Internationally renowned builder of bespoke customer cars, Paul Bacon, has completed his most ambitious project yet – a steampunk hot rod built from scratch. The Automatron is a horse-drawn carriage ...

Discover HOT ROD’s Top 10 Cars of 2025—our third year reviving this iconic list. See the trendsetting builds, top builders, and innovations shaping car culture. The HOT ROD staff had a busy 2025, to ...

We found this 1935 Ford to be a beautiful mess of a build. Yeah, it looks like Tim Miller cobbled it together, but the closer you look, the more you find that Dick Banjo is pretty well sorted out.

More than 3,000 cars showed up to celebrate seven decades of HOT ROD, including no small number of cover cars and world-famous builds. David Freiburger guided us through the best ones.

As Craig Callum approaches his second anniversary as Design Manager at Hot Wheels, I caught up with him to discuss his personal car collection and what inspires him as a designer. Trinity Francis: ...