Electrify America’s Solution For Charger Confusion Is To Add More Confusion
Electrify America rolls out a new strategy to make people go "huh?", renters can't charge electric vehicles, Ferrari CEO John Elkann compares cars to socce...
You Want Me To Put Them WHERE: Cold Start
This 1957 Ford Taunus (that's Ford of Germany, but the brochure is Dutch) brochure illustration is really a wonderfully-rendered bit of mid-century adverti...
Chris Bangle And His Obsession With Big Automotive Butts Made For BMW’s Best Designs
Now that I'm a BMW owner, I feel that it is time to unleash my deepest, darkest automotive hot take. If you've read my work for long enough, you know that ...
Toyota Starlet Glanza V, Volkswagen Passat W8 Wagon, Ford Econoline Pickup: Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness
Welcome back to Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness! As you know, working with cars is a blessing and a curse for me. I definitely have a problem with buying too...
Hot Wheels Has Never Made A Brubaker Box Toy Car. It’s Time To Fix That.
You know that urban legend/internet meme/collective false memory about a 1990s genie movie starring Sinbad that never existed, but people seem to remember ...
I’m An MIT Enginerd And Battlebots Geek And This Is My Weird Van Collection
The sporadic afternoon thundershowers typical of midsummer weather in the South had given way to a humid miasma. Around me, the sound of cicadas fills the ...
A Daydreaming Designer Is Forced To Design A Vehicle For A Nation With Enormous Money
Working for Torch, I am starting to feel like Dennis Hopper’s character in the film Apocalypse Now, blindly following a madman into the abyss. To quote De...
The Volkswagen ID.XTREME Concept Is An Off-Road EV Packing 3D-Printed Flares And Special Noises
Rugged-looking crossovers are all the rage these days, and Volkswagen’s dipping its finger into the fountain. Say hello to the ID.XTREME Concept, which fee...
The Legendary ‘Boaterhome’ Is A Chimera Of Van, Boat, And Concentrated Awesome
In July, Barrett-Jackson sold one of the most incredible vehicles that you'll see on the net. That's right, someone paid a reportedly record-breaking $77,0...
This Australian Kid Put A Turbo On A Dirtbike In The Jankiest Way Possible
Welcome to "Oz Oddities," my new regular feature wherein I write super-short articles about strange car culture in Australia, since I don't have time to wr...