Features

After 40 years, "The Blues Brothers" endures as a socially conscious comedy enhanced by joyous automotive destruction.

Film critic Dann Gire and movie historian Raymond Benson pick their top car chase scenes and explain what makes them great.

Obscure American supercar maker Vector Aeromotive planned three supercars in the 1990s that never came to be.

The search for my dad's drag car kept bearing fruit.

Washing a car requires more than a bucket and a hose. Here’s how to do it right.

Sasha Selipanov joined the legendary automaker last year and recently unveiled the Koenigsegg Gemera, the first four-door "mega-GT"

Want your car to go faster? Choose these performance features when it's time to buy.

We interview Neal Bascomb, author of "Faster," which tells the story of a Jewish driver who took on the Nazi machine backed by an American woman.

TV’s most popular game show doesn’t just give away the small stuff. We went on set to find out how it’s been the best car show on TV since 1972.

The original Acura NSX proved supercars could be livable and reliable.

The Bugatti Type 35C put the brand on the map as a powerhouse in racing.

The 2005 Bugatti Veyron set the course for a revived Bugatti, a course that included big power and world speed records.

We revisit the Broadway from Bullitt to see how the neighborhoods and area around the iconic movie has changed.

At a gas stop at a Chevron in Lakehead, California, I stop in the middle of the candy aisle to read email. “Hey! Why does your license plate say DIE?” The voice from the front of the store asks. He says it again, then again, before I realize he’s talking to me. “It...

TERLINGUA, Texas—On a scalding May afternoon, it’s not easy to see how Carroll Shelby saw dollar signs between the stubby cacti nestled among the yellow rocks. Summer arrives earlier in West Texas than anywhere else in the U.S. The sun beats down on my bright red Ford Mustang GT’s...

One’s a race car that wears almost no disguise. The other is an American icon. They’re both Fords, and they’re both GTs. But as you might guess, there’s just a little bit of a difference between the Ford GT supercar and the Ford Mustang GT. We traveled to California to take...

Mrs. Velma Johnston typed letters, filed carbon copies, and answered the phone at the insurance office where she worked as a secretary. She dressed conservatively, smiled often, and spoke kindly. She sat with good posture, as good as she was able, as long as she could. Her husband Charlie drove her...

Nobody needs a mustang, but the United States of America owns thousands of them. Some roam the dun-colored hills outside the indistinct suburbia that shrouds Reno, Nevada, out past the legion Banks of America and Starbucks and Home Depots, past the dreary model homes at Shadow Ridge. Misty gray sky...

Cinders from a campfire pop and explode like fireworks somewhere in the desert outside Yuma. They trace arcs toward an infinite number of stars in the ink-black sky above, each its own possible world, an infinite number of futures spinning out of reach in dizzy orbit. The sparks turn to ash, then...

A pencil-straight imaginary line connects Portland, Oregon, to Terlingua, Texas, about 1,800 miles, unbending and uninteresting between two disparate towns at near-opposite poles of the U.S. We found their connection in a 2018 Ford Mustang GT, and in the story of how the Ford Mustang became...