I Finally Found A Real Use For Hyundai’s Smart Park

I love a good gimmick in a car, something with a fairly limited or seemingly unnecessary use case that...

Tesla Apparently Managed To Sell Just 6,406 Cybertrucks In The First Three Months Of 2025

Tesla is having a miserable time right now between a stock price skid and CEO Elon Musk's unpopular...

Watch BMW Meticulously Restore A 507 Roadster Once Owned By Elvis

There's something very calming about watching a team of experts restore a lovely old car. Whether it's a...

I Want A Midlife Crisis Car With A Manual! What Should I Buy?

Mike just turned 50, and with all the kids about to be out of the house, it's time...

Hyundai Insteroid Concept Is A Bonkers Gaming-Inspired Widebody Drift Kart Based On The Inster EV

Hyundai Motor Group is on a roll as of late; it produces some of the most daringly designed...

BMW Celebrates GT3 Driver Valentino Rossi’s Birthday With A Special Edition M4 CS

Valentino Rossi is a MotoGP legend. A nine-time world champion, he's the only motorcycle racer to have completed...

Elon Musk’s ‘Unprecedented Brand Damage’ Means Tesla’s Sales Drop Could Get A Lot Worse

Good morning! It's Friday, April 4, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the...

Toyota Needs To Bring Back X-Treme Commercials From The 1990s

Sure, you may like the new Toyota Tacoma. You may even want a new Tacoma. Heck, there's even a chance...

Toyota’s Yuzu Special Edition GR86 Is A Throwback To The Best Scion FR-S

The Scion FR-S was one of the greatest driver's cars of the modern era (I, a former FR-S...

Which Automaker Had The Best Lineup In The 1980s?

The 1980s were an incredible era of automobile manufacturing. Some automakers had just started to really figure out...

Forget The Volkswagen Phaeton’s Trunk Hinges, Let’s Nerd Out About Its Ridiculously Complicated A/C System

Volkswagen didn't need to make the Phaeton, and arguably, it probably shouldn't have been anything more than a...

At $16,000, Does This 1991 VW Doka Do The Deed?

The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice Doka (Double Cab) claims it to be a great...

This $1,500 Homebuilt Volkswagen Beetle Hot Rod Says You Don’t Have To Be Rich To Go Fast

In the current automotive marketplace speed is a very expensive commodity. The average 0-to-60 time of the vehicle...

Californians Reject Elon Musk As Tesla’s EV Market Share Drops Below 50%

According to the California New Car Dealers Association, the state's seen some pretty impressive new electric vehicle sales growth...

2026 Hyundai Ioniq 6 Looks Slightly Less Weird, But It’s Still Really Weird, And That’s Good

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 instantly became one of the most divisive new car reveals in a long time...

Ford’s Twin I-Beam Front Suspension Was A Simple But Genius Design

For the first few decades of the 20th century, pickup trucks were pretty primitive machines. Spartan cabs with...

You Need A 700-Horsepower Subaru WRX STI In Your Life

So you want a fast car, but you're not looking to drop supercar cash on something so mechanically...

The Philosophy of Automotive Brand Design: How Visual Identity Shapes Brand Perception

The relationship between automotive design and human perception represents one of the most complex and fascinating intersections of...

2026 Honda Passport TrailSport Is A Diamond At Roughing It

"Well then! Things got a little bit slippery back there," our affable off-roading instructor said after I nearly...

Hidden Stories of Automotive Brands: Scandals, Secrets, and the Cryptic Meanings Behind Iconic Logos

Behind every gleaming automotive emblem lies a tapestry of secrets, scandals, and hidden meanings that manufacturers have carefully...

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