These Are Your Favorite Songs About Cars The other day, I asked you, dear readers, about your favorite songs about or mentioning a car. I was sincerely curious to know since I’m big into cars and music, but for some reason it never occurred to me to sit and think about just how many songs have been made about a car. It turns out there are way more than I… Read more…

South Korea Flash Floods Trap Cars In Tunnel, Killing 13 South Korea has had to deal with torrential rainfall over the past several days. Nearly two feet of rain falling across the country has caused flooding and landslides, destroying buildings and roads. The storms have killed 40 people so far, with many still reported missing. The most significant loss of life has been… Read more…

Dealers Now Have Nearly Two Million New Cars Sitting On Their Lots New-vehicle inventory at dealers in the U.S. is continuing its slow and steady climb upward as production around the world recovers following the brunt of the pandemic. According to Automotive News, that trend was no different in June, and unsold electric vehicles are a big reason why. Read more…

Callaway Cars Founder Reeves Callaway Has Died At 75 Callaway Cars announced today that founder Ely Reeves Callaway III passed away on Tuesday, July 11 at his home in Newport Beach, California. His cause of death is said to be “from injuries sustained after a fall.” He was 75. Read more…

Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown Definitely Looks Like A Game In Which You Drive Expensive Cars In An Open World Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown sure has taken quite a while to get here, from the earliest rumblings of the game’s development way back in 2016 to the initial tease in 2020 and a string of missed release targets since. All that time, we hadn’t seen actual gameplay footage — until this week. Publisher Nacon and… Read more…

Regulators Will Soon Decide If GM Can Unleash 2,500 Self-Driving Cars Into The World U.S. regulators are reportedly on the verge of deciding on a petition filed by General Motors’ Cruise self-driving technology division that would let the company deploy as many as 2,500 self-driving vehicles per year with no human controller. According to Reuters, the petition – which was originally filed in November… Read more…

Hyundai Is Finally Hiring Women To Build Cars In Korea Hyundai has hired six women as technicians at one of its assembly plants in South Korea, marking the first time the company has allowed women to apply as line workers since 1967 when the company was started. The South Korean carmaker recently began accepting applications from women due to pressure from the Korean… Read more…

LPT: Introverts: Don’t Test Drive New Cars How do you get the best deal when purchasing a car? This is the “tactic” my dad always uses and I’ve used myself with great results. I expect some of you might disagree or better yet, offer your own method. So let’s start a discussion! First thing is to do some research and come up with a price that you are willing to pay for the car. You are lo…

NYC Man Allegedly Learns That Towing Someone Else’s Cars And Selling Them For Scrap Is Illegal We’ve covered before just how sketchy towing companies can be, from targeting specific groups of people to auctioning off vehicles of deployed service members. But imagine if someone went and created their own tow truck company for their own schemes. It’d be a lot worse. But that’s what one man might have done. The … Read more…

Flooding In The Northeast Is Destroying Roads And Washing Away Cars Since Sunday, torrential rains in the Northeast have caused flooding that is destroying roads, turning streets into rivers that wash away cars and damaging homes. And while that sounds pretty bad on its own, the videos that people have posted showing the damage make it look even worse than you would have originally… Read more…

Stellantis Wants To Build 1 Million Cars Annually In Italy It wasn’t so long ago that Stellantis, that astronomical name to which we’ve all grown accustomed, was two separate companies: Fiat-Chrysler and Peugeot. In merging the Italian-American conglomerate with the French one, Stellantis formed as a sort of nation-agnostic automaker based financially in Amsterdam, but… Read more…

Ferrari’s Le Mans Winning Hypercar Might Inspire Three New Road Cars We’re always told that one of the benefits of top-tier racing is that the tech they use on track could one day trickle down into the cars you and I might drive. This worked for Mercedes, which put its F1 engine in the AMG One and Jaguar has taken its Formula E tech into its EVs. But now, Ferrari looks to be taking… Read more…

Porsche is updating how CarPlay works in its cars, adding climate controls and more The My Porsche app allows CarPlay to set up Siri controls, adjust climate settings, and more. | Image: PorschePorsche is releasing an iPhone app update that gives drivers a taste of what future CarPlay can look like — including new buttons for climate, interior lighting, and other controls. The automaker’s My Porsche iOS app connects with the ca…

Used Cars Keep Getting Cheaper For Dealers, Not So Much For You Last month, the average price of vehicles sold at Manheim’s wholesale auctions was 10.3 percent lower than it had been in June 2022. After three consecutive months of falling prices, analysts are starting believe the used car market is set to stabilize. That’s the good news. Read more…

The Coolest Normal Cars On Sale Right Now, According To You It’s a great time to be a car person, isn’t it? I don’t think there’s ever been a time in history with so many interesting and cool cars on sale at the same time. Because of that fact (read: my opinion), there are a ton of relatively normal cars that are also interesting and cool. It’s what led us to our question from… Read more…

Rolls Royce Has Had It With Buyers Flipping Its Cars By now, I’m sure you’re as tired as I am of reading reports about those lucky few who get their hands on a shiny new electric vehicle in the first wave of deliveries, only to sell them at an inflated price on platforms like Bring A Trailer and Cars & Bids. It’s a bizarre way to make a buck, and it turns out Rolls… Read more…

Chevy Corvette Z06, Ford Ranchero, Honda Silverwing: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online When making this slideshow every week, I’m always trying to find ways to keep it interesting. Themes, bits, anything unique to differentiate one week’s list from the last. I want to give you all a reason to tune in, something beyond my desperate longing for Land Cruisers that I can’t afford. Read more…

Tesla Is Doing A Referral Program Again To Sell More Cars Tesla is resorting to some old tricks to move cars as more competition joins the field, with a new global program to give prospective buyers an extra incentive to choose a Tesla through referrals from existing customers. Read more…

The Worst-Selling Cars In The U.S. In 2023 So Far So far this year, Ford has sold more than half a million F-Series pickup trucks. The Chevrolet Silverado isn’t even close, with a little more than a quarter-million trucks sold this year. Heck, even if you combine Tesla Model 3 and Model Y sales, those two still don’t beat the F-Series. Read more…

These Were The Cars That Defined The 2000s If you had to sum up the 2000s in one car, which car would it be? That was the question we posed to you fine folks earlier this week, and you responded with a number of excellent answers, as you always do. Some of you took the question in a more figurative sense, and named vehicles that embodied trends or the story of… Read more…