Behold, A Car So Ugly It Looks Like It's Already Been Wrecked

My tolerance for cars that many consider ugly is abnormally high. I’m delighted by and have I’m not squeamish. That said, I have to admit that I have recently that even I can’t defend, aesthetically: the Denag Lorelei. Denag seems to be a German or maybe Japanese (it’s hard...

Sep 12, 2025

Uber To California: Make Us

, the California bill that would codify a state Supreme Court ruling putting in place a strict test for whether a worker classifies as an independent contractor and has potentially profound implications on the ridehail industry, to become law. But that is unlikely to change much for Uber and...

Sep 12, 2025

Somebody Worked Way Too Hard For A 2 Fast 2 Furious Product Placement You Probably Didn't Notice

The Fast & Furious movies are ostensibly about a culture of bolting accessories to cars—at least until started being the norm—so it’s a natural vehicle for product placements. Some backstory on fitting sponsored parts into one car in particular, from the worst movie of the series, seems exceptionally wild...

Sep 12, 2025

This Is Likely The Best Shade-Throwing In Motoring History

I suspect many, perhaps even most of you reading this are familiar with what I’m about to talk about, but it’s one of those things I haven’t considered in a while. Recently, though, it did pop back into my head, and for some reason I thought about it with...

Sep 12, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Queen's English Edition

Earlier this afternoon for your rare and exciting Senna hypercar. The lightweight track-focused monster has an issue where it can wear a hole in the wiring harness. Damage to the car may occur as a consequence of the worn wiring harness. McLaren, being the understated and unexcitable Brits that...

Sep 12, 2025

Pixies — 'Something Against You'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. The shorter and angrier the better. ...

Sep 12, 2025

Ford’s Electrifying Its More Popular Vehicles Because We’re Too Accustomed To High Gas Prices

Ford’s electrification plans, still-slumping car sales in India and China, talks of Nissan’s next CEO, and bills that could give franchise dealers in California more freedom and better automaker reimbursement from warranty work. All of this and more in for Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Electrification, for most automakers, seems...

Sep 12, 2025

Mercedes' Plush New Maybach GLS Seems Like It'll Be Fancier Than Most Houses

Thanks to the success of the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, the German marque wants to Maybach some other models, like the new Maybach GLS, just announced at the . And, coming in at a predicted £150,000 ($184,822.50), this SUV is going to be nicer than anything I ever buy for the...

Sep 12, 2025

Stop Sale Issued For Certain 2020 Jeep Gladiators Over Potential For Rear Driveshafts To Fracture

Cool new pickup truck you’ve got there, pal! What is that, like, a with a truck bed or something? A “,” you say? They make those now? Wow, what a world we live in. Too bad it’s already being recalled. Fiat Chrysler filed documents with the U.S. National Highway...

Sep 12, 2025

The 2020 Cadillac CT4 Is Cadillac's Phoned-In Attempt At Attracting A ‘New Generation Of Customers’

The 2020 Cadillac CT4 is here, with an all-turbocharged lineup, optional all-wheel drive, and the goal of attracting the “new generation” of Cadillac customers. Though it’s meant to lead in the new generation of sedans to , it doesn’t do anything that you would call radical, not so much...

Sep 12, 2025

The Nürburgring Is No Place For Elon Musk’s Bullshit

Let me start off by saying I like Tesla. I really do. I was seriously impressed when I first drove a Tesla Roadster over a decade ago. That impression stayed with me all the way through to when I took the . Tesla makes good, fast cars that I...

Sep 12, 2025

It Looks Like Tesla Will Attempt To Set An Absurdly Specific Record At The Ring With A 7-Seat Model S

While pretty much all of the recent obsession with setting Nürburgring Ring lap record times and the rivalry between Tesla and Porsche is sort of idiotic genital-measuring, there is one foolproof way to guarantee that a record will be set: make the criteria for the record so specific that...

Sep 12, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Figment Of Your Imagination Edition

Quit your job. Fix an old Land Rover. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned. We all have a friend from high school living inside us. Ready to break out and act out our id. We go about...

Sep 12, 2025

This Fantastic Little Abarth Had The Cleverest Spare Tire Placement Ever And Everything Else Is Great, Too

You know what’s an amazing feeling? When you get a new crush. And my friends, I’m delighted to inform you that’s what happened to me today. I’m light-headed and gloriously delirious because today I have a new automotive crush: the 1966 to 1968 Abarth OT 2000 Coupe America. The...

Sep 12, 2025

Foster The People -- 'Pick U Up'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. I know a lot of Foster The People songs feel designed to be themusic you hear when you’re shopping at the Gap, but this one’s so catchy and upbeat...

Sep 12, 2025