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Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. If you’re like us—and if you’ve found this, then you probably are—you could debate the finer points of automotive design and engineering for an eternity. What just about every car fanatic can agree upon, however, is that owning just one is never enough. All of us have particular roles we need our vehicles to fill.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. One of my favorite hats is starting to show its age. Things like hats aren’t meant to last forever, and especially not if they serve their purpose. This one certainly has—and it’s got the stains to prove it.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. What’s the difference between a hot rod and a rat rod? Nothing meaningful, at least according to John Jasinski, 50, of Taylor, Michigan, who created this ’31 Ford coupe. The wizard explains that it’s “fed by two Holley four-barrels and a DC supercharger… my 355-cubic-inch Chevy V-8 produces around 750 horsepower.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. As touched on previously in this space, TV and film productions sometimes say they want to “double” a car—that is, find an exact or very close match. The reasons for doing so vary. On some occasions, it’s more economical to film two different scenes in two different places at the same time, necessitating a second matching car.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. Stellantis is investing $25 billion to bring 11 new models to the North American market in the coming years. The product offensive is part of a global, $70-billion investment announced earlier in 2026, and it will spawn numerous enthusiast-focused models from Jeep, Dodge, and Ram. Chrysler is also set to get new cars, according to a recent report, and Ram will launch its first SUV.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. Cast your mind back to 1996. The Bayside Boys remix of “Macarena” is all the rage, the dot-com bubble is inflating at a terrifying rate, and a pint of lager still leaves change from a fiver. In the automotive world, the roadster is undergoing a renaissance.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. In the 1960s, America’s automakers offered all kinds of cars with performance-oriented V-8s. Ford let buyers check a box to get a 428 Cobra Jet in the sporty Torino and Cobra, but also in the Fairlane. Dodge and Plymouth built a handful of four-doors and wagons with the legendary 426 Hemi.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. The culmination of a life’s work can be measured in many ways. It’s seen in a career path from one’s teenage years to retirement. Or in the appreciation of a growing family. Or countless other achievements, but today we’re zooming in on something specific: the money you’ve saved over the years by doing DIY repairs.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. The combination of European styling flair and a sophisticated chassis with the brute force of a big American pushrod engine. It’s the best of Old World and New working together, and for smaller carmakers without the budget to develop a proprietary engine of their own, buying a bent-eight off the shelf from Michigan must seem like a no-brainer.

Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. Forget your golf course lawns and country houses. As a car-meet setting, nothing is grander than a palace’s grounds. Hampton Court was the home of King Henry VIII, and when he wasn’t hunting deer in the local park, or going through wives at a rate of knots, he would stroll the manicured gardens of this spectacular riverside pad.