human interest

WagonFest SoCal 2024 was beautiful. To walk out onto the top floor of the Petersen Museum’s parking garage and into a sea of unique wagons parked side by side was wonderful. Attending on behalf of Volvo — one of the last remaining wagon makers in the U.S. — I spent four hours walking around, talking to owners and…

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For reasons unknown, a man named Salvatore Salerno chose to use a Willys “Hurricane” 2.6-liter inline-six cylinder engine to power his homemade sports car. The body, a fiberglass Devin shell, was draped over a Triumph TR-3 chassis and the full heart of the Willys was pulled out and transplanted into the lightweight…

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What time is it? It’s time for a reality check. We’re halfway through summer already and you still have a project on jack stands sitting in the garage that you should have been working on instead of hanging out at the beach or sitting on your couch drinking beer in the air conditioning while watching the Dragon show…

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Canada really has it all: Universal healthcare, a lower cost of living than the United States, and now its rats can drive cars. We’ve previously covered self-driving rats in the past, but that was done by scientists in a laboratory. Kuzko and Kronk, Canada’s viral self-driving rats, were able to learn how to do it…

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Electric vehicles love pets. Tesla has Dog Mode, Rivian has Camp Mode, even Ford designed a similar system. Climate-controlling the interior of a vehicle uses an absolutely trivial amount of power compared to actually moving one — keeping your dogs cool while you shop on a hot day is almost free functionality in…

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