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“You Don’t Need a Huge Car Collection Like Jay Leno To Be Impacted By This Bill”: SEMA CEO Discusses Leno’s Law and Bill 1069 Passing in California, and What It Means For Car Culture

By Olivia Richman — Sep 17, 2026

GM is Finally Solving the Biggest Problem With its EVs

By Dave McQuilling — Sep 17, 2026

Costco Is Putting a Cap On Its (Now Expensive) Motor Oil. Unfortunately, This Was Predicted a While Ago and Nothing Could Be Done. Get Ready to Fight Over Motor Oil in the Aisles

By Olivia Richman — Sep 15, 2026

President Donald Trump is Now “Okay” with Chinese Automakers Coming to the U.S., But Brands Like Ford Are Begging Him Not To, Which is Quite Ironic

By Olivia Richman — Sep 14, 2026

Not the 4Runner, Not the Tacoma: This Toyota SUV Has a 39.1% Chance of Hitting 250,000 Miles, Eight Times the Average Car, and Toyota and Lexus Take the Top Nine Spots

By Olivia Richman — Sep 14, 2026

A 142-megawatt hydroelectric plant that made 5 percent of Tasmania’s power burned to its steel frame overnight, investigators have traced the fire to the workshop floor at one end of the turbine hall, and nobody knows yet whether the five turbines survived

By Luis Reyes — Sep 13, 2026

Drivers Hate Screens, and Now There’s a Study That Confirms What We All Know: They Cause the Majority of Problems For Driver Satisfaction

By Olivia Richman — Sep 11, 2026

Toyota Is Recalling Potentially All of Its C-HR EVs in North America, and the Reason Is Serious. Is Toyota As Reliable As People Claim When It’s Third in Recalls in 2026?

By Olivia Richman — Sep 10, 2026

We Finally Learned a Little Bit More About the Next-Gen Ford Bronco. Until Then, Should You Go Off-Roading With the Ford Bronco or Jeep Wrangler?

By Olivia Richman — Sep 9, 2026

Honda Gave Each of Its Suppliers a Cost-Cutting Target. One Source Says the Demand Is So Severe That Most of Them Are Not Going to Hit It

By Olivia Richman — Sep 3, 2026

Ford Is Hinting at the Off-Road Mustang Again, But Is the Mustang Baja Truly Coming? Well, Ford Isn’t Afraid to Make all Kinds of Crazy Mustang

By Olivia Richman — Sep 3, 2026

Toyota and Honda Build Three Quarters of Canada’s Cars. A 50% Tariff Hits Them in January, and the CR-V and RAV4 on the Lot Were Built on the Wrong Side of the Border

By Olivia Richman — Sep 1, 2026

582 recalls in ten years is more than any other automaker has run up, and Ford’s fix started when tens of thousands of finished Super Duty trucks got parked in yards instead of shipped, and two-thirds of its manufacturing and engineering leadership was replaced

By Olivia Richman — Aug 30, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 28, 2026

BMW says it stripped the buttons out of the iX3 because younger drivers want screens, and when its Australian chief was asked who counts as younger he said “maybe 45 or below,” while Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai and Tesla have all been putting physical controls back

By Olivia Richman — Aug 25, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 23, 2026

Tesla’s lawyers told the other side that the data the car sends home holds no crash video and no snapshot, so a hacker from Tesla’s own bug bounty program took the computer out of the wrecked Model S, read it in a Starbucks, and the jury gave the automaker a third of the blame.

By Olivia Richman — Aug 23, 2026

Geely is not selling Detroit a Chinese EV. It is selling China Speed: 800 engineers, AI and modular factories that cut development time and costs in half — Ford’s CEO called the cars devastating, and Ford is already using the kit in Spain

By Olivia Richman — Aug 21, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 19, 2026

While Porsche just gave the Taycan a 105-kilowatt-hour battery, 16 new colors and a fake eight-speed that mimics engine braking, a German report says management and the works council have already agreed to stop building it, after 41,000 sales in 2023 became 6,000 in half of 2026

By Olivia Richman — Aug 18, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Aug 15, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 13, 2026

“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

By Olivia Richman — Aug 11, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 7, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Aug 6, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Aug 5, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 4, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 30, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 29, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 25, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 20, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 18, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 17, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jul 17, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 14, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 13, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 11, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 9, 2026

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

By Dave McQuilling — Jul 8, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 6, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jul 3, 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

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

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 26, 2026

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.

By Olivia Richman — Jun 25, 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

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 21, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 20, 2026
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