Auto companies take sides on Trump’s fuel economy battle, GM made a nice pile of change while workers were on strike, Porsche “online” sales, Mr. Musk goes to trial, and more in for Tuesday, October 29, 2019. Remember where the Trump administration wanted to freeze standards until 2026 and...

You can’t talk about De Tomaso without talking about Ford and, specifically, American Ford V8s. The domineering De Tomaso Pantera had them, as did the lovely Mangusta before it. So it’s only appropriate the stunningly retro also follows suit with eight cylinders from Ford’s NASCAR partner. Back when we...

have been turning the tide in the automotive industry in terms of making cars better for the environment. But Japan’s Ministry of the Environment believed we could do better—and the result is an unprecedented supercar made entirely of wood. The entire car is composed of nano cellulose fibers, or...

The mid-to-late 1970's, and into the 1980's, were the glory days of cheap, boxy hatchbacks from all over the world. While hatchbacks had existed before, you could argue that (Rabbit for us fried-donutburger consumers) really set the design template for this era, spawning many very similar-looking little useful cars....

Remember back when Fiat Chrysler , , and then with Renault? Well in the years since then... What’s that? That was only 5 months ago? Jeez, 2019 has been a weird year. Well, in the 5 months since that happened, Fiat Chrysler has stayed in France courting another dance...

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. A traditional spooky season jam for you all this morning. My parents used to play this song in the car when I was wee toddler and it consistently scared...

The current Nissan 370Z came out when most of us were still probably using flip phones, and while it’s fun, I think we can all agree it’s long overdue for a replacement. That replacement has been , but always without anything concrete—and claims from Nissan that the company needs...

A deeper look into Tesla’s third-quarter financials, Volkswagen and its doom and gloom attitude, a concern about independent mechanics and more await you in for Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Unless the situation demands it, nobody should really be getting their car repaired at the dealer after the warranty expires....

In 2020, Ford will debut its new 4 infotainment system with the brand’s biggest screens ever, over-the-air update capability, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and a revised user interface with cloud capability. Here’s how it all works. Ford’s SYNC infotainment system has been around , and in 2020...

I’ve always been a fan of AMGs. More so the old stuff over the new stuff, but the philosophy of stuffing huge engines into cars that have no business getting huge engines has always been appealing. As an , I’m always curious to see where AMG goes next. Do...

It’s not supposed to be shown until its reveal in Japan next month, but that leaky, leaky internet has dripped out pictures of It’s based on Daihatsu’s version of Toyota’s modular platform (DNGA instead of TNGA and I bet you can figure out what the initials mean) and, being...

The recently reported that Fiat Chrysler , which owns Peugeot, Citröen, DS, and other car brands somehow including Opel. Now the news site reports that, per its sources, the two automakers have come to a merger agreement. We don’t know much yet, all we know is what’s in the...

The exciting loons over at ARTZ, the world’s most Latvian builders of deeply, lavishly over-the-top hyper-luxury SUVs that have famously included and , have just finished a new masterwork of ostentation and brutal absurdity called the DARTZ Prombron Black Stallion, which is , not a horse. I think the...

Sunbeam, Humber, Singer, Commer, Hillman, Karrier, Talbot, Simca, Barreiros, Hudson, Nash, Rambler, Metropolitan, Willys-Overland, Graham-Paige, Kaiser, Frazer, Graham Brothers, Maxwell, Chalmers, Fargo, DeSoto, Autobianchi, Plymouth, Imperial (twice), Valiant, Matra (ish), and Eagle. When [if?] this FCA and PSA merger goes through, it will be on the backs of these...

Here’s a bit of good news for our more liquid members of the Self-Shifting Actualization Cult: the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S and 4S (in both coupé and cabrio versions) will offer the You’ll get to shift between a generous seven gears, which should keep you happy and busy...