Thirty years ago the McLaren F1 GTR won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, a race it wasn’t even designed to enter. Gordon Murray the mastermind behind that car had designed the F1 as the ultimate road car but a few persistent customers and a bit of racing magic turned it into a legend. Fast forward to 2025, and Murray’s back with the S1 LM, a road legal supercar that channels the spirit of that Le Mans win.
Foldable smartphones were once a novelty, now they’re a real thing, but the prices are still so high they feel like a luxury for early adopters. Not the case for the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold, now $1,199, down from $1,799.
Ringbrothers, the Wisconsin shop that turns forgotten classics into rolling art, unveiled something special at Monterey Car Week. Their latest creation, Octavia, started as a 1971 Aston Martin DBS—a car that bridged the elegant DB6 and the muscular V8 Vantage. After 12,000 hours of work, Octavia is a beastly mix of British poise and American grit.
Ever spent hours hunched over a table sorting through stacks of Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, or Yu-Gi-Oh! cards? Introducing CardMill, a device that takes this task off your hands, thanks to artificial intelligence.
A Ford F-150 is a familiar sight—rugged, dependable, a workhorse for the everyman. But every so often, someone takes that foundation and uses it to build something crazy. Meet the USSV Hamba, a one-of-a-kind paramilitary off-roader built by US Specialty Vehicles, the same crew that built cars for the Fast & Furious franchise.
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A crimson landscape that resembles Mars’ surface can be found in a rural area in Germany. Jonny Kim, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, leaned into a custom interface, his hands on a joystick and a haptic device, preparing to lead a team of robots in this foreign environment. The Surface Avatar project, a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), concluded with this session. What exactly is the goal? To perfect astronauts’ ability to control robotic teams on far away worlds like the Moon or Mars from orbit.
The Mustang has always been a symbol of American muscle, but the new Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon takes that and carves it into something sharper, bolder and more modern. With a supercharged V8 producing 815 horsepower, this Mustang is designed to conquer the road and the track.
