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Last year, a Californian firm called Alef Aeronautics unveiled the Alef Model A, its bizarre take on a flying car with a $300,000 sticker price and a promise it would reach production in 2025. Many ...

The international health crisis of 2020 helped shine a very bright spotlight on a trend that was never really new: the so-called #vanlife, or downsizing. Man’s desire to take his home on the road goes ...

Alef’s electric Model A, priced at around $300,000, will be the only road-certified flying car that can do vertical takeoff and landings like electric-powered eVTOLs, including the Joby S4, Lilium Jet ...

In the summer of ‘64, Ted and Ellie Kaminsky were zipping through the boroughs of New York City, turning corners and heads in their brand-new, bright-red Pontiac GTO. Unlike anything else on the road ...

Depending on who you ask, talking about car companies making clay models during the designing process will elicit either an "I'm sorry, what?" or "Well of course." Sculpting facsimiles of in-progress ...