
U-Haul’s New Flatbed Trailer Is An Absolute Beast At Towing Cars And Almost Anything Else, With One Small Catch
Chances are, if you need to move a car from one place to another and you cannot drive it for some reason, your first stop

The Oldest Toy Ever Found Is This ~6,000 Year Old Toy Car
There’s been a lot of discourse lately about how the undersides of Hot Wheels toy cars have become more simplified over time; as someone with

The Average Car Buyer With Negative Equity Will Pay $16,610 In Interest Charges Alone
The car market is both better than you’d guess and, if you’re a certain type of car buyer, much, much worse. The impact of tariffs

What Car Is The Least ‘You’?
Some say that there’s a doppelganger or uncannily similar twin of each and every one of us somewhere else in the world. That’s kind of

Leslie Has Never Seen A Fast And The Furious Film, So We’re Going To Watch All Of Them Together For A Podcast
Coming this Friday, and every other Friday for the next few months, will be a new podcast covering one of the most important topics of

Which Van Would You Put To Work? 2004 Chevy Express vs 2011 Ford Transit
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you’re starting a small business, mobile dog washing or antique furniture delivery or something, and you find

Where Eagles Peep: COTD
Today’s story about the rental car ridiculousness reminded me of a scary bill I once received from, hmm, I want to say Enterprise. Doesn’t matter.

I Can’t Believe This Very Famous VW Beetle From An Old ’60s Ad Is Not Only Still Around, But My Friend Bought It
When I was a kid, I was as Volkswagen Beetle obsessed as I am today. Maybe even more so, because the pool of cars I

Avis Seems To Think Driver Capable Of Averaging 112 MPH Over 24 Hours For Seven Days, Bills Accordingly
I don’t think I’ve ever paid what I expected to pay when renting a car. It’s always X dollars a day, and I’m going to

What Cars Seemed Like They Belonged To The Wrong Brand?
Give someone a car brand and ask them to name a car from that brand, and you’ll probably get some highly expected answers. Ford probably

Cadillac F1’s Texas-Themed Paint Scheme Perpetuates One Texan Stereotype That Really Bothers Me
The United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas was the first Formula One race I ever attended and therefore has a special

I Bought This Low-Mileage Jeep Grand Cherokee For Only $1,700 After Realizing My ‘Holy Grail’ Project Is Doomed
“David, can you please fix the garage?” my wife Elise asked me on Sunday. “You barely have any time to do house stuff, and today

I Brought My 325k-Mile Range Rover To The Dealer And Oh My God It’s So Much Worse Than I Expected
When you buy a used car, especially one well out of warranty and advanced in age, it’s generally accepted that a pre-purchase inspection (PPI) is

I Just Learned What The First Chimp In Space Did While He Was Up There, And What Was Up His Rectum
My friend and longtime collaborator Carrie McLaren, who I’ve been working with since the ’90s ‘zine boom, has a new physical ‘zine she’s writing and publishing

Chinese Carmakers Now Making Lots Of SUVs Look Like A Land Rover
I think it’s been forgotten with time that American automakers in the ’50s and ’60s were impressively quick to develop cars that followed trends, with

America’s Newest Affordable Motorcycle Is The Hottest Version Of A Legend That’s Technically Been Around For 94 Years
Motorcycle companies love boasting about their heritage. Indian prints “since 1901” on each of its engines, while Harley-Davidson is proud to have been around continuously

The All-Hybrid 2027 Lexus NX Is Improved In All The Right Ways – But It’s Not Alone
Despite hybrids being so hot right now and compact luxury crossovers being so hot right now, the overlap in the resulting Venn diagram has historically

Which One Looks Like More Fun? 1989 Chrysler TC By Maserati vs 1992 Nissan NX 1600
The great thing about doing this job is that it’s something I was doing anyway, looking at classified ads for crappy old cars and annoying

When You Can Use A Calendar To Measure 60 MPH Acceleration: COTD
The cars of today are all hot rods. Everything from family minivans to budget electric sedans can gallop to 60 mph faster than some classic

Why I’m Trying To Convince My Wife To Buy The Toyota bZ4X, One Of The ‘Worst’ Modern EVs
My wife, a longtime Lexus fan, wants a bigger, newer car that’s electric, but there’s a problem: There are no 3-row EVs available from Toyota.

The 2027 Volkswagen Golf GTI Makes Me Wonder Why The Hell Hot Hatches Aren’t Everywhere
Why is the SUV/crossover the dominant form of car in the world right now? When did we, collectively, decide that? Because I don’t recall being











