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Every Plumber in Europe Can Buy a Small Work Van. America Killed All Three of Its Own, and Now Ram Is Bringing One Back as a Rebadged Fiat

By Olivia Richman — Sep 1, 2026

An electric three-wheeler with a height-adjustable body that wades flooded streets and can be dressed as a police van is heading for Asia and Africa, and the smallest new car an American can buy is a 143-inch Italian hatchback

By Olivia Richman — Aug 28, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 17, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Aug 7, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Aug 3, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 31, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jul 26, 2026

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that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it’s ten years out of date on every one

By Dave McQuilling — Jul 11, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jul 7, 2026

American engineers just patented a hybrid powertrain that isn’t chained to the wheels, isn’t locked into charging the battery, and isn’t forced to do anything at all — an AI picks its job dozens of times a second

By Luis Reyes — Jul 4, 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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 3, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 2, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 1, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 30, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 29, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 28, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 26, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 23, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 23, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 21, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 18, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 17, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 16, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 15, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 13, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 9, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 9, 2026

Hawaii built a road out of fishing nets pulled from the Pacific to see if it would shed plastic into the sea. Eleven months of lab tests came back with an answer nobody expected

By Luis Reyes — Jun 7, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 6, 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

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 5, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 4, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 4, 2026

A Chinese Company Just Turned Land Rover’s Wobbly Little School-Run SUV Into a Five-Meter Electric Flagship Bigger Than a Defender — and Land Rover’s Own Boss Shrugged and Said “It’s Their Car Now”

By Luis Reyes — Jun 2, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 1, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jun 1, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — May 31, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — May 30, 2026

Gas Just Hit Its Highest Price in Four Years. The Cheapest Way to Burn Less of It Isn’t a Fuel Additive or New Tires — It’s a Law of Physics Hiding Under Your Right Foot

By Luis Reyes — May 30, 2026

Hydrogen Cars Didn’t Stall Because of the Engine — They Stalled Because Moving the Fuel Is Brutally Expensive. Stanford and Seoul National Just Cut That Cost’s Platinum by 90%

By Luis Reyes — May 29, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — May 29, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — May 28, 2026

Georgia Paved a Lane With Solar Panels and It Powers a Single EV Charger. Oregon Put the Same Panels Beside the Road and Makes a Hundred Times More. France Just Dug Up Its Version Entirely

By Luis Reyes — May 28, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — May 27, 2026

Yamaha’s Best-Known Engine Is the V10 in the Lexus LFA. Sixty Years Ago, the Same Company Helped Toyota Build a 150-Horsepower Straight-Six With Three Mikuni-Solex Carburetors

By Olivia Richman — May 27, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — May 25, 2026

Your Car’s Dashboard, Tires, and Seat Foam All Depend on Industrial Hydrogen That Releases 920 Million Tons of CO2 a Year. A Lab in Edinburgh Just Made the Same Hydrogen With E. Coli Eating Bread

By Luis Reyes — May 23, 2026

After a Year of Selling Electric Chargers That Nobody Wanted, Dodge Just Showed Detroit a New Model With a Massive Rear Wing Just Like the Banned Daytona

By Olivia Richman — May 23, 2026

Ram Spent the Last Twenty Years Watching Ford Sell Boring F-150s — It Just Announced a 777-Horsepower Hellcat Street Truck That Will Be the Fastest Production Pickup Ever Built

By Olivia Richman — May 21, 2026

Ford Just Teased Five Rally-Bred Off-Road Vehicles for Europe. Then American Mustang Owners Started Looking Very Closely at One of the Silhouettes — and Realized They Probably Won’t Get to Drive It

By Olivia Richman — May 20, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — May 18, 2026
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