
The Wild Concept To Fix Air Travel By Stacking Passengers On Top Of Each Other Is Back, And Somehow Slightly More Reasonable
If you’ve flown economy in a modern airliner, you’re acutely aware of how small plane seats are. You get a sliver of space on a





I Would Pay To See This Episode Of Antiques Roadshow: COTD
I have a few media guilty pleasures. One of them is that I spend several hours a week watching police chases to analyze where criminals

It Sure Looks Like Hyundai Is Testing A Weapon To Surpass The Civic Type R
The Hyundai Elantra N is almost five years old and it’s still one of the most fun new cars you can buy under $75,000. Not

Mopar Now Has Car Parts For Your Dog But Some Of Them Are Cheaper Elsewhere
It’s genuinely amazing how a portmanteau of “motor” and “parts” became a strong enough household name for people to get it tattooed on their bodies.

What’s The Best Convertible?
If your first impulse is to answer that question with another question – namely, “What counts as a convertible?” – don’t worry about it. As

Smart Is Finally Showing The World The True Fortwo Successor And I’m Irrationally Excited
Smart has spent the past several years rebooting its brand. Thus far, we’ve seen a flurry of all-electric SUVs, a sedan, and even a hybrid

We’re In A New Golden Age Of Obscure Cars And Barely Even Know It
It’s no secret that the car industry’s in a big moment of upheaval. Between instances of financials strife and big shifts in business plans, a

GM Is Reportedly Delaying New Full-Size Electric Trucks As It Pivots Back To Gas-Powered Trucks And Hybrids
General Motors has the fullest line of full-size electric trucks of anyone in the world, I think. Chinese automakers do have EV trucks and SUVs,

The Wild Concept To Fix Air Travel By Stacking Passengers On Top Of Each Other Is Back, And Somehow Slightly More Reasonable
If you’ve flown economy in a modern airliner, you’re acutely aware of how small plane seats are. You get a sliver of space on a

I Forgot I Made A Weird Painting With A Dead Comedian And A Citroën 2CV In It About 20 Years Ago
Just in case you may have thought my fixations with Citroën 2CVs was a recent affectation, I promise you this is not the case, and

It Takes 20 People Over Three Days To Paint The New 7-Series If You Order Two-Tone Paint
BMW is giving its flagship 7 Series a big fat makeover for 2027. The latest in the company’s onslaught of the “Neue Klasse” redesign of

Pick A Broad-Shouldered Truck: 2005 Chevy Suburban vs 2005 GMC Sierra
Good morning! Today’s platform of choice is the mighty GMT800, which, though GM executives and engineers may not want to hear it, may very well

Tornadoes Don’t Work As They Do In The Movies: COTD
So much of America is dealing with tornadoes right now, and preparedness is the key to your best chance at getting through this in one

This Mostly Forgotten 1982 VW Concept Car Had Traits That Are Wonderful And Largely Absent From Modern Cars
If you’ve been reading my ramblings about cars for a while, you know there are a number of concepts that I keep returning to when

The ’70s Oil Crisis Was So Bad That Saab Damaged Its Own Engines By Running Them On Kerosene
One of the main drivers in the Finnish automotive landscape has always been cost-of-operation. Traditionally, we’ve had expensive fuel and considerable taxation, and the cold

Shipping My Jeep J10 To Michigan To Find A Buyer Was A Huge Mistake
After being unable to sell my 1985 Jeep J10 in California — a place that requires emissions tests and that does not tolerate even minor

Have I Been Gaslit Into Thinking The Mitsubishi Outlander Is Bad? It’s Actually Good
As a professional (depending on who you ask) automotive journalist and an amateur skeptic, I should be less susceptible to conventional wisdom about cars than

Illinois Has Been Hit By 88 Tornadoes This Year And It’s So Bad I’ve Spent Considerable Time In A Storm Shelter With My Parrots And Car Keys
This year’s storm season has been rather explosive. In the past few days alone, more than 35 million Americans from Texas to Wisconsin have been

The Long Beach Grand Prix Is The Most Fun and Photogenic Event This Side of the Mississipi
It’s the spring of 2020, and I’m at the old Hi-Fi bar in downtown Tucson with my friends, having a good old-fashioned brunch day with

‘Drive It Like You Stole It’ Taken Literally As Police Chase Cuts Through Race Course
I absolutely love autocrossing. Standing in an empty parking lot as cars fly through, with drivers pushing their cars and tires to within centimeters of

How Chinese Brands Are Using Influencers To Convince Americans They Want Chinese Cars
In The Manchurian Candidate, an American soldier is brainwashed by Chinese intelligence and becomes a sleeper agent for that country’s communist government. If only they’d have







