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Car and Driver’s Cars and Coffee 2015: The Biggest Yet [Gallery + Video]

Another summer, another Car and Driver Cars and Coffee event! Every event we’ve run has been bigger than the last, and despite some dreary rain and ominous clouds early in the morning this past Saturday, we had more attendees than ever before. Cars filled up nearly our entire office park (total parking space for about 700 cars). We brought a McLaren 650S Spider, a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 convertible, and a

Hulkbuster is the only GTA 5 mod that matters

GTA 5 already has its fair share of incredible mods, but the new Hulkbuster mod might be our favourite one so far. The mod recreates Iron Man’s special armour from the comic books (most recently seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron) and lets you unleash total carnage on Los Santos, chucking cars, taking down police helicopters, and just generally being a nuisance. If you want to try it for yourself,

Syrian air strikes kill 31, rebels bombard Damascus: monitor

Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held areas near Damascus killed at least 31 people on Wednesday, and insurgents bombarded the capital with rockets that killed at least 13 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The violence came ahead of an expected visit by Iran’s foreign minister to Damascus to discuss a new plan to resolve the more than four-year-long civil war. Warplanes targeted several areas in the insurgent-held

Knee replacement may ‘turn back the clock’ for arthritis pain

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Knee replacement surgery may significantly ease pain and improve leg function and quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a recent study suggests. While surgery doesn’t restore the same level of comfort and function patients had in their younger years, before they developed arthritis, the authors write in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatology that knee replacement can serve as a time

Officer fired for 'troubling' decisions in shooting of Texas teen

A white officer who fatally shot a black Texas teenager last week at a Dallas-area car dealership has been fired after making a series of troubling decisions, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said on Tuesday. Christian Taylor, a 19-year-old college football player at Angelo State University, became the latest unarmed black man to die at the hands of a white police officer after officials said he was seen on security