The Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is Too Small

Recently, I pulled up to a hotel after a long, regrettable four-hour drive across the barren and highway-ridden land that is much of the state of Texas. Out front sat a slate-gray SUV, appropriately positioned for photos from passersby as soon as they noticed the emblem up front and...

Sep 13, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Mass Tragedy Edition

The year is 2093. All gasoline motorcycles have been replaced by electric. What was once the savior of the two-wheeled rider has been rendered obsolete, and along with it, our safety. We no longer have the healing salve of the doppler effect to alert other motorists to our presence,...

Sep 13, 2025

McLaren Driver Rescued By Helicopter After Car Flies Off Mulholland Drive

Authorities in Los Angeles got a call for “headlights tumbling down a cliff” on Mulholland Drive, one of the area’s well-known driving roads, on Sunday night and used a helicopter searchlight to find a battered McLaren that had gone off the edge of the road. The driver was rescued,...

Sep 13, 2025

T.I. -- 'Doin' My Job'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Here is the song we play when David Tracy while everyone else is sampling the shrimp. ...

Sep 13, 2025

The General Motors Strike Could Tank Michigan’s Economy: Report

GM’s strike could hurt Michigan’s economy if it doesn’t end soon, Ford is almost certainly building two cars based on VW’s electric car platform, Germans are protesting against SUVs after a fatal crash, and much more. Here’s what you need to know for of Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Roughly...

Sep 13, 2025

Tesla May Have Already Crushed Porsche's EV Nürburgring Time

The race for the fastest electric sedan around the Nürburgring maybe just got a hell of a lot more interesting. In August, Porsche’s first foray into EVs, the nailed a 7:42 lap time, winning the crown for quickest four-door electric around the storied track. Then Elon Musk and Tesla...

Sep 13, 2025

What Do You Want To Know About The 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package?

This is the . Yes, it’s got a reeeeeeeally long name. Thankfully, all you need to remember is this is the most powerful version of the four-cylinder turbo EcoBoost Mustang you can get. Or, in other words, . I’m here in California for the car’s launch this week. I...

Sep 13, 2025

Idiosyncratic Designer Luigi Colani Created Some Weird Cars, And That's Why We Needed Him

Yesterday, Luigi Colani, a German industrial designer with an Italian name, died at the age of 91. While Colani was a successful designer of all sorts of things, from to , his transportation-related designs—cars and motorcycles and aircraft and trains and boats and almost every other sort of vehicle—...

Sep 13, 2025

The White House Vs. California Fight Is Finally Going Down: Report

A war between the Trump Administration and the state of California has been , with the former trying to relax vehicle emissions regulations and the latter refusing to relinquish its own power. Now things may be coming to a head, with reporting that the White House will formally revoke...

Sep 13, 2025

What Happened To The Nissan Pathfinder?

I’ll admit I’m not the first person to think about the all day. I’m more of a “check the used-car sites to see if Lotus Elise prices are holding” type, and the Pathfinder doesn’t necessarily scream “Think about me, you absolute dunce!” It wouldn’t be a very compelling argument...

Sep 13, 2025

Wiesmann Might Actually Be Doing This

Wiesmann, the German automaker that at in time , released some images today of its new car, powered by a BMW-sourced eight-cylinder engine. There’s no name for it yet, but it sure does look like a Wiesmann. In lieu of the name, Wiesmann are calling it Project Gecko, a...

Sep 13, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Green Is Good Edition

There are good greens, and then there are some less than good greens. I love a nice British Racing Green. I’m a fan of Porsche’s Viper Green. Mint Green rules. is a highlighter color that looks spectacular on the Camaro. But ? No, it is not. For not only...

Sep 13, 2025

The National — ‘Slow Show’

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Been driving around at night alone a lot lately, reflecting on my mistakes and listening to The National, because I’m a dude in my mid-30s. ...

Sep 13, 2025

Why Health Care Is Central To The UAW Vs. GM Strike Battle

Updates on the UAW vs. GM strike battle, who’s going electric, and bad news for European auto sales. All this and more in for Wednesday, September 18, 2019. The battle has been raging this week as the UAW’s negotiations for better pay, benefits, paths to seniority, and more have...

Sep 13, 2025

Dead: Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, Which Was A Thing? I Didn't Know That

Two bits of news today you may not have know about: there is a Hybrid, and also, the Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid is dead. Pour one out for the Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid! Even if you didn’t know it existed until right now, which is entirely fair. The news of its...

Sep 13, 2025