From Road & Track Credit: BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN It’s been called the 51st state, a perpetual motion machine, a journey with no end. It is the world’s largest public-works project. In a nation divided by geography and politics, the United States Interstate Highway System brings us together. It gets us to work. It satisfies our wanderlust. It is such a part of our quotidian lives that we forget what a miracle it is. Read more ...

And no sport is more family-oriented than car racing. Here’s why. From Road & Track Courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway Archives Bill Ford—great-grandson of Henry and executive chair of Ford Motor Company—recalls a time in 1968 when his dad, William Clay Ford Sr., drove the Indy 500 pace car, a Ford Torino convertible packing a 428 Cobra Jet. “I was there all week with my father as he was doing the practice laps,” Ford says. “I’ll never forget, the chute at Indy was very

From Road & Track Reto Sterchi Bob Maddox’s stage name, Crazy Rocketman, is a misnomer. Maddox doesn’t build rockets. He builds pulse-jet engines. There’s a difference. As for the crazy part—that may be true. Maddox is the world’s foremost builder of vehicles powered by pulse jets. He builds them in his garage starting with nothing but sheet aluminum, stainless steel, and stuff he gets on Amazon. He makes engines that glow at around 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, produce about as m

Since the Sixties, Volkswagens have been the heart of Baja racing. This Beetle battle is unlike any before it. From Road & Track Eric Solorzano’s garage is a working race shop that feels more like a church. Speed is worshipped here. So is cold beer, loud Santana, the love of friends and family, and the famously rough city of Tijuana, Mexico. If there’s an altar, it’s the 1969 Volkswagen Beetle that, at this moment, is getting its final race prep for the 2024 Baja 500. It’s th

In a sense, the all-electric Rimac Nevera Time Attack represents the pinnacle of the zero-emission EV green rush that has swept the industry. From Road & Track Kennett Mohrman “There’s gold in them thar hills!” Everyone has heard the saying, usually used ironically. But there really is gold in these hills. In fact, these are the hills, the canyons around California’s American River, east of Sacramento, where gold was initially discovered, igniting the 1849 gold rush. I’m hurt