Today we tried a wooden car challenge with one rule: teams could only use materials found in the woods to build a drivable ...

THE WORLD’S only wooden supercar, known as the "Splinter”, is a high-performance sports car that is estimated to be 90% wood. Fuelled by a lifelong desire to design and build his own car and inspired ...

Need to remove a stubborn post from an old fence? A common tool typically used by car mechanics may make the job easier, ...

Over a century ago, people figured out how to make cars run on honest-to-goodness "wood gas," also known as also known as "producer gas," which is produced by heating up wood or coal to between 1,650 ...

Despite being a prototype, the 16C Galibier looked exquisite, making it all the more disappointing that Bugatti never brought ...

While it's a rarity in the modern era, wood-powered cars were found all throughout Europe during World War II. But it also carried some great risk.

From postwar necessity to modern insanity, these three-wheelers proved that unconventional engineering sometimes creates the ...

The Morgan Plus Four is a 76-year-old sports car still in production, blending classic design with a modern BMW engine and ...

This activity was a time of father-son bonding with my sons gathered around the workbench helping the magic happen, the block ...

Even as American automakers have scaled back their ambitions for electric vehicles, some are pivoting to a technology that could help boost renewable energy.

It was dark when we arrived. Our family of four—my husband and our tween and teen daughters—left Seattle for a weekend ...

For yet another year, dozens of cars hit the track at Cub Scout Pack 270’s Pinewood Derby on Saturday, January 31 at Newtown Congregational Church. The Pinewood Derby is a long-standing Cub Scout ...