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Olivia Richman

From esports to automotive, Olivia has always been a Journalist and Content Manager who loves telling stories and highlighting passionate communities. She has written for SlashGear, Esports Insider, The Escapist, CBR, and more. When she's not working, Olivia loves traveling, driving, and collecting Kirbies.
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Corvette Z06 Bathurst Edition

You’d think car colors would get more fun over time. A study of 22 million used cars says the opposite: gray grew sixfold since 1996, and the top color on American sports cars isn’t red

07.02.2026
Ford F-150 Baja Raptor R

Shelby just pushed the Ford F-150 Baja Raptor past 1,000 horsepower, out-muscling the Cybertruck — and the price lands at practically $200,000 for a pickup truck

07.02.2026
tesla touchscreen

Carmakers spent years cramming giant touchscreens into every dash and calling it the future, but drivers never wanted them, and now VW, Porsche and Hyundai are quietly bringing buttons back, because buyers will take the big screen and even the AI only if they get their physical knobs too

07.01.2026
traffic jam LA

You check the crash-test stars before you buy, but the thing about a car most likely to shorten your life isn’t the crash, it’s the exhaust, and a health report finds nearly half of American kids now live where the air is unhealthy to breathe

06.30.2026
Ferrari Luce

Everyone calls the Ferrari Luce an ugly Nissan Leaf knockoff, one collector emailed Ferrari back to call it an “abomination” he’d be caught dead driving, and yet all 88 units for China just sold out before the Beijing launch, even though BYD’s supercar costs half as much and is faster

06.30.2026
Ford Maverick

Texas is about to dethrone California as America’s biggest car market, and the pickup is what’s dragging it there, except it breaks the cliché: Texans buy mainstream trucks for real work, while California turns out to be the market chasing luxury badges and leases

06.29.2026
sneak peak of reo trucks

Everyone’s chasing the cheap electric truck, but a startup just undercut Bezos-backed Slate with the opposite bet: a $21,500 gas pickup with a six-speed manual, real four-wheel drive and 600 miles a tank, reviving a brand that’s been dead since the 1950s

06.28.2026
slate truck

Slate reveals JUST how bare bones its trucks will be in order to be under $25K, including crank windows and no paint. At least Americans can finally afford an EV pickup

06.27.2026
Elon Musk Tesla

A Tesla plowed into a home and killed a woman inside. The driver claims he was using Full Self-Driving mode. Tesla has responded

06.26.2026
Polestar

Polestar has just been essentially kicked from the United States car market, but it doesn’t really care. Only 6% of its sales in 2026 were in the U.S.

06.25.2026
scratch on car after

I cleaned my 1992 Autozam and my boyfriend’s Mustang GT with two waterless Turtle Wax products that cost under $13 together, and the shine was mind-blowing for the price, no hose or water bucket needed

06.23.2026
Lucid Cosmos

Lucid sold 55% more cars in 2025 and still lost $2.7 billion, so the American EV maker is cutting 18% of its U.S. workforce for the second time this year and betting its survival on a cheaper $50,000 SUV

06.23.2026
ford coyote v8 engine

Ford is now tearing brand-new engines apart 90 times more often than it used to, daily instead of once a quarter, hunting for the life-threatening defects before they end up in tens of thousands of cars

06.23.2026
grand theft auto vi

A car tuning company just announced it’s closing the day Grand Theft Auto 6 launches, telling staff they can come back to work once they’ve reached Vice City and finished at least one mission

06.21.2026
ford logo

Ford is recalling 5,252 Fusion and Focus cars because a botched repair from an earlier recall left the clutch able to fracture, leak transmission fluid, and possibly start a fire in the engine compartment

06.21.2026
Luce Ferrari

Ferrari’s $600,000 electric car got panned as the ugliest six-figure car ever, yet pre-orders flew, and now we know why: Ferrari is reportedly telling clients to buy it if they want to keep their spot in line for the good cars

06.20.2026
back of new ford $30,000 truck

Ford finally showed off its $30,000 electric pickup after months of dribbling out tiny details, and the big reveal is that it looks like a plain, boxy truck, which is exactly what Americans have been asking for

06.20.2026
nissan kicks e-power

Nissan just built a peppy little hybrid crossover that gets more torque than the US version and costs just $18,700, and American buyers desperate for a cheap car can’t have it, because it’s only sold in Japan

06.20.2026
mercedes benz g class

Mercedes-Benz spent the last decade selling you electric luxury. Now it’s building vehicles designed to knock drones out of the sky, mounting interceptors on the G-Class as Europe rearms and EV demand collapses

06.17.2026
A Rivian R2 crossing a stream

Rivian’s own CEO says the threat to its make-or-break R2 isn’t price or sales, it’s service: owners have waited up to 50 days for an appointment, and one says he’s been stuck over a year waiting for a key fob

06.16.2026
2026 Ford mustang gt

Two tickets to the World Cup Final cost $33,698. The average used car in America costs $27,046. So here are five cars you could buy instead of watching one soccer game, from a Civic to a 480-horsepower Mustang

06.16.2026
bmw electric m3 concept

BMW just revealed its electric M3 concept and the whole car press loves it. To me it looks like Lightning McQueen with the personality removed, the same blank-slate styling every automaker now calls “the future”

06.15.2026
tesla touchscreen

Drivers in China are using plastic doll heads to trick Tesla’s cabin camera into thinking someone’s watching the road, one of them a tiny Dwayne Johnson, so Full Self-Driving runs while nobody pays attention

