The gaudy, overwrought Wagon Queen Family Truckster is probably one of the best visual gags in National Lampoon's Vacation and says more about the excesses of the American auto industry than many books on the subject. But I don't think that's why LeMons legend Speedycop built one. He built it because he could.
I have so many terrible, terrible ideas that it sometimes hurts to keep them all inside my head. That's why I'm starting Tuesday's Terrible Thought Tonight, a way for me to vent out some of these awful, awful thoughts. Let's start with this revolutionary car-control idea: the buttock wedge!
The original Aston Martin Lagonda was, to put it simply, a turd. So when I heard Aston Martin was bringing it back as an ultra limited-edition special model , I was skeptical. Then I saw these new pics of the production car. Now all I can do is drool.
Lincoln is a little hard to explain these days. Despite the strongest Ford lineup in a long, long time, their luxury brand is kind of languishing in the product department. Sure, the Lincoln MKC is pretty decent, but they need more than that. The higher-ups at Ford recognize this and are planning new models with a big infusion of cash.
Before VW's famous, understated and witty DDB ad campain from the '60s, they weren't that different from any car maker when it came to advertising. That means they didn't necessarily feel so restricted by pesky, silly ideas like "the picture of the car looks like the one you're selling." As a result, early ads were... imaginative.
There is a reason the world holds the Alfa Romeo in such high regard, and it's not front-wheel drive hatchbacks. It's cars like Conrad Stevenson's 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale, a stunning gem of a car that today invokes a lost era of adventure and speed.
I'm not exactly sure what an "automotive analyst" does, but they have 'anal' in their job title, and that's good enough for me. One automotive analyst, though, is pushing the same tired car-gendering crap I'm sick of, so let's talk about that.
Here we have an amazingly clean example of what is arguably the best looking Mercedes SL this side of the Gullwing, yours for the price of a moderately equipped 2015 Ford Fiesta. It's a hardtop convertible and does 0-60 in less time than it took you to read this sentence. Fiesta owners, time to get jelly.
Don't wait for the EPA's lab results, we've got real-world fuel economy figures from the 2015 Ford F-150 with its new 2.7 EcoBoost engine . Here's how we did driving like a granny, driving like a maniac, and everything in between.
This is Cam Zink, spinning 360 degrees off a cliff in the middle of the recent 2014 running of the Red Bull Rampage mountain bike competition.
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The Green Hell possesses, bar none, the most absolutely terrifying traffic in the world. On days when it's open to the public, everyone from the greatest driver in the world to the positively worst, can show up in any car in the world. Which means there are crashes. Mix that with blind corners, and you've got a recipe for terror.
Last time we checked, the Cadillac CT6 was aimed against the BMW 7 Series , the Audi A8 and the Mercedes S-Class. Then came Johan de Nysschen, and things got a bit confusing.
The Honda CR-V has been the compact SUV sales champion for 7 of the past 10 years. But with competition in the segment heating up, Honda is hoping that their mid-cycle refresh will keep the CR-V attractive to buyers in the fastest-growing segment in the new car market. Styling tweaks aside, the CR-V gains a […]
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There was a time when Peugeots— mostly 504s but the occasional 404 as well— were quite common in American self-service junkyards. Back in the early 1990s, when I owned a free 504, you could count on finding junkyard parts at every good-sized U-Wrench-It in Northern California, and as recently as the late 2000s I found […]
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BMW has teamed up with the Google of China, Baidu, to begin work on automated driving trials in Beijing and Shanghai. According to Reuters, BMW says its group of research vehicles have already covered “thousands of kilometers” up and down the autobahns of Germany, and is now embarking “on a further research project which will […]
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In the very recent past, six-cylinder midsize sedans were often the cars consumers acquired because the basic four-cylinder powerplants were insufficient devices. As fuel efficiency became more of a concern, as economic concerns prompted families to consider less costly purchases, and as larger four-cylinder engines became more refined and powerful, the six-cylinder option gradually became […]
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SRT boss Ralph Gilles put his GoPro on a Challenger Hellcat and went after a Cadillac CTS-V running on slicks at Grattan Raceway. Best day at work? Best day at work.
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
Own a 2005 through 2011 Toyota Tacoma? It may be under recall due to rear suspension issues. Toyota informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of its plans to recall 690,000 2005-2011 Tacoma 4×4 and Pre-Runner trucks to fix the leaf springs in the rear suspension. The possibility is there for a leaf to fracture […]
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Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe candidate is a little different. It's not from Craigslist or eBay, or even that weird KiJiJi. Instead, it's a little Ford that I found at my local Cars & Coffee last Saturday. Let's see if this Courier is worth going to the show.
