What Comes Next With The General Motors Strike

What to expect from the General Motors strike’s tentative resolution, what Elon Musk is up to now, and how to encourage people to buy your eco-friendly cars: All this and more in for Thursday, October 17, 2019. GM and the United Auto Workers have reached a on a new...

Dec 19, 2025

UAW GM Strikers Prepared To Walk The Line For As Long As It Takes To Get The Perfect Contract

The General Motors employees who have been working a picket line instead of an assembly line the past month say they have a backup plan if they can’t secure what they feel is a perfect contract: rain jackets. “We’re cautiously optimistic,” a United Auto Workers striker who referred to...

Dec 19, 2025

Toyota To Show Its First Battery Electric Car And It's Very Tiny

Toyota has been a pioneer in the mass electrification of automobiles, but they’ve so far avoided battery-only power, preferring to focus on combustion-electric hybrids like the now ubiquitous Prius, or very niche hydrogen fuel cell tech . , though, based on the size of their production-ready BEV, it’s the...

Dec 19, 2025

Porsche Taycan Defeats Tesla Model S In Acceleration, Handling, And Build Quality In German Comparison Test

The first substantial versus comparison has hit the internet, and it shows the Porsche crushing the less expensive Tesla in build quality, handling, and even acceleration. Here’s a look at the head-to-head between the two most impressive high-volume EV sedans on earth. The , part of the German TV Channel...

Dec 19, 2025

How The Bicycle Changed The World For Women

In 1897, Cambridge students lined the streets to protest a vote that would grant women the right to earn a degree at their prestigious all-male university. The budding shitheads of the turn of the century launched rockets, threw eggs, and hanged an effigy of the powerful “New Woman” from a...

Dec 19, 2025

One Of The UAW's Biggest Wins Won't Be A Change At All

The United Auto Workers union reached yesterday on a new contract with General Motors, one that includes things like a decent ratification bonus, a path for temporary employees to become permanent, raises, and no more cap on how much members earn in profit sharing. Maybe the biggest win, however,...

Dec 19, 2025

What Car Would Be Most Likely To Help You Stay Alive In A Horror Movie?

Allow me to set the scene. You’re home alone... or, well, you thought you were home alone, but now there’s some creepy noises and strange phone calls, and you’re pretty sure something else is here. Or you’re camping in the woods, and that blonde girl who took all her...

Dec 19, 2025

Aston Martin's DBX Accessory Packs Are Perfect For The Discerning Tyrant Like Me

Hello my lovelies. I know it’s been a while. Did you think I’d forgotten about you? Of course I haven’t! Even I need a captive audience from time to time. Without you, I just have captives, and those get very dull, what with all their constant crying and begging....

Dec 19, 2025

Stop, Just Stop

What are you doing, ? Are you really that thirsty for Tesla truck clicks? Is there a gas leak at your offices? Because I’m having trouble figuring out why the hell else you’d point out what is clearly a Mars rover image and speculate that it may be the...

Dec 19, 2025

Mercedes Recalls 4,800 E-Class Wagons For The Potential For Their Spoilers To Fly Off

There you are, zooming down the road, hunkered to it in your sleek, smooth wagon that cuts through air like a steak knife through butter, when suddenly, a seismic shift occurs. It feels as if you, in your sleek, smooth wagon, have been hit by an asteroid. Your car...

Dec 19, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Big Hat Edition

The tallest country, by averages, is The Netherlands. The Dutch are a tall folk with an average height just over 6 feet tall. Here in the U.S. the average man is 5 feet 10 inches, give or take. So why are cars built with such tall rooflines? Pretty much...

Dec 19, 2025

Alice In Chains — 'Am I Inside'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Michigan, where my only hobby was wandering around in the miserable drizzle all October long. Sap is arguably one of...

Dec 19, 2025

Everyone In The Entire World Needs A Hyundai iMax N Drift Bus

If someone were to ask you, “do you want to drift a bus,” there’s only one answer. Hell yeah I wanna drift a bus! Hyundai obviously knows what’s up here, because it’s developed a one-of-a-kind bus made specially for drifting. And it is glorious. The Hyundai iMax N is, arguably,...

Dec 19, 2025

The 2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette Has Poor Forward Visibility: Data

When the moved its engine to sit behind the driver, I thought for sure its visibility would improve over the 's. The hood’s shorter and doesn’t need to accommodate an engine, for crying out loud. But that’s apparently not the case, according to some very thoroughly gathered data. Visibility...

Dec 19, 2025

What The GM Strike Means For Ford And Fiat Chrysler

The United Auto Workers are still on strike even with a deal in sight, Nissan’s new boss plans a slow and steady recovery, Volkswagen’s American babysitter is sticking around and more for this most glorious of Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Yes, the UAW workers at General Motors have reached...

Dec 19, 2025