I’m Looking For A Weekend Warrior That Is Fast With Four Doors! What Car Should I Buy? Josh lives in Virginia, and his recent acquisition of a 911 Turbo has reignited his need for speed. He wants another high-performance model, this time with four doors so the family can go for a ride as well. With a budget hovering around six figures, what car should he buy? Read more…

2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid Gets 35 MPG And Has A 581-Mile Cruising Range For $36,415 Shockingly, especially considering its ties to Toyota, until this yearSubaru has only produced one hybrid model: the ill-fated plug-in-hybrid Crosstrek. That’s quickly changing though, as a few weeks ago Subaru debuted the 2025 Crosstrek Hybrid, and today at the Chicago Auto Show it unveiled the 2025 Forester Hybrid,… Read more…

Nissan Still Wants A Partner, But It Won’t Be Honda Good morning! It’s Thursday, February 6, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

You Can Buy A Last-Gen Honda Civic Type R For The Price Of A New Base Civic If you’ve got Type R dreams but decently equipped compact car money, you can’t go wrong with the regular Honda Civic. The current eleventh generation of the Civic is probably the best the model has ever been, and with prices starting at $25,400, the Civic won’t break the bank. What if a standard Civic isn’t enough,… Read more…

2026 Subaru Forester Wilderness Has Slightly More Capability Than Before And Plenty Of Black Plastic Subaru was ahead of the game when it came to offering its popular crossovers with a tough-looking suit of plastic, graphics, and all-terrain tires. The recipe was first unleashed on the Outback Wilderness in 2020, and by 2023, Wilderness versions of the Outback and Forester accounted for nearly 20 percent of each… Read more…

This Suzuki Alto Works RS-Z Is A 63-HP Hot Kei Hatch With A Functional Hood Scoop, And It Could Be Yours If you’re one of the many people who believe vehicles have gotten far too large these days, it doesn’t get much better than an imported kei car. Even compared to the smallest new cars on sale in the U.S. today, kei cars are still tiny, and that’s a big part of why we love them. For example, take a look at this 1997… Read more…

At $11,300, Will This 2014 VW Touareg TDI Pull Out A Win? Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Touareg represents the last of an era of fancy Volkswagens for the U.S. Let’s see if this competent but complex 4X4 is simply priced. Read more…

Latest Starship Explosion Trashes Poor Caribbean Island, Leaving The Locals To Clean It Up A Space X test flight went spectacularly wrong last month when the Starship craft exploded in the skies above the Caribbean. The explosion littered the sky with debris and looked fresh from a Michael Bay film, but the fallout has been less glamorous for the residents of one tropical island nation who have been left cle… Read more…

What Crossover Do You Wish Was A Legit Body-On-Frame SUV? In the early days of the SUVrevolution, best-sellers were proper truck-based, body-on-frame off-roaders that buyers appropriated as family cars. SUVs like the Ford Explorer and Chevrolet Blazer were once based on truck chassis, despite the reality that the vast majority of customer trucks never left paved roads. The… Read more…

This Special Edition Aston Martin Vantage Is Inspired By James Bond’s Coolest Car While on my daily hot girl walk yesterday evening, I came across a street-parked Aston Martin Vantage that stopped me in my tracks. Not just any “normal” Vantage, this is a Vantage 007 Edition, of which just 100 were produced in 2020 to celebrate “No Time to Die,” the last James Bond movie with Daniel Craig as the… Read more…

This EG Civic Ute Is Just About The Perfect Car When you think of the perfect car, what does it look like? Something fast, expensive, and shiny? Well I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong, the perfect car is a ’90s Civic that’s been turned into a ute. Please adjust your dreams and aspirations accordingly. Read more…

You Can Already Buy A Used Hyundai Ioniq 6 For About The Price Of A New Honda Civic When we first drove the Hyundai Ioniq 6, we didn’t find it particularly sporty, but if you’re just looking for a comfortable daily driver, it’s fantastic. That said, there are two notable downsides — the styling is incredibly divisive, and it can get expensive fast. It starts just under $39,000 including destination,… Read more…

The Brawn GP F1 Car That Jenson Button Sued For Is Going To Auction Winning the FIA Formula One World Championship would be the zenith of any racing driver’s career. Occasionally, an F1 team will gift a car used during the title-winning season to its champion as a gesture of thanks. The Brawn BGP 001, given to Jenson Button after his 2009 championship, is going up for auction at the… Read more…

Germany Says ‘Nein’ To Tesla As Sales Drop 59 Percent Germany has apparently seen the writing on the wall for what Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, represent, and in turn, sales plummeted 59 percent in January. It comes as Musk further inserts himself into both the U.S. government and Germany’s politics. Read more…

Your Next Car Should Be Purple Hey, it’s me again, your favorite blogger with practical car-buying advice. You may remember the biggest tip of the decade when I told you your next car should be green. While I believe that green is a worthwhile hue, if you really want to drive in style your next car should be purple. Read more…

AR-Wielding 15-Year-Old Tries To Joyride A Private Jet Joyriding is already a dangerous thrill-seeking pastime. No one wants an untrained pilot taking a small jet into the skies with no planned destination. A 15-year-old attempted to steal a plane in Texarkana, Arkansas on Tuesday by walking into a private terminal and placing a handgun on the front counter. The teenage… Read more…

Ridiculously Detailed Look At The Koenigsegg Gemera’s Drivetrain Shows How To Build A 249 MPH Family Car Hypercar maker Koenigsegg is renowned for its meticulous attention to detail and over-the-top engineering. It’s a practice that’s worked out well for the brand, as it’s set countless world records and sits near the top of the hypercar tree. To lift the lid on some of the engineering feats that helped it get there,… Read more…

Who The Hell Imported A Base Seventh-Generation Mitsubishi Minica To The U.S.? Living in New York City, a place that is outwardly unfriendly toward cars, means I don’t get to see a ton of weird and interesting stuff on the street. However, every once in a while I’ll spot an absolute gem. In this case, it’s a seventh-generation Mitsubishi Minica parked down the street from my Upper East Side… Read more…

Cop Impersonator In Black Dodge Charger Reportedly Pulling Over Drivers In Georgia And North Carolina Even if the citation is completely valid, getting pulled over sucks. Traffic stops are high-anxiety events where the threat of police violence is ever-present, it takes forever to get back on the road, and tickets are expensive. At the same time, though, if you were speeding, you were speeding. Unless you weren’t, and… Read more…

Tesla Will Give You Cheaper Car Insurance, But Only If You Take The Risk Of Engaging ‘Full-Self Driving’ Tesla has been playing fast and loose with its “Full-Self Driving” tech (now called “Full-Self Driving (Supervised)“) the last few years by essentially leaving testing of the driver-assist system up to the owners of its vehicles. These owners have been using the system on public roads, occasionally with disastrous resu… Read more…