Bucking the establishment for something probably built in a shed Super car builders have sprung up all across the world and thanks to advances in building methods and materials, there…
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Size matters: how normal cars look with tiny wheels
Mikhail Tataritskiy’s renderings will make your day Cars nowadays have oversized wheels, and there's no sign the trend will subside soon. But how would current cars look with tiny wheels?…
Hyundai explains how i30N hit its handling sweet spot
Using “special” track testing techniques Hyundai put out a fun video where it tries to explain how it improved the handling of the new i30N by using a chocolate surfaced…
Guy cuts up Mercedes S-Class seat to see what’s inside
He wants to find out just what makes them so smart and comfortable If you’ve been for a ride or drive in the latest Mercedes S-Class, one of the highlights…
Dagen H: the day Sweden switched from driving on the left to the right
This was 1968 and the switch was enforced in one day and affected 1.5-million motorists Did you know that up until September 3 1968 motorists in Sweden drove on the…
Why so serious? We swap luxury SUV faces around to mess with your head
Brands nowadays are diluted, anyway, so it doesn’t matter Brand loyalty is still a thing in the automotive world, although it is frankly a bit passé given that outsourcing and…
We swap the industry’s biggest grilles for teeth
In case they didn’t already look ridiculous to you, now they surely will Forgive the freaky feeling portrayed by this set of modified photos, but car grille size is really…
The Grand Tour checks if SUVs are any good at carrying dogs
You think they ought to be, don’t you? People who own dogs and also want to get around but don’t like estate cars usually go for SUVs to ferry their…
We’ve ruined these cars’ names by changing just one letter
And we invite you to do the same Last year, a popular thread on Reddit titled "How can you ruin a band name by changing one letter?" made a lot…
Launch control mistaken for machine gun fire, cops show up to investigate
Excessive use of force or justified police response? Anti-lag and launch control systems can make a car’s exhaust sound like gunfire and it can really get you into trouble if…