The 73rd Detroit Autorama brought the Great 8 Ridler Award finalists, world-class show cars, rat rods, drag builds, and ...

Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, and innovations shaping car culture. The HOT ROD staff had a busy 2025, to ...

Specialty Auto Auctions is set to feature a standout trio of classic and custom vehicles at its Spring 2025 Auction on May 10, including two 1933 Ford street rods and a head-turning 1955 Chevrolet Bel ...

Hosts Brian Lohnes and John McGann sit down with longtime friend and co-host of HOT ROD Garage, Lucky Costa, to learn about his wild life in cars and television. You can say that Lucky Costa has seen ...

Editor Rob Kinnan offers highlights from Day 5 of the 2008 HOT ROD Magazine Power Tour presented by GM Performance Division and co-sponsored by Flowmaster Muffler. Highlights included the phenomenal ...

Some of the very first self-propelled vehicles were products of engineers and the curious in private garages and workshops. Within a few decades of the invention of the first car, companies were ...

EXHILARATING FEELING I’VE EVER HAD. LONG BEFORE. FAST AND FURIOUS TURNED MODERN STREET RACING INTO A MOVIE FRANCHISE. THE TIE RODS WERE BURNING RUBBER FROM CONCORD MASS TO THE WEST COAST, RUNNING IN ...

Building custom cars to a certain aesthetic and performance has been a favored pastime since not long after Karl Benz puttered out of his garage on the Motorwagen. Ever since that fateful day, ...