Annoying Car YouTubers, Perfect Features On Awful Cars And Weird Cop Cars In This Week’s QOTD Roundup We all love finding automotive diamonds in the rough. However, sometimes that diamond can be embedded inside a massive lump of coal. Earlier this week we asked what are the standout unique features of cars that aren’t worth aspiring to own. The comments had various answers ranging from basic automated operations to… Read more…

A Half-Priced Polestar 1, A Mid-Engine Toyota Van And A Basically New 22-Year-Old Dodge Viper In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup The idea of a high-powered hybrid-electric personal luxury grand touring coupe is strangely appealing to my sensibilities. The Polestar 1 served as both the capstone and the launching point for Volvo’s electric Polestar brand spinoff, and it was the absolute pinnacle of what the brand was capable of at the time. With… Read more…

500 Cordless Drill-Powered Lada, Why Turbocharged Cars Don’t Need Hoodscoops And An Actual Faraday Future FF91 In The Wild In This Weekend’s Car Culture Roundup Taking an old car and making it run on electricity is so hot right now, with startups the world over popping up with the aim of electrifying everything from old Jaguar E-Types to lovely little Miatas. Now, a rusting Lada has been given the EV upgrade, but instead of cribbing its power from a Tesla or Cascadia Motion,… Read more…

Man Racks Up A $47,000 Doc Bill On A Cruise And Musk Wants Boeing To Rush The New Air Force One In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup An American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter at about 9:00 p.m. Wednesday night, reportedly killing all 64 people in the plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter. Authorities are still in the process of searching for the bodies of the deceased, but it’s already being called… Read more…

Weekend News Roundup February 01, 2025 Ever since it finally went on sale in 2023, the Tesla Cybertruck has been on the receiving end of some pretty bad press. The car has been hit with recall after recall, failed at some pretty basic truck tasks and hasn’t sold in the huge numbers Tesla projected. Now, the ridiculous truck’s owners report that they are … Read more…

DEI Practices Trump Blames For Fatal Plane Crash Were Launched By Him President Donald Trump has been playing the blame game with the deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk – pointing the finger at former Presidents Obama and Biden as well as DEI hiring practices. It’s almost a certainty that this crash had nothing to do with these people and… Read more…

Ford Reveals Electric NASCAR Mustang Mach-E That Will Tackle Pikes Peak Following on the heels of two SuperVans and a SuperTruck, Ford unveiled a Mustang Mach-E NASCAR prototype on Thursday. While NASCAR doesn’t currently organize a racing series for electric vehicles, you will be able to see this Mach-E stock car going flat-out this year. Ford plans to race the demonstrator at the 2025… Read more…

My Motorcycle Got Stolen And I’m Not Even Mad Three weeks ago, I left my apartment to an unusual sight: My bright blue BMW, usually sitting so proudly at the curb in front of my apartment, had been replaced with a street-parked SUV. The bike wasn’t ahead of the car, nor behind it. It wasn’t on its side somewhere, it wasn’t at the corner, and a quick glance at the… Read more…

Renault Rodéo Is An Underappreciated And Quintessentially French ‘80s Beach Buggy I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the automotive industry could use more whimsy. You know who understands that better than almost anyone? The French, of course. French cars have always been a bit out-there, a bit iconoclastic, and always with a heaping helping of cool. The relatively unknown Renault Rodéo is… Read more…

Trump’s 25 Percent Tariffs Are Throwing The Auto Industry Into Disarray Before They’re Even Here President Donald Trump has a certain knack for throwing people and sectors into disarray and panic, and that remains true for the automotive industry. It’s waiting with bated breath to see if his threats to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico this weekend will actually go into effect. Car… Read more…

Livestream View Of Earth From ISS Reminds You Not To Sweat The Small Stuff The view of Earth from space is a sight that’s historically been reserved for a select few. So far, just a handful of specially trained astronauts and billionaires have been able to watch the Earth from outer space, but now a new camera rig onboard the International Space Station is hoping to change that. Read more…

I’m Going From Small And Sporty To Family Friendly! What Car Should I Buy? Ian has been driving older, smaller, sporty cars for a while. Now that a kiddo will be joining the household, he wants something more family-friendly that can accommodate a car seat, luggage, and three dogs. With a budget of around $60,000, what car should he buy? Read more…

Trump Tariffs Could Raise Gas Prices By 70 Cents Per Gallon President Donald Trump has promised, among other things, two big ideas: 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, and lower gas prices. Unfortunately, it seems like those two may be at odds — new reports say that Trump’s tariffs on crude oil from those two countries could make American gas prices surge by… Read more…

Neighborhood-Consuming Sinkhole In Japan Traps Truck Driver For 3 Days And Counting A sinkhole opened up in the middle of an intersection in Japan on Tuesday and, unfortunately, a truck and its 74-year-old driver were swallowed during the dramatic incident. He is still trapped down there and emergency responders haven’t been able to communicate with him. If you know anything about survival… Read more…

‘Feeling Blue’ And Other Terms We Regularly Use From The Age Of Sail The etymology, or origin, of words and phrases we say every day come from all over the place. What’s really surprising is how often the things we say all the time can trace the roots back to the sea and ships, specifically. Read more…

Renault Filante Concept Looks Straight Out Of ‘Speed Racer’ And Is Going After Real-Life Efficiency Records Concept cars are typically flights of fancy that preview upcoming design ideas or features, but in recent years there has been an exciting increase in the number of concepts that are not only actually functional, but have been put to the test on race tracks and in the real world. You’ve got the Mercedes-Benz EQXX,… Read more…

BSA Motorcycles Then And Now: What Happened? BSA Motorcycles are on the verge of a comeback, reviving the heritage of the brand’s 1960s heyday — by 1969, the conglomerate of BSA and Triumph made up 80 percent of Britain’s overseas motorcycle sales. Yet, by 1971 the company was deeply in debt, and by 1973 production stopped altogether. What happened? Read more…

Ford Announces Return To Le Mans’ Top Class After Over 50-Year Absence Ford versus Ferrari is set for a 21st-century revival. The Blue Oval is the latest automaker to join the stampede of factory top-class endurance racing efforts. Ford announced Thursday night that it will build an LMDh prototype to compete in the 2027 24 Hours of Le Mans. Read more…

Pay Dispute Leaves California Airport Without Air Traffic Controllers Mere days after Trump gutted the FAA and one of the worst aviation disasters in over 20 years occurred in U.S. airspace, chaos could be looming at another airport on the West Coast. A Northern California airport will lose its air traffic controllers after workers and airport officials couldn’t come to an agreement… Read more…

Here Are All The Great Places Readers Say They Would Teleport To With Their Cars There are so many fantastic driving roads out there in the world, and plenty of incredible cars to use in finding joy while driving them. Earlier this week we put forth a dream scenario in which you could teleport to anywhere in the world with your own car for a delightful 24 hour period of driving, and asked your… Read more…