
How A Little Bit Of Dad Advice Made A Lincoln, My Neighborhood, And The World Just A Little Bit Nicer
“Ding-dong!” rang the doorbell on a random Thursday evening right around dinnertime, rustling me away from my usual evening spent reading the daily excellent work

Why Europeans Can Convert Two Car Seats Into Four Child Seats, But It’s Illegal In America
If you own a tiny car like I do, and your rear bench only seats two, you may someday find yourself forced to trade up

This Is Your Reminder That North Carolina Used To Let Teenage Burnouts Drive Your Kids To School
For a number of reasons, getting my kid on his bus to school has proven a surprising challenge this week. A lot of this is

Audi’s Best-Driving Car This Side Of An R8 Is Now As Cheap As A Honda Civic
The Audi R8 is, by far, the best Audi I’ve ever driven. That’s not terribly surprising, seeing as how the one I drove shares a

What Is Your Ideal Snowmageddon Vehicle?
How bad is the snowstorm this weekend going to be? That depends a lot on where you live, and I’m definitely in that borderline space

The Fifth-Generation Ford Thunderbird Was A Mystery Wrapped Inside Of An Enigma But It Was Also One Of The Fastest T-Birds
Adolescence is an awkward time for anyone. Cars aren’t people, but the Ford Thunderbird has struggled with this challenge that usually affects human teenagers. One

The Nürburgring 24 Is Ruined, So Whom Should You Get Mad At?
I love the Nürburgring 24-Hour race and have been lucky enough to see it in person once. It was for this reason that I was

How An Old Engineering Buddy Helped Me Get My eBay WWII Jeep Build Off The Ground
Do you have a friend or coworker with whom you can seemingly solve even the most daunting of problems? I do, and his name is

My Biggest Fear While Riding In A Car As a Child Is Coming True On Some Recalled Nissans
I feel like I had a lot of irrational fears growing up. Weird stuff, or stuff so obscure that it would probably never happen. What

You Have To See This Bonkers Engine Detail On My Favorite Never-Made Volkswagen
I feel like if there’s been a theme for this year so far, it’s that I’m learning new and fascinating things about inline-four engines that

How Would You Plow For Extra Money This Weekend? 2006 Jeep Wrangler vs 2012 Ford F-150
From the sounds of it, Old Man Winter is fixing to beat the stuffing out of pretty much the entire eastern half of the US

Things Are Coming Up Alfa Romeo: COTD
There are some automakers that just can’t escape their reputations for poor reliability. Most enthusiasts won’t expect Toyota reliability from a Land Rover and even

Four Decades Ago, Yamaha Made A Complicated And Stupidly Quick Motorcycle With A Hot Turbo Only Inches From The Back Tire
Japan went through a wild period of innovation in the 1970s and 1980s. The nation turned into an electronics powerhouse, and its vehicle industries transformed

How Car Radar Units Are Stolen In Minutes, Costing Owners Thousands
Have you recently noticed any late-model cars driving around without their front emblems? Fifteen years ago, a missing front emblem could’ve been a sign of

Alfa Romeo Is Throwing Out The Whole Next-Gen Stelvio And Starting Over
Alfa Romeo is in a bit of a pickle right now. The company’s two most important models, the Giulia sedan and the Stelvio SUV, are

These Cadillac Taillights Seem To Have Become The Primary Choice Of Customizers
As I hope I have conveyed by my reporting here, the Global Taillight Scene is a bold and dynamic subculture, with so much going on

The U.S. Will No Longer Criminally Charge People Who Emissions-Delete Diesel Trucks
If you’ve followed the world of diesel trucks for the past decade, you’re no doubt aware of the drama surrounding aftermarket tuners and defeat devices

The Much-Hated 1974 Pontiac GTO Isn’t Nearly As Bad As People Think, Plus You Can Camp In It
Have we been too hard on the 1974 GTO? Any list of “worst cars of all time” inevitably includes this GM X-body-based “Goat” as a

The Toyota Crown Is A Weird Car For Weirdos, But I’m A Weirdo So I Kinda Get It
Growing up, my best friend’s dad, I’ll call him Frank, was an actuary for a large human resources company. When I finally learned what an

Exclusive Porsche ‘Re-Imaginer’ Singer Has A New Model And It’s A Design Disaster
Just over four years ago, I was deciding what interesting car I might buy with the small ill-gotten windfall that had just landed in bank

How Do You Prepare Your Car For Subzero Temperatures?
I just checked the forecast, and my little slice of Northern Illinois will be a whopping -16 degrees Fahrenheit tonight before warming up to a










