Trump's China Exodus Order Could Tank GM

Trump’s trade threats are further screwing with the auto industry, camera-based “mirrors” could be coming to the U.S. (finally), drivers don’t like being told by their cars they suck at driving, and something about Suzuki, which still exists. All this and more in for Wednesday, August 28, 2019. As...

May 15, 2025

Congrats To The 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE 53 Coupe, The New Ugliest Of All Crossover Coupes

To many of my coworkers’ chagrin, I have started to come around to these . I just imagine them all as Mad Max modified cars for the impending apocalypse and it’s kind of comforting. But if there’s any of these behemoths that need to be reconsidered, it’s the ....

May 15, 2025

The Genesis SUVs Are Coming

, since its from to be the fancy brand with the logo that often gets confused with ’s, has been all about sedans. It’s been a nice break in a world where crossovers and SUVs are , but it’s all about to end. The Genesis SUVs are coming. Other...

May 15, 2025

Volkswagen Wants You To Forget You've Seen The New Golf Already

Back in March, which was a very long time ago, we of the upcoming, eighth generation . Photos that showed the whole thing, down to the last exterior detail. So it’s a little weird that Volkswagen trotted out this photo of a camouflaged Golf mule today, knowing full well...

May 15, 2025

Feds Raid UAW President's Home In Corruption Probe

As part of a lengthy investigation into allegations of between the and Fiat Chrysler, federal agents conducted a series of raids across at least four states today. The Detroit home of current UAW president Gary Jones and California home of ex-president Dennis Williams were raided today, reports the ....

May 15, 2025

New Hampshire Recalls Mom's License Plate After It Took 15 Years To Figure Out Joke About Urine

First, let me address the New Hampshire Department of Motor Vehicles directly: you people suck. Deeply. Let this mom just have her sweetly silly mom-joke license plate. Keep in mind that the mom, for a decade and a half, with no trouble. Somehow the DMV finally figured out it...

May 15, 2025

The C8 Corvette Allegedly Runs The Quarter-Mile In 11.3 Seconds At 121 MPH

GM has still been a little flaky when it comes to the full performance of the new mid-engine , likely because there’s still plenty of testing to be done. But a forum member was recently shown an engineer’s book full of secrets, including a quarter-mile time. While the photos...

May 15, 2025

These Mules Could Be The Upcoming BMW M3 And M5

The hasn’t made its official debut yet, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t mules of it running around before the big launch. One might have been spotted recently, testing on a mountain road in Spain. Reader Jan glimpsed two camouflaged BMW test mules driving in the Sierra Nevada mountains...

May 15, 2025

Meet The Canadian Who's Driven The Same Model T For 70 Years

How many of you still have your first car? Canada’s 87-year-old Randall Pitman does, and it’s honestly one of the cutest stories I’ve heard. Pitman purchased his first car at age 17, saving up his ten-cents-an-hour salary pumping gas part-time, s. When he reached a full $50in 1949, he...

May 15, 2025

Tesla Launches Insurance Plan In Another High-Risk Bet It's Smarter Than Everyone Else

Tesla, much like its mercurial leader Elon Musk, has a philosophy: It is smarter and better than everyone else, including other companies that are much bigger and much older and much richer than . This is the spirit in which has come into existence. Announced today, Tesla owners in...

May 15, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Camo T-Shirt Edition

Where I live in Northern Nevada, camouflage apparel is practically de rigueur. The local sporting goods and hunt/fish stores double as clothing stores around here. But that’s not what I want to wear. I—along with a few commenters—want a different kind of camouflage. The camo that manufacturers put on...

May 15, 2025

Mercedes-AMG GLB 35 Packs A Family-Sized Punch

A couple of months ago Mercedes-Benz showed us its new-for-2021 GLB compact CUV (with optional seating for seven), which is planned for assembly at the company’s plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As with everything Mercedes-Benz does these days, it doesn’t take long for the Mercedes-AMG version of a new car...

May 15, 2025

This Flyer For An Odd Little Car Uses One Of The Most Unsettling Performance Analogies Ever

There’s a certain class of car that we almost never really see anymore, but it’s a class of car I’m particularly fond of: the dramatically up-rated shitbox. The basic idea is you take a cheap economy car, then re-work it to make it perform better, be much more luxurious,...

May 15, 2025

Joe Satriani — 'Summer Song'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Back in the early 2000s when my family bought their first computer but also didn’t have any internet with which to browse the web, we used to spend hours...

May 15, 2025

The 2020 Porsche Macan Turbo Has 434 HP And Fancy Brakes

The 2020 Turbo, now also in its second generation, comes to us with a smaller engine, more power and an interesting set of brakes. All of that is rolled into the slightly more attractive styling of the current-gen. It’ll sell like nobody’s business. Instead of the 3.6-liter, turbocharged engine...

May 15, 2025