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10 of Our Favorite Car/Color Combos — America and apple pie. Peanut butter and jelly. Movies and popcorn. Hot dogs and ketchup. (Just kidding, Chicago!) Certain pairs just work great together. For cars and their colors, sometimes they’re obvious, time-honored traditions, li

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Takes a New Tact to Combat an Old Prequel Problem — As a prequel approaching its end, Season 4 struggles. But as a return to fun, episodic 'Star Trek,' 'Strange New Worlds' makes the most of its time.

Never Stop Driving #192: When Will We Have Our Own Goodwood Hill Climb? — This past weekend, some 200,000 folks attended the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed (FOS) in the U.K. There they watched—and heard—hundreds of cars race up the hill-climb course that cuts, for just over…

The Sperm-Maxxing Bros Are Actually Onto Something — Wellness influencers have stumbled onto a huge issue when it comes male fertility, though not every solution they're pitching is good advice.

Which Cars Redeemed Themselves as Classics? — Caterpillars turn into butterflies. As humans mature, they tend to grow into the best version of themselves. Or so I’d like to think, because we see examples of “aging with grace” all around us. This even happens wit

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?

Honda Celebrates 50 Years of the Accord — The original Honda Accord didn’t sell on performance, head-turning style, or luxury. Positioned above the Civic, it landed with a promise to deliver the value, dependability, and practicality that Honda was known for in a humble, co

Portable power station deal: Save 43% on the Bluetti Elite 1000 V2 with a 100W solar panel — As long as you have sunshine, you could have infinite off-grid power thanks to this bundle deal.

The missing half of mediation — The future of diplomacy between the US and Iran depends on giving mediators the backing needed to make agreements stick.

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

20 Air and Electric Impact Wrench Myths Tested — Anyone who has been wrenching for a while likely has a few tips and tricks up their sleeves. And, depending on the person, they hold those tips close to their chest or are happy tell anyone within earshot the proper way to complete

The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down — The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth.

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…

My ’69 Corvette Was a Dream Fulfilled — I saw my first Corvette in 1953, when I was 10 years old. It was on display at the end-of-summer fair in Hookstown, Pennsylvania, parked in a tent alongside some sewing machines and refrigerators. What a beauty it was—I couldn’t take my…

So, How’s That Honda XR600R Doin’? — For decades, I’ve sat in bewilderment as fellow enthusiasts regaled me with sob stories of projects that got sidelined and ended up sitting for years. Heck, there is a whole show on the Hagerty YouTube channel dedicated to finding and…

6 Habits That Could Be Hurting Your Car — Our lovely vintage cars are machines that have stood the test of time, made up of aging parts and pieces that we’ve treated with extra care. None of us actively want to hurt our rides, yet more than a few of us have bad habits…

Leno: Reborn in the USA — In the auto business, it takes a long time to earn a reputation, it takes a long time to lose it, and then it takes a long time to get it back again. Cadillac is a great example. In 1953, I believe that a Cadillac was the best car in the world. It had…

Camaro vs. World #5: The Men, Myth, and Legends of Chevy’s 1970 Chaparral Camaro — The Chaparral Camaro is a known quantity. Even so, it’s maybe underappreciated. There’s something about the car that’s always stuck to my ribs. Yes, there are the undeniable Penske Camaros and thei

Give Smart People The Tools To Do Smart Things — Rather than telling them you will replace them with a clanker

Allpar Forums — A forum community dedicated to Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, AMC owners and enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about performance, modifications, classifieds, troubleshooting, maintenance, and more!

Allpar Forums — A forum community dedicated to Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, AMC owners and enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about performance, modifications, classifieds, troubleshooting, maintenance, and more!

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…

This Porsche Flat-Six Goes to 11 — These days, there is no shortage of people putting in serious time, effort, and attention to detail in order to take old cars and make them… not old. Near-modern performance packed inside a 60-year-old form factor has been a trend going…

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…

Our Two Cents: The Cars We’d Carve on Mt. Rushmore — It was a fun thought exercise: If there were a car version of Mt. Rushmore, what cars would we put on there? The idea came from the inimitable mind of Stefan Lombard, who’s always got something witty or…

The Solution to the Power Grid's Woes Might Just Be Sitting in Your Driveway — More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons.

Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art” — A reprieve from the city’s chaos.

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…

Picture Car Confidential #42: Citroën Rendezvous and the Miraculous M35 — Much as I like cars, I don’t go to a lot of car shows. In fact, I make a special point of avoiding such gatherings where the competitors’ enthusiasm for correctness borders on obsessive. To be clear, I’m…

Extra Cooling for the Lotus Elan +2 — After I bought the 1969 Lotus Elan +2 in late October of 2024, there were any number of sort-out issues to deal with (mice, a bad universal joint, an unsecured brake caliper, more). It wasn’t until last summer that I began driving it enough…

Picture Car Confidential #44: Right-Hand-Drive Reticence — Long ago and not so far away, I had a job at the Wall Street Journal. My duties included scripting daily business reports for radio. These scripts would often include brief summaries of stock market indices and…

Innolight Set For Biggest Hong Kong Debut in Seven Years — Zhongji Innolight Co. is set to begin trading in Hong Kong on Thursday after raising HK$53.4 billion ($6.8 billion) in the city’s largest listing in seven years, with its debut closely watched as sentiment toward AI…

How Encor Created the Consummate Lotus Esprit — Designed by one of Italy’s greatest automotive artists and bestowed with a chassis by a seven-time F1 World Champion constructor, the Lotus Esprit should have been perfection personified when it launched exactly 50 years ago. Giorge

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.

