“There it is!” I exclaimed to my wife, spotting the Power Wagon from more than a block away as it approached. Indeed this big red truck, which reminds me of a toy from my childhood come to life, is a bit conspicuous in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles.

Hondadoesn’tbuild exciting cars, but you already know that. Honda builds reliable cars, and chances areyou’veowned one at some point in your life. The Japanese automaker is slowly getting better at delivering designs that are much less derivative of past models and more appealing to consumers, but at this point in the game it’s been more…

It truly gives the rider confidence at speed, which is high praise for any bike. Kudos to Ducati on the latest generation of monstrous fun. It’s hard to believe the Ducati Monster is now more than 20 years old, but that’s good news since the continual upgrades over time to the iconic naked bike have…

Car nameplates are recycled on a regular basis. You can’t buy a new third-generation C-Class anymore, but you can drive home from your local Mercedes-Benz dealership in a vastly improved fourth-generation modelthat benefits from the latest advances in automotive technology. For three decades, The Land Rover Defender has managed to eschew this evolutionary pattern, so…

Artificially intelligent cameras can recognize faces, but picking out faces in a crowd becomes a challenge — unless you have 500 megapixels, that is. Researchers from the Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently unveiled a 500-megapixel security camera they say can pick out…