UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Works For TrueCar Police are questioning a suspect in last week’s shooting of United Health Group CEO Brian Thompson. On Monday TrueCar date engineer Luigi Mangione was arrested on gun charges at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone recognized the man from images released by the NYPD following the shooting. Read more…

21-Year-Old’s Used Camaro Deal Is One Of The Worst I’ve Ever Seen After last week’s dealership storyinvolving a customer nearly $30,000 upside-down on a Genesis they wanted to trade in on a Mercedes GLS, I thought I wouldn’t see anything that could top it for a while. I was wrong. A 21-year-old first-time car buyer got into one of the worst used car deals I’ve seen, on a used Chevy… Read more…

Michigan Hyundai Dealer Admits Leasing Used Cars As New Ones, Other Violations Car dealerships aren’t known to look out for the best interests of their customers; in fact they’re usually better known for gleefully encouraging folks to make some of the worst financial decisions of their lives. LaFontaine Hyundai in Detroit suburb Livonia, Michigan, had its license reinstated last week after it… Read more…

Toyota’s Dumb Jock Robot Set A Guinness Record For Basketball, But It Will Never Be ASIMO When Honda’s ASIMO died, he left a hole in our hearts shaped like a four-foot-tall spacesuit-looking bipedal robot. Now Toyota has tried to fill that hole with some jock ‘bot who plays basketball well enough to win a Guinness World Record, and I’m here to say: We can tell you tried to swap out the goldfish, and we’re… Read more…

Mercedes-AMG PureSpeed Goes Into Production With An F1 Halo And 195-MPH Top Speed Let’s face it, the ultra-rich have it pretty rough these days. How are the millionairesand billionaires of the world expected to choose what exclusive limited-runspecial edition cars to add to their collections? Those folks really just can’t catch a break, because now Mercedes-AMG’s first Mythos series model, the… Read more…

Every Honda CR-X Should Have Come With Two Engines The Honda CR-X was an economy car ahead of its time. Its chassis was well-designed and the weight was stripped back, making it a fun and exciting driver, while still keeping to its fuel sipping roots. But what would happen if you put an engine in the back hatch to power the rear wheels? That might turn the little… Read more…

United Healthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Works For TrueCar Police are questioning a suspect in last week’s shooting of United Health Group CEO Brian Thompson. On Monday TrueCar date engineer Luigi Mangione was arrested on gun charges at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone recognized the man from images released by the NYPD following the shooting. Read more…

Truck Spills Lumber in Highway ‘Avalanche,’ Taking Out Car And Unlocking New Fear A driver in Pennsylvania was caught up in a crash that looked straight out of a horror movie last week when a truck carrying lumber overturned and threw its load across the road. The pile of lumber flew over I-83, sideswiping a car and forcing it off the highway in the process. A tractor-trailer loaded up with lumber… Read more…

The Hyundai Palisade and Kia Telluride Are Excellent Used Car Values Under $35,000 You probably remember when the Hyundai Palisade and Kia Telluride were some of the hottest family crossovers on the market. Demand far outpaced supply, and many customers paid well over MSRP for these three-row SUVs. With upgraded versions on the horizon, it’s a good time to remind you that you don’t need to spend a… Read more…

Learning Things The Hard, Painful Way Is A Key Component Of Wrenching Forgive me readers, for I’ve been foolish. In an effort to make my little hybrid econobox a bit more fun to drive and even cooler to look at, I ordered up some progressive rate lowering springs and H&R sway bars from ECS Tuning. There isn’t much information out there on modifying an Audi A3 E-Tron, so I wastaking a… Read more…

American Arrested For Bringing Golden Handgun To Clown School, Sentenced To A Year In Australian Jail Here in America, we love two things: Guns and clowns. Those seem to us to be pretty universal points of adoration, yet it seems other countries aren’t quite so fond of them. When an enterprising American woman tried to combine the two at an Australian clown school, she was arrested for “illegally importing” her… Read more…

Missouri Has The Most Dangerous Traffic Laws In The U.S. An advocacy organization just concluded a study into which of the states in the U.S. has the worst traffic laws, and hands down the answer was Missouri. Researchers say if the laws there don’t change, more people will die on the state’s roads. Read more…

These Were The Greatest Formula 1 Seasons Of All Time According To Readers Formula 1 wrapped up another year with a weirdly entertaining Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that saw the constructors title come down to the wire, an emotional split between Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes oh and, oh,Valtteri Bottas also ran his last F1 race. Read more…

Yeah, You Can Probably Ride A 100-Year Old Motorcycle To Work If You Aren’t Boring “Agricultural, weird, old, stinky. Yeah, but it’s really cool.” They just don’t build them like they used to, and that’s probably with good reason. If you’re looking for a bike with a certain hard edged feel, a unique flavor, and difficult-to-ride-factor there’s probably not much cooler, unique, or difficult to ride… Read more…

Henrik Fisker Please Stop Doing This To Yourself Henrik Fisker is at it again. This time, instead of being the head of a bankrupt car company that’s selling broken EVs that he designed, he’s getting into the food business. Read more…

Best Platform Sharing, Car-Related App And F1 Season In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Platform sharing is all but necessary to run a successful car company in the modern world, but which automakers have done it best? Last week we asked you that exciting question and you sounded off. From the logical answers to the absurd, our readers didn’t disappoint. – Logan Carter Read More Read more…

Airbus Wants Pilots To Fly From The John, Luxury Cruise Passengers Go On Hunger Strike And The Voyager Probes Are Dying In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup When airlines are in serious financial trouble, they start furloughing pilots. Airbus is working to transform the desperate measure of reducing operations costs into a sales pitch for its planes. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) claims the European aerospace giant is proposing putting a toilet in the cockpit to… Read more…

An Affordable Jaguar, Least Reliable Vehicles And The Best EV For A Cheapskate In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup Jaguar is looking to turn a page and move in a radical new direction. While its rebranding gained polarizing reactions, the new EV concept is intriguing. The last time Jaguar had this much buzz was when it launched the F-type coupe and convertible and, if you are in the market for an old-school sports car, these… Read more…

Elon Musk Loses His $56 Billion Pay Day, Flooded McLarens In Florida And Americans Love Hybrids In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the country earlier this year, wrecking houses, bursting river banks and flooding cars. Lots and lots of cars. Now, some of those flood-damaged vehicles are turning up at auctions, including real bedroom poster cars from the likes of McLaren, Porsche and Lamborghini. – Owen… Read more…

Underwater Car Shoppers, Rogue Teslas And The Deadliest Cars On The Road In This Week’s News Roundup Americans owe trillions in car payments and the last few years have shown that people are willing to accept life ruining payments to be able to drive what they want. A recent video of a customer at a Mercedes dealership showed in real time just how wildly financially irresponsible folks who get into these car buying… Read more…