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Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you are going to love this. And the way that it is organized at Monaco is something special. They organize the F1 races based on years, and they livestream the entire weekend. We shared the livestream already, and if you missed it then use the link below. But if you just want to see the independent races,

Road America is known as the “National Park of Speed” and for good reason. Anyone who has ever set foot at this historic race track knows that this place is truly something special. I’ll never forget the first time I came to this track or the first time I made a lap here. Road America is a bucket list racetrack for many people and seeing Indy Cars running around it really is something else. In the video below you’ll see the entire livestream from the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America so you can te

This is so awesome! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you are going to love this. And the way that it is organized at Monaco is something special. They organize the F1 races based on years, and they livestream the entire weekend. We shared the livestream already, and if you missed it then use the link below. But if you just want to see the independent races, we’re going to share those as well, and the first one

The Legend Forged in Sand: Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar The Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar is not just another homologation special. It is one of the most ambitious off-road experiments ever undertaken by Porsche. Built to conquer the Paris-Dakar Rally, the 959 redefined what a supercar could be. Twin turbocharging, advanced all-wheel drive, and adjustable ride height made it a technological leap. When it won in 1986, it validated years of engineering risk. That influence still echoes today. The Porsche 911

Sheet metal intake manifolds are super cool when finished and a huge pain in the butt if you aren’t good at them and don’t have the ability to make the various components quickly and cleanly. There is a reason these things cost real money, and always have. Hell, it is easier to build one in 2025 than it was in 1995, that’s for sure. But if you have all the parts already sized and cut and finished and ready to weld together, it can be a fairly straight forward process. But how straight forward? W

The Beast of Turin needs no introduction, but if you aren’t familiar then you are going to want to watch a few other cool videos we have linked below. We have run most of the videos out there featuring the amazing Beast Of Turin. That’s the massive 28-liter Fiat race car that Englishmen Duncan Pittaway spearheaded the restoration/recreation on. Yes, we used the word restoration in there. Many people forget that this is not a straight up recreation. The car is built on the original chassis. Many

Ken Block's last Gymkhana video before he tragically passed away in 2023 was in the Audi S1 e-tron quattro, and despite that car being an EV, Block gave us an unforgettable show on the streets of Las Vegas. Now, xtreme sports athlete Travis Pastrana has taken up the Gymkhana challenge, and he's proved just as impressive as the man who started it. In 2020, he revealed the Airslayer STI, which he called the "wildest WRX STI ever," for his first crack at the Gymkhana series, and in 2022, he took to

SUVs Not Actually Built for Dirt SUVs are all the craze; people are obsessed with driving around tall, spacious, and oversized cars. SUVs have become so in demand that higher-end luxury brands were forced to jump in on the trend just to open up that market and ensure healthy sales. The fact is, despite being SUVs, most luxury models never see a dirt road in their lives. Most are used for cruising along highways or high streets rather than going up high peaks. However, a recent video has surfaced

The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has been setting records all over the country and all around the world, and now its hybridized ZR1X big brother, which powers all four wheels, is taking some more. In a new video published by GM (embedded at the bottom of this article), Chevy has announced that the Corvette ZR1X has become the quickest American production car available, "and the fastest way to get down a quarter-mile drag strip for under a million dollars." For the record (ha), the ZR1X starts at $209,

Porsche is extremely familiar with the Nürburgring Nordschleife, capturing several records over the years, but it was upstaged by the Chinese when the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra with Track package stole its EV lap record, setting a time of 7:04.957. That was considerably quicker than the Taycan Turbo GT with the Weissach package managed (7:07.55), but instead of accepting defeat, Porsche and Manthey Racing have come up with something even faster, setting a new lap record for electric production cars at th

Tesla has launched its unsupervised robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston over the weekend, but catching a ride wasn’t a walk in the park for some users—and the few that did were in for some unwanted surprises. First off, the problem is the service area in each city is small—30 square miles in Dallas and 25 square miles in Houston. That means Tesla’s self-driving car service covers less than 10 percent of Dallas, which has an area of 385 square miles, and less than 4 percent of Houston (approxi

A drag race between three mainstream hybrid sedans doesn’t immediately sound like a recipe for excitement. But, as much as we all like to see exotics from the likes of Ferrari and Koenigsegg battling it out on the drag strip, the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, and Hyundai Sonata hybrid sedans represent the cars the average consumer will end up buying. Performance isn’t the main motivation for buying one of these sedans, but nobody wants a slow car. So, which of these hybrid sedans is the quickest i

A New GR Flagship Takes Center Stage Toyota has officially unveiled its new flagship performance models – the GR GT and GR GT3 – at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2026 in Japan. Even better, both cars did a demo on the tarmac for the showgoers to witness. The GR GT serves as the brand's new flagship road car, succeeding the Lexus LFA, while the GR GT3 has been developed specifically to meet global GT3 racing regulations. During the public demonstration, both prototypes were driven by Tatsuya Kataoka, Hiro

