While New Car Supply Stays Tight, Used Car Wholesale Values Continue To Cool
New car supply stays tight while used car values drop, EVs seem to be growing legs, BMW tries subscriptions again. All this and more in today’s issue of Th...
Ransom Eli Olds’s Forgotten Children: 1981 Toronado vs 2002 Silhouette
Welcome back to Shitbox Showdown! This week is another theme week: discontinued nameplates. Not companies that went out of business, but marques that were ...
Cold Start: Minor Threat
There's so much to like here: the use of the word "mighty" when talking about a nearly half-minute zero to 60 time, the suggestion that whatever you drove ...
This Old Ford Styling Film Is Incredible And Features A Car That Feels Like The Template For Modern SUVs
I realize this particular 1964 Ford styling documentary is fairly well known, and I suspect that many of you reading this have watched it already. If not, ...
Automotive Would You Rather: Eternally Damp Seats Or Magic Box Of Crap Edition
I suppose this is becoming a weekly thing now, this bit of mind-expanding cerebellum yoga that I like to call Automotive Would You Rather. I believe this i...
My Yamaha U7E’s History May Be Lost To Time, But At Least It Has A Clean Carburetor
A couple of weeks ago I launched a project to restore the 1972 Yamaha U7E motorcycle that's been sitting in my garage for years. I've finally started teari...
AMC Javelin, GM New Look, Caproni NSU Max: Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness
Welcome back to Mercedes' Marketplace Madness! I'm always on the look for a good car or motorcycle deal. I'm also always looking at vehicles that I wish th...
Volkswagen Is Considering Pay-Per-Use Automated Driving, Hopefully Via Quarters Into A Coin Slot
It's not Thomas writing this today, it's me, Torch, and I'm not happy about it. I specifically started my own site (with David and Beau, yes, yes) just so ...
How A Blood Pressure Pump Fixed My $700 Chevy Tracker’s Four-Wheel Drive System
The four-wheel drive system on a 2000 Chevrolet Tracker is a complicated nightmare that takes a conventional system and adds cost, weight, and complexity t...
Let’s play Track, Daily, Burn: Ford Taurus vs Saab 900 vs BMW 735i
Good morning, and happy Friday, Autopians! We've made it through another one. Today, since it was a short week, I figured we'd stop at three cars and use t...