Hot rod builds a mouse trap and tries to catch a rat. Originally published in the August 1998 issue of Hot Rod magazine. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, we teamed up with CASTROL GTX to bring ...

It's a story as old as hot rodding itself. It starts with the sales pitch-"Buy my widget and your engine will gain 50 hp"-and ends with a disappointed customer with a car that sure doesn't feel like ...

Rotary engines have been around as a niche solution in cars since 1961, but were made famous in automotive culture by Mazda using the Wankel single triangle-shaped rotary piston design. Mazda used a ...

Sometimes the best lots at automotive auctions aren't the cars themselves, but the memorabilia that's also put up for sale. No matter if you're at Barrett-Jackson or Bonhams, everything from tool kits ...

Incredible as it may seem, the Le Mans-style prototype that stars in this video – the Mazzei Formula 5 – is actually fully road legal. It’s also powered by one of the world’s first examples of a ...