
Here’s Why Modern Cars’ Airboxes Look So Weird
One of the first things you do when you tune a car is bin the terrible OEM air box and put on a nice cone





We Now Have Proof That Elon Musk Should Buy An International Scout
One of my side projects is psyching myself out over the impending election, which means I will dive deeper into polling data on occasion to

Volkswagen Is Giving Americans Free Curry Ketchup So They Can Make Their Own Currywurst
An often perplexing part of car enthusiasm is the litany of automaker-branded merch available. Sure, Porsche and Ferrari are quite good at this, but mainstream brands

Valtteri Bottas In A Speedo Wasn’t Enough To Save Uber Carshare in Australia
The world is full of car-sharing services, from Turo to Zipcar and beyond. Down in Australia, Uber had its own effort imaginatively named Uber CarShare.

John Hennessey Took An Edible On A Plane And Wrote A Musical About Women’s Empowerment
If you were to describe John Hennessey in short, you might say he’s a character. He’s perhaps best known as the man behind Hennessey Performance

Drive ‘Em Home And Get To Work: 1964 Chevy C10 vs 1968 VW Squareback
Good morning! We’re going to start out the week with a couple rough old vehicles from the ’60s. The good news is that they both

Start The Week By Reflecting On The DKW Schnellaster Headlight Setup: Cold Start
I found myself thinking, as I often do, about some headlights that are of interest to me, the famous, usually Hella- or Bosch-made ones that

The Silky-Smooth Polestar 3 Gives The Polestar Brand A Reason To Exist
The last couple of years have been decidedly challenging for Polestar. The performance electric vehicle brand that was spun out from Volvo Cars has been

Why It’s So Hard To Start A Car After It Has Sat For Years
I just spent last night working on my 1954 Willys CJ-3B, a vehicle that has “been settin’” (as rural wrenchers like to say) for probably

Dodge Hornets And Pontiac Azteks Are Uniting Car Enthusiasts: COTD
One of the greatest parts of car culture is the fact that everyone has what they love and what they hate. Some of you love

This Is Just Some Weird Stuff From The Lada Niva Website
We’ve already had some good Lada Niva content on the site today, so we may as well add a little more, right? Why not? What

The Nissan Juke Was The Antidote To The Boring Crossover And We All Ignored It
There’s a meme that’s been circulating the Internet for as long as I can remember. It shows a bunch of SUVs and crossovers all edited

Only The Best Nissan Versa Still Costs Less Than $20,000
Come 2025, the Nissan Versa will truly be the last mainstream subcompact car standing in America. The Mitsubishi Mirage is on its way out, the

Breaking: New Lada Niva Infotainment Location Not Designed By A Genius
The Lada Niva needs no introduction. It’s about as closely tied to Mother Russia as vodka is. One thing the Niva isn’t known for though

Porsche Patents A Six-Stroke Combustion Engine And I’m Not Sure I Get It
Not long ago, there was a lot of talk from carmakers about switching to all EV fleets, and finally letting go of the jumping, oily

Here’s How Neglecting A $36 Gasket Can Destroy A $22,000 BMW Engine
Are you ignoring something on your car right now? If it’s older, you probably are. Maintenance is simply a fact of older vehicle ownership, but

All The Times David Has Tried To Get Us To Laugh At The Same Joke – Tales From The Slack
Do you want to know the joke? You gotta know the joke. Support this place and become a member!

If You’re Going To Watch One NASCAR Race Make It A Race At Bristol
If there was any NASCAR race that you could take a non-fan to in an attempt to get them hooked, it would without a doubt

If Chrysler Wants To Survive It Needs To Start Making A Sinister Chrysler Imperial Cruiser Like This One
It’s been said that cats have nine lives: the ability to avoid certain death numerous times to improbably see another day. Of course, eventually they’ll

Holy Crap, Bollinger Actually Put Its Outrageously Fun Electric Commercial Trucks Into Production
Last year, I was offered a weird opportunity. I got to ride over to Michigan to drive the prototype Class 4 commercial trucks of Bollinger

If Anyone Can Build A Lightweight EV It’s Gordan Murray; Now He Has 11,493,235 Reasons To Do It
Gordon Murray is the man behind possibly the greatest car ever, the McLaren F1. Since then, he’s continued designing cars that currently culminate with the












