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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

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

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

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

A broke fiberglass boat builder in Arkansas invented the modern orange ball on power lines after a governor flew past a wire and asked “what in the hell was that?” Today the FAA has rules down to the exact shade of orange

By Luis Reyes — Jun 13, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 12, 2026

A Finnish company just fed pure hydrogen to a 13,000-horsepower piston engine the size of a bus and put the electricity on Spain’s national grid, the world’s first large-scale engine running on 100% hydrogen

By Luis Reyes — Jun 12, 2026

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 11, 2026

While their neighbors sold and Mason County rezoned 2,080 acres for a nameless Fortune 100 data center, an 82-year-old Kentucky farmer and her daughter just said no to $26 million, again

By Luis Reyes — Jun 11, 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

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 8, 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

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

By Olivia Richman — Jun 6, 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

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

By Olivia Richman — 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

Enough Wind Power for a Million Homes Was 47 Miles Off the New York Coast. The Government Paid Nearly $1 Billion to Make Sure It Never Gets Built — Now Seven States Are Suing to Stop It

By Luis Reyes — Jun 4, 2026
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