The Protests Over Liberty Mutual’s Weird Mascot Are A Reminder How Weird The Car Insurance Marketing World Is
There’s some strange goings-on in the car insurance advertising world right now, and that’s saying something, since the whole genre of car insurance is a
Which FWD Coupe Is More Your Style? 1980 Lancia Beta vs 1989 Buick Reatta
Good morning! We’re going to start out my favorite month with a couple of uncommon front-wheel-drive coupes. One is Italian, and the other just has
I Drove A Ford Mustang For The First Time, Now I Know Why It’s Been One Of America’s Favorite Cars For Over 60 Years
The popularity of America’s fabled pony cars has waxed and waned over the decades. We’ve lost beloved nameplates like the Mercury Cougar, the Mercury Capri,
This Crazy Startup Company Thinks The Future Of Motorcycles Is This Weird Plug-In Hybrid Bike
It’s sometimes said that motorcycle technology lags behind the best that automakers can dish out. Indeed, motorcycles often get gadgets that car owners take for
Two Decades Ago, Jeep Started Selling Right-Hand Drive Wranglers In America. How Big Of A Discount Would It Take For You To Drive One?
As a diehard Jeep nut, I tend to get random texts from friends when they see a cool Jeep. Recently, I received a message recently
These Are The Times Automotive Engineers Did You Dirty (But Was It Really Their Fault?)
Sometimes you just know an Ask is going to really light up the comments, and I fully expected yesterday’s invitation to spout off about knuckle-skinning,
In The Great Depression, Engineers Tried To Make Farming Life Not Suck By Combining A Tractor With A Family Car
Farmers are often unsung heroes of everyday life. Without them, society as we know it would be very different. The farmers of today have advanced
The First Car To Have Rain-Sensing Wipers Did It In Such A Simple And Clever Way That I Want To Spit (On A Windshield)
I’m not ashamed to admit that rain-sensing wipers are one of those things that I think are clever, but have never felt the need for.
Picking And Pulling, Spotting And Scaring: Only Fanbelts
30 Years Ago, GM Foolishly Sold Its Revolutionary Magnet Company To China. Now It’s Helping Start A New Company To Compete With Chinese EVs
Over its more than century-long history, General Motors has introduced a lot of new technologies to the auto industry – the electric starter, automatic transmissions,
‘I Saw Ford Fall In And Out Of Love With Quality Four Times’ Admits Ford CEO Jim Farley
There was so much news from this week’s Automotive News Congress that I decided to break out something Ford CEO Jim Farley said about quality,
Automakers Overreacting To Politics ‘Destroys Things Faster Than You Could Ever Imagine’ Says GM President
The nice folks at Automotive News are holding their annual Automotive News Congress, and it’s been an exciting one, with various executives reacting to the sometimes
The New BMW 3 Series Looks So Good It Might Just Save The Sports Sedan
For several decades, if you only had space for one car and really loved driving, a sport sedan was the de facto choice. Athletic enough
17 MPG From A 4-Cylinder: Someone Traded In A Beautiful Chevy Colorado ZR2 For A Ford Bronco Sport And I Get Why
It was February of 2023 and I was in the process of moving to California to start a new business and a new life. After
Every One Of These Mercury Pictures Brings Up Questions
There’s something about the staging of brochure photos in the early 1970s that always feels somehow off. I think it’s the result of two powerful
What Brands Should Making Pickup Trucks Right Now That Aren’t?
Fifty years ago, the idea of a suburban family selecting a pickup truck as one of their two primary vehicles was rather unheard of. Today,
Pick A Cheap Faded Four-Door: 1993 Mazda Protege vs 1995 Ford Taurus
All right, let’s get back to some more normal fare. Yesterday was a bit too much for almost all of you, I guess. Today we’re
Automaker PR Has A Harder Job Than You’d Think: COTD
For the most part, much of the interaction between car journalists and automaker public relations officials involves press releases and press events. It’s easy to
History’s Fastest Jet-Powered Plane Flew 2,193 MPH. Now NASA May Secretly Be Reviving It 27 Years After It Last Flew
Aviation is one of the great wonders of the world. Humans figured out how to roughly replicate what birds do naturally, and then it wasn’t
I Think I Figured Out How Lowly Worm Drives His Apple Car
Attention! ATTENTION! Everybody, stop what you’re doing, drop that wedding cake, let go of that pulley, leap out of that forklift seat, fling those dental
These Were The Best Eras To Start Driving, According To You
My good buddy The Bishop keeps dropping fresh Autopian Asks on me, and by golly I’m gonna keep taking them. His most recent query was