Richy Contreras was born in the early ‘90s. It was a time when MTV ruled pop-culture, teens couldn't wait to get their license, and the future was a comical dystopia of Taco Bell restaurants, 3 seashells, & 1-credit fines for breaking the verbal morality statute...

You can't measure it on a dyno, find it on a window sticker, or order it as an optional package. But some vehicles have something that makes you feel alive - the moment you grab the steering wheel. What is it about certain automobiles that makes them so much more than...

GM developed Active Fuel Management (AFM) for a simple reason: a V8 doesn't need all eight cylinders running all the time. During steady cruising and other light-load conditions, AFM can deactivate four cylinders, letting the engine temporarily operate on 4 cylinders....

A diesel truck can make impressive torque straight from the factory, but horsepower & torque figures tell only part of the story. A truck that pulls hard for a few seconds is one thing. A truck that can tow a heavy trailer through summer heat, climb long grades...

What you’re looking at - is all 3 generations of the Honda CRX photographed together. And more significantly - each CRX pictured here, is equipped with its respective Mugen body kit.  When the Honda CRX debuted, Mugen released a kit for the car called the CRX PRO....

Nobody spends six figures restoring a car, just to watch it sit in a port parking lot for two weeks. That's the reality of sea freight though. The car goes into a container, the container goes to a port... then it waits. And waits. Meanwhile, the owner is checking...

What to Know Before Your First Track Day: The registration confirmation lands in your inbox, and suddenly, the car you drive to work everyday is headed for a real racetrack. First-timers usually worry about being too slow. The more useful worry is whether the brakes,...

Spend enough time behind the wheel of something you actually enjoy driving, and you develop a set of instincts about the cars around you. You know roughly how long the SUV ahead needs to stop, how much room the hatchback in the next lane needs to change lanes, what a...

This Nissan 240sx belongs to Tim Shields out of Indiana. Tim Shields & I (along with many of you) are naturally 'the golden retrievers' of car culture. What I mean is - we love it all! Metaphorically, we run up to every genre of the automotive world basically with...

Driving at night changes what you need from your car or truck. Road markings become harder to see, pedestrians can blend into dark backgrounds, and curves or obstacles may appear later than they would during daylight. Your headlights are therefore more than a styling...