What's The One Car Every American Can Agree On?

I realize this likely isn’t news to anyone, but current-day America is an extremely divided place. Everybody hates everybody else, and we’re all the absolute worst. I’d like to believe the cleansing, healing power of the automobile can help bridge the divide here, but even that is tricky. If...

May 15, 2025

If You Want Fun, Do You Buy A New Mazda Miata Or A Cheap Used One?

Everyone knows the current is fun, but I don’t think it gets enough credit for being the engineering marvel it is. The car weighs about 2,300 pounds, depending on equipment. And despite 30 years of improvements in safety technology—much of it required now—that’s only about 200 pounds heavier than...

May 15, 2025

The Electric Porsche Taycan Packs Five Screens And One Is Just For The Passenger

Just ahead of the debut of maybe the first true Tesla competitor, the , the Stuttgart-based automaker shared official photos of the EV sedan’s interior. It’s filled with five screens, one of which is solely for the passenger, and the direction of the air flowing from the vents is...

May 15, 2025

China Hits Back At U.S. With 25 Percent Duty On American-Made Cars

American-made cars are getting slapped with a tariff in China, Porsche mulls bringing entertainment to the Taycan, a Volkswagen recall and more await you in for Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. As the trade war between President Donald Trump and everyone else escalates, China just threw down its latest. And...

May 15, 2025

Cheating Volkswagen Diesels Have Become A Hot Commodity

After Volkswagen admitted to , the company was forced to buy back the vehicles, modify them to produce fewer emissions but still perform well and resell the cars with a strong warranty. The resulting used VWs are surprisingly compelling, which is why—according to a report from —people can’t get...

May 15, 2025

Volkswagen's New Logo Is Its Old Logo

Volkswagen’s basic logo design has remained fundamentally the same since the 1940s, with only minor changes over the years like taking off the bits that looked too swasticky or varying the thickness of the lines. Nothing too major, until 2000, when it went to a three-dimensional, gradient-shaded logo that...

May 15, 2025

What Do You Want To Know About The BMW M850i Convertible?

For years when I ran this website remotely from Austin, I’d make fun of my New York City-based coworkers whenever they’d complain about their summer heat. I thought they were cowardly, soft. “It’s not really hot if it’s under 105 degrees!,” I’d say to them over and over again,...

May 15, 2025

The 2020 Honda Civic Si Goes Up In Price But Gets New Features

The is back for another round in the 2020 model year with some subtle appearance tweaks, more responsive acceleration and certain driver-assist features as standard. The new car will also go up in MSRP and down in fuel economy, because that’s just the price we pay for nice things....

May 15, 2025

Have You Ever Owned A Mazda RX-8, The Car That Helped Kill The Rotary Engine?

Mazda officially launched the oddball in 2003, just one year after the great officially died in Japan. But whereas the RX-7's stature has only grown to near-mythic status in the past few years, the RX-8 died a grisly death in 2012, and few people have seemed to miss it...

May 15, 2025

Porsche Wants To Destroy The Word "Turbo" And I'm Not Fucking Okay With That

As you likely know, Porsche is just about ready to officially announce their all-new, . It looks to be extremely fast and impressive and is likely to be the first real Tesla-fighter out there. You may that the first version to make it to market will be the higher-spec,...

May 15, 2025

Please Don't Vandalize The Car Museums

Early Friday morning police responded to a break in at the National Automobile Museum in downtown Reno, Nevada. I live in Reno myself, and have visited the museum a number of times, each one a treat. As soon as I heard the reports, a chill went down my spine....

May 15, 2025

The 2022 C8 Corvette Z06 Might Be An 800-HP Twin Turbo Monster: Report

Less than a month after the base-spec was shown to the public, rumors of what the hotter C8s will be like are already percolating. Automobile that the C8 Corvette Z06 is due as a 2022 model and could feature a version of Cadillac’s hot V twin-turbo V8 making upwards...

May 15, 2025

VW's T-Roc Cabriolet Needs A Roll Bar

Volkswagen showed off its new T-Roc Cabriolet last week, proving that not everyone was watching that closely when Land Rover its convertible Evoque for the second generation. Still, VW’s new droptop crossover looks really good to me, even if it’s missing a roll bar. Okay, the car does have...

May 15, 2025

The Mazda Miata-Based Fiat 124 Is Probably Not Getting A Replacement

The shares underpinnings with the , which is good, because the Miata is a great car. But what’s not good is that, according to Autocar’s interview with Fiat’s CEO with the Frenchest name in all of automobiledom, Olivier François, the current 124 probably won’t get a replacement once its...

May 15, 2025

Who's Your Favorite Celebrity Racing Driver?

Racing is flashy. It’s expensive. You’ve gotta have resources to do it. But most importantly, racing is cool. Paul Newman was cool and . Correlation or Causation? I’ll let you decide. You might want to leave the racing to professionals and keep the “civilians” safe in the stands, but...

May 15, 2025