Mike Guy

The noise: overwhelming. The speed: mind-bending. But the car shares something in common with, well, a rock.

For The First-Ever R&T Music Issue, We Strained To Avoid The Commonplace.

After 11 generations, nearly five decades, and 20 million units, the Accord still tugs at our heartstrings.

In 1966, McCartney, that relentless overachiever and the only driving enthusiast in the Beatles, looked at the Aston Martin DB5 in his London garage and did what you and I do when we want to clear our heads.

Driving Mr. Watts: The Rolling Stones’ jazz drummer was so economical, he didn’t drive his fleet of immaculate vintage.

The weirdest drama at Le Mans often unfolds on the unwashed side of the catch fence.

The 24 hours of Le Mans survived a world war, horrific on-track violence, and countless poorly behaved fans. Here’s to another 100 years.

The next generation of vintage cars is coming.

It’s a masterpiece that couldn’t be made anymore. It’s also radical Nineties normcore.

We’ve all seared a track map of the perfect road course in our minds. These are public roads that wind around a nearby reservoir, cut through a patchwork of farmland, or—for at least one extremely irresponsible driver lamming it in Canada—­around the island of Manhattan. I have several, each corresponding to a place I’ve lived. My first street course was about eight miles long. Half tarmac and half gravel, it passed through pine and maple forests and circled the York County transfer station twic…

That’s right. I have my doubts about electric cars. I’m a gashead and a skeptic, and I spend my days covering an industry whose product hadn’t changed much since it was invented. Four wheels and an engine, and you’re more or less good to go. EVs are rewriting that. This story originally appeared in Volume 20 of Road Track.Electric vehicles present complications. Though they have noble goals—to reduce the amount of carbon ­dioxide piling up in our habitat—EVs create new problems while doing litt…