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A 1996 CD-ROM Still Outshines Today’s Car Configurators
Thirty years ago, Popular Mechanics burned a car-buying guide onto a CD-ROM that let anyone browse, compare, and price out every new vehicle on sale in America. No internet required. No pop-ups begging you to “chat with a specialist.” No…
A $90,000 Check and a Joyride That Changed Everything
Twenty years ago, a maroon two-seater rolled into a British car meet in Palo Alto, and a stranger wrote a check for $90,000. That transaction,…
This DIY GT7 Arcade Cabinet Crushes VR
A junked Sega Jambo Safari cabinet. A copy of Gran Turismo 7. Eight YouTube videos documenting every cut, weld, and modification. The result is one…
The Corbin Sparrow Is Back From the Dead on BaT
A banana-yellow, three-wheeled electric vehicle shaped like a shoe just surfaced on Bring a Trailer. It’s a 2000 Corbin Sparrow, and it looks like something…
Why Every V8 Diesel Lost to the Inline-Six
Jim Coles started at Caterpillar in 1966, spent four decades selling Peterbilt trucks across 18 dealerships, and has a message for anyone still defending V-configured…
Helmet Spoilers Won’t Make You Faster—But They Help
If you’ve ever spent extra money on a racing helmet loaded with chin spoilers and rear wings, hoping it would shave a tenth off your…
Your New Truck Won’t Fit in Your New Garage
A typical Ford F-150 SuperCrew stretches 230 inches, just over 19 feet. The average attached garage in many parts of the country measures 20 feet…
Dodge Built 750-HP Manual Chargers You Can’t Buy
Two months. That’s how long it took a team of custom fabricators to rip apart a pair of stock Dodge Charger Scat Packs and rebuild…
21 MINI GPs Storm Munich to Celebrate 20 Years of Madness
Twenty-one MINI GPs rolled into BMW Group Classic’s headquarters in Munich on July 25, representing every generation of the hottest car MINI has ever built.…
Lexus Built a BMW Fighter That Preferred Napping
A Toyota engineer chose his employer over Mitsubishi because the cafeteria food was better. That engineer, Hiroyuki Watanabe, went on to create the 1994 Lexus…