Photo: Ford The cars currently rolling out onto our roads for the first time will likely be around for a long time. On average, a modern vehicle lasts roughly a dozen years. Looking back, certain vehicles from the 2010s can be easily marked as from that era and not for the better. I hate calling … Read more
Nick’s wife is starting a new job that requires a lot of long-distance highway travel. She is looking for something a bit more comfortable than her 2012 Chevy Volt with some updated features. With a budget of up to $45,000 what car should she buy? The 2023 Dodge Challenger Swinger Edition Was The Most Fun … Read more
Photo: Fiat Today is an exciting day, as Fiat has revealed its new Grande Panda, a baby crossover-ish hatchback that is completely adorable. If you can believe it, this is only the fourth generation of Panda to emerge since 1980 when the original model was revealed, and that one was in production until 2003! While … Read more
Screenshot: Marc Roger on YouTube When Honda built this tiny hybrid commuter car in 2002, the company never would have suspected that it would ever run a quarter mile in the 9s. Builder and racer Marc Roger threw a venerable J32A2 V6 engine from an Acura TL Type-S into the engine compartment, put a giant … Read more
Only about 1,000 examples of Ford’s mega carbon-bodied mid-engine 800-plus horsepower Mustang will be built, and like the GT that came before it, Ford will only let you buy one if you have enough social media clout. If that isn’t exclusive enough for you, Ford will let you option a new Performance Package to give … Read more
If you’re like me, you may be still mourning the end of production of the Ford Focus RS. It was legitimately one of the best hot hatches ever made. Its short 2016–2018 run meant not many people got a chance to get their hands on one, and high dealer markups didn’t help. Now, over five … Read more
Screenshot: Retro Cars Forever on YouTube Chevrolet built three incredible generations of its iconic Corvette between 1984 and 2013, called the C4, C5 and C6. If you’re a prospective Corvette buyer, depreciation is your friend. When these cars launched, they were top-of-the-line American sports cars with expensive price tags, but with age they’ve dropped into … Read more
We miss the Honda Fit. We really do. It was an inexpensive subcompact, sure, but it was also so much better than it had any right to be, and it more or less made the competition irrelevant. There were less-expensive alternatives, but they just didn’t have the level of charm, practicality and refinement of the Fit. … Read more
If you’ve needed to buy a car sometime in the last four years, you understand how rough it’s been out there. Dealers were only stocking the highest trim levels and still adding markup, used car prices were through the roof and availability was limited. Things have been getting better recently, though, with used prices dropping, … Read more
Photo: Lexus Toyota’s been in a bad spot with regulators recently. Its subsidiary Daihatsu rounded out 2023 by admitting to forging 30 years of crash test results, and even the venerable Land Cruiser couldn’t escape an emissions scandal. Yet, it seems the company isn’t quite done dredging up issues: A new internal investigation revealed Toyota … Read more
