Popular Mechanics

10 South-of-the-Border cars you can't buy in the USA

Popular Mechanics, July 2012 - Peugeots, Seats, and Alfa Romeos are on sale in Mexico. General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi all sell global models south of the border that aren't for sale in the U.S.

The world's 18 strangest parking garages

Popular Mechanics, July 2012 - Here are some of the world's most interesting, innovative and just plain bizarre parking garages.

Million-Mile Club: The world's longest-lived cars

Popular Mechanics, Jun 2012 - These are the folks who racked up a million miles - that's 40 times around the Earth, a distance that at 60 mph would take two years to drive.

License plates are more than stiff sheets of aluminum

Popular Mechanics, Jun 2012 - There are 10 of our favorite old (and new) plates from around the country.

12 Concept Cars Heads For Dealerships

Popular Mechanics, May 2012 - Here are the concept cars we expect to come to the showroom (though in an altered form), with our best guess on timing, specs and, when possible, price.

Stretch It Out: 10 Extreme Limos

Popular Mechanics, May 2012 - There's riding in style and then there's rolling in extreme look-at-me mode.

The 5 Cars That Wheeled Across the Moon

Popular Mechanics, Mar 2012 - All five rovers that the Soviet Union and the U.S. left on the moon in the 1970s have been found by a NASA orbiter—and three are still used today for gathering data.

21 Movies We Can't Wait to See in 2012

Popular Mechanics, Feb 2012 - Chronicle to be released February 3rd is brimming with large scale special and visual effects of cars crumbling under invisible force, trucks shoved off road and furniture shooting up through ceilings.

The Favorite Family Cars

Popular Mechanics, Oct 1969 - It is only a matter of time before sales of the family car drop out of sight. Some 1970 favorites include Dodge Monaco, Pontiac Ventura, Buick Wildcat and Olds Delta 88.