If you’re familiar with the phrase, “Over my dead body,” then you’ve probably talked to someone about buying an autonomous vehicle in the last decade or so.
Mitsubishi is rolling out its 2026 Outlander plug-in hybrid with several improvements and a $2,800 price increase for the newest iteration of its flagship model.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it was ending its investigation into problems with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature, noting the low-speed incidents generally stemmed from owners failing to use it correctly.
One of the issues plaguing the adoption of electric vehicles is the EV charging network in the U.S. — particularly its reliability, or lack thereof. However, a new study shows DC fast charger reliability has improved dramatically in the last nine months.
If there’s something wrong with your car, truck, or crossover, you want to know about it. Fortunately, the federal government has a system in place designed to determine if a problem with a vehicle is dangerous and needs to be fixed by the automaker at no cost to the vehicle owner.
Hyundai Motor Co. revealed it has big plans for its biggest market — North America — where it looks to completely update and expand its portfolio by 2030 while looking to grow in the world’s largest market: China.
Prices on new vehicles have consistently risen for the past few years, but buying patterns haven’t changed nearly as much. Last week, Chevrolet announced a jump in the price for its best-selling Silverado full-size pickup and it’s safe to assume that’s going to spread to its GMC sibling soon — perhaps in an hour (check back for changes).
Joby Aviation is bringing its vision of fast, clean city travel to life through a new partnership with Virgin Atlantic, marking a significant step forward for electric urban aviation.
As it prepares to phase out the Model S and Model X this month, Tesla may be looking to add a vehicle back to the lineup: a compact SUV, according to reports.
Ford is making noise about “expanding” its Mustang portfolio “again.” Quotation marks are used because no one feels that the Mach-E is actually a Mustang. That said, it’s got the badge and most of us are done arguing about it.
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Since 1996 , OBD-II has been the standard to which all passenger vehicles in the United States must comply. A standardization move that was led by the government of California, OBD-II was a direct replacement for the mishmash of methodology and proprietary information created by automotive manufacturers in the '80s as each of them wrote their own (code) book. It’s been a good 30-year run, but now it’s time for OBD-II to be replaced by a new on-board diagnostic methodology: UDS. Let’s find out about these so-called Unified Diagnostic Services.
After a lengthy and costly development period while Ford’s finances were nearly underwater, the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable debuted to great fanfare in 1986. On their exteriors the two models had more differentiation than one might expect, and shared only doors and a roof. There were differences between the two models on the inside, too. Almost unbelievably, Sable owners looked at a different dashboard than Taurus customers.
Stellantis secured a five-year deal with Microsoft to have the software giant help the automaker develop more than 100 AI-base initiatives aimed at improving driver safety, cybersecurity, and engineering efforts.
Tesla reported its earnings and revenues jumped by double digits in the first quarter of 2026 despite overall EV sales in the U.S. dropping significantly. Officials expressed excitement about its “positioning” this year as CEO Elon Musk later revealed his new $25 billion investment plan.
When the first autonomous vehicles moved from the drawing boards to the test tracks, they were envisioned as not having steering wheels, gas pedals, etc. When Google, later Waymo, rolled out its early concept cars, the little eggs on wheels came sans controls.
While revealing the next step in its recovery plan, Nissan revealed the all-new 2027 Rogue while confirming what had basically been previously announced: the Xterra is coming back in the U.S.
Nissan Xterra fans continue to enjoy good news. The latest being the automaker aims to bring back the off-roader with a starting price less than $40,000. That should help Nissan meet its goal of selling 50,000 of the utes annually.
Mitsubishi is recalling 108,046 Outlander and Outlander plug-in hybrid SUVs because a problem with the gas struts that hold the liftgate in the open position. For some vehicles, this will be the second recall for the same problem.
There are concept cars that look unrealistic because they are clearly made of cardboard, optimism, and lighting tricks. Then there are concept cars that look unrealistic because they are simply too good to be true. The BMW Nazca belongs in the second group.
Lucid pushed out UX 3.0 for the Air this week, a top-to-bottom redesign of the sedan's infotainment meant to close the gap with the newer Gravity SUV. The catch: if your Air is old enough, the update isn't a free download. It's a $950 trip to the service center.
It used to be popular to say that today’s cars are nothing more than computers on wheels. However, it’s safe to say that’s an understatement. But with the advances in technology have come some homogenization (i.e. all cars are the same) and some excess (i.e. do we really need this).
The Trump administration just released finalized a new set of federal emissions rules covering passenger cars and light trucks, unwinding the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) targets set in 2024. The relaxed rules cover new vehicles through the 2031 model year, and GM stands to be the single biggest beneficiary.
I wanted to share the cars I personally own. What if any work there is to do on them in future videos that maybe coming to the channel as well as the car/cars I am looking to add in short order.
The Roadster that Tesla has been promising fans for the better part of a decade will have to keep waiting. The company said Monday it made the "difficult decision" to bump its reveal from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15, citing severe weather in the forecast.
