This Street-Legal GT3 Cup Is The 911 R Porsche Should Have Built Leave it to incredibly talented hot rodders in Japan to build a ridiculously fun but extremely uncomfortable street car from an old Porsche factory-built race car. This 996-generation Porsche 911 started life as the 89th GT3 to drive off the assembly line way back in 1999, and was quickly conscripted into the on-track… Read more…

This Complete Tear Down And Rebuild Of An Audi W12 Is Automotive ASMR Volkswagen Group’s W12 engine was one of the most complex powertrains to ever be put into a vehicle. There’s a reason why you’d probably want to steer clear of one of these things if you find them used. Maintenance and fuel costs are high, and some owners even had serious problems with things like oil consumption. One… Read more…

You Can Buy The Last Great Jaguar Sports Car For Less Than A Miata 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…

Car Brands That Cost The Least To Maintain And Repair Over 10 Years According To Consumer Reports One of the great things about buying a brand new car is that everything should work, and if it doesn’t, the warranty will cover those repairs. In fact, you might even be able to lend it to a friend or family member to drive without having to give them an entire rundown of the weird tricks they need to know in order to… Read more…

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: What Do You Want To Know? I’m about to drive one of the most controversial cars of the 2020s that isn’t a Cybertruck. That’s right, I’m getting behind the wheel of the all-new and all-electricDodge Charger Daytona, Fratzonic “exhaust” and all. Before I take this massively powerful out on the roads of Phoenix and on the track, I want to know… Read more…

Edmunds Lost $57,000 On A Fisker Ocean In Less Than A Year Against all odds, the first Fisker Ocean rolled off the production line a little over two years ago. It was supposed to be the car that brought Henrik Fisker back into the limelight as the CEO of a new electric car company. Soon, Fisker’s poor management would drive his EV startup into bankruptcy, leaving owners… Read more…

2025 Subaru WRX tS Is As Close To An STI As We’re Going To Get When the latest Subaru WRX debuted a few years back, it was immediately the subject of controversy, and not only because of its plastic body cladding. Folks were annoyed that Subaru made the odd decision to lock performance bits like drive modes and Recaro seats into the top-trim WRX GT… which was only available with… Read more…

Near-Bankrupt KTM Owes $3 Billion, “Pauses” MotoGP Program Austrian motorcycle giant and maker of the X-Bow sports car KTM is on the verge of bankruptcy and will begin a “self-administration” restructuring process to avoid dissolution. A big part of the company’s big money-saving efforts will see the MotoGP effort on the chopping block. KTM, which also owns motorcycle… Read more…

Most Embarrassing Cars, Best After-Dinner Cruisers And F1’s Next Automaker In This Week’s QOTD Roundup We’re living in embarrassing times, folks, which means you’re probably better off if your car isn’t embarrassing as well. Unfortunately for some, there are a lot of vehicles out there that are downright humiliating to be caught behind the wheel of. That’s what led me to my question from last week. – Andy Kalmowitz Read… Read more…

Abandoned Underground Bases, Decades-Long Mysteries And Potential Russian Sabotage In This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Back in 1959, the Army Corp of Engineers carved its own Echo Base into the Greenland ice as a testbed for launching nuclear missiles from Arctic locations. The base was abandoned in 1967, but a new scan from NASA shows it’s still sitting 100 feet below the ice — along with all its radioactive waste. – Amber DaSilva Re… Read more…

Cheap Honda Prologues, A Screaming Chicken And Ken Block Subaru WRX STI In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup While the EV market is experiencing rapid sales growth, many car buyers still prefer hybrids as they benefit from reduced fuel usage but don’t have to worry about a charging infrastructure still in development. Honda lease shoppers on the fence between EV and hybrid would be wise to compare the programs as a much more … Read more…

Trucker Drops Lambo, California Drops Tesla From Future And A ‘Keep Moving’ Sign Meets It End In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup The United States may not have the kinds of pre-Christian mega-structure buildings that exist in nearly every other corner of the globe. No, we aren’t living amongst the gorgeous marble altars to a pantheon of gods, or the crumbling remains of towering temples or palaces. But what we lack in vintage we’re more than… Read more…

Three Die Via Google Maps, HOA Woes And A New New Toyota Celica Is Underway In This Week’s News Roundup Three people have been killed in India after the route they were following on Google Maps reportedly took them over the edge of a damaged bridge. The three men drove off the bridge crossing the Ramganga River in northern India, despite the span being badly damaged earlier this year. – Owen Bellwood Read More Read more…

Ride Onboard For The Aston Martin Valkyrie’s Record-Breaking Silverstone Lap The Aston Martin Valkyrie was penned by Formula 1 design ace Adrian Newey, uses tech derived from top-tier racing and creates enough downforce to drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel, in theory. Because of all that, it’s incredibly fast on a race track and the multi-million-dollar hypercar has now set a new lap… Read more…

2024 Nissan Rogue Is The Most Crossover Crossover To Ever Crossover The 2024 Nissan Rogue isn’t a car for folks like you and me. We’re more into things that lights our souls on fire, makes us fizz or any other number of cliches, but stuff like that isn’t important to the vast majority of car buyers. Most buyers just want something that is reasonably priced, well thought out and has… Read more…

Watch An Abandoned Subaru WRX Come Roaring Back To Life If you’re too full of turkey and marshmallow-topped sweet potato to function, you’ve got a few options to make yourself feel better. You could go for a run to try and burn off all that food, you might head to the garage to hide from your family, or you could watch this mesmerizing video of a Subaru WRX getting… Read more…

Tired Of Your Family? Watch This Video About The Rise And Fall Of The Limousine Growing up as a car-obsessed child, my family knew that all I ever wanted was books about cars, shows about cars, and movies about cars. From books about construction equipment to VHS tapes about supercars, I consumed as much automotive media as possible, but there was one form of vehicle that always reigned supreme: t… Read more…

The Blue And Gold Subaru Rally Cars You Love Owe Their Style To A Cigarette Company Rothmans. Marlboro. John Player Special. The best liveries in motorsports come from cigarette companies, and that holds true even for distinctive paint jobs on street cars. Next time you see a World Rally Blue WRX or STI on gold wheels, you can thank State Express 555 cigarettes. Read more…

Character Goes Beyond Any One Car Earlier this year, I spent nearly 1,000 miles in a Lexus LC 500 coupe on a road trip to visit my old college town. It was a fantastic road trip companion, a car I could’ve spent days and days in, but there was something more to it than that: Familiarity. Somehow, this $111,550 car — something I could never afford to… Read more…

At $39,900, Is This 1973 Mercedes 280SEL 4.5 A Big Benz Bargain? While coated in fresh “mellow yellow” paint, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Mercedes is anything but mellow in either presentation or price. Let’s see how much green we might all think it should actually cost. Read more…