06.15.2026
lamborguini countach

Cars used to be sharp, wedge-shaped and aggressive. Now even Ferrari builds rounded blobs, and there are three real reasons the wedge died: safety rules, aerodynamics, and the way cars are now made

06.15.2026
A red Toyota Corolla hybrid in motion

“Every hybrid we’ve ever owned, lied to us”: Edmunds reveals the reality of EPA rated mpg and it’s not pretty

06.14.2026
BYD Atto 2

Remember Waymo running over that cat? BYD has published a patent that would have saved Kit Kat’s life

06.13.2026
Ford F-150

Ford CEO Jim Farley won’t really say where he stands on the bill that would let any mechanic fix your car, even after meeting Trump over the REPAIR Act

06.12.2026
Rivian R2

While Ford and Slate load up cheap electric pickups, Rivian’s CEO just shrugged and invited them in: “I so deeply believe we need more choice,” and the mid-$30,000 R3 comes before anything else

06.11.2026
LA River

A car meet showed up to take photos in the LA River, the concrete channel from Grease and Fast & Furious. Police impounded 72 cars, made 84 arrests, and getting your car back costs $3,000

06.11.2026
volvo s60 recharge

Some of the fastest cars on the road in 2026 are built to look like nothing at all, a Volvo, an Audi that looks like a dad car, a VW van that hits 60 in 5.3 seconds

06.09.2026
subaru wrx manual transmission

Only 1% of new cars still come with a manual transmission. The automaker betting on saving it isn’t Porsche or BMW, it’s Subaru, and it just promised three new ones

06.09.2026
lotus evija back

Lotus’s CEO just called every sports car over 3,968 pounds “mediocre” — and accidentally put his own 2,000-horsepower, $2.3 million Evija on the list. Only one Lotus survives his own rule

06.08.2026
2026 Ford mustang gt

Dodge dropped the V8 from the four-door Charger. Now Ford is hinting at a Mustang sedan that could become the V8 muscle car the Charger gave up being

06.06.2026
Trump tariffs

A new government rule means almost everything you buy from 60 countries is about to cost more — except, conveniently, the car in your driveway

06.06.2026
Tesla Elon Musk

Tesla Owners Trying to Sue Over Full Self-Driving Say the Company Quietly Rewrote Their Original Contracts — and Made the Old Versions Impossible to Open

06.04.2026
Ford Bronco Sport

Ford Just Told Owners of Two of Its Newest Models to Stop Driving Them Immediately — a Ball Joint Can Snap and Take Your Steering With It

06.04.2026
Ferrari Luce

Everyone Thinks Ferrari Just Ruined Itself With One Car. The CEO Quietly Made a Promise That Says Otherwise

06.03.2026
A white electric Mercedes C Class on a mountain road

Mercedes-Benz May Be Banned From the United States If This Proposed Law Goes Through

06.03.2026
rolls-royce spectre series II

Rolls-Royce Just Built the Most Powerful Car in Its 120-Year History — and It Doesn’t Have an Engine

06.02.2026
Mazda CX5

Forget the $50,000 Sticker Price — There’s a Different Number Quietly Crushing American Car Buyers, and One in Five Is Already Trapped by It

06.01.2026
Lexus Lf-zc concept

Toyota Had One EV Worth Getting Excited About. It Just Killed It

06.01.2026
fuel filler cap

My Dad Asked Why His BMW Still Has a Gas Cap When Newer Cars Don’t. I Write About Cars for a Living and Had No Idea — So I Looked Into Why Carmakers Quietly Killed the Cap, and Why BMW Didn’t

05.31.2026
Luce Ferrari

Everyone From Ferrari’s Former Chairman to Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Has Trashed the New Luce, and the Stock Dropped Eight Percent. Ferrari Says the Bank Transfers Are Already Coming In — From Who, Nobody Can Figure Out

05.31.2026
Lotus Emira Scura

The CEO of Lotus Bet the Brand’s Future on Electric Sports Cars and Couldn’t Understand Why His Customers Hated the Idea. Then He Got in a Racecar for the First Time and Finally Felt What They Meant

05.30.2026
Tesla Elon Musk

Ten Tesla Owners Walked Into a Beijing Court This Week to Get Their Money Back. The Week Before, Tesla Had Quietly Handed Them the One Piece of Evidence They Needed

05.30.2026
Tesla Elon Musk

Tesla Says Its Full Self-Driving Is Ten Times Safer Than a Human Driver. The People Who Train It Just Admitted They Wouldn’t Get in a Robotaxi ‘Even If You Paid Me’

05.29.2026
Rivian R2

Rivian’s $45,000 Tesla Model Y Killer Finally Has a Launch Date. But the Only Version You Can Buy on June 9th Costs a Lot More — and the Affordable One Is Still Two Years Away

05.29.2026
Lamborghini Lanzador

A Lamborghini Can’t Sound Like a Lamborghini Without an Engine. That’s the Whole Reason It Killed Its Electric Supercar — and the Reason Ferrari’s Just Flopped

05.28.2026
tesla model s plaid

Never Thought I’d Say This, But the Tesla Model S Plaid is a Good Choice (Against the Ferrari Luce, Specifically)

05.28.2026
Ferrari Luce

Ferrari Stock Dropped 5 Percent in One Morning After Critics Compared the New $650,000 Luce EV to a Nissan Leaf. The Former Chairman Said It’s the One Car China Won’t Copy

05.27.2026
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