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In July of 1942, Robert Oppenheimer left his meetings in California and headed via train for Michigan. There, on the shores of Lake Otsego dotted with holiday cabins, a fierce discussion and debate took place: Could the test of a nuclear weapon set fire to the atmosphere? Oppenheimer’s opposite was Arthur Holly Compton, a renowned […]

Retirement must seem boring after a career of driving Formula 1 cars all over the world at 200 mph. Jenson Button has found some new projects to fill his days, though. From joining his friends Ant Anstead and Roger Behle to revive the Radford Motors name as a modern boutique coachbuilder to getting back behind […]

This was not your usual interview. There were no PR handlers keeping us on topic, no other reporters hovering with cell phones recording. Dario Franchitti was relaxed, ordering appetizers and bullying me into eating them while we bounced around conversationally like an Indy car on a bad street circuit. It was delightful, but suddenly it […]

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From the July/August 2023 issue of Car and Driver. At age 14, Thatcher Keast opened an automotive-detailing business in central Kansas. His top client was a local collector who’d bought and sold cars through RM Auctions. Keast accompanied the collector to sales and found himself mesmerized by the auctioneer. After college, Keast joined RM as […]

Marta Longin, the head of communications at Rimac Automobili, gestures toward an empty expanse of poured concrete, roofed only by exposed ducting. “That area,” she says, “will be for hypercar production.” She adjusts her hardhat, a bright blue plastic cosplay construction prop that matches the one I’m wearing. I squint into the middle distance of […]

From the July/August 2023 issue of Car and Driver. John W. Hetrick, an engineer from Pennsylvania, patented the airbag back in 1953. While suppliers and automakers experimented with airbags in the ’60s and ’70s, they didn’t become widely available until the ’80s and weren’t federally mandated until 1998. These days, one might find 10 or […]

It looks like we’re reaching a tipping point for electric-vehicle sales. Early adopters purchased more than a quarter-million EVs in the first quarter of 2023, according to Kelly Blue Book—though exact numbers are difficult to pin down in part owing to a lack of precise Tesla sales figures. EVs have improved to the point that […]

I figured the Chevy Silverado ZR2 Bison was probably overkill. A ZR2 Bison is probably overkill for most situations, but fetching a few arcade games from somebody’s house seemed below its pay grade. Hitch a trailer, load up in the driveway, done. Not much occasion for Multimatic spool-valve dampers and locking differentials there, to say […]

Automotive journalist James Allen was an on-air Formula 1 commentator for ESPN and ITV in the 1990s and 2000s and wrote biographies of famed drivers including Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell. But his reportage on racing goes back much further than that. His father, Bill, was a factory endurance driver for Lotus, and Allen grew […]