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 ...

The parking lot at the Iron Horse Saloon in Ormond Beach looked like a scene straight out of a Mad Max movie on Saturday, Nov. 29, as the bar welcomed the "Rat Rod Bash," an unusual car show that ...

Rat Rod builder Joshua Joyce built a Cummins turbo diesel train to take his daughters to school. A custom, one-of-one hand-built rat rod designed after a coal mining train, The Rail Rat turns heads ...

Attendees browsed classic and newer model cars at the event held Sunday in support of the Rexford Fire District and veterans During what may have been one of the last summer-like weekends of the year, ...

Why? Because every mid-engine rat rod 1948 Ford COE dump truck needs a tiny Honda Trail 90 rat bike in its former engine compartment, shrouded by a gym locker. With makeshift construction and a ...

Four former managers at German auto giant Volkswagen were convicted of fraud on Monday over the diesel emissions scandal, nearly a decade after US authorities discovered manipulated software on ...

Old cars with modern drivetrains are often terrible. People go too far in their restomods, turning classic muscle cars into the automotive equivalent of those LED-ridden black leather couches. But ...

Newly facelifted Touareg delivers outstanding economy and relatively low emissions (Black Edition TDI pictured) With registrations yet to be announced at the time of publication (1 March), it isn’t ...

When most car enthusiasts see an interesting vehicle driving around, they take a photo. When Jay Leno sees a car that gets his attention, he invites the owner to his garage. This 1948 Ford F6 rat rod ...

A Munich court has handed former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler a suspended jail sentence of one year and nine months for fraud in the 2015 diesel emissions scandal that rocked Volkswagen Group. The ex-boss ...

It may surprise you, as it did me, that there is actually a car collector category called rat rods. One might compare a rat rod to some modern art sculpture that not everyone can appreciate the ...

Old trucks should never die—they should just be repurposed. Everyone ought to do their part in keeping them from the scrap heap, especially if you’re capable of building something like this 1945 Chevy ...