In 1981, McLaren changed the car world when it debuted the MP4/1, the first Formula One car with a complete carbon fiber chassis. From then on, slowly but surely, people came to understand that a ...

Sustainability in cars is not just a passing trend. What comes around goes around: Your discarded plastic water bottle may soon become part of your next car. Automakers are racing to make their ...

Starting in the early 1970s, the American automotive market began to change drastically. Prior to that, most Americans drove around in large, V8-powered sedans with little regard for the cost of ...

One of the most talked about, universally loved, and hankered after cars of the last few years isn't German, doesn't have a brace of turbochargers, and won't require a fresh mortgage to buy. It's also ...

High-horsepower model from Italy’s Bertone will use specialized plastic scrap-to-fuel formula. The limited edition 1,100 hp Bertone GB110 will run on recycled-content fuel provided by Nevada-based ...

Old plastic from scrapped cars can be converted into graphene by grinding it to dust and zapping it with high-voltage electricity, a process that could save large amounts of plastic from landfill.

The first plastic car was shown by Henry Ford in Dearborn last week. It was the product of his own long dream—that industry should use more farm crops—and of the chemical inventiveness of his protege, ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...