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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Larry Webster
12 hours agoFor the vast majority of people, CarPlay is a must-have. Apple’s in-car experience provides a vastly superior infotainment experience than most options from carmakers. There’s quick access to your favorite apps, integration with Siri, seamless connectivity, and more. Here are some of my favorite …
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2 weeks ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
My heart soared this week when I ran across a video of two dudes taking their project car for a maiden voyage. You can hear the joy and sense of accomplishment as they run the car through the gears. Their three-year mechanical journey is no ordinary project. These guys built a custom Ford V-10 engine with four valves per cylinder and installed it in a Lincoln Continental—a monumental undertaking.
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3 weeks ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
We celebrate engine anniversaries around here, which seems perfectly normal for us car nerds but might be a little strange to the rest of the world. Forgive me, then, as I set the way-back machine to sixty years ago, when an aluminum V-8 that had been birthed as a Buick engine was adopted by Rover, the British automaker, which proceeded to spin gold out of the Detroit powerplant.
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4 weeks ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
“Oh noooo… you fell for Rober’s shtick,” exclaimed fellow automotive journalist Jordan Golson in an email response to last week’s newsletter. I had described a YouTube video by Mark Rober that showed a Tesla driving through a foam wall that was painted to look like a road. The video highlighted the performance differences between two hands-free driver-assist systems.
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
I’ve been meaning to check in on the state of driverless cars, and a new video from YouTuber Mark Rober provided the perfect entry point. Rober is the former NASA and Apple engineer who has developed a knack for explaining complex scientific and engineering concepts, garnering an audience of tens of millions along the way.
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
Back in the late 1980s, crazy surged through the halls of Chrysler Corporation. After narrowly avoiding the bankruptcy grim reaper thanks to the cheap and cheerful K-car platform, the scrappy automaker brought the party back with the Dodge Viper concept at the 1989 Detroit auto show. Raw and unhinged, the production Viper that followed was the spiritual successor to the Shelby Cobra.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
A fight is brewing over California’s ability to set its own vehicle emissions rules. The Golden State long has had that power thanks to an EPA waiver, which was renewed last December by the Biden Administration. Not surprisingly, President Trump’s new EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, has different ideas. Zeldin sent the California waivers to Congress, which means that California’s EV mandates are now in play.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
Sooner or later, all the desirable cars that were tucked away and forgotten will be uncovered, right? That’s what I wonder sometimes now that Tom Cotter has spent about 10 years finding cars on his Hagerty YouTube show, Barn Find Hunter. Cotter keeps finding not just left-for-dead Chevettes, but real treasures. You might remember the episode from seven years ago when he revealed, in a dilapidated suburban garage, a handful of cars that included a 427 Cobra and a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
We’re in The Funk. That’s what I call this last week in January, the point in a Midwestern winter when the novelty of tackling projects in my heated garage has worn off. Cabin fever sets in, and I’m stuck indoors because I don’t want to subject my babies to Michigan’s messy salty roads. Or so I’ve convinced myself.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
hagerty.com | Larry Webster
Tadge Juechter had a Motown engineer’s dream job: For over three decades he helped develop multiple generations of the Corvette, starting with the later versions of the fourth generation (C4). He served as the executive chief engineer from 2006 until he retired last year. Under his tutelage the Corvette morphed from a fast but unrefined sports car to the soon-to-released 1064-hp ZR1, a supercar with a Chevy badge. Incredible.
