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  • These Are Your Favorite Taillights

    These Are Your Favorite Taillights

    Taillights are an important part of vehicle design. Our own Jason Torchinsky might say, the most important. Done right, they can almost bring the whole vehicle together. Done poorly, they can be terrible and distracting and ruin an otherwise Good Car. One of my favourite taillight designs is the current-gen of the MX-5 Miata. It just…


  • Here’s What Happened To The Soviet Ground Effect Sea Monsters

    Here’s What Happened To The Soviet Ground Effect Sea Monsters

    Back in the 1960s, Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed there was a secret project going on deep in the country. It had a ship—this half-plane, half-boat contraption—that was capable of breaking the land speed records of the era while carrying an unprecedented amount of cargo. These projects were called Ekranoplans, and here’s why this…