Aviation Week puts the new Boeing 787 through its paces for this week’s cover story.
Marco Srour bought a two-thirds-scale Ferrari race-car replica for his son. But the big kid in Srour liked it so much, he made it into a road-going tribute to one of the winningest Ferraris ever.
The Benchmark Confederate X132 Hellcat Combat Motorcycle set the speed record of 172.2 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The 36 production examples are going on sale now.
Forget about roughing it on the road. Airstream’s new Land Yacht camper will have you wondering why anyone would ever stay in a hotel.
Automotive supplier Faurecia sees a future where your seat is connected with your smartphone, customizes the configuration to your body and even allows you to upgrade it with new features over the life of the vehicle.
The e-Bee Concept is one company’s idea of what transportation will look like in 2020, complete with user-generated data feeds, cloud-based driver profiles and an interior that cribs its styling straight from Jony Ive’s loft.
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class will drive itself in traffic, bend its light beams around oncoming cars, prevent you from taking out a cow and have pyrotechnically deployed seat belts.
There are plenty of debates about the best seat on a plane. But for an aviation geek, the choice is easy: in the cockpit. And Boeing has a new way to experience the thrills of take off and landing without …
The Hanebrink X-5 might look like another all-electric crotch-rocket, but after the lithium-ion batteries run out of juice, it converts into an unconventional bicycle that might have the fuzz looking at you crosswise.
Ever wanted to look like the star in an Italian movie, wending along the coastal roads, wearing dark sunglasses with a girl in the passenger seat with a scarf trailing in the wind? Now you can have the look and …
NASA has a big new rocket in the works, one designed to carry astronauts into space for the first time since the Saturn V took us to the moon. The Space Launch System will, among other things, make a trip …
Forget black and white Crown Vics and battle-scarred Chargers. The cop cars of tomorrow will shoot drones, transform from four-wheelers into quadrocopters and fly high above the dystopian hellscape formerly known as the LA Basin.
Say goodbye to catenary wires. Utah State University has unveiled an electric bus that charges through induction, topping off its batteries whenever it stops to pick up passengers.
Volkswagen pimps the sweet new Jetta Hybrid with a fuel economy race from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
There’s a largely covert war to the auto industry over the operating systems that will control the gadgets in and behind your dashboard. As in the smartphone biz, the battle line is between proprietary and open-source software.
The promise of hypersonic flight sending us halfway around the world in a matter of hours is being bandied about again, this time by a British company that declares, with all due humility, that it has made “the biggest breakthrough …
The car of the future is now even further beyond our reach.
We plotted the farms first and then pondered the logistics. It’s therefore no surprise that Americans feel transportation should come to us instead of the other way around. We pick a place to live and then figure out how to …
The LA Auto Show’s focus on in-car connectivity and infotainment is utterly pointless. Such technology is not an option, it’s something buyers demand when purchasing a new car. They expect it, and take it for granted. You can’t showcase the …
Can’t make it out to this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show? Here’s our comprehensive guide of the low lights, highlights and everything in between.
Fiat finally shows off the all-electric version of its cute and compact 500, but it’s only for sale in California and it’s only being sold to appease the state’s zero-emissions vehicle mandate.
The Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force concept might look like its ready to tackle a lunar landscape, but it could be destined for your driveway in 2025.
The same company that makes those battery-powered RC helicopters you see at the mall is building a full-size version. We want one.
The Spanish company that wants to take you up, up and away to 120,000 sends a scale model of its balloon soaring 104,000 feet.
The battle for dashboard supremacy is heating up, and the latest contender comes in the form of Sprint Velocity, the telecommunications company’s first comprehensive in-car infotainment and telematics architecture aimed at automakers.
We play with the first automotive application of Apple’s Siri-based “Eyes Free” voice-activation.
A team of Japanese researchers are hoping to use a version of everybody’s favorite non-stick material to help the aviation industry avoid the deadly problem of in-flight icing.
Cars are getting smarter and beginning to react on their own, but the gray matter manning the helm is still the vehicle’s Achilles heal. So to really get inside a driver’s head, automakers are going through their faces, analyzing expressions …
The Brutus motorcycle is touted as a go-anywhere two-wheeler, but the stats betray it’s limited potential of being good at anything.
Few vehicles scare me like the Dodge Viper. It isn’t the massive V10 shoehorned under the hood, or the dimwitted steering, or even the broiling interior of the original that’s as comfortable as a root canal. No, it’s the fact …