GM Claims Chevy Bolt Owner Who Suffered Two Battery Replacements Is a Rare Case

Back in January, General Motors CEO Mary Barra claimed that her company had sold over 200,000 electric vehicles . It turns out not only was that incredibly misleading and false, but one unlucky owner even had to replace their battery not once, but twice. Bolt owner and journalist over on...

Sep 13, 2025

Repairing a Windshield on a Modern Car Can Be an Expensive Mess

As cars are loaded with more and more safety tech, they get . Those systems, though beneficial, are oftentimes very advanced and require more calibrations to get right. Windshields are one part of a car that’s getting quite complicated to repair. Advanced driver assistance systems like lane-departure warnings, adaptive cruise...

Sep 13, 2025

No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Isn’t Coming to Take Your Cars Away

Let’s establish some ground rules before we get into this: Climate change is real. The past four years have been . Cars are not an insignificant part of the problem. Now that we all have acknowledged reality (whether or not you “agree” is irrelevant), let’s dive into the Green New...

Sep 13, 2025

The Sono Motors Sion Might Be a Solar Powerbank You Can Drive

If you’re looking for ultimate practicality in your electric vehicles, you can always trust the Germans to take things a step further. Sono Motors has apparently been around as a crowd-funded project since 2012, when the founders of the company were still in school. The first few prototypes are now...

Sep 13, 2025

Master Tuner's Engine Teardown Explains Why the Toyota 2JZ Is Such a Legend

You’re watching two legends in the American tuner landscape. One is , the first person to put a front-wheel drive car past the 9s. The other is the . You know its reputation of being an indestructible powerhouse. Now get a good look at why. What you’re looking at here...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's How Amazon's Motor Oil Stacks Up Against Big Name Brands

Ever since announced it’s selling its own generic brand of synthetic motor oil, the big question has been “but how good actually is it?” Now, people to conduct their own at-home tests to see how Amazon’s oil compares to the big brands we know and love. A recent video by...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's Hundreds of Rotary Cars and Their Glorious Roar

The , an engine whose mechanical novelty distracts from questions about its usefulness, revs extremely high and also lights money on fire. But we’re not here today to talk about its good qualities. We’re here today to see hundreds of rotary-engined cars in action. And at least a few doing...

Sep 13, 2025

BMW's New 500-HP S58 Inline-Six Should be Very Interesting to Supra Fans

A couple weeks back we got to see , and pointed out that while this is a high-level sports car for Toyota, it was getting a mid-level engine from BMW. Well, now here’s the high-level version of that motor—the M division’s S58, bone stock. The engine made its debut last...

Sep 13, 2025

Feds' Tesla Autosteer Safety Investigation Was Bullshit: Report

After 2016’s the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigated the Model S’s Autopilot and Autosteer functions. It ultimately concluded the system was safe. But a new paper says we shouldn’t trust the government agency’s research. NHTSA in 2017 and actually went so far as to state that “the data show...

Sep 13, 2025

Tesla's New 'Dog Mode' Will Keep Your Pup Cool While You're out of the Car

Is there anything worse than the people who leave their dogs in their car during the hottest days of summer? (I mean, besides people who leave their kids in the hot car. Both are horrible!) People should know cracking the windows just isn’t enough when the temperatures start creeping up....

Sep 13, 2025

Ford Is Using Auto Tech to Keep Bed Hogs in Their Place

Lane hogs are the worst. Whether it’s someone holding down the fort five under the speed limit in the left-and-middle lanes at the same time or a lover who forgets all concept of personal space when they doze off, lane hogs are hair-pulling frustrations. Unfortunately, there isn’t an effective solution...

Sep 13, 2025

Jaguar Land Rover Brings Back The Inline-Six With Twin-Charged Hybrid Power

FACT: The inline-six is the best engine. I’d say V8s come a very close second, but nothing beats the silky smooth just-right power delivery of six cylinders humming in a row. BMW knows this, , and the ... well, see what I said about BMW. But! Now one Jaguar Land...

Sep 13, 2025

Quick Question: At What Size Is an Engine 'Big?'

So in reading over the comments in the , I was surprised to find something that was brought up several times, sandwiched between comments of confusion and dismay regarding just what the hell is going on with my hair. The comments were baffled that I referred to the Fire Truck’s...

Sep 13, 2025

The BMW X1's Automatic Emergency Braking System Is Terrible: IIHS

Pedestrian crashes are one of the more urgent transportation problems, since if you’re a pedestrian and you’re hit by a 3,500-pound vehicle it’s not going to go well for you. Increasingly, cars have adopted automatic emergency braking systems to prevent them, but , the BMW X1's system barely works at...

Sep 13, 2025

Again With This Completely Self-Driving Shit from Elon Musk

Just in case you thought you could connect a couple of PalmPilots and cameras to your car and have it drive itself, I have some bad news: making a fully autonomous car is very, very hard. One of the people who probably knows this better than anyone is superboygenius Elon...

Sep 13, 2025