Why an Auction Car Beats a Dealership Price: Every builder chasing a dream car eventually asks the same question. Where does a project actually begin without draining a bank account before the first wrench turns? A car auction answers that question better than a...

AI is already better than humans at a lot of things. Which is like, fine. That’s why we made AI in the first place, right? To do jobs we’re bad at, like doing math really quickly.  The bad news: AI is better than humans at committing crimes too - like creating scams....

Jimmy McCarty was born in ’49. And like a lot of the kids across southern/rural towns at the time, they didn't have silver spoons in their mouths. If you wanted something, you had to work for it, and/or work on it. This is Jimmy McCarty’s ’66 Chevelle… By the mid-60s,...

I’m tired. Not the kind of tired where I need a vacation. And not the kind where another cup of coffee - or an energy drink - fixes it. I’m talking about that slow, creeping-in, building-up kind of tired that comes from looking around & wondering when common sense...

Ned Kuko gets attached to cars. He doesn’t turn & burn 'em. And to me, I’ve always respected that trait in car culture - loyalty. It shows there’s more to all this metal than just materialism. And a value that’s more than monetary. Something still alive in car...

According to the Texas Department of Transportation's 2023 crash data, hit-and-run accidents account for thousands of reported collisions across the state each year — and Austin's rapid population growth has made it one of the state's most active corridors for these...

Thousands of Americans are accustomed to seasonal migration. Every year, retirees, remote workers, and seasonal homeowners leave colder northern states and head south in search of warmer weather. Florida, Arizona, Texas, and, to some extent, California continue to be...

We recently featured Eli Tacker’s current Gathers tribute EK hatch. And during that conversation, he causally mentioned that 15 years ago, he’d approached us about featuring his DA Integra. Embarrassingly (now)… we passed on it. Weirdly, so did Honda Tuning. And that...

Every time someone brings up Flock cameras, the conversation always goes the same way. One person says they’re one of the greatest crime-fighting tools we’ve ever invented. Another says they’re government overreach. And somebody inevitably throws in, “Well, your phone...

A car's competitiveness these days comes down to code more than horsepower. Cockpit UX, crash simulation, powertrain calibration, cybersecurity audits — no automaker handles all of that in-house, so outside engineering shops fill the gaps. Below are eight firms...