Ford has spent years renting celebrities to sell its wares, and its latest hire is a comedian whose main qualification is that he can't work on his own car. Nate Bargatze is the face of a new ad campaign built to lure customers back to the dealership service bay, and the pitch is aimed squarely at people who have no idea what happens under the hood.
Today, the Trump administration lowered the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) from 50.4 mpg to 34.9 mpg by 2031. This applies to passenger cars and light duty trucks. The CAFE at the end of 2024 was 30.1 mpg.
Tesla finally has a 500-mile electric truck rolling off a real production line, and the thing works. The problem is that a truck rated for 500 miles per charge still needs somewhere to plug in, and the network that would make cross-country electric freight possible barely exists. Tesla's own website shows two public megawatt chargers running around Los Angeles, which is not a network so much as a rounding error. That gap is the whole story of electric trucking right now. The vehicle is the easy part. The infrastructure is not.
We resume our Ford Taurus coverage today and wade into the multi-faceted arrangements that were trim levels and options at its launch in 1986. Ford didn’t have it all figured out right away, and there were small changes made here and there throughout. So while the brochures might have specified this or that feature or appearance as part of a trim, a Taurus on the lot may have been slightly different!
If you walk into a North American Subaru showroom today, you'll find that their only new vehicles available with three pedals are the BRZ and the WRX. In the not-so-distant past, though, the U.S.-market Outback could be purchased with a six-speed manual . I found one of the final examples of that powertrain rig in a Denver-area car graveyard last spring.
Automatic engine stop-start has spent years shutting off your engine at red lights whether you asked for it or not. Ford now wants to extend that logic to the gas station, and it has filed a patent describing a vehicle that turns itself off while you refuel. The idea is straightforward enough to explain in a sentence: the car figures out that you have pulled up to a pump, and it cuts the engine for you.
New cars crossed the $50,000 average transaction price last month and is likely to stay there for a while. Fortunately, we could always turn to the used market as the escape hatch. It isn't anymore.
New cars in the United States now average more than $50,000 for the first time. That buys you a Highlander, a Passport, or some other appliance with a badge. It does not buy you 400 horsepower unless you go shopping in the used market, where the math bends heavily in your favor.
There are plenty of ways to determine what’s “affordable” when it comes to a new car, truck, or crossover. But only one that really matters: What a buyer is willing to spend.
The good news at the pump this week is thin, but it exists. The bad news is that it's parked next to a diesel market setting fresh all-time highs and a global oil supply that isn't reaching anyone.
General Motors just shared details about the new 8.3-liter Duramax turbodiesel along with the relevant changes being made to the next batch of HD pickup trucks designed to accommodate the massive engine.
The good news for anyone eyeing a high-mileage electric truck: pulling the battery out of a Ford F-150 Lightning is, in raw mechanical terms, simpler than yanking an internal combustion engine. The bad news is that the pack weighs roughly as much as a small car, and one wrong move with a scissor lift can leave you with a broken connector and a ruined coolant hose.
As politicians wrangle about what rules Chinese auto and parts makers should be subjected to in the United States, a new report out suggests the two legacy American automakers — General Motors and Ford — face tough times in 2027.
TATRA is redefining heavy-duty trucking with its FORCE e-DRIVE lineup, a range of zero-emission vehicles built without sacrificing off-road capability.
The used-car bias against high-odometer readings has a well-worn logic behind it: more miles mean more wear, and more wear means more repair bills waiting to ambush the next owner. However, a new study suggests that instinct, developed over decades of gasoline-powered vehicle ownership, may steer you wrong when the car in question runs on electrons.
Bentley has finally built an electric car, and the company calls it its most powerful production vehicle. The Torcal, an ultraluxury compact crossover, will do the silent estate-to-country-club run faster than anything Crewe has made before. The catch: this is not the flagship, and Bentley now needs to find buyers willing to write $200,000-plus checks for a model that isn't even the top of its own range.
The debate about allowing new Chinese vehicles to travel American roads anytime soon looks to be coming to a head this week as China’s President Xi Jinping arrives for a visit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Volkswagen Group has reportedly cut its operating-margin forecast for 2026 from a range of 4 percent to 5.5 percent down to just 1 percent at best, and the fallout is going to reach every brand under the umbrella. The automaker that trades the "world's biggest" title back and forth with Toyota is now hitting the panic button.
General Motors has been drip feeding the world details about its updated full-size pickups for the 2027 model year. Today, we learned about the planned pricing bumps for the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado.
His long career included stints at TV Guide and CNN and now Howard Polskin has what his friends say is the worst job in journalism, reading content on conservative news websites and writing commentary for subscribers of his website TheRighting.com. It's not what you think.
Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed what the company's cheaper future looks like, even if he's not attaching numbers to it yet. The R3 hatchback's cost will be "materially lower" than the R2, and the R4 waiting behind it will drop the price further still.
