Automotive

98-Year-Old Larry’s Silver Model Y and the Mustang That Never Had a Chance

By Bill Smith September 11, 2026

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.

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Ferrari 849 Testarossa Reborn, the Digital Design That Captures the Spirit of 1996

By Jackson Chung September 7, 2026

Photo credit: The Kyza
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.

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RivianOS 2 Arrives on the R1 and Turns the Familiar Cabin into Fresh Territory

By Jackson Chung September 5, 2026

Owners of the Rivian R1T and R1S just received the largest software change their trucks and SUVs have ever seen. The 2026.31 update delivers RivianOS 2, the same rebuilt system that already runs on the newer R2. Every R1 on the road, whether Gen 1 or Gen 2, now shares one common software foundation with the rest of the lineup.

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Mustang Mach-E Takes the Wheel for London’s First Wayve x Uber Robotaxi Runs

By Bill Smith September 4, 2026

When people in London book an UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort, they are sometimes greeted by a Ford Mustang Mach-E instead of the usual vehicle. Wayve and Uber began rolling out these supervised autonomous excursions across the city on September 3, 2026, marking the first time such services have been available in the United Kingdom.

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VHPK is Analogue Automotive’s One-Seat Elise That Weighs Less Than a Motorcycle

By Jackson Chung September 3, 2026

A standard Lotus Elise S1 from the late 1990s already sits near the bottom of the weight chart for road cars. Analogue Automotive took one of those chassis, removed nearly everything that could be removed, and rebuilt it around a single carbon-fiber seat placed dead in the middle of the tub. The result is the VHPK, a limited-run restomod that tips the scales at under 600 kilograms and costs £350,000 before tax.