On June 28, 1985, Chas LeCourt experienced two life-changing events: He bought a 1930 DeSoto Roadster he named Old Rod, and his granddaughter, Michelle Ignatowicz, was born. At that moment, he ...

Even as Mercedes-Benz celebrates its solid-state battery prototype, which just hit the road for the first time, it’s planning to bring back the V-8. Yes, the engine that it yanked from the C63 and E63 ...

Earlier this year, Ram announced that it was slowing the rollout of its all-electric full-size pickup, dubbed the Ram REV, in favor of fast-tracking a more middling product called the Ram 1500 ...

The options for new sports cars have begun to narrow, but in an interesting twist a new sporty car is being developed, and it’s not from any of the names you are likely thinking of. Instead, work is ...

For the past two years, BMW has published a YouTube series, called Classic Heart, that gives collectors, enthusiasts, and celebrities a stage from which to talk about ...

Last week, I posted an article about rebuilding the Behr “wingcell” (rotary vane) A/C compressor from the FrankenThirty (my salvage-titled 1988 BMW E30 3 Series). The idea was that the car isn’t worth ...

Performance brands create products we love to own, mostly because they are designed to outperform their competition. Who doesn’t want a piece of that winning formula? Some folks do not, and they pull ...

Ari Vatanen’s breathtaking 1988 run up Colorado’s Pikes Peak in his Peugeot 405 T16 was a drive for the ages. It was celebrated in the glorious film Climb Dance, and now the French carmaker has come ...

Decades before the upcoming Ramcharger hybrid pickup, Chrysler introduced the original Dodge Ramcharger (and its rarer Plymouth Trailduster cousin) to take on the Ford Bronco, Chevy Blazer, and ...

The wiper blades on my 2018 Fiesta ST have begun to streak and skip. I figured the rubber has gotten old and hard, and it was time to shop for new ones. (I bought the car used and am not sure how old ...

Full disclosure: This is one of my favorite Mercedes models. There’s just something about the Mercedes-Benzes circa 1966–1971. They were classy and elegant, not overdone. And I liked the U.S.-spec ...

It ain’t easy—or cheap—to be a car guy. At bare minimum, you need a few grand in disposable income, a few square feet of accessible free space to park, a few tools, and a little mechanical know-how.