Travis Pastrana has spent a lifetime chasing speed in forms most people only watch from a safe distance. Eleven X Games gold medals, a Daytona 500 start, jumping from planes, and more broken bones than birthdays have defined his career. Yet when he climbed into the McMurtry Speirling prototype at Dunsfold Aerodrome, the former Top Gear test track in England, he described it as living out a childhood dream. The car, he said, was simply the fastest vehicle on earth.
Larry turned 98 and decided the time had come to let a car handle most of the driving. He had already logged eighty years behind the wheel. His first machine was a 1931 Ford Model A that he once called a piece of junk, good only for getting a high-school sophomore where he needed to go. Since then he has owned more than a hundred cars, among them five Mustangs and a V8 BMW 750 that served him for a decade. The latest addition is a silver Tesla Model Y equipped with Full Self-Driving, purchased in Arizona and delivered in Albuquerque. He lives in Farmington, New Mexico.
Aston Martin and Brough Superior have spent years building track-only machines that turned heads at closed circuits. Their latest effort leaves the track behind. The AMB 002 Roadster is the first motorcycle from the partnership you can register, insure, and ride on public roads. Only 300 will ever exist. Deliveries begin in the third quarter of 2027.
Emirates has rolled out a new Premium Economy seat that runs on electric power and includes a full-height privacy screen between every seat. It arrives first on the airline’s newest Airbus A350s and marks the first time a seat in this cabin class can raise or lower a solid divider with the press of a button.
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Khyzyl Saleem, the digital artist known online as the_kyza, has given the new Ferrari 849 Testarossa a second life. His unofficial redesign takes the modern plug-in hybrid supercar and reshapes it so it feels like a natural continuation of the original mid-1980s Testarossa rather than a clean break from the past.