Is This the Mid-Engine Corvette Before You're Supposed to See It?

We’re almost at time, officially set for a week from Thursday. But the closer we get, the more leaks will spring. First we saw , and here is what purports to be the full, real-deal, 2020 C8 Corvette, with the engine behind the driver and everything. Even if the...

May 5, 2025

Long Before the SUV Age, America's Best-Selling Car Was a Cutlass Coupe

Carspotting: Cutlass Supreme This is going to sound extremely alternate-universe for a second but in the midst of the 1970s, Americans bought more Oldsmobile Cutlasses than anything else, and more coupes than any other body style. (Welcome back to ! We’re back with The Worst Walking Tour of New York...

May 5, 2025

The Aston Martin DBS GT Zagato Has No Rear Window Because Glass Is For Poors

If you buy an you’ll get a wild exaggeration of Aston Martin design language with a crazy active grille with 108 moving parts and a carbon fiber roof that completely replaces the rear window. Oh, and Aston will throw in a DB4 GT Zagato continuation car as part of...

May 5, 2025

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus Is Pissed About the De Tomaso P72

Last week’s unveiling of the had us oohing and ahhing over its sleek looks and . Most seemed pretty happy with the car. Except for . The company was less than pleased with the looks of the P72. It seems kind of pissed, actually! In a saucy tweet yesterday,...

May 5, 2025

Trump's Proposed Rollback of Fuel Efficiency Standards Remains a Total Nightmare for Automakers

Trump the Obama-era rise in fuel efficiency standards, even though no one else really wants it, , , , and, now, . Who’s this for, anyway? Twenty-three governors—including the governors of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which all went for Trump in 2016—issued a statement Tuesday saying that they...

May 5, 2025

Texas Firebrand Ross Perot Clashed With General Motors' Insular, Bureaucratic Culture

Many of the things people criticize General Motors for today are things it’s always been criticized for: it is insular, bureaucratic, thinks the world begins at Lake Michigan and ends at Lake Erie, enthralled by its own glory days and can’t make the hard calls needed to keep a...

May 5, 2025

Metallica — 'Seek & Destroy'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. The for this song contains this hilarious sentence: The song is about feeling the urge to kill, but not literally doing it. I love extremely basic interpretations of extremely...

May 5, 2025

Tesla's Ramping Up Production But Being Careful About Promises

may be learning how to not shoot itself in the foot, really needs the DBX crossover to work out, ’s autonomous trucks are starting to generate revenue, and China car sales continue to slip. All that and more in the for Wednesday, July 10, 2019. In yet another allegedly...

May 5, 2025

The Wonderful Mini Rocketman Concept Will Actually Become Real, and Electric

Join me, friends, on a brain-journey back to 2011, when, for one brief, magical moment, Mini seemed to remember that, oh yeah, we’re supposed to be making cool small cars. Minis have been growing and growing every year, making their name more and more of a stretch, but in...

May 5, 2025

The Lord of the Wagons Is a BMW E34 M5 With the V12 From a McLaren F1

By now, the has transcended past the point of merely being a fast car to the stuff of legends. Three seats. Over 600 horsepower. And a naturally aspirated V12 sourced from BMW. Of course, that engine needed to be tested, so BMW stuffed it into the only other logical...

May 5, 2025

Bentley’s EXP 100 GT Imagines Electric Luxury and AI Assistants in the Year 2035

Bentley, in case you hadn’t heard, oh, already, turns 100 years old this year. In its continued birthday celebration, the automaker showed off what it believes to be the future of opulent grand touring—the all-electric, optionally autonomous Bentley EXP 100 GT concept, or its vision for the year 2035....

May 5, 2025

The Crazy Luxury Features That Make the First-Gen VW Touareg Such an Over-Engineered Nightmare

The launched in , but remains one of my favorite fancy off-roaders of all time because it was a genuine off-road beast and the most luxurious VW SUV ever. Sadly, that swankiness and off-road prowess comes at a cost, as they mean the SUV is filled with wacky luxury...

May 5, 2025

Ferrari's Most Customized Models Have a Wait Period of Four to Five Years

As people without stupid amounts of wealth, we all might equate the splurge of buying a one-off with, say, getting a nice watch that isn’t on clearance. But while that watch will either come home with us in a shopping bag or arrive at the door in a few...

May 5, 2025

Guy Installs Manhole Covers Instead of Wheels and the Results Are Hilarious

Manhole covers are round and tires are round, so it only makes sense to wonder whether the former can be used as a substitute for the latter, right? Wrong. That makes no sense at all. But YouTuber is in the business of conducting nonsensical experiments, so watch him bolt...

May 5, 2025

The Coolest Thing About the Electric VW ID.3 Is the Shifter

A lot of people are looking to the upcoming electric hatchback as proof that a traditional manufacturer can make an attractive, practical mainstream electric vehicle on par with the . To VW’s credit, the ID.3 appears to be shaping up to meet the challenge. While we still haven’t seen...

May 5, 2025