Why China Is Full of American Cars

My plane had only touched down an hour or two earlier and I was quick to get out of my hotel—to find some breakfast, to see the city and to see all of the interesting Chinese cars that I’d only ever read about. And just as I rounded a...

May 20, 2024

How Best to Air Down Your Tires When You're Off-Road

We generally think of underinflated tires as a bad thing, as it can wear out your tires more quickly on pavement and cost you fuel mileage. Off-road, it’s a whole different story, and in many, if not all, situations you’ll want some measure of underinflation. Just how much depends on...

May 20, 2024

Cut Copy -- 'Take Me Over'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. This was stuck in my head this morning so now it is your Traffic Jam. Enjoy! ...

May 20, 2024

Putting Up the Roof on the $274,500 Porsche 911 Speedster Is Surprisingly Involved

The production was finally revealed last month as a -powered Porsche 911 with a custom topless body style referencing the classic of the 1950s. That’s a pretty solid recipe for a good car. But one of the coolest parts of the new Speedster is just how involved the process...

May 20, 2024

Customers Being Wrongly Detained for 'Stolen' Rental Cars Is Apparently a Thing

Quite a few of you probably have plans to travel and rent cars this summer, so listen up: There have been various cases where rental car companies like Hertz have mistakenly reported their cars as missing and then getting unsuspecting customers arrested. A customer named Dina Johnson told that...

May 20, 2024

A Brief Reminder That the Acura NSX Almost Had a Glorious V10

2008 wasn’t that long ago, but it sure feels like it. In 2008, you could get away with wearing flare jeans, everyone was Heath Ledger’s Joker for Halloween and automakers were still happy to stick V10s in their cars. Remember how the almost had a V10? sure does. In...

May 20, 2024

Here's a Sad List of All the Cars About to Go Extinct From the UK's Roads

Every time I hear about something like the Audi TT being cancelled and replaced by an electric car, I try to take comfort that all of the good combustion cars currently on the roads won’t be going anywhere overnight. However, this new study about the cars most likely to...

May 20, 2024

Germans Have a Whole Genre of Jokes About One Particular Kind of Opel

Every country seems to have its particular cars that are the butt of jokes. Here in America, we have jokes about Mustang drivers plowing into crowds, for example. Or jokes about the creepiness of while Econoline vans. But I don’t think any particular car in America has generated such...

May 20, 2024

Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’

Back in 2017, Elon Musk for the test track built by The Boring Company, his tunneling firm, in Los Angeles. The Boring Company’s tunneling work was , which would require hundreds of miles of tunneling to be viable, although the actual test track in California bore none of the...

May 20, 2024

It Was Inevitable That Someone Would Build a Hayabusa-Powered Bond Bug

I’ve had a thought floating around in my head for a while that, like the infinite monkey theorem, there should be a similar and corresponding infinite gearhead theorem. In case you’re not familiar, the infinite monkey theorem provides that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter given...

May 20, 2024

Sit the New Toyota Supra on Different Wheels and It Looks Choice

Engine swap a ? Been there, . But a regular A90 modified as a normal person would, with just new wheels, tires, and suspension? This is a new one from HKS, and it’s done the Gunsai. The is indeed a racetrack, or a test track I guess, a closed course...

May 20, 2024

The Best Thing For a Half-Pipe is a Side-By-Side with Tracks

Fresh pow season is over, brah. We got, like, 30 feet of sick ass white this winter up at the lake, but it’s starting to warm up, and that’s harshing our vibe. The totally rad folks over at Boreal set up a freakin’ sweet ride park, but it’s time...

May 20, 2024

BMW Recreated a Lost Gandini Concept From 1970 For Villa d'Este

In 1970 Marcello Gandini designed the BMW Garmisch concept for Bertone. Following its debut at the Geneva Motor Show that year, the car simply disappeared and has not been seen since. This year for the Villa d’Este Concours, BMW recreated the coachbuilt Garmisch inch for inch, from an old...

May 20, 2024

I'm the Cat

Purveyors of , Garage Thrash Racing, also puts up videos of the current scene of style cars in the drift world. And, apparently, a little animation. Thrash was recently over in Japan for the return to the historic Battle Magazine cup. It’s a good view at what the dreams of...

May 20, 2024

Fiat Chrysler Eyeing Alliance With Renault

Remember when you could buy a Renault at a dealer down the street? It wasn’t all that long ago that the U.S. market was blessed by a Chrysler-Renault pairing following the former’s purchase of AMC. It was short lived, but these star crossed lovers might be jumping back in...

May 20, 2024