Honda's Massive Ohio Plant Rose As General Motors Fell

In 1976, at a Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes sat down with some Japanese government officials for burgers at 10:30 a.m. Rhodes wanted one thing: for Honda to build its first American plant in his state. The Wendy’s meeting was the latest in a series of overtures...

Dec 19, 2025

Toyota Goes All-Out Bonkers At The Tokyo Motor Show With Robots And Flying Brooms

Let me just start out by saying that while, yes, so is deeply and richly bonkers, this is precisely what auto shows are for. Do I really think Toyota is going to be cornering that lucrative Quidditch market with their Nimbus 2000-killing e-Broom? No. But is it, along with...

Dec 19, 2025

Electric Ford SUV Wearing Skin Of A Mustang Still Happening Next Month

Ford will debut its controversial new on Nov. 17, whether we want it or not. We’re still doing this. Ford is going ahead with its new electric CUV “inspired” by the design of the iconic Ford Mustang, and it will debut next month, likely just before the opening of...

Dec 19, 2025

Hyundai Isn't Done With The Jaw-Dropping Sedans

It wasn’t too long ago that Hyundai stunned almost everyone with the dramatic redesign of the . It looks like that trend is going to continue, as teasers of the promise yet another fascinating sedan. As previewed by Hyundai’s global Twitter account, the upcoming redesigned Hyundai Azera—which is sold...

Dec 19, 2025

The 2020 VW Golf MK VIII Is Highly Digitized And Has Five Hybrid Variants In Europe

The eighth-generation , which you’ll see called “MK VIII,” has officially bowed in Europe with gas, diesel, hybrid and natural-gas burning powertrains. No word on a performance or variant yet; VW is pushing high-tech connectivity first. Also, that strange techno-mustard color car companies were launching stuff in a decade...

Dec 19, 2025

What Do You Want To Know About The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500?

It’s time. Time for us to get behind the wheel of the , to rip open and hell-shriek down the very throat of Earth itself. What do you want to know about it? I have no idea what the car is like to drive, but it’s probably very fast...

Dec 19, 2025

How The Mythical Alpina B3's Specs Compare To A BMW M3 And M340i

You knew BMW tuner Alpina would dial in a 3 Series sedan if you saw the treatment it gave to the . (Sorry, “Touring.”) We’re still waiting for specifics on what the next BMW M3 be able to do, but we have enough information for a little bench racing....

Dec 19, 2025

Comment Of The Day: Nothing Can Be Certain Edition

In a world obscured by a shroud of uncertainty, there are a few things that we know will always be true. The sun will always rise in the east, the world will always be round, a Porsche will be reasonably competitive at a race track somewhere, death will come...

Dec 19, 2025

Def Leppard — 'High N' Dry (Saturday Night)'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. When I finally got the cassette player working in my ol' '89 Grand Prix Turbo two weeks before graduating high school, this was the song I cruised to class...

Dec 19, 2025

I Still Have No Idea How Large The Mazda MX-30 EV Is

I have sat in the new , the company’s first full production EV, and I still couldn’t tell you how large it is, “freestyle” rear doors and all. “First of all we wanted a coupe look,” Youichi Matsuda, the car’s designer, told me at the Tokyo Motor Show this...

Dec 19, 2025

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer Has A $454 Billion Proposal To Encourage America To Go Electric

Democrats getting serious about this whole ‘electric cars’ thing, the sticking points in the tentative UAW-GM deal, and Tesla’s slightly more expensive Model 3. All this and more in for Friday, October 25, 2019. In a bid to stay slightly more relevant in the midst of rapidly changing times,...

Dec 19, 2025

Here's Most Of The Ford Mustang-Inspired Electric SUV Before You're Supposed To See It

Thursday, advertising that the upcoming Ford Mustang-inspired electric SUV would debut on Nov. 17. Today, it would appear that a 3D render has leaked giving us our best idea of what to expect yet. The 3D rendering comes courtesy of the Instagram account, calling the car by its long-rumored...

Dec 19, 2025

What Should Ford Name Their New Electric Mustang-Inspired SUV?

By now we all know that Ford is planning to unveil an all-new battery-electric SUV based on Mustang design cues. The little teaser line-drawing they released shows Mustang-style triple-bar taillights and I suppose some Mustang-ish character lines there. One thing yet to be decided, though, is the name. I’m...

Dec 19, 2025

Jaguar's All-Electric Sports Car Concept Is Only Destined For Gran Turismo

Everyone and their brother seems to be introducing impractical these days—you know, those cars that look cool and promise all kinds of awesome technology but will never, ever make it into production. So I’m very excited because is introducing the Vision Gran Turismo Coupé as a part of the...

Dec 19, 2025

One Hundred And Fifteen Years Ago, The New York City Subway Became Itself

On Thursday, October 27, 1904, 115 years ago this Sunday, at precisely 2 p.m., New York City erupted in a cacophony of celebration. The city’s factories—there were many then—tooted their whistles in a call to mark not a shift change, but an historic turning point in the city’s history. Church...

Dec 19, 2025