The US Coast Guard Caught This Cocaine-Smuggling Semi-Submersible

The U.S. Coast Guard today announced that the Coast Guard Cutter Munro would offload thirty-nine thousand pounds of cocaine in San Diego with Vice President Pence presiding. The copious amounts of powdered narcotic had been taken in 14 separate seizures, including a particularly large haul in mid-June from the...

May 7, 2025

Pixies — 'Bone Machine'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Never a wrong time for the Pixies. ...

May 7, 2025

Volkswagen and Ford Are Teaming Up Massively on Electric and Autonomous Cars

The game of catch-up gets going for real, Daimler isn’t doing so hot, and diesels are definitely not having a moment. All that and more in the Morning Shift for July 12, 2019. Ford and Volkswagen today that they’ll be teaming up on both electric and autonomous vehicles, with...

May 7, 2025

Actually, Two-Tone Paint Is Great

There was a time when I was not part of this site, so I can’t be held accountable for the bad takes that were bizarrely allowed to be published here. I can try to make it right, though. I’m being uncharacteristically contrite because I just stumbled across from 2014...

May 7, 2025

Here's the 2021 Acura MDX and TLX Way Before You're Supposed to See Them

It would appear that the software for the features a ton of images and information about the upcoming generations of the 2021 crossover and 2021 sedan, and they look great. The leak spilled all over the yesterday, after user rdx.god claimed to have found rendered images of the upcoming...

May 7, 2025

Detroit Cop Runs Stop Sign, Causes Wreck, Then Arrests Other Driver to Cover His Ass

Last week, a Michigan State Police officer was driving an unmarked Jeep Patriot when he ran a stop sign at an intersection in southwest Detroit. Running that stop sign put him into the path of a Honda Civic driving down the one-way street, which then crashed into the rear quarter...

May 7, 2025

The Mid-Engine C8 Corvette's Steering Wheel Is A Nice Evolution

FACT: You can’t steer a car without a steering wheel. Saab was back in the day. And since the new mid-engine is a car people will want to steer, it follows that it will—it must—have a steering wheel. Now, you’re looking at it. Incredible! Granted, we’ve seen this before....

May 7, 2025

Low-Profile Tires Are Ruining Modern Cars

The Volkswagen Up GTI I had in France last summer . It also had 17-inch wheels and low-profile tires. Off the coast, I ran over what seemed to be an innocuous small rock in the road. I knew in about the next 10 seconds. Low-profile tires are all the...

May 7, 2025

What's the Best Getaway Car for Under $15,000?

Car Time: Episode 10 If you’ve seen like any action movie involving a Very Big Heist, you’ve probably secretly admired the well-choreographed chase scenes and seemingly purpose-built getaway cars. And that’s the exact energy we’re channeling for Car Time this week. On this episode, Staff Writer Justin Westbrook and I...

May 7, 2025

Comment of the Day: If You're Going to Spend Money on Anything, Make It Tires Edition

Our dear David Tracy is off on another adventure, kind of, having he’ll probably end up driving for years. But the point of this post is to talk priorities. Andrew Daisuke here, I think, was being sarcastic in theirassessment of Mr. Tracy’s build plan. But if you can get...

May 7, 2025

Ford's Letting Us Down on Electric Cars (Updated)

The Ford Motor Company bravely and ambitiously announced today that it would be launching an all-electric model... based on existing MEB platform architecture cribbed from Volkswagen. The VW I.D. 3, sharing that platform, is planned for launch next summer. Ford is going all-in on this electric thing and is...

May 7, 2025

The 39 MPG Chevrolet Equinox Diesel Was in Fact a Hard Sell and Is Now Dead

“”I wrote after Chevy’s mid-size crossover’s fuel economy numbers dropped in August of 2017. The vehicle would flop, I suspected, and now, about two years later, GM is giving up selling the thing due to “low demand.” You don’t say? “We no longer offer the diesel option on the...

May 7, 2025

Help Me Understand Why This Hyundai's Wiper Aged So Much More Than the Rest of the Car

I’ve got a little Friday afternoon mystery for you: the other day, I was in traffic, behind a 2004 or so Hyundai Santa Fe. Normally, not a terribly exciting vehicle to contemplate. But this one had a strange detail I don’t fully understand: for some reason, the rear wiper...

May 7, 2025

If You Don't Order Your Aston Martin Valkyrie in this Livery, You Don't Deserve it

Aston Martin’s bantam-weight hybrid mid-engine Cosworth V12 KERS hybrid monster hypercar is finally here in production-ready form. The final version of the car was unveiled today at Silverstone ahead of the Formula One British Grand Prix, in conjunction with Aston Martin-sponsored Red Bull Racing. This is the first time...

May 7, 2025

The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Sounds as Loud as it Looks

It’s been a hot minute since , but we haven’t really seen it run in anger until last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Thanks to a few intrepid car spotters, who lugged cameras and microphones out to the hill, we can see a bit of the fast Ford’s performance and...

May 7, 2025