Back in the 1960s, Marcos Engineering didn’t have enough money to display their Mini-based sports coupe at the Earls Court Motor Show like all the other manufacturers. So, they took a picture of the car outside the show, printed up a bunch of them, and handed them out to as many show goers as possible in a brilliant…

The lightweight McLaren Senna supercar made a run up the Goodwood hill this weekend with Bruno Senna at the wheel. The nephew of Formula One’s perhaps most iconic driver, former F1 driver in his own right, and 2017 FIA WEC LMP2 world champion, the 34-year-old Senna is also a McLaren factory development driver and…

Each and every one of the 500 Toyota Soarer Aerocabins built were constructed in Japan during the month of April in 1989. Each one identical to the last, they all featured the same right-hand drive configuration, paint, engine, transmission, and fully-loaded options list. These are effectively an even larger and …

It was a hot and dry day on Saturday for the first of Formula E’s double header races in New York City this weekend, and it turned out to be an eventful day. As the NYC race weekend is Formula E’s final of the 2017-18 season, the entire championship was on the line. Sunday, however, is shaping up to be a bit more of a…

One pedal driving is available in many battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, allowing drivers the option to brake to a complete stop without actually pressing on the brake pedal. The car’s electric motors can use the regenerative braking power to great effect. Leave it to Engineering Explained to explain how…

I understand the appeal of soccer. There are elements of tribe pride, athletic endurance, and brutally fierce competition that add up to an awesome experience. The sport is essentially dead here in the U.S., but practically every other country in the world goes berserk for a bunch of dudes chasing a ball around an…

Alex, the host of YouTube show LegitStreetCars, has a few Mercedes AMGs kicking around his garage. In recent testing, Alex saw his old C43 AMG lose a few drag races against a car it probably should not have lost to. In looking at the data from his runs, the car was producing 0-60 times a couple seconds slower than…

Like a getaway scene in an old school Brit bank heist film, Grant Williams drives his 1959 Jaguar Mk1 sedan racer at full tilt and only half in control. It’s well known that drifting and sliding is rarely the fastest way to negotiate a circuit, but at Goodwood you’re rewarded for being memorable. If Grant had simply…

To all of our French readers, please enjoy this anniversary of the Storming of Bastille, which was a turning point in the French Revolution in 1789, in case you were unaware. Take the time to drive your family of four down to the lake shore for a picnic, fly fishing, and leisure reading in your quaint and lovely 2CV.…

Laguna Seca hosted open-wheel races for Indy Car style cars from 1983 until 2003 under the Championship Auto Racing Teams sanctioning body banner, marking 21 seasons of incredible racing. Since Champ Car World Series ran there as a one-off in 2004, the circuit hasn’t seen much in the way of top-flight open-wheelers…

Apropos of nothing, Lamborghini has returned Minardi M191B chassis #003 to vintage racing duties after a lengthy seven-month restoration by the company’s Polo Storico division. Many of the original 1990s Lamborghini and Minardi staff were involved in the restoration. Polo Storico is dedicated to the preservation and…

The U.K. government announced on Monday that every newly built home would come with a charge point for electric vehicles as part of its Road to Zero initiative. The initiative’s aim is to end the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars and vans by 2040, and one stop along the path to that goal is to ensure all homeowners…

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Over 400 feet of total jumps have been completed by Travis Pastrana tonight in Las Vegas: one jump over 52 cars, one jump over 16 buses, and one jump over the fountain in front of Caesars Palace hotel and casino—breaking three of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel’s most insane records. I was there, and it was an…

Porsche recently gathered a group of nine cars from their history to remind you that pretty much everything they’ve ever built looks just a little bit dorky.

Formula 2 Racer and Haas F1 junior driver Santino Ferrucci has been handed multiple penalties for transgressions both on track and off. He received a fine for texting and driving while transitioning to the grid before the race. He was disqualified from today’s sprint race for intentional contact with teammate Arjun…

I was first made familiar with Yoshikawa’s meticulous work during my period of obsession with Toyota’s 2000GT. As a young man I was enamored with the work and history of Carroll Shelby, which led me to the Toyota sports car. Yoshikawa literally wrote the book that defined the history of the 2000GT, and I saved my…

Following the recent GoldRush Rally, which began in Boston on June 22nd, and ended in Las Vegas, Nevada last Sunday, two Lamborghini-driving participants were presumably heading back home when one of them suffered a huge automotive loss outside of St. Louis, MO.

I was positively flabbergasted when I watched YouTube uploader RavenwestR1's mashup of Forza Horizon 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5. The level of attention to detail required to manipulate one game to produce an essentially identical video is astounding. They had to have been working overtime to produce a video so faithful…

After setting a new lap record pace in qualifying (video below) and nabbing the pole position for the starting grid of his home Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was flying high as the red lights went out ahead of the 52-lap Formula One sprint at Silverstone. It only took three corners for everything to be completely…