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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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mclaren 720s

Supercars are in trouble: Influencers may flock to them at Monterey Car Week, but rich people aren’t actually buying them

08.15.2026
jay leno in 1909 Stanley Steamer Car

Jay Leno’s classic car law cleared the committee that killed the last version, and it would let 1976 to 1985 cars skip California’s smog check for good, which is a window that leaves out almost everything in Leno’s own garage

08.15.2026
Jaguar Type 01 interior

Jaguar is keeping the Type 01 powertrain a secret until October, but the interior is out, and a spine down the middle walls the four seats into separate pods like a doctor’s waiting room

08.13.2026
Gordan Murray Automotive T.50

There are 100 of these in the world, they weigh 2,198 pounds, they have a fan on the back that spins at 7,000 rpm, and one of them has been driving up and down 17-Mile Drive this week ahead of Monterey Car Week

08.13.2026
767B on fire at laguna seca

One of only three four-rotor Mazda prototypes ever built caught fire under a tent in the Laguna Seca paddock while its engine was being warmed up, and the Le Mans winner that shares that engine layout was sitting in the same paddock

08.11.2026
tesla model s plaid

“These people are crazy”: Trump called range anxiety a disease in front of a Las Vegas casino crowd, and the cheapest electric cars headed for America have been cancelled one after another since his administration pulled the tax credit

08.11.2026
A Rivian R2 crossing a stream

Most electric SUVs stop pulling right after 60 mph, and this 4,900-pound one kept going all the way to a 128.1 mph trap speed at the quarter mile, six clear of a Model Y Performance and level with a Porsche 911 GTS

08.08.2026
Durango Hellcat

Dodge sold 81,168 Durangos last year, its best in two decades, and that one 15-year-old SUV made up roughly 90% of everything the brand moved in the first half of 2026, so the plan now is to sell people colors that aren’t white

08.08.2026
2027 slate truck

Ford and Slate are both selling a cheap, ugly electric pickup, and the choice comes down to whether you’d rather pay $3,545 more for the one nobody has been allowed to photograph or take the one that shows up without paint

08.07.2026
Lucid Cosmos

Lucid just showed the first real images of the Cosmos, a $50,000 electric SUV that pulls about 300 miles from a 69 kWh pack, and the pictures arrived inside the same update that quietly moved it a full year further away

08.06.2026
Musk Tesla Cybertruck

Tesla owns several tons of die-cast machinery built to stamp Cybertruck parts and spent three weeks locked out of the Texas plant holding it, and a judge has now let the company walk in and take it back, with about 100 trucks leaving Giga Texas the next day

08.06.2026
Tesla Cybertruck

While one American company runs half a million driverless rides a week using cameras, lidar and radar together, the other has logged 14 crashes in about 800,000 miles of robotaxi service with a paid human sitting in the front seat

08.05.2026
A front view of a matte black BMW iX

BMW pushed a movie advertisement onto the dashboards of its cars in more than 70 countries, appearing on the screen the moment the engine started, and what has owners angry is not the ad itself but the proof that the carmaker can do it whenever it likes

08.05.2026
China's SSCC

A 3,000-pound Chinese electric sports car makes 430 horsepower from a 60-kWh battery, hits 60 in about three seconds and sells at home for $34,000, and it is going to Britain rather than America

08.03.2026
Corvette CX.R Vision Gran Turismo

While a Porsche 911 Turbo S costs $270,300 to reach 200 miles an hour, Chevrolet just got there for $73,495 with a naturally aspirated 6.7-liter V8 making 535 horsepower and no turbo anywhere on it

07.31.2026
Porsche cayenne electric

A 5,960-pound Porsche SUV just beat a Corvette ZR1 to 60 miles an hour in 2.1 seconds, carrying 2,100 pounds more than the Corvette, which is an entire Lotus Elise of extra weight along for the ride

07.31.2026
Corvette Grand Sport

A 535-horsepower Corvette with a 6.7-liter V8 was doing 130 on County Road 13 North in Florida, a two-lane road posted at 45, and the deputy who stopped it waved away the insurance papers and cuffed the driver

07.30.2026
BYD Atto 3

A new car will carry 278 gigabytes of memory by the end of this year and the screen-heavy ones run 2 terabytes, more than most laptops hold, and the AI assistant in the dashboard eats 256 of those gigabytes on its own

07.30.2026
2026 mercedes benz g580

While the bill was written to keep Chinese automakers out of America, the company it caught employs more than 10,000 Americans, assembles cars in Alabama and South Carolina, and just posted its best year ever with an SUV built in Tuscaloosa

07.29.2026
Lotus Emira

Lotus fans keep begging for a V8 Emira, and the factory answered with two fewer cylinders: a 416-hp 2.0-liter it calls the fastest four-cylinder production car on Earth, 186 mph flat out and 60 in 3.7 seconds

07.27.2026
Tesla Model Y

US regulators just opened the process to force an obvious emergency door release into every new car, warning that a hidden handle can mean severe injury or death, while clearing Tesla of the probe that helped start it all