Can you imagine one day visiting a Mazda showroom to buy a new RX-7 and finding anything but a rotary engine under the hood? Neither can global design chief — and RX-8 designer — Ikuo Maeda. Automotive News reports the designer, whose father gave the world the aforementioned sports car, is hard at work on […]
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Not too long ago, General Motors brought comfort to many a new 2015 Corvette Stingray owner with a feature that would do for them what teddy-bear cams did for concerned parents, recording audio, video and vehicle data when the key was given to the valet. Alas, the spyware could land the owner in legal hot […]
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I just spent my first two minutes in the 2015 Ford F-150 , with the brand-new 2.7 twin-turbo V6. As you're about to see; the power did catch me by surprise. Enjoy my unedited initial impressions on this brief ride-along.
Jay Leno, a man who owns every car in the known universe says that the Mercedez-Benz 600 is his favorite car. He has one of the largest and most diverse car collections in the world, so when he says one is his favorite, you'd be wise to listen up.
The styling of the next-generation Chevy Volt is one of the automotive world's best-kept secrets, and this I know because that is the exact first line of Chevy's press release concerning the styling of the 2016 Chevy Volt , complete with picture. And they want you to know all about the styling, and how it's camouflaged.
I'm in a love-hate relationship with the Yamaha XJR1300. I love it for its simplicity and tweakability, but I hate the fact that Yamaha keeps trotting out mildly refreshed versions because it's run out of ideas. Well, the pendulum has swung once again with the 2015 XJR1300 Racer.
The suspect was long gone. Nothing but some faint treadmarks on the ground, a whirl of dust in the air. But the old cop knew something was up. His lip curled, his nostrils widened. "That, Jimmy," he told his young deputy, "is not the smell of fear. It's the smell of Axe. Really, terrible Axe. Seriously, it's awful."
The thing about massive container ships is that when they crash, there is no way it's going to be small. And they're so big, that even while trying to do an emergency turn, they only manage to sweep along ever... so... slowly. Which makes this hit pretty damn big.
Who likes movies? Who likes cars? Who likes cars that appear in movies, but not the ones that anyone really pays attention to? The ones that are kind of stuck small in the background on the poster? Those cars. YOU like them, that's who! So let's see how well you know them!
The Ninja H2R is something completely different from Kawasaki. It's supercharged, has a trellis frame, carbon fairings, and freaking wings . This is racing prototype-level stuff, and these are the first pics.
Tires squeal. A cloud of dust gently rolls over the car at its point of impact. Bits of grass and dirt fling into the car. Ladies and gentlemen, the track "off." Here's over eighteen minutes of offs for your viewing enjoyment.
They say every dog has his day, and now Enzo, the canine protagonist of The Art of Racing in the Rain, will have his in well-to-do Dallas classrooms once again. After becoming a national embarrassment for banning that book and seven others, Highland Park school district officials have reversed their decision.
The mighty Toyota Tacoma has been taken down a peg by a nasty little issue with the leaf spring suspension. Apparently it's liable to "fracture due to stress and corrosion," which can mean a pointy piece of metal will repeatedly ram into your truck's gas tank and spill its contents all over the road.
If you're like me, and you think the 2015 Ford Mustang got a little too soft in the looks department, all you're gonna need is a visit to your local Roush shop. They have the angry-sauce you so desperately need to pour on your pony car.
More bad news from Ford today: their recall of 850,000 cars and SUVs for an airbag defect is anticipated to cost them about $500 million. Suddenly, potential profits for the year aren't looking so hot.
If you were driving that truck, you'd be dead. Very, very dead.
There's been a lot of attention on the internet recently to the funny-looking home-made tanks Kurdish forces have been building to help with their fight against ISIS, or ISIL, or whatever we call that pack of assholes. Most of that attention has been, frankly, ridicule. I'm not so sure that ridicule is warranted here.
The most recent generation of Toyota 4Runner was, as Regular Car Reviews puts it, "a rolling supermarket where kids cough on all the produce." But it wasn't always that way.
Does anyone remember the days when international auto shows had a three month lead time for appearing in printed buff books? I’m not sure what’s worse: waiting for a few grainy shots and 50 word blurbs, or having everything revealed beforehand in a high-stakes game of PR one-upmanship and slow reveals. TTAC will have live […]
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You know, my co-worker Travis said something recently that really stuck with me. (Not when he said "Stop selling cigarettes to minors," because he's just jealous my side business is so successful.) It was in his 2015 BMW M3 review, where he basically said you can either have the M3 or the M3 fighter.
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