Barn finds are one thing—there are a lot of old, dilapidated barns that no one has cracked open for decades. But greenhouses are clear, so it's a little hard to believe that 30 or so Jaguars sat in broad daylight for years and no one bothered to check them out.

Now, though, someone's finally noticed the 30-odd car-shaped tarps sitting in a Beaulieu, England greenhouse. They've started to clear out the old Jaguars, many of which are E-Types.

"Over 30 classic Jaguars, mostly E-Types, most of which looked like they'd been there a very long time," Beaulieu Garage said of the find in a Facebook post. "An offer was made and now I need to work out what to do with a whole lot of rusty metal

Unfortunately, while greenhouses can protect cars from UV rays, they also tend to be very humid. Combine that for decades with the delicate, rust-prone bodies of Fifties and Sixties Jags and, well, you're not going to end up with a bunch of museum pieces.

Beaulieu Garage, which is orchestrating the clean-out sale of these Jaguars, is clear that they're all pretty major projects. Per their website, Beaulieu Garage shares their facility with a company that specializes in restoring Series-1 E-Types. Should you decide to buy and restore one, then, you'll be able to do it in one place.

The company is still cataloging and documenting all of the cars that it recovered, but it'll be posting the cars on its Facebook page once it gets them officially ready for sale. While some, they say, are likely to run after a few days' work, most will require extensive restorations.

"All will see the road again I'm sure," Beaulieu Garage said.

We may be going into the year 2020 as automakers talk of a future centered on autonomy and electrification, but in terms of the car technology we have in the year 2019, one is still severely lacking: headlights. But the IIHS wants to change that, and will try to do so by hinging its safety awards on quality headlights.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is the formal name for IIHS, which is the place many people in the United States consult when they want to know how safe their car, or the car they want to buy, is. The organization was founded by several insurance associations in 1959,and, 60 years later, is still crashing cars and commending them when they do well.

But IIHS tests more than just crashworthiness, and headlights have been a point of stubbornness since the organization began rating them in 2016. Thus, for its automaker-coveted 2020 safety awards, IIHS is changing the rules—in order to qualify for the top IIHS award in 2020, a model will have to offer decently rated headlights as standard on even the cheapest of trims.

Here’s a rundown of the added 2020 criteria, from IIHS’ announcement on it:
IIHS has four headlight ratings—poor, marginal, acceptable and good—and the key for the new criteria is that cars getting the top award, the Top Safety Pick+, will have to offer headlights with one of IIHS’ top two ratings as standard. Currently, the top award announcements often come with a disclaimer: that a model earned it on variations “equipped with specific headlights.” That’ll be no more with the new rules because carmakers won’t be able to get away with offering bad headlights on lower trims if they want the top award.

IIHS had a quick summary on why that’s necessary—essentially, because after several years of ratings, headlights still aren’t great:
Variation in headlight quality has been shown as a big issue since IIHS began its ratings, too. Many models offer a wide range of headlight types, and quality, depending on trims and options, meaning the same car can have ratings that range from “poor” all the way to “good.”

Poor headlights can not only jeopardize safety for the driver of the car with the poor headlights but other drivers as well, due to the fact that ratings can also be docked for things like excessive glare. Having a range of headlight ratings on the same model can also be confusing for buyers, who might go for an award-winning car without realizing that they chose the trim that was the exception.

But at least for the models that get IIHS’ top award, the Top Safety Pick+, there will be less ambiguity in the future. That’s not only a good thing for new-car buyers but also for the drivers around them.

• Michigan raised the speed limit by 5 mph on more than 600 miles of rural highways in 2017.
• In 2018, crashes on those roads went up 17.2 percent, compared to just 3.4 percent statewide, Michigan's Bridge Media reported.
• Other states have also seen more injuries and deaths in places where speed limits were increased.

Speed can still kill. That's the lesson Michigan is learning on the 600-plus miles of rural freeways where the speed limit was raised from 70 mph to 75 mph thanks to a 2017 law. With the number of drivers now going over 80 mph on the increase, more people are getting into crashes and losing their lives.

