Top Gear USA Host Rutledge Wood Is Not A Cake-Eating Hipster

Photographer Cooper Naitove enjoys shooting cars so much he's moving to Saudi Arabia to work for one of those supercar dealership/tuning shops that cranks out mind-bogging exotics. More »

Fifty years ago next Monday, John Glenn became an all-time American hero when his small chunky single-seat spacecraft did three laps of Earth. The flight was a huge morale boost for a beleaguered US space program that had suffered numerous setbacks. In this age of constant exposure and celebrity... More »

It's St. Valentine's Day, which means couples eating heart-shaped pizzas at home and lonely people hooking up like sweaty electromagnets. For the former there's Tums, for the latter at The University of Michigan there's Senior Kellyann Wargo, who just launched a Walk of Shame Shuttle to ferry the... More »

Lexus is not a company that is prone to cutting corners when it comes to promoting its products. Case in point: Their TORI 500 campaign for the new GS sedan is literally formed around Sports Illustrated swimsuit babe Tori Praver. Along with the usual smart-device materials and high-profile events,... More »

So my friend Garnet Hertz created this little meme called "What People Think." It's the image macro things that have been all over your Facebook walls this week. More »

Brian Ahlert, a 41-year-old worker at Chrysler's Belvidere assembly plant, faces drunk-driving charges after he was pulled over on the way home from what he claimed was a very liquid day on the job. Ahlert was stopped around 8 PM on February 11 after motorists called in reports of his 1995... More »

Last week’s ridiculous Hummer accident in Hungary has, predictably, become the pictorial meme in these still-frozen parts. Apart from a well-executed and faithful tribute in Lego, this obligatory Star Wars AT-AT version may be our favorite. Photo by Hétköznapi frázis More »

Hold on to your luggage, folks, this is the 2013 Audi RS4 Avant. Audi's überwagon gets an upgrade for the next generation visually, while still sticking with a 450-hp version of the company's 4.2-liter V8. The new RS4 isn't supposed to bow until the Geneva Motor Show next month, but images leaked... More »

Sakichi Toyoda was born in Japan 145 years ago today on February 14th, 1867. By all accounts a hard-working entrepreneur, Toyoda's greatest success was building a small business manufacturing textile looms. More »

Prepare yourself for another roaring episode of E39 M5 hoonage. Today's festival of skids is set in a suburban parking lot, where everything is quiet and placid until this BMW shows up. We have a bonus episode as well, entitled "BMW E39 M5 Burnout Scares Some Hasidim," where a red light burnout... More »

(Deadspin.com ) We don't have a lot of information on this video, other than that it stars someone named "Junior" who pulls a wheelie while riding his Yamaha YZ450F with some buddies and accidentally flips his bike all the way around. More on Deadspin »

This is a story about how I found the basement for the world's most storied auto museum with a key from an old Volvo and realized I loved something more than cars. More »

Germany is both the accepted home of the automobile and the source of the most popular high-performance driving machines in the world today. Most automakers are slouching towards international blandness, but the German marques still embody a particular cultural mindset. More »

It's a dangerous world out there for the powerful and famous, who are constantly under threat from kidnappers, stalkers, paparazzi and super fans. An even bigger threat exists for the bodyguards who have to throw themselves in front of the bullets. More »

When Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger jumped out of a ballon gondola from 102,800 feet in August 1960, he set four aerospace records which stand to this day. More »

This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. More »

Beta Ursae Majoris, better known as Merak, is a star in the constellation, Ursa Major, also better known as the Big Dipper. Its namesake, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Maserati Merak, is located much closer than that, but is its price too big a dip into your wallet? In an interesting contrast,... More »

A Canadian guy named Joe has been digging out the basement of his house using nothing but radio-controlled scale model construction equipment... since 1997. More »

The V8 Supercars are coming. You have been warned. Craig Lowndes and his Holden Commodore will be here soon. Hide your Fords and get to Austin before it's too late. This photo from Joel Strickland during test days at Sandown captures a taste of the awesome. More »