Thermal night vision isn’t something you expect to find on a family SUV, but Chery has brought it to the Omoda X concept. The new RAV4-sized model can detect pedestrians and animals up to 295 fe
Remember when self-driving cars were supposed to be everywhere by now? That future is taking its sweet time, but Mercedes-Benz is still chasing it. The German automaker has expanded its partnership wi
New U.S. rear seatbelt warning requirements apply to covered vehicles manufactured from September 1, 2028. The original rear-seat deadline was September 2027, but NHTSA extended it in April 2026. Exis
The Peugeot 806 race car was a competition-prepared minivan entered by Peugeot’s Belgian operation in the 1995 Spa 24 Hours. With nearly 300 hp, it qualified 12th among 46 starters, an extraordi
A Porsche with oars sounds like something its owner bought after an unfortunate encounter with a flooded road. In the 1950s, however, Porsche was developing a vehicle for which getting into the water
Long before carmakers filled dashboards with screens, an important piece of engine information was displayed outside the windshield. Early automobiles often carried their radiator filler caps at
Open the door of a large American sedan from the 1950s and the front seat looks less like a modern cockpit than a particularly comfortable sofa. There is no center console dividing driver and passe
A classic car could provide a cigarette lighter within easy reach of the driver, another for the front passenger and sometimes individual ashtrays for the people in the back. Yet bring a cup of coffee
The woodgrain paneling on an old station wagon rarely fools anyone. Even when new, the printed vinyl was not likely to be mistaken for hand-finished mahogany. It was wood in the same way a kitchen
Automotive fashion has produced few ideas quite as curious as taking a finished steel roof, covering it in textured plastic and charging the customer extra. For several decades, buyers did exactly tha