Please Stop Using Citroën H Vans as Food Trucks

Allow me to rant, because I need to get this off my chest. Despite being a bit of a hipster myself, I despise when a perfectly good Citroën H is used to putter from event to event hawking poorly made coffee or bespoke natural ice bars or whatever. The...

May 11, 2025

The 2020 Chevrolet C8 Mid-Engine Corvette Has 495 HP And Better Tech Than Ever

Rumored since approximately the Taft Administration, the , the mystical mid-engine Corvette, has finally transcended myth and arrived in reality. It’s finally here (well, ). Time to run down everything we know. With a 6.2-liter LT2 V8in the between its axles, the C8 Corvette makes 495 horsepower and 470...

May 11, 2025

The 2020 C8 Corvette Will Start Under $60,000

General Motors just announced that the new will start at under $60,000. “What I can share with you tonight is this: When the 2020 Stingray goes on sale in the U.S., it will start at less than $60,000,” said Mark Reuss, president of GM, during the event livestream. This...

May 11, 2025

Lil Boosie -- 'Don't I Act A Donkey'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. The mid-engine Corvette is out and, somehow, it feels like Boosie is appropriate. ...

May 11, 2025

The 2020 Corvette Uses GPS and Hydraulics to Automatically Lift the Car Over Speed Bumps

The has a lot going for it between the mid-engine configuration, the 495 horsepower V8, the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, and, of course, the . But one feature worth talking about is the hydraulically-actuated front suspension lift. We don’t know a ton about this feature, but what we do know...

May 11, 2025

BMW, Toyota, Everyone Is Deepening Ties with China

There’s a out in the world now, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the auto industry has stopped working. There’s a lot of development in China and more in for Friday, July 19, 2019. I remember when BYD was the company that , maybe illegally. And I also...

May 11, 2025

Here's a First Look at the New C8 Corvette Convertible

“We are just getting started with Corvette,” said GM President Mark Reuss at the ’s reveal just before a video montage of apparently future Corvette variants began playing on the screen behind him. Among those variants was this: the Corvette Convertible. At least, that’s what it appears to be...

May 11, 2025

How the Mid-Engine Chevrolet Corvette Became the Automotive Industry's Biggest Urban Legend

A true, production mid-engine has been perpetually imminent, for decades and across generations. Until last night, it was always something that was said to be on its way but never showed up—a cautionary tale of automotive rumors that never panned out, no matter how many times the world heard them....

May 11, 2025

How to Find the 2020 Corvette C8's Hidden Door Handles

It’s a big deal that the is moving to mid-engine with coil-sprung rear suspension, but one of my favorite features are the elegantly concealed door handles. Yes, the new ’Vette joins the third-generation Mazda RX-7, original Acura NSX, TVR Tuscan and Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona in an elite circle of...

May 11, 2025

This Is the Only Chevrolet C8 Corvette Interior Any of You Should Be Getting

Now that the is real, we can spend the next few days and weeks poring over the specs, engaging in debates and looking at pictures of it. I spent most of last night looking at the pictures and I can confidently return to you and say there is only...

May 11, 2025

Ditching 672 Pounds Can Turn the Most Boring Car Into a Fun Time

Even the most boring little commuter daily driver hatchback can be turned into a riot of a good time by removing the weight of a particularly large Grizzly Bear. When your tiny four cylinder economy car only has to haul around 2/3rds of the car’s original weight, it can...

May 11, 2025

This Is a Very Creative Twist on Classic SUV Restoration

I’d been following thinking it was just some random account posting nice-aesthetic-stuff, but no, it’s a real vintage 4x4 restoration outfit in Portugal and it’s actually doing some of the most beautiful work in old-truck-decoration right now. Scroll through that little slideshow and you’ll see what I mean: this long...

May 11, 2025

Here's the Backstory on That Blue Maxima From the Fast and the Furious

If you watch today, the Nissan Maxima that rips a ridiculous burnout out of the barbeque scene might seem a little random. But if you were into cars when the movie was new, I bet you remember these getting driven hard. The one in the flick got picked for sheer...

May 11, 2025

The Moment When You Commit to Driving Down a Flight of Stairs

We’re all trying to get more exercise, but most of us don’t bring our Acura SUVs along for the ride. A woman attempting to leave the fancy Sheraton Wall Centre hotel in Vancouver on Friday morning ended up getting her steps in, but scrapped the hell out of her SUV...

May 11, 2025

Ford Secretly Directed Dealers to Fix Faulty Transmissions for a Week: Report

Ford directed dealers to fix, for free, faulty transmissions the automaker knowingly sold customers if owners noticed a problem and got their vehicles into a dealership by July 19, the reports. The dual-clutch PowerShift transmissions, found in the last generation of Fiestas and Focuses, reportedly suffer from sudden acceleration,...

May 11, 2025