For example, the first high-compression V8 built for road use came about in 1949. It was called the Rocket V8, produced by Oldsmobile, and it made just 135 horsepower. However, just about 15 years ...

The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...

Of course, motorcycles from the 1960s weren't as fast as modern, more advanced models, but the story of how they got faster ...

Overshadowed by the GTO, which debuted a year later, the 1963 Pontiac Catalina 421 HO Tri-Power was a potent full-size muscle car that deserves more respect ...

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The film tells the unlikely story of a racing legend who captured multiple records and led Ford Motor Company to national ...

A Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 producing 1,064 horsepower raced a lighter, lower-output Ferrari 296 GTB in a quarter mile. Can you ...

David Lynch, George Foreman, Ozzy Osbourne, Diane Keaton, Dick Cheney, Hulk Hogan, Val Kilmer and Robert Redford are among ...

The Daytona 500 is the most prestigious race in NASCAR, which means those who win it experience the highest high the sport ...

Four-time national NHRA champion Bruno Massel Jr. joined the inaugural FOX NHRA broadcast team as a pit reporter in 2016.

The 1969 Camaro Z/28 arrived at a moment when Chevrolet was no longer content to treat racing as a sideline, but as a proving ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began to display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...