7 Cars We Would Keep as Garage Art — As any group of car enthusiasts would, our staff is constantly talking about cars: New ones, old ones, weird ones, the best color combinations we’ve seen, the ones we want to drive. Like you, we love driving. It’s hard to think…

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.

DeSoto Suburban: Chrysler’s Questionable Station-Wagon Alternative — Mrs. Dozie Herbruck, wife of my high-school classmate Dave, mentioned at a recent reunion that her family had a three-row DeSoto sedan when she was a kid. I didn’t know such a car existed. Could…

According To You: Cars That Redeemed Themselves as Classics — New vehicles aren’t cheap. They make promises to a wide variety of buyers, many of whom go into debt to finance one for their own household. If that car or truck fails to live up to those promises, that model…

Wandering the Oregon Woods in a Tired, Good Truck — I seem to have a particularly drug-resistant strain of terrier-chihuahua, so as July 4th approached and I considered my options to remove little Bowie from the endless whiz-bang-booms that are his greatest terror, I broached…

No Limits on the Isle of Man — Driving off the ferry at Douglas is like driving back in time. On the Isle of Man you’ll find few chain stores, a solitary McDonald’s for its 84,000 residents, and a legal system that can be traced back to the Vikings. These days it’s a self-governi

From Commuter to Restomod, This ’71 Firebird Has the Right “Formula” — I rarely run into folks who’ve hung onto a car for more than half a century. On the few occasions that I have, I usually find their automobile to be very special. Jim Fraser’s ’71 Firebird Formula 400…

Twin-Turbo 1990 Nissan 300ZX Makes the Case for an Overlooked Japanese Delight — Japanese performance engineering was absolutely humming in the late ’80s and the early ’90s. Cars like the Mazda Miata, the Toyota Supra, the Acura NSX, and many more were making waves…

Seven interventions to ancient structures and historic ruins — Our latest roundup looks at sensitively designed additions to historic sites around the world, including the Colosseum in Rome.

Lotus Emira 420 Sport Gets More Power, Less Weight, and Unlimited Headroom — Lotus returned to its famous “light is right” roots for a new, range-topping version of the Emira. Due out later this year, the 2026 Lotus Emira 420 Sport is lighter, more powerful, and more

What I track in a day — Spoiler: It’s a lot of stuff.

My 1963 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder Belongs in the Family — In 1975, I told my mother that I was withdrawing from college. Heartbroken, she lamented that I would never get a college degree and thus not make it very far in life. But I started a van conversion business with my…

Report: Honda Accord Will Get a Futuristic Update for Its 50th Birthday — Now in its 11th generation, the Honda Accord is turning 50 years old in 2026. The 12th-generation model isn’t due out until later in the 2020s, but a new report claims that the sedan will receive futu

Fiat Topolino EV Launched as a Modern-Day Bubble Car — Decades ago, “bubble” cars, like the BMW Isetta and the Goggomobil T250, filled the gap between motorcycles and regular cars. The category gradually disappeared as small, cheap econoboxes such as the original…

'House of the Dragon's Steve Toussaint breaks down Corlys' quest for peace at Tumbleton — "That's what he wants. Peace, not at any cost, but at a high cost."

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…

Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks, with FBI investigating — No culprit has been identified in any of the attacks, which comes after authorities warned of possible Iranian plot.

If the Ferrari Luce Didn’t Light Up Your Life, This 308 Restomod Will — In a week when Maranello has put the fear into the Ferrari faithful, a new restomod based on the 308 GTB has timed its arrival to perfection. It’s the creation of Netherlands-based specialists Mat

Unmasking London City's Spanish superstar — Alexia Putellas' arrival at London City Lionesses was the biggest transfer in WSL history - but who is the person behind the global stardom?

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 Hidden Costs of Owning a Collector Vehicle — A few months ago, a friend of mine—let’s call her Andrea—texted me some pictures of sunbeaten first-gen Jeep Wagoneer husks rusting in a field in western Wyoming, several hours from her home in Montana. “What do you think of…

The Moto Morini Tresette Sprint Was Built to Conquer Italy — Charging along country lanes in England’s Midlands on a Tresette Sprint, with the sun beating down on my back and a soft single-cylinder exhaust note thudding in my ears, it’s easy to imagine I’m in Italy in the…

After Reviving Scout, Volkswagen Is Open to Building a Land Cruiser Fighter — Volkswagen turned the International-Harvester Scout into a standalone brand to plant its stake in the lucrative off-roader segment. The electrified Scout models are well on their way to production,…

US Copper Trades Near Record on Tariff Risks, Hormuz Speculation — Copper futures in New York traded just short of an all-time high, as investors awaited a decision on US tariffs, while also tracking a push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that lifted demand for risk assets.

Aston Martin Brings Back Five Classic Colors for Heritage Edition One-Offs — Aston Martin took a trip to the heritage well and came back with five eye-catching paint colors from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Its Q by Aston Martin division has applied each paint…

1957 Maserati 450S Wins 2026 Greenwich Concours de Sport Best of Show — Spontaneous crackles and pops filled the air at the 2026 Greenwich Concours as a 1957 Maserati 450 S drove across the lawn to claim its Concours de Sport Best of Show award. The stunning red Maserati, chassis

Discipline Over Motivation | Vinayaka Joshi | TEDxNHCE — Vinayaka's path started as a child artist, which means he's spent essentially his whole life in front of an audience first as a performer, later as the one shaping the story. Two decades in the entertainment industry will…

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