07.26.2026
jetzero z4

Japan Airlines just signed on to help build a passenger jet shaped like a stealth bomber, a 250-seat blended-wing design meant to burn 30 to 50% less fuel and become the first commercial aircraft of its kind in the early 2030s

07.25.2026
Aston martin call of duty suv

The maker of James Bond’s cars just built a jagged military SUV that will only ever exist inside Call of Duty, unveiling a life-size model in New York of a machine you cannot buy at any price, only play

07.25.2026
Lotus Emeya

A factory-stock electric Lotus just beat the Tesla EV lap record at Sepang by more than seven seconds, a 905-horsepower sedan with zero track modifications taking down a Model 3 that was stripped and rebuilt specifically to hold it

07.25.2026
Lucid Cosmos

A false bankruptcy rumor from a no-name blog just cut Lucid’s stock in half in a single day, tripping volatility halts over and over, before the EV maker denied it and the shares bounced back higher than where they started

07.20.2026
Bentley Torcal

Bentley just replaced the roar of a V8 in its first electric car with a live drum kit, viola and bass, after studio tests showed what people actually miss about the engine is the rhythm, not the exhaust

07.20.2026
Denza B8

China put almost four new car models on the market every single day in the first half of 2026, some 650 of them, while the entire United States is on track to launch 159 over four years — and Chinese buyers treat them like sneaker drops, not investments

07.18.2026
Toyota Tundra

America just issued a federal safety recall for exactly one pickup truck, a single 2026 Toyota Tundra whose accessories made it 1 percent heavier than its label said — the paperwork puts the defect rate at 100 percent, and the fix is a new sticker

07.17.2026
Hyundai Ioniq 5

The three electric SUVs that undercut the Tesla Model Y on price all did the same thing Tesla will not: they kept the buttons — a Hyundai at $35,000 with a gauge cluster, a Kia that charges 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes, and a Rivian with a bigger frunk

07.17.2026
Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang outsold every non-premium sports car in America combined in the first half of 2026, something it hadn’t pulled off since 2008 — 28,725 sold against 4,007 for its closest rival, a seven-to-one beatdown of the Toyota GR86

07.14.2026
A Rivian R2 crossing a stream

California just launched an instant $3,500 discount for first-time EV buyers, no application, no income cap, off the price before you drive away — and the $50,000 vehicle cap is waived entirely for automakers headquartered in the state, which hands Rivian and Lucid a golden ticket

07.14.2026
BMW X7 M60i interior

The camera that watches your face is now mandatory in every new EU car, and testers say it beeps when you glance at the landscape, hunt for a song or check the kid in the back seat — America’s own version has a mandate, a funded law, and no finish line

07.13.2026
MG Go!

America yearns for small, cute, affordable EVs and the MG GO! is exactly that — a friendly electric hatch previewing a 2027 production car that will fight the Renault 5 everywhere except the one market starving for it

07.13.2026
VW Jetta

Volkswagen is preparing to kill nearly half the models it builds after its China sales collapsed by more than a third in a single quarter — the CEO’s fix is fewer cars, built faster, with less complexity

07.11.2026
hooligans show

We asked Keanu Reeves to rank every iconic car he has ever driven on screen, from the John Wick Mustang to the station wagon in Bill and Ted, and he refused to put a single one below S-tier

07.09.2026
Front view of a red Fiat Topolino

The Fiat Topolino is finally in the United States, but there’s a catch: You can’t drive it

07.08.2026
slate truck

The Slate Truck starts at $24,950 with no crank windows and barely anything else, but check every box and it hits $46,294, so I built the cheapest version you could actually live with and commute in

07.08.2026
gordan murray le mans classic

Gordon Murray just ran his new Le Mans GTR prototype around the Circuit de la Sarthe with Dario Franchitti driving, a longtail V12 with a six-speed manual, and all 24 being built are already sold before anyone outside the buyers has seen a price

07.07.2026
Hennessey Venom

Hennessey just revealed a 2,031-horsepower hypercar at Goodwood with something almost no hypercar offers anymore, a gated six-speed manual you shift by hand, and only 12 will ever be built, each starting at $2.64 million

07.07.2026
Tesla Model Y

The current Model Y carries eight cameras, front bumper to license plate, with no unwatched angle around the car, and a freeway driver who sideswiped one and fled just found out exactly how that works

07.06.2026
Polestar 3

The US government just showed Polestar the door, so a 544-horsepower Swedish luxury crossover now sells for $39,300 and the single-motor version for less than a mid-trim Camry, cash discounts up to $25,000 that vanish July 31

07.06.2026
subaru wrx manual transmission

The brain researcher who built Nintendo’s Brain Age says there’s a type of driver quietly working their memory, attention and decision-making every single trip — and in America, barely anyone can join them anymore, because only 0.7% of new cars still offer it

07.03.2026
Honda CR-V 2026

Not the F-150. Not the RAV4. America has a new best-selling vehicle halfway through 2026 — and it took a fire at the plant making 40% of the industry’s aluminum, plus Toyota breaking its own best-seller, to finally knock both champions off the top

07.03.2026
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
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