Move over, Prius: This custom, GM-designed, carbon-fiber and aluminum rocket proves that you don't need fossil fuel to spin out 650-hp. VIDEO: The car, the unveiling and interviews with the car's designers - and its new owner.

Jay Leno's most recent automotive acquistion is also one of the world's rarest: a car built, registered and driven around the country by a 17-year old in the early 1930's. (Published in the September 2006 issue)

The Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S was dead before it was rolled onto showroom floors, but, just like the rotary engine, all the Sport needed was an engineer's loving touch to make it a prized possession. (Published in the May 2006 issue)

I'm really an ordinary guy who gets to do extraordinary things--like get in somebody else's car and try to go 200 mph. You see, the Porsche people had been to my garage and I took them for a ride in my Stanley Steamer. The next thing you know, they're asking me to take a Carrera GT to Talladega and ... (Published in the January 2006 issue)

When Jay Leno first began discussing the idea of writing a regular column for POPULAR MECHANICS, he had one very strong request: He had been concerned for a long time that most of the country's talented automotive machinists, restoration craftsmen and mechanics were getting older. "I kept wondering ... (Published in the November 2005 issue)

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