The cup holder, in its modern automotive incarnation, is about 30 years old. It achieved industrial-design celebrity status in the 1980s, and it's been proliferating ever since.

Bugatti's W-16 hypercars may be capable of 282 mph with the roof down, but they do not come with cup holders.That was a problem for one Chiron owner, who apparently spilled a drink in her car's ...

Frustration with the size, location, and design of cup holders in new cars is on the rise—and it holds enormous influence on ...

The first true cup holders were primitive and garish and non-integral to the car’s design. Mostly, they were plastic holsterlike devices that hooked on to the inside of the door, staying in ...

With some creative DIY-action you can turn your cup holder into a laptop stand. Mike Davis needed a way to use his laptop in his truck and have a nice stationary platform to put it on ...

Real demand for the cup holder didn't pick up until the 1950s, when drive-ins and drive-thru windows became mainstays of American eating. The very earliest evidence of complete cup-holding comes ...

In a car this small, you might hope for closer to 40 mpg. Compared to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class ($100,000), Audi A8 ($80,000), Hyundai Equus ($65,000) and even the Honda Civic ($25,000) I’ve ...