Cold Start: Oof, She Doesn’t Look Happy
I know yesterday I derided the new 2024 Honda HR-V for having a face that looks like it's had enough of your shit, so in the interests of fairness here's a...
LIVE: David Sold A Nice Lady A Jeep And It Immediately Blew Up (She’s Fine, Jeep Isn’t)
I'm writing this blog right now–our very first LIVEBLOG–because my co-founder in this venture, David Tracy, who really should be on here helping to run thi...
Level 3 Autonomy Is Confusing Garbage
The Society of Automotive Engineers has done many wonderful things in its 117 years of existence, like making everybody's horsepower drop when they went fr...
The Next Rental Car You Abuse Might Be A Polestar 2
Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too wel...
The New 2023 Honda HR-V Looks Like You Really Pissed It Off This Time
I have a lot of respect for Honda as a carmaker, but when it comes to the HR-V, I have to be honest with you here: it's one of those cars that manages, som...
Not-So-Hot-Hatches: Malaise Masterpiece or Much-Maligned MPV?
For today's Shitbox Showdown we have a choice to make make between two American cars that have only two things in common: both come from near-luxury brands...
Cold Start: The Spaceship You Use To Get Groceries
If you look at a Citroën SM and don't find some part of your body getting turgid or pulsating a bit more rapidly then I'd suggest that you shouldn't bother...
These Are The Cars Those Fearless Ukrainians Drove Straight Through A Minefield
I suspect by now almost everyone has seen the remarkable video of iron-gonad'd Ukrainian motorists driving through an orderly grid of deadly landmines, slo...
A Look At Small-Town American Car Culture: Ralph, Diane, And The 331,000-Mile Supervan
Ralph and Diane wished they had a nicer car. They came of age in the car-crazed fifties, occupied an honorable, middle class social status as adults, and a...
$700 Maserati TC or $500 VW Scirocco: Which Coachbuilt Classic Is The Better Deal?
It’s time for a good old-fashioned Shitbox Showdown. This will be a recurring segment where we pit two dirt-cheap project car candidates against each other...