Brendan McAleer

Brendan McAleer · 10 min read Monterey Car Week, held August 9 to 18 this year, is a cornucopia of automotive delights for the enthusiast.

· 8-min read The music-box tunes, the slow cruise, the icy-sweet reward for chasing them down.

A back-to-back test-drive with the '24 and a '64 shows the appeal of a sporty Alfa Romeo is something that doesn't fade with time

The 2025 Corvette ZR-1’s twin-turbocharged V8 produces 1064 horsepower and 828 lb-ft of torque, enormous figures that sound more like settings for computer display resolution than power. Top speed is said to be more than 215 mph, and there’s a special aerodynamics package that makes more than 1200 lb of downforce. It’s the fastest, most aggressive, most supercar-slaying-est Corvette of all time. Also, it’ll fit a 7-Eleven Double Gulp drink in its cupholder. Two of them actually, should you be riding with a friend.

Thanks to The Sound of Music, you already know the story of von Trapp family—or at least you think you do. There really was a heroic naval captain named Georg von Trapp, he really did marry a much younger governess named Maria, the children really did sing beautifully, and they really did leave Austria when the Nazis annexed the country. Many of the details in the movie are of course inaccurate (for one thing, there were ten kids, not seven, and it wasn’t Maria who taught them to sing), but as a wholesome classic that the whole family can enjoy, it does at least have a whiff of the truth about it. But there is something about Maria von Trapp that Julie Andrews’ well-scrubbed portrayal didn’t get across.

Brendan McAleer In the modern age of exploration, it's never been easier for adventurers to bring back proof of their discoveries.

Introducing the Hellcat-powered 2025 Durango Silver Bullet and Hemi-driven Durango R/T 20th Anniversary Edition

Brendan McAleer · 6 min read In the final shot of Raiders of the Lost Ark, we see the Ark of the Covenant packed away in a

Usually, a lifetime of automotive enthusiasm doesn’t start with getting your driver’s license. Maybe you inherited it from handing your dad the socket wrench as he cursed under the family ride, maybe you picked it up from cheering your heart out at a day in the stands at the races, or maybe it was from the first time riding shotgun on a twisting backroad. But maybe it was a treasured childhood toy that lit that spark, rolling on kitchen linoleum rather than two-lane blacktop. In the case of Playmobil, currently celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, that spark is still there for the giving.

Brendan McAleer · 3 min read The mid-Sixties Ford Thunderbird was a full-on luxury cruiser.