Honda Made A Small EV With 81 Miles Of Range Nearly 30 Years Ago
Honda has been doing big things with alternative fuels for decades now. While models like the game changing first-gen Insight and theAccord and Civic Hybrids from the early 2000s put Honda’s electrification efforts into the mainstream public’s awareness, few may realize that Honda started down this path right before…
Wild 'Conveyor Belt Road' Coming To Japan
Japan is looking to up its world-leading mass transit game with a “conveyor belt road” meant to be a 320-mile automated cargo transport corridor that will link Tokyo and Osaka. This “autoflow road” is being built in an effort to make up for Japan’s delivery capacity shortage.
Next-Generation Mazda Miata Will Be Electric With A Rotary Range Extender
Every day the automotive industry brings us closer to a world without sports cars, or coupes of any kind for that matter. Mazda is working diligently to prevent such an eventuality from coming to pass. Since its 1989 introduction the MX-5 has become one of the most successful sports cars in history, and while the…
Hyundai Research Proves The People Demand Real Buttons And Knobs
Back in the 1900s, automakers realized they could save a lot of money if they used the same buttons and knobs across various brands. Then Tesla changed the game again, sticking essentially all of the vehicle controls on a cheap touchscreen. Many other automakers soon followed suit and largely abandoned physical…
Tesla’s Meme Stock Soars To $1 Trillion Market Cap After Trump’s Win
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Is An Old Porsche Cayman The Best Starting Point For A Rally Car?
Since the Porsche Cayman was introduced two decades ago, it has played second string in the sports car lineup to Porsche vaunted 911. Here’s the thing, though, it’s actually a better car for most applications. While Porsche never really gave the car enough power to compete with its older siblings on track, the…
Highway Worker Jumps For His Life As Rental Truck Smashes Into Work Zone
A New York State Department Of Transportation worker was left running for their life last month when an out of control rental truck smashed into a work zone last month. A Penske box truck crashed into the side of a DOT truck on the side of a highway in upstate New York seconds after a worker had been standing right…
Traffic Jams: Naethan Apollo - 'Pretty Boy'
I spent this weekend driving all over the state with my younger sister. She introduced me to a ton of music that the kids enjoy, and this guy cracked me up in several particular ways. Enjoy a weirdly charming dude who just wants to be your babe.
What Cars Should Automakers Build After Elon Musk Kills The Pesky NHTSA?
Elon Musk will be in charge of the federal budget next year, from which he’s promised to cut a truly impossible amount of money. But you don’t find $2 trillion just by cutting your entire staff so nothing works except your burned-out employees — you need to take more drastic measures, like cutting the things that cost…
NASCAR 'Could Care Less' If Michael Jordan's Team Is On The Grid In 2025
Embroiled in a legal battle with the sanctioning body, 23XI Racing had its sights on winning its first NASCAR championship this weekend with Tyler Reddick driving the 45 car. Unfortunately Reddick’s sixth place finish fell just short of Team Penske’s Joey Logano, who won the race and the championship in the final…
Cops Jump Cruiser At 100 MPH During Traffic Stop Chase
Arkansas State Police were filmed jumping a Dodge Charger cruiser at more than 100 mph last month during a traffic stop turned car chase. The officers almost hit a telephone pole and finally stopped when they realized they’d badly damaged their cruiser in the chase, begging the question: what was it all for?
At $20,000, Is This 1964 ‘Lotus Seven’ An Insanely Good Deal?
In the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu announces, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” With its V8 engine, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Lotus Seven-style roadster fully embodies that apocryphal Mantra. Let’s see how destructive buying it would be to one’s bank account.
Cool Badges, Irrelevant Automakers And The Worst Things You've Ever Done To Your Car In This Week's QOTD Roundup
It can be challenging to gauge the relevance of any automaker, but you can generally feel it. For example, how many recent Jaguars do you see on the road? When was the last time you’ve seen anyone get excited for a Chrysler that wasn’t a 300? You know, the Chrysler 300, the vehicle famous for resembling a car…
'Carrot Kissing' Llamas At The Airport! It's This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup
Since The Boring Company began operating in 2017 it has announced massive car tunnel projects all over the world, including Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Jose, Chicago, San Bernardino and even Sydney, Australia. There have been discussions about hundreds more, but the Texas-based tunnel company has, so far, only…
A Free Fiat, A Fancy Ultima GTR And A Manual Plymouth Colt Vista In This Week's Car Buying Roundup
The Fiat 500e is small, electric and starts a little under $35,000. It’s also more spacious than the old 500e and comes with significantly more range. Unfortunately for Fiat, there aren’t a lot of places in the U.S. where its small size is an advantage, so it’s a little surprising that Fiat decided to offer it…
The Fuel Door Location Debate Rages In This Week's Car Culture Roundup
More than 1.7 million packages go missing in America every day, whether they get lost in transit or are swiped from your stoop while you’re out and about. Not wanting to add to that stat, a Tesla Cybertruck driver chased after a porch pirate who allegedly swiped one of their packages, forcing them off the road and…
Rudy Giuliani's Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week's News Roundup
Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000 miles per business day.…
Bentley's First EV Will Be Its Smallest Car Ever, And More Luxury Brands Should Follow Suit
Bentley has pushed back its plans to have its entire lineup be fully electric only from 2030 to 2035, but the brand is still working hard on its first EV production model, which will be revealed in 2026 and go on sale in 2027. Not only will the new electric SUV be in a segment that Bentley has never competed in…
Off-Road Hellcat 4x4 Fixes Every Problem You Had With The Dodge Challenger
Dodge sold the Challenger for 15 years and never gave it a full redesign. Depsite that, it sold well for a coupe and eventually proved even more popular than the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro. Over the years, Dodge made a long series of improvements and offered the Challenger with more special editions than many…
The Time For Reason Has Ended. Buy A Heavily Depreciated V10, Why Not?
Reason and logic are out. Emotions are in. So I say throw caution to the wind and buy this heavily depreciated 2008 Audi S6 over on Cars & Bids. You know, the good one with the V10.