At the beginning of October, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched a probe into Waymo driverless taxis, alleging that they committed safety violations by failing to stop when a school bus ahead of them had. According to the initial report with the Office of Defects Investigation, the robotaxis would do this "particularly when the bus is boarding or offboarding students." Although students get on and off school buses on the sidewalk, opposite to the side of the bus that the

Flood-Prone Waymo is recalling 3,791 of its RoboTaxis due to the risk of entering flooded roads at higher speeds. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Waymo have issued a recall due to a safety risk. An incident on April 20, 2026, involved a Waymo taxi that drove into a flooded road in San Antonio during some extreme weather. Fortunately, nobody was injured in this incident, but that was enough for the transport provider to investigate and review it. and review similar

There are many driving scenarios and situations that autonomous vehicles have difficulty dealing with, but unprotected left turns across multiple lanes in heavy traffic are probably among the most difficult to nail, if not the hardest. Why is that? Well, mostly because it’s a difficult maneuver for human drivers as well, requiring in many cases a direct negotiation with oncoming traffic. When doing an unprotected left turn, you have to yield to all oncoming traffic, so drivers often nudge the ca

Waymo robotaxis get A LOT of bad press, from breaking traffic laws to scaring the life out of passengers with dangerous maneuvers. Many residents of the cities in which these autonomous cars operate have expressed irritation at the way the robotaxis can clog the streets, but Waymo is now using its network of self-driving cars to make the roads better for all users, reports Automotive News, by partnering with Waze to find and report potholes so that other drivers can avoid them and the authoritie

Waymo’s Expansion Hits Another Controversy Autonomous taxis have been one of the most polarizing developments in the automotive world, and Waymo sits right at the center of the debate. The Alphabet-owned company has been rapidly expanding its robotaxi service across major U.S. cities, with plans to bring the technology to even more markets as it pushes the idea that your second car might eventually be replaced by an app summon. But just as the technology continues its rollout, a troubling new s

Waymo recently announced an expansion of its self-driving robotaxis into five more cities across the United States, including Dallas, Houston, and Orlando. That may be good news for commuters who want to get to their destination efficiently, but an incident in San Francisco this week shows that these robotaxis aren’t always better than having a human at the wheel. In a video that’s gone viral, two Waymo taxis struck each other, while a third one became involved in a robotaxi standoff that blocke

A major power outage in San Francisco turned Waymo’s driverless fleet into rolling roadblocks, as the company’s autonomous cars encountered dark intersections, stopped, and then mostly refused to move. The vehicles didn’t lose power or crash their software, but they did fall back into such a cautious fail-safe mode that they effectively “bricked” themselves in live traffic, forcing Waymo to suspend service while crews worked to clear the streets.

Autonomous Tech is Being Grilled — Again Recently, the Senate held a hearing regarding the future of autonomous vehicles with Waymo and Tesla. It started out with the two companies urging the Government to pass regulations to boost autonomous mobility in the country. However, it ended up becoming a bit of a grilling session. Instead of coming up with some kind of resolve, Waymo and Tesla were questioned over safety, liability, and China. Of course, the two companies defended their decisions and

Innovation Meets the Curb Waymo is slowly transitioning from its Jaguar I-Pace driverless taxi fleet to autonomous minivans from Chinese automaker Zeekr called the Ojai, but the move appears to be facing an early setback. According to KTLA 5, a Zeekr test vehicle lost control while being evaluated near Dodger Stadium, crashing into several parked cars along the 1200 block of Lilac Place. A resident and his mother reportedly managed to move out of the vehicle’s path before it came to a stop after

The fact that we now have fully autonomous ride-hailing services across U.S. cities, mainly from Alphabet's Waymo, Amazon's Zoox and Tesla, is probably the best indicator of the giant leap automotive technology has made 140 years after the world's first automobile went on sale. But as far as self-driving tech has come, there's still a lot of room for improvement in some areas, including navigating adverse weather (especially rain, snow and fog), dealing with complex human behaviors, such as erra

How Nissan’s e-Power Works (And Why It’s Different From a Hybrid) For a company that brought to market the first mainstream EV, the 2011 Leaf, Nissan has been surprisingly slow to expand its line-up of electrified vehicles. But the coming year is a big one for Japan’s second largest automaker. Not only does it have the third-generation Leaf, and a plug-in hybrid version of its best-selling Rogue crossover, but it will in 2026 finally introduce its e-Power technology into the U.S. market.

The level of technological sophistication Chinese vehicles have reached in recent years must have been impossible to anticipate two decades ago, when domestic automakers started making their initial inroads into overseas markets. At the time, ICE vehicles from Chinese brands lagged way behind those manufactured by established automakers from North America, Europe, Japan and South Korea. But the advent of the electric vehicle into the mainstream in the mid 2010s has provided a level playing field