Sim racing is serious stuff, and there’s a long list of video games to satisfy our inner pro race car driver. Within that gameplay universe, drifting has a place too, of course. But a newly released game possibly raises the bar on mountain pass racing, drawing heavy inspiration from familiar anime and film legends Initial

The night my vision changed, I was driving home from my girlfriend’s place. Lights became cloudy streaks; letters and numbers on green highway signs repeated in trails. It was a lot like waking up really dehydrated, when you’re acutely aware of how dry your eyes are. In such situations, I’d typically rub them, but I

If you’ve been chomping at the bit for a first look at the 2026 BMW M2 CS, well, feast your eyes. BMW won’t release official details of its new sporty compact coupe until next week, but BMW unveiled it to the public at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2025 at Lake Como on Friday. The

BMW is back with another fancy shoe at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on Lake Como. In 2023, BMW brought the Concept Touring Coupé, essentially a Z4 Shooting Brake, to Italy’s most famous lake, only to disappoint fans by not putting it into production. This time, however, BMW has committed to building and indeed selling

Vermont’s Lieutenant Governor John Rodgers is threatening his tiny hometown of Glover with legal action if the selectboard doesn’t concede a public dirt road to him personally. Rodgers Road, about two miles of gravel track in a bucolic corner of a largely rural state, apparently runs through his property. But it’s also been a public

A new Hot Wheels set is about to drop, and it’s going to make the Honda boys jump out of their shoes. Rightfully so, to be fair. This new box set is flippin’ sweet. It combines both Hot Wheels and JDM royalty into one perfect package for any fan of either or both, and it’s

Between rolled back sales targets, rolled back product plans, and rolled back tax credits, we seem to be straying further and further from the silent, emissions-free electric car utopia once promised by lawmakers and automakers alike. As flawed as the entire trend toward full electrification and indeed some of the cars themselves might be, one

We’re less than two weeks away from the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 and, by extension, Mario Kart World. Nintendo’s taken the run-up to share one of its insightful developer deep dives around the game, and it’s brought some interesting nuggets to light. Like, for example, how the dev team was originally planning to

Lotus is in a bit of a pickle with the Emira. As beloved as the supercharged V6 and manual transmission combination has been, Lotus needs an alternative, and fast. The 3.5-liter Toyota-sourced engine won’t be emissions compliant when Euro 7 regulations take effect in 2026. To stay in compliance and also catch the eye of

The radical-dude ’80s and ’90s aesthetic has been celebrated so much that I’m finally a little sick of it. No hate to the Radwood diehards, but I think we’ve seen enough synthwave sunset imagery to last another generation. However, there is a staple of that era that also happens to be timeless: Straight-lined, simple, minimally