You meet the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 at a turning point, when American cars were just starting to trade postwar restraint for raw attitude. Slip a hot new V8 into a relatively light body and you get a ...

Throughout American automotive history, especially when it comes to V8 engines, it can be argued that the country has been responsible for producing some of the most famous motors in the world. Not to ...

Last week Samvir Thandi blew our minds with a model rocket car that hit 285 mph. But it was basically just a rocket engine with wheels that you aimed—hopefully accurately—and fired. Nick Case’s remote ...