As Usual, The Only Good Car Company Is Daihatsu

So many things in life tend to, if given enough time, disappoint. That’s why it’s so important to really appreciate those few, precious things that are truly consistent and reliable. , which never fail to delight, and I’m happy to say that streak has not been broken this year....

Dec 19, 2025

Breaking The Limit Reminds Us What The Freedom Of The Road Is All About

It’s a hell of a rare thing for me to even want to consider sitting on a motorcycle, let alone riding one. But after reading Breaking the Limit by Karen Larsen, I was ready to quit my job, cut my ties, buy a motorcycle, and trek across the entire...

Dec 19, 2025

What's The Longest Commute You've Ever Had?

One , I found myself heading from work at Chrysler’s Technical Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan to my apartment 30 miles away in Detroit. The sky was pouring rain, and the world around me looked extremely saturated. But, having just spent the prior eight hours nerding out on Jeep...

Dec 19, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Figment Of Your Imagination Edition

Today we eulogized the demise of an absolutely meh convertible left the U.S. market. The car hadn’t exactly been selling well, and American buyers don’t respond very well to Opel products, obviously. I’m not sure why General Motors saw a need to bring a relatively unknown and extremely niche...

Dec 19, 2025

Some Great Old-School Aston Martins Will Be In The Next Bond Film

This week on Twitter, extremely English automotive brand Aston Martin confirmed that four of its cars, two modern and two plucked out of history, would be featured in the upcoming Jim Bond film No Time To Die. In case you’ve never seen a feature-length film with this Bond fellow,...

Dec 19, 2025

Just Look How Purple This 600 HP BMW M8 Gran Coupe Is

Want a family sedan with 600 horsepowers that can run from zero to sixty in 3 seconds? You bet your bottom dollar you do. And if you were already in the market for an M8, this two-extra-doors version is actually $3000 less expensive than the only-two-doors version, so you...

Dec 19, 2025

St. Lucia -- 'Walking Away'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. It is unfortunately only Wednesday. Maybe this banger from one of my favorite current acts will help you get through it. ...

Dec 19, 2025

What's The Worst Interior In Any Car You Can Buy New Right Now?

Back in the day at General Motors, they used to boast they offered a car “for every purse and purpose.” Evidently the purpose of the was “rental car customers who want a Chrysler Sebring now that Chrysler no longer makes the Sebring.” But that wasn’t even the worst thing...

Dec 19, 2025

What The Striking GM Workers Really Want

The UAW’s biggest topic of concern is clear, new developments in that ongoing UAW probe, additional background information on Nissan’s new CEO and more await you in of Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. As the marches on, there’s really . UAW negotiators and GM reps still haven’t managed to negotiate...

Dec 19, 2025

The 2019 Volkswagen Arteon Has Awful Headlights: IIHS

The is ’s new, albeit , flagship sedan. It’s more expensive than the rest of the , and it has that long, elegant body styling that says, “I’m here to make you feel important, not budget-friendly.” But no matter how much you spend on the Arteon, one thing won’t...

Dec 19, 2025

Another Ford Mustang Crashes Peeling Out Of A Cars And Coffee And It's Not Pretty

Owners of the —the car that democratized V8 power in the U.S.—have been . One of the latest incidents is a nasty crash in North Carolina. This went down on Sunday at the Cars and Coffee in Knightdale, North Carolina, a town whose police department described the Ford Mustang...

Dec 19, 2025

Nearly Every BMW Built Since 2018 (And The Toyota Supra) Recalled Over Backup Cameras

Back in the olden days of 2018, backup cameras on all cars built to U.S.-specifications after May 1. They were no longer part of convenience or technology packages. They became standard and were thusly rolled up into the car’s base price. Fast-forward to over a year later, and BMW...

Dec 19, 2025

What's The Best Way To Sleep In An Airport?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but fall is already upon us which means winter will be here any day now, pelting airport hubs around the world with blankets of snow and delaying flights for such an egregiously long time that you start wondering if it...

Dec 19, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Bond's Binks Edition

The 1990s were a wild time, and films of the era were even wilder. Back in 1995 James Bond was lured away from the plush and gorgeous Jaguar-based Ford-owned Aston Martins of the day to put around in BMWs, perhaps most infamously the then-new BMW Z3 in the Caribbean....

Dec 19, 2025

Ford Is Building A 700 HP Supercharged Mustang R-Spec For Australia

It’s hardly a secret that the Aussies love their fast Fords. And while the Barra-powered monsters might be gone from the world these days, there are plenty of options for big power with good ol’ fashioned Blue Oval V8s. To make up for the lack of Aussie-built FPV goodness,...

Dec 19, 2025