The usual history of the rearview mirror is wonderfully neat. Ray Harroun entered the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 with a mirror attached to his Marmon Wasp. He drove alone while his competitors
Climb into a traditional Porsche and the ignition appears on the left side of the steering wheel. Most cars place it on the right, close to the driver’s dominant hand and safely within the
A race car that never got to race has finally found its second life. Koenigsegg built the original CCGT for GT1 competition, only for the rules to change before it could enter a single event. Now that
New performance engines are becoming a rare sight, but RUF has just built one from scratch. Called the B8, it's a 4.8-liter twin-turbo boxer-eight producing more than 1,000 hp with zero hybrid hel
Bruce McLaren never got to see his road car dream reach production. More than half a century later, McLaren has gone back to his unfinished project and completed it. The result is a newly built M6GT,
When people ask how fast NASCAR cars actually go, what they usually mean is one of two things. Either they want the big, satisfying number, or they want to know why modern NASCAR somehow
There was a time when fuzzy dice actually meant something. Now they mostly mean the person driving either likes old-school car culture, enjoys ironic throwback accessories, or found them online for
This weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix carries extra meaning for McLaren. The team is about to hit its 1,000th appearance in Formula 1, a number very few outfits in the sport’s history have ever
There are celebrity cars, and then there are celebrity cars that somehow perfectly match the person who owned them. Michael Jordan’s old 1993 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 absolutely falls into
Have you noticed how some cars carry a name for years, but every now and then something reminds you where it all started? Volkswagen seems to be doing exactly that with the Golf R. It’s headi