Car discounts have made a return after four years of long waitlists, driven by changes in the automotive industry’s pricing strategies. Dealers are ramping up production to meet high demand, particularly for SUVs, and are offering substantial discounts across various models. Discounts are available on a range of vehicles, including hatchbacks, sedans, and electric vehicles … Read more
John lives in Annapolis and has to survive a brutal daily commute around the Baltimore/DC Beltway. His plans on trading his two cars into one that can handle the drive in comfort and hopefully keep his fuel costs down. What car should he buy? Carspotting: Big Ol’ America Cars (Welcome back to What Car Should … Read more
Image: General Motors Design Pontiac was in a real good place in 2008. The arrowhead brand was living large with a slew of critically acclaimed models on the road, including the G8, an enthusiast-favorite sporty sedan yoinked from Holden. The G8 was the first rear-wheel drive sedan from Pontiac since 1986, and the design heads … Read more
We can all agree that a station wagon is basically the ultimate enthusiast’s vehicle. There’s just something about those long-roof machines that do everything. When you throw on things like turbocharged engines and all-wheel drive, it’s just icing on the cake. Unfortunately, not many wagons exist in the U.S. anymore. Volvo is one of the … Read more
The BMW M5 taught the world that a big, heavy sedan can be a true performance monster while still safely toting around the kids and most of your mistress’s luggage, as long as your bank account has enough zeros in it to cut the check. This new M5 is bigger, heavier, more powerful, and likely … Read more
Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen’s Jetta GLI is among the few sporty sedans remaining on the market with a manual transmission, and with an update for the 2025 model year Volkswagen is giving the GLI buyer even more. Jetta continues to prove its worth in the VW lineup, outselling the Taos and Atlas Cross Sport. Perhaps this … Read more
Dealers are almost universally shitty. From car buying to service, only a dealership could suck on multiple fronts. Often dealers won’t take any responsibility for their horrible service and behavior, either. Take what one Acura Integra Type S owner is going through with his local dealership, for example. 2024 Acura Integra Type S | Jalopnik … Read more
Image: Bring A Trailer I try to keep a close eye on Bring A Trailer. It may seem like the era of cars going for wild prices is at an end, but that’s not true — things just calmed down a bit. Wild auctions are still happening on the site, be it a flip or … Read more
A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the car was still registered in her name. For just … 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
