Once upon a time, the steam engine reigned supreme -- first in trains and heavy tractors, as you well know, but eventually in cars as well. It's quite hard to fathom today, but at the turn of the 20th ...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the ultimate victory of the gasoline-powered automobile was far from guaranteed. The automotive landscape was an open, hyper-competitive frontier where three ...

Numerous steam cars have made appearances on Jay Leno's Garage, but for this episode Jay provides an in-depth explanation of how to start and drive his 1909 White Model M. Spoiler alert: It's a lot ...

Starting a vehicle 112 years ago was a different process, as Jay Leno demonstrates. If you had a steam-engined car, starting it was a complicated procedure, but so were gasoline-engined vehicles of ...

The British Steam Car project says its namesake vehicle averaged nearly 140 mph in two runs over a measured mile, good enough to beat out a Stanley Steamer. The British Steam Car spouts off as it gets ...

With the growing severity and frequency of storms, heat waves and wildfires, and the other dangers from climate change, there are many reasons to be concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide in the ...

In August 2009, the British Steam Car, driven by Charles Burnett III, smashed a record that had stood for a century: the land-speed record for a steam-powered car. Burnett drove his vehicle on a track ...

Last Saturday, comedian, TV personality and well-known car collector and specialist Jay Leno was rushed to the hospital following an incident that occurred inside his personal garage. More details on ...

The car's backers have called the 3-ton contraption "the fastest kettle in the world." Hunkered down in a California desert, now they just need to make it official. But then, we’ve grown accustomed to ...

running on tracks, there was the Lombard Steam Log Hauler. This wacky steam-locomotive-like contraption used tank-style tracks instead of railroad tracks to get around, freeing it up to go wherever it ...