Bridge Media analyzed state police records and found that roads with the new 75-mph speed limit had, on average, more crashes and injuries in 2018 (the full first year for the new limits) compared to the entire road network. While the statewide average for crashes rose 3.4 percent in 2018 compared to the annual average from 2014-16 (remember, the speed limits went up part of the way through 2017), the average on the 75-mph roads went up 17.2 percent, Bridge Media found.

40 Percent Drive 80+ MPH on 75-MPH Roads

The real-world average speed increase on the 75-mph roads in one single-day test sample was just under 2 mph (from 74.6 mph in 2016 to 76.9 mph in 2018), but the total number of people going over 80 mph went from 10 percent to 40 percent of all cars. The result for some rural Michigan roads is that plenty of people are still driving well under 75 mph, but more are now going even faster.

Crash and death statistics from other states that raised their speed limits do not follow the same pattern. In Utah, for example, the number of crashes on some parts of I-15 in the state dropped between 2008, when the speed limit was raised to 80 mph, and 2014, when the data was analyzed, according to local news reports. In Montana, though, highway fatalities were 17 percent higher in 2015 than 2014 after the speed limit was raised from 75 mph to 80 mph in October 2015. The speed limit change was just one possible reason for that increase, as the fatality spike coincided with lower gas prices (which increases vehicle miles traveled) and more snow and ice on the roads that year than the previous year.

In 2013, the Connecticut General Assembly released a letter summarizing a 2006 National Cooperative Highway Research Program report. That organization found an "increased likelihood" (by 28 percent) of fatalities when a speed limit was raised from 55 to 65 mph. Going from 65 mph to 75 mph also found a minimal increase (0.6 percent) in the total number of crashes alongside a larger increase (13 percent) in the number of total fatalities. The Assembly said that the smaller increase in fatalities at higher speeds could be due to the fact that "people may drive more cautiously when driving faster, or that roads deemed appropriate for a 75-mph limit are safer." The Assembly also cited an American Journal of Public Health study that "found about a 3.2 percent increase in road fatalities attributable to the raised speed limit on all roads in the U.S." over a 10-year period.

Michigan state legislators who spoke with Bridge Media said they specifically selected segments of roads that would be the safest places to increase the speed limit, the "lowest of the low-hanging fruit from a risk perspective," according to Brad Wieferich, director of MDOT's Bureau of Development. That may be true, but that hasn't stopped the rise in the number of crashes and injuries.

Time is but a social construct, but as we’ve all decided the 2010s are over, I guess a roundup of the best engines of the decade is in order. We’ve got V10s (duh, because it’s me writing this list), V12s, V8s and four-bangers galore.

The 2010s were an interesting bunch of years. They saw the split between old-school methods of producing big power (fat displacement, superchargers) and modern ways of making driving efficient (cylinder deactivation, turbocharging). Some of the units listed here have been discontinued; others began their lives only recently and will hopefully continue to affect change into this new decade.

Now, these engines aren’t listed in any particular order other than how they appeal to me, personally. Did I leave anything out? Should all of the cars on this list just get LS swaps? Feel free to tell me in the comments.

17. Infiniti’s Variable Compression Engine

16. Ford’s One-Liter EcoBoost

15. Mazda’s SkyActiv-X ‘Holy Grail’

14. Honda’s 2.0-Liter, Turbocharged Inline-Four

13. Bugatti’s 8.0-Liter, Quad-Turbocharged W16

12. Dodge’s 6.2-Liter, Supercharged Hellcat

11. BMW’s 4.0-Liter V8

10. Mercedes-Benz’s 6.0-Liter, Twin-Turbocharged V12

9. Audi/Lamborghini’s 5.2-Liter V10

8. Lamborghini’s 6.5-Liter V12

7. Ferrari’s 4.5-Liter V8

6. Porsche’s 4.0-Liter Flat-Six

5. SRT’s 8.4-Liter V10

4. McLaren’s 3.8-Liter, Twin-Turbocharged V8

3. Mercedes-AMG’s 6.2-Liter V8

2. Ford’s 5.2-Liter Voodoo V8

1. Lexus’s 4.8-Liter V10