Slangin' Rocks Three Ways

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Above is the first Slangin’ Rocks that I heard, with Project Pat and Gangsta Boo on the track. But it borked my mind for a minute when I clicked...

May 5, 2025

The Porsche Taycan Was Designed With Something Called 'Foot Garages'

Automakers always try to highlight specific features of a new car as some sort of revolutionary innovation. It’s the process that gave us “.” Now there’s a new one; a designer just called the passenger footwell of the upcoming electric a “foot garage” with a straight face. Last week,...

May 5, 2025

This Has to Be the Weirdest Car Engine Ever Mass-Produced

For the most part, car engines are pretty conservative things—the vast majority of the cars you see and drive use one of a handful of basic engine designs and layouts. That’s why unusual engine designs—air-cooling, rotaries, radials, whatever—are so fascinating—they’re a working, revving reminder that there’s all kinds of...

May 5, 2025

Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet

The iPhone problem, self-driving car industry consolidation, and the hellscape that is the trade war. All that and more in the for July 2, 2019. has a preliminary report out on auto sales for the first half of 2019 (it’ll still be a while before we get the definite...

May 5, 2025

The Ford Ranger's Crash Protection Is Fine but Its Headlights Aren't: IIHS

The Ford Ranger , a move that got high ratings from anyone and everyone who appreciated the Ranger back when it was Ford’s stateside. It now has high safety ratings as well, aside from those pesky headlights. The Ranger, Ford’s midsize pickup in a world where all pickups have become,...

May 5, 2025

Here's the 2020 BMW X6 Before You're Supposed to See It

The wretched has returned, restyled and based on the updated X5 to ruin every conversation about BMWs for another model lifecycle. A beast to the eyes of ///M-thusiasts everywhere. To no real surprise, the leaked images show it’s still one ugly truck. These three images of the new X6...

May 5, 2025

New Land Rover Defender Will Get a Diesel in the U.S. and Seat Up to Eight: Report

Nobody has to worry about squeezing their extended family in the back of the upcoming all-new , with multiple reports of three different models stretching all the way up to an eight-seater. Apparently, Americans will be lucky enough to get a diesel, too. the three models are taking on...

May 5, 2025

Nearly 60 Percent of Lamborghini's Sales So Far This Year Have Been Urus SUVs

has been delivering the , which you might pronounce “Yur-us” but Lamborghini ,” for about a year now. In that year, the SUV has skyrocketed Lamborghini’s sales numbers, and currently makes up nearly 60 percent of its sales worldwide. The Urus might not be the Lamborghini your childhood bedroom...

May 5, 2025

Canadian Guy Climbs into Someone Else's Corvette and Tries to Claim It as His

I think somebody may have misunderstood how work. That somebody is a with an open roof, sat in the driver’s seat, and claimed the car was his. The owner of the car, and later the Vancouver police, disagreed. The attempted theft-by-sitting happened this past Sunday in a parking lot...

May 5, 2025

The 11-Foot-8 Bridge Claims Another Sacrifice to the God of Things That Are Taller Than You Thought

It’s happened again! Durham, North Carolina’s most famous, dynamic, and charismatic bridge-citizen, the , has once again demanded a sacrifice, and once again the Great Trucker has provided. This time, it’s a “bucket truck,” one of those work trucks with a mechanical arm to raise a human worker in a,...

May 5, 2025

We Should Have Bought Six-Speed V6 Honda Accord Coupes When We Had the Chance

“What’s a V6 that doesn’t sound like crap,” Regular Car Reviews’ host Mr. Regular asks from behind the wheel of somebody’s 2016 Honda Accord V6 six-speed manual coupe. He immediately answers his own question: “This.” The current tenth generation Honda Accord is a great getaround car, but unfortunately for...

May 5, 2025

The 2020 Audi S8 Is Here With a 563-HP V8 and Hybrid Technology

The newest iteration of the Audi S8 is here, and while it on the outside, it’s packing the expected power underneath its hood. It has 563 horsepower, to be exact, coming from a bi-turbocharged V8 with a mild-hybrid system—you know, for fuel efficiency. Audi UK the new S8 on...

May 5, 2025

Tesla Achieves Record Deliveries in Second Quarter, Loses Two More Executives

In classic Tesla fashion, there was both good news and bad news out of the electric carmaker today, because nothing can ever be simple with them. The good news is the company set records for production (87,048 vehicles) and deliveries (95,200) in the second quarter, rebounding nicely from the...

May 5, 2025

The 2020 BMW X6 Finally Has the Illuminated Kidney Grille You've Been Begging For

There’s a new Sports Activity Vehicle crossover don’t-call-it-a-coupe in town. The new generation of BMW X6 is here, and it’s longer, wider, and vertically shorter than the one it replaces. But more important than that, BMW says the massive kidney grille on the front of the new big boy...

May 5, 2025

Comment of the Day: Automatic Blinkers; Yay or Nay Edition

Cars are too expensive in 2019 because they’re too nice. And for that same reason, there seem to be fewer reasons to upgrade to a brand new car now than ever. That was all , but one comment spurned an interesting debate on the merits of modern systems. Specifically,...

May 5, 2025