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Dave McQuilling

My time as an automotive journalist has put me behind the wheel of some of the world's fastest cars, flown me around the world to see the covers come off a variety of modern classics, and seen me spend a worrying amount of time hunched over a laptop in a darkened living room. Thanks COVID! I have bylines in a variety of publications, including Digital Trends, Autoblog, The Manual, SlashGear, The Gentleman Racer, Guessing Headlights, with my work also being syndicated to the likes of MSN and Yahoo Life. AutoNotion has promised me the opportunity to let loose creatively, and produce pieces I'm genuinely proud to put my name to. How could I turn that down? I hope some of it entertains you, informs you, or at least helps kill a few minutes while you're waiting for a train.

Latest articles

A man holding a Mazda Rotary Engine rotor

We’re finally getting the Rotary-Powered Mazda we All Wanted

10.01.2026
EV Battery

Stellantis’ Recent Patent Looks Like One of the Wildest Chinese EV Ideas

09.28.2026
GM's new 8.3 liter diesel engine

GM’s Massive New 555 Horsepower Diesel V8 Is Surprisingly Tech-Forward

09.25.2026
A dash with GM's new infotainment menu on the screens

GM is Finally Solving the Biggest Problem With its EVs

09.17.2026
A front 3/4 view of of a gold 2026 Kia K4

Kia K4 Review: Is This Stylish Hatchback the Best You Can Get For Under $30,000?

09.15.2026
A front 3/4 view of a red 2026 Jeep Recon on rough terrain

Jeep Recon Off-Road Test: We Take the World’s First “Trail Rated” EV Off the Beaten Path

09.12.2026
2026 Subaru WRX front 3/4 view

Review: The Subaru WRX is a solid enthusiast option, but can it handle a commute?

09.09.2026
Jensen Interceptor GTX

A British Carmaker Fitted Anti-Lock Brakes to a Road Car in 1966 and All-Wheel Drive 14 Years Before the AMC Eagle. Then It Went Bust, and It Just Came Back With 940 Horsepower

09.07.2026
A gear shifter in a Subaru BRZ

I Took a Manual Through the Lincoln Tunnel and Hit Traffic. Forty Minutes Later My Left Foot Was Wrecked and I Stopped Telling People to Learn Stick

09.03.2026
Front view of the 2027 Lincoln Corsair

An American luxury brand builds its small SUV in China, so the 2027 car costs 7,000 dollars more than the 2026 one before anybody ticks a single option, about 20 percent at the entry point, and both new trims still undercut the hybrid they replace

08.28.2026
The Smoky Mountain edition of a Jeep Wrangler Willys driving through mud near water

A Tennessee town of about 6,000 people took in 20,000 Jeeps and 50,000 visitors over three days last weekend, at a meet that started with 165 trucks in a different town, and Jeep timed a special edition Wrangler to it that it prices at eighty dollars over the one underneath

08.23.2026
A fully assembled grey 3D printed model of a Ford Fathom

I just built a Ford Fathom (sort of). Here’s what it taught me about the upcoming electric truck

08.19.2026
A Toyota Hilux Champ being loaded on the street

Toyota sells a truck for $12,500. But you can’t have one in the US

08.17.2026
JCB's team during the hydrogen land speed record attempt

The hydrogen land speed record stood at 185.5 mph until a British digger manufacturer took a car onto the Bonneville salt and clocked 406.320 over a flying mile, and the FIA is still ratifying it

08.13.2026
The eye shaped driver monitoring system disabled light on a Subaru driver's display

How to disable the driver monitoring system in a 2026 Subaru WRX

08.12.2026
Ford's official nameplate design for the Fathom

Ford has finally picked a name for its “affordable” electric pickup, after nine months and hundreds of candidates, and it landed on a nautical word for six feet of water on a truck that starts at $28,350 before delivery

08.07.2026
Sideview of a Hennessey Blackbird hypercar

Hennessey built its new $2.5 million hypercar around the number 71, making exactly 71 of them and setting the stabilizers to deploy at 71 mph and sit at 71 degrees, because the plane it is named after is the SR-71

08.04.2026
A front view of a white electric G-Wagen

I spent a few days in a $160,000 electric G-Wagen whose dash and steering wheel shake like a four-liter V8 is idling under the hood, then watched 180 miles of indicated range cover 120 miles of actual road

08.02.2026
A red Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing in a parking lot

Cadillac’s $140,000 Blackwing keeps its best performance feature locked behind a $25 SD card, the format laptops dropped years ago, and it records nothing until you go buy one

07.29.2026
An interior shot of the dash of a the 2027 Kia Telluride

Wildfire smoke has DC, Boston and New York under air quality warnings, and the cleanest air you can find might be inside your car, depending on one cheap part behind the glovebox most drivers have never checked

07.27.2026
ferrari crashed

Mr. Bean crashed the world’s fastest road car twice, filed Britain’s biggest car insurance claim ever at $1.4 million, and the McLaren F1 he finally sold in 2015 has doubled in value since: five hypercar crashes that made insurers weep

07.26.2026
A breen Porsche Taycan next to a blue Porsche Tacyan

A two-year-old Porsche Taycan costs about half what its first owner paid, because it lost 50 percent of its value faster than almost any EV on the road — production is stopped, ten Porsches are rumored for the axe, and the 911 is the one still selling

