
I Bought This Low-Mileage Jeep Grand Cherokee For Only $1,700 After Realizing My ‘Holy Grail’ Project Is Doomed
“David, can you please fix the garage?” my wife Elise asked me on Sunday. “You barely have any time to do house stuff, and today





Where Eagles Peep: COTD
Today’s story about the rental car ridiculousness reminded me of a scary bill I once received from, hmm, I want to say Enterprise. Doesn’t matter.

I Can’t Believe This Very Famous VW Beetle From An Old ’60s Ad Is Not Only Still Around, But My Friend Bought It
When I was a kid, I was as Volkswagen Beetle obsessed as I am today. Maybe even more so, because the pool of cars I

Avis Seems To Think Driver Capable Of Averaging 112 MPH Over 24 Hours For Seven Days, Bills Accordingly
I don’t think I’ve ever paid what I expected to pay when renting a car. It’s always X dollars a day, and I’m going to

What Cars Seemed Like They Belonged To The Wrong Brand?
Give someone a car brand and ask them to name a car from that brand, and you’ll probably get some highly expected answers. Ford probably

Cadillac F1’s Texas-Themed Paint Scheme Perpetuates One Texan Stereotype That Really Bothers Me
The United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas was the first Formula One race I ever attended and therefore has a special

I Bought This Low-Mileage Jeep Grand Cherokee For Only $1,700 After Realizing My ‘Holy Grail’ Project Is Doomed
“David, can you please fix the garage?” my wife Elise asked me on Sunday. “You barely have any time to do house stuff, and today

I Brought My 325k-Mile Range Rover To The Dealer And Oh My God It’s So Much Worse Than I Expected
When you buy a used car, especially one well out of warranty and advanced in age, it’s generally accepted that a pre-purchase inspection (PPI) is

I Just Learned What The First Chimp In Space Did While He Was Up There, And What Was Up His Rectum
My friend and longtime collaborator Carrie McLaren, who I’ve been working with since the ’90s ‘zine boom, has a new physical ‘zine she’s writing and publishing

Chinese Carmakers Now Making Lots Of SUVs Look Like A Land Rover
I think it’s been forgotten with time that American automakers in the ’50s and ’60s were impressively quick to develop cars that followed trends, with

America’s Newest Affordable Motorcycle Is The Hottest Version Of A Legend That’s Technically Been Around For 94 Years
Motorcycle companies love boasting about their heritage. Indian prints “since 1901” on each of its engines, while Harley-Davidson is proud to have been around continuously

The All-Hybrid 2027 Lexus NX Is Improved In All The Right Ways – But It’s Not Alone
Despite hybrids being so hot right now and compact luxury crossovers being so hot right now, the overlap in the resulting Venn diagram has historically

Which One Looks Like More Fun? 1989 Chrysler TC By Maserati vs 1992 Nissan NX 1600
The great thing about doing this job is that it’s something I was doing anyway, looking at classified ads for crappy old cars and annoying

When You Can Use A Calendar To Measure 60 MPH Acceleration: COTD
The cars of today are all hot rods. Everything from family minivans to budget electric sedans can gallop to 60 mph faster than some classic

Why I’m Trying To Convince My Wife To Buy The Toyota bZ4X, One Of The ‘Worst’ Modern EVs
My wife, a longtime Lexus fan, wants a bigger, newer car that’s electric, but there’s a problem: There are no 3-row EVs available from Toyota.

The 2027 Volkswagen Golf GTI Makes Me Wonder Why The Hell Hot Hatches Aren’t Everywhere
Why is the SUV/crossover the dominant form of car in the world right now? When did we, collectively, decide that? Because I don’t recall being

New York City Is Suing A Popular Car-Buying Website, Alleging It ‘Deceives Consumers’ About The Prices Of Cars Sold By Dealerships
CarGurus is a popular car shopping platform that allows users to find and research cars across the country. The platform seems especially useful in helping

Rivian Just Showed BMW How To Do A Movie Tie-In That Doesn’t Piss People Off
BMW drew the ire of many autojournalists and, presumably, some car owners when it put what was essentially an advertisement for the new Spider-Man movie

It Turns Out Galpin Motors Is Going To Be The Distributor For Those Perfect Ford Escort Mk1 RS And RS200 Recreations That I Am A Little Obsessed With
Oh boy. Ohhh … boy. Oh. Boy. I got some potentially great and/or potentially ruinous news last week, and it’s officially out there now, so

This Guy Is Endurance-Racing 1:64 Diecast Cars On A Belt Sander And The Cars Have Been Running 29 Days Nonstop – Watch Live!
I can say with near certainty that we’ve all raced 1/64 die-cast cars at some point. Hot Wheels, specifically, but Matchbox surely got track time

What Would Be The Plot, Songs, And Cast Of ‘Autopian-The Musical’?
From a bunch of Billy Joel hits to a chess match, it appears that anything can be an excuse to string a few songs together







