a possible foldable and more could make Apple's September event one to remember.

I've been making coffee the same way for years and it tastes like sadness — then I watched someone just... add one extra second to their pour and suddenly it's different. Now I'm mad at my routine.

I've been making coffee the same way for years and it tastes like sadness — then I watched someone just... add one extra second to their pour and suddenly it's different. Now I'm mad at my routine.

Indian regulators’ attempts to protect retail traders are backfiring — The unintended consequences of curbs on options trading

iOS 27 beta 7 now available as Apple tests major Siri AI upgrade - 9to5Mac — Apple has released the seventh iOS 27 beta for developer testing. iOS 27 beta 7 continues Apple’s summer beta cycle...

Sky ban Kanter Freedom from arena after clash with Cloud — Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter said Enes Kanter Freedom has been banned from Wintrust Arena after showing he has the potential to be a threat when he was tossed from a game Sunday for getting into it with a Sky player.

The Lamborghini LM002 Makes a Strong Case for the Impractical Classic — Today’s performance SUVs are polished, calculated things. They are engineered to within an inch of their lives, assembled on shared platforms, and sold in vast numbers to people who will never take them…

Spotlight l Marwan AL-Juraidy l TEDxSanaa l Heads and Tails 2021 | Marwan AL-Juraidy | TEDxSanaa — "Art for me is our way to change the stereotype about Yemen, not only that, but it is also a message. If we use it correctly, we can send very important, societal, and educational…

Climbers escape rockfall crossing ‘Death Pass’ on Mont Blanc — Footage filmed by a climber on Mont Blanc shows rocks cascading down the Goûter Couloir, known as ‘Death Pass’. The clim

How $51 and a Hammer Saved My Corvette Road Trip — Few things get me as excited as a road trip. It is one of the only experiences in life that I actually prepare for; everything else is a feat of just-in-time execution that usually—usually—comes together. A few weeks ago, ahead…

Our 2025 Monterey Auction Preview and Predictions in 5 Charts — The Monterey auctions are right around the corner! While there are some changes to the week&#8217;s events, with Broad Arrow now in Carmel Valley hosting their sale in conjunction with the Quail and Bonhams moving…

South Africa Records Fewer Murders as Police Step Up Crime Fight — Murders in South Africa fell 5.9% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the country’s top law-enforcement official said, attributing the decline to improved policing.

4 Vintage Off-Roaders That Embody Slow Baja — Michael Emery realized his “a job driving around Baja” dream. After he launched a podcast about the Slow Baja lifestyle—off-roading by taking it easy, using paper maps, stopping to smell the desert flowers and eat the local…

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