07.17.2026
A front 3/4 shot of a blue Subaru BRZ

I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one

07.11.2026
A render of a Tesla Cybercab

A U.S. state may effectively ban Tesla’s Cybercab if recent legislation passes

07.08.2026
A red and blue toyota corolla cross passing on the road

While European drivers get a Corolla Cross that brakes and corners better in snow as standard, America gets the identical SUV with that mode switched off, the same rear motor already spinning underneath and only the software missing

07.07.2026
A front 3/4 view of the 2027 Kia Telluride

The 2027 Kia Telluride looks so much like a Range Rover from behind you’d be forgiven for mixing them up, right down to the deep green paint, except this one costs less than half as much, and after a week with the hybrid I was looking up lease deals

07.01.2026
A 3/4 view of a red Toyota RAV4 in a canyon

You probably won’t be able to buy a Toyota RAV4 this year

06.26.2026
The new Maserati lineup for 2027

Maserati just refreshed its entire 2027 lineup without a single new car, pushing the V6 close to 600 horsepower and betting a meaner shark-nose front can finally crack America

06.18.2026
Tesla Cybertruck

The biggest fear about going electric is the day the battery dies and you’re staring at a $16,000 bill. Run the 20-year numbers against what you’d burn in gas, and that fear looks very different

06.16.2026
Rear of a Rivian R2 on a mountain top

I took a Rivian R2 up a Utah mountain to see if the cheap electric SUV could actually off-road. It got to the summit, but the open diff made me back up and rethink more than once

06.14.2026
A thumb on the Rivian R2 Haptic Halo dial

Rivian killed almost every button in the R2 and replaced them with two metal dials on the steering wheel. We drove it, and there’s not going to be a middle ground on this one

06.10.2026
An orange Car camping tent on the back of an SUV

Planning on car camping this summer? Here are a few things you’ll need

06.08.2026

A proposed U.S. law could make driver-monitoring cameras mandatory by 2027 and add a kill switch for inattentive drivers. The cameras are already in millions of cars watching right now

06.05.2026
A Ford Bronco Filson in a unique green paint color

Ford Just Took the Bronco Raptor’s 418-HP Engine, the Sasquatch Package’s Off-Road Gear, and Bolted It All Into One Truck — and It Might Be the Most Capable Bronco Ever

06.04.2026
A front view of the Hongqi Guoya

From the Side, China’s New Ultra-Luxury Sedan Could Almost Pass for a Rolls-Royce. From the Front, It Looks Like a Demented Cartoon Character

06.01.2026
close up of Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot

Hyundai Just Hired 25,000 Workers for Its US Car Factories Who Run 24 Hours a Day, Never Take a Break, and Aren’t Human. The First of Them Clock In in 2028

05.30.2026
1980 Ferrari Pinin side view with the doors open

Ferrari Built a Four-Door the Purists Hated, Then Buried It. That Was 1980. The Single Prototype That Survived Now Costs Almost Exactly What Ferrari Is Charging for the New Luce

05.29.2026
A Toyota V35A-FTS engine under the hood of a 2024 Tundra

270,000 Vehicles Recalled, And Toyota Have Fixed Just 77,000. How The Japanese OEM’s Engine Nightmare Just Keeps Getting Worse

05.28.2026
blackberry qnx

You Still Use a BlackBerry Every Day. You’re Driving It

05.27.2026
Ferrari Luce

Say Goodbye to Ferrari’s All-Combustion Lineup. The First Electric Ferrari Costs $640,000, Makes 1,000 Horsepower, and Amplifies Real Motor Sounds Instead of Faking a V12 Through Speakers

05.26.2026
A Toyota 2026 LC 500

Say Goodbye to Toyota’s Last 471-Horsepower Naturally Aspirated V8. The Engine Was Tuned by Yamaha and Powers the Lexus LC 500. Production Ends in August 2026

05.25.2026
e15 fuel

The EPA Just Authorized E15 Fuel to Lower Gas Prices. If Your Car Was Built Before 2001, It Could Damage Your Engine

05.24.2026
Hot Dog Anxiety Volvo

Volvo Just Identified a New Form of EV Anxiety That Has Nothing to Do With Battery Range. It Involves Getting a Hot Dog and Costs $25

05.23.2026
Tesla Model 3

Tesla’s Most Common Responses to a Repeat Repair Are ‘No Problem Found’ and ‘Operating as Designed.’ A California Lemon Law Attorney Just Told Us Why Those Exact Words Could Force a Mandatory Buyback

05.21.2026
The Ford Bronco Filson spare tire cover in a unique green

Ford announces a collaboration with Filson (and not much else)

05.19.2026
volvo ex60

Volvo Set to Take on BMW and Lucid with the Sub-$60,000 EX60

05.18.2026
A front 3/4 view of the the 2026 Jeep Grand Wagoneer

I Spent a Day in the 2026 Jeep Grand Wagoneer in Texas. The Twin-Turbo V6 Hits 60 in Under Six Seconds, It Tows 10,000 Pounds, and the Third Row Still Has Room for a Six-Footer

05.18.2026
A 3/4 view of a red Toyota RAV4 in a canyon

Toyota and Subaru Have Avoided Price Wars Since 2005. The GR86 Just Got $5,000 Cheaper Than the Subaru BRZ Built on the Same Line

05.16.2026
Ford recall

Ford’s Sub-$40,000 Pickup Won’t Have a Body-on-Frame Chassis. It Won’t Tow What an F-150 Tows, Won’t Off-Road Like a Bronco, and Will Get Totaled by a Fender Bender

05.15.2026
A DOT certified helmet sticker

Don’t Buy a “DOT Certified” Helmet. They’re Trash

05.14.2026
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