Detroit-Area Autopians: Let’s Cruise Woodward Saturday Night
The weather has changed from borderline-unlivable to beautiful, as it does every late-April in Michigan, so now it's time to take care of your mind. I, for...
How A Car Suspension Works: The Basics From The Man Who Designed The Tesla Model S And Ford GT Suspension (Me)
Stick your head underneath a car, look near each of the four wheels, and you will see a complicated looking bunch of parts that make up the car’s suspensio...
GM’s BrightDrop Commercial EV Subsidiary Celebrated Earth Day By Setting An Electric Van Range World Record
GM’s BrightDrop sets an electric van range record, Honda brings the wind, rotary rebirth rescheduled. All this on today’s issue of The Morning Dump. Wel...
Choose Your Cheap Daily Driver In This Tough Car Market: Fake Toyota, Stickshift Focus, Unkillable Camry, or Boxy Volvo?
Welcome back to Shitbox Showdown, the game where every car may as well be made up and the votes don't matter. We've spent the week looking for a dirt-cheap...
Cold Start: Landscape Or Colonoscopy?
I realize this isn't the fault of the art director or the photographer, or anyone other than the cruelty of time and what she does to print inks over time,...
What I Found When I Crawled Under Rivian’s Amazon Delivery Van
Today I stopped by Munro & Associates to talk about vehicle cost reduction (sounds boring, but you just wait). And on my way home I saw the new Amazon ...
This Failed Little Car Could Have Started Car-Sharing In The 1970s
A number of the cars in the Lane’s collection are what we call “failed successes”: innovative designs that were ahead of their time, never found a market, ...
How A Michigan Man Uses A Cheap Welder To Keep His Toyota 4Runner Family Vehicle On The Road After The Frame Began Rusting To The Ground
A Michigan man bought a 2004 Toyota 4Runner to tow a camper for family road-trips during the pandemic. With the SUV having a reliable V8 engine, shiny pain...
A Trained Designer Imagines What American Motors Corporation Would Have Been Like If It Had Survived
In the universe we currently inhabit — the one in which Facebook is re-launching Second Life under a dumb name, Russia invaded Ukraine just to be dicks, an...
The Lincoln Star Concept Is A Whole New Level Of Frunky
The Lincoln Star concept signals the American brand’s EV future, Volkswagen’s upgrading its EVs, the used car market gets even weirder. All this on today’s...