Audi's Smallest Crossover Is the Fantastically Named A1 Citycarver

What do you get when you cross A1 Sportback with company-lauded progression and a more compact body style perfect for driving on all sorts of roads? It’s the new Audi A1 Citycarver, and it’ll be making its way to Europe this August. The A1 Citycarver is based on the...

Sep 11, 2025

Fiat Chrysler's New CEO Is Shaking Things Up

Insight into Mike Manley’s Fiat Chrysler, India’s push for electric cars, the world auto market seems to be slowing, and more on for Monday, July 29, 2019. Ever since the untimely and the subsequent appointment of former Jeep boss , we haven’t heard much about what FCA is like...

Sep 11, 2025

Kia Confirms a Ute Is Definitely on Its Way to Australia

Rumors about a potential have been floating around for a while now, teasing the potential of something really damn fun. But things have actually finally been confirmed that there’s not only going to be a sweet beautiful ute—but that work is actually already in progress. The news itself comes...

Sep 11, 2025

How Henry Ford Got a Hold of Thomas Edison's Last Breath

The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI, has tons of interesting exhibits dedicated to turn-of-the-century industrialism. But tucked away, behind a still-running Edison Triple Expansion Steam engine in a section called Made in America, is a small case which gives you a glimpse into not only one of the...

Sep 11, 2025

About 28 Percent of Food Delivery Drivers Provide Free Secret Food Tasting Services

If you’re like most of our readers, you’re likely in charge of some important organization, possibly the ruling regent of a country, the CEO of a major corporation, or a general behind a military coup. As such, you likely have expendable food tasters on payroll to insure your safety....

Sep 11, 2025

Forget the Mid-Engine Corvette; Bring on the Mid-Engine Camry

We’re just getting off a massive wave of mid-engine hype, thanks to the long-anticipated , the first production mid-engine Corvette. All this middle-engine talk got me pretty worked up, which got me thinking: what if mid-engine mania migrated out of the sports car world? What if a mainstream automaker...

Sep 11, 2025

Fiat Mechanic Passes Away and Now His Giant Collection Is Up for Sale

Tom Dotter, a Denver-area shop owner who specialized in Fiats and Lancias, passed away in May, leaving behind a large field of tiny four-cylinder Italian convertibles, sedans, and wagons. ’s Murilee Martin brought to our attention this lot of roughly 75 cars that are now up for grabs in...

Sep 11, 2025

This Looks Like the 2020 Audi RS7 Sportback in Camo Running Around Denver

Audi’s A7 Sportback is an attractive, interesting four-door full-size hatchback, a class of car sadly underrepresented here in America ever since everyone decided not to buy Merkur Scorpios. There’s a new version of the hottest variant of the Sportback coming out, the RS7 Sportback, and this seems to be...

Sep 11, 2025

The Base Model 2020 Porsche 911 Will Start At $97,400

With the exciting announcement of a revamped Porsche 911 earlier this year, the 992-generation car launched in Carrera S and Carrera 4S guise. After a few months of anxious waiting, we finally have the details on Porsche’s base model 911. The Carrera and Carrera Cabriolet were unveiled Monday afternoon,...

Sep 11, 2025

Toro y Moi -- 'Ordinary Pleasure'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. You probably have to go to work today instead of hanging out at the beach, but this jam will make you feel like you’re there anyway. ...

Sep 11, 2025

GM Prepares to Get Dunked On at the Democratic Debates in Detroit

The Democratic debates in Detroit promise to take on problems in the auto industry, car sales might still be plummeting, and the world is still a tough place for low-emissions and autonomous vehicles. All this and more in for Tuesday, July 30, 2019. With two Democratic debates taking place...

Sep 11, 2025

Nearly 30,000 Volkswagen Tiguans and CCs Recalled for Faulty Airbag Modules

Owners of model-year 2015 to 2016 and s should be aware that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a recall for their cars over an airbag issue. If you’re reading this and you own a CC, then I commend you because I feel like almost nobody bought...

Sep 11, 2025

What Was the Last Supercar Flop?

The is, in the year 2019, considered a classic of the early 1990s supercar era. It’s right up there in the Pantheon with the Ferrari F40s and the Bugatti EB110s. But when it finally went on sale in 1992, it was a total disaster. I don’t mean the car...

Sep 11, 2025

Ohio's Long Battle Over Front License Plates Isn't Over Yet

Some states require front license plates, others don’t. Car enthusiasts say the cars look better without them. The police say they have captured violent criminals because of them. The state of Ohio is somehow still in the midst of this debate despite earlier this year abolishing the requirement. That...

Sep 11, 2025

European Noise Regulations Are Forcing Sports Car Makers to Resort to More Fake Engine Sounds

There are certain cars that you just expect to be loud. and are among them, and yet, both Alpina and AMG now have no choice but to pipe fake exhaust sounds into their cabins. And you can thank a new European noise regulation for it. “The death knell has...

Sep 11, 2025