Not to sound like a parody of Jerry Seinfeld here, but what's the deal with all these identical-displacement V8s from different manufacturers? We've talked about the Ford 427 vs. the Chevy 427 before, ...

American automotive performance in the 1950s was a simple recipe. If you wanted to go faster, you didn't optimize what you had; you just added more to it. More displacement, more iron, more horsepower ...

Yukihiro Akama, who trained as an architect, now designs whimsical pieces in oak, fir and other varieties. By Melanie Abrams Reporting from London In 2013 Yukihiro Akama found some small blocks of oak ...