Following last week’s promotion of the new V8s that will replace some of the brand’s more contentious powertrains, General Motors has elected to tease the new Duramax “Mongoose” engine. Despite being named after a small predatory mammal, the motor is a monstrous 8.3-liter turbo diesel.
Volvo Cars is about to churn through another chief executive, and this time the board went shopping in Wolfsburg — Germany. The Swedish automaker has appointed Klaus Zellmer as President and CEO, less than two years after coaxing Håkan Samuelsson out of retirement to steady the ship.
The annual contest to find the best vehicles of 2027, the North American Car, Truck, and Utility of the Year (NACTOY) has whittled the field down to a large group of semifinalists, which includes some surprises.
When the Ford Motor Co. replaced the Model T with the Model A for the 1928 model year, the price tag for the cheapest possible new U.S.-market Ford car jumped 33 percent just like that . It wasn't until the introduction of the Falcon that the Model T had a genuine successor here, and I've found an early example in a Denver-area yard .
Lincoln built its whole reputation on being American. The brand started in Detroit, Ford folded it into the Blue Oval as its luxury division, and it once supplied official state cars for several US presidents. The Nautilus, though, is assembled in Hangzhou and made mostly from Chinese parts. That single fact is now the most important thing to understand about the vehicle, because it determines what you will pay to repair one and what you will lose when you sell it.
Toyota's all-new, all-hybrid RAV4 was supposed to spend 2026 doing what the RAV4 always does: sit near the top of the sales charts as the best-selling thing in America that isn't an F-Series. Fresh styling, more power, better efficiency. Instead, production problems knocked sales down early in the year, and the Honda CR-V walked right through the open door. Honda's lead is now large enough that Toyota probably can't reel it back before the calendar runs out.
Ford has a small but pointed problem on its hands: a software fix that may have created the very kind of trouble software fixes are supposed to prevent. The company is recalling 86 Mustang Mach-E from the 2023-2025 model years over Battery Energy Control Module (BECM) software that can misreport how much charge is actually in the pack.
Charging an EV in the U.S. still involves too much fumbling with QR codes and credit cards. Red E Charge is trying to cut that out. The Detroit-based operator has turned on Plug & Charge at a good chunk of its stalls, so drivers can walk up, plug in, and let the payment sort itself out. It's calling the new service Red E Go.
Another one bites the dust. The list of sports car makers who swore they'd never build an SUV and then quietly built one just added its sportiest holdout. McLaren Automotive has confirmed it will produce its first sport utility vehicle in the company's 63-year history, joining a club that Porsche opened in 2002 with the Cayenne and that has since roped in Jaguar, Maserati, Lotus, and even Ferrari.
We sit down with Lee Wilson to discuss his epic 8,222-mile (13,232 km) road trip around the entire U.S. in his all-wheel drive (AWD) orange Volkswagen ID. Buzz. If you've ever worried about EV range, Lee is here to prove that charging infrastructure is a solved problem.
Volvo says it might bring back the wagon. That alone should perk up the ears of anyone who's spent the last decade watching the brand bulldoze its lineup into an all-SUV monoculture. The Swedish automaker has confirmed 13 all-new models by the end of 2030, and not every one of them will be a crossover.
General Motors is hyping up the new V8 options that will be coming to updated versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra — with other models presumed to follow. Considering the lackluster reputation gained by the V8 engines currently available on those models, the forthcoming changes will presumably be welcomed by customers.
General Motors sits in an unusual spot for a legacy automaker. It sells a wide range of electric vehicles alongside a fleet of profitable gas-powered trucks and SUVs, and it has done so without building the hybrid bridge that nearly every rival leaned on. The only hybrid GM currently sells in the United States is the Corvette E-Ray. Everything else is either a combustion vehicle or a battery-electric one, with almost nothing in between.
The 2020 BMW M2 Competition in this video keeps a fully stock exterior and interior, but don’t let that fool you — the S55 under the hood is far from factory.
In-car breathalyzers are already a fixture for repeat offenders. Court-mandated hardware that no one would mistake for a modern driving experience. Aftermarket ignition interlocks are clumsy, easy to tamper with, and prone to contamination from sitting inside a hot car. Hyundai has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that proposes building the whole thing into the car from the factory.
When General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra revealed in 2023 the automaker would begin phasing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto out of its vehicles in a few years the reaction was … quick and fierce.
Turns out the people wanted CarPlay after all. Who could have possibly predicted that? General Motors revealed it is putting Apple CarPlay and Android Auto back into its vehicles, starting with the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra. This is the same company that in 2023 announced it would phase the technologies out of its EVs in favor of homegrown software, and whose CEO Mary Barra said late last year that the death sentence would extend to all GM vehicles, gas-powered ones included.
Jaguar Land Rover reportedly wants into the American pickup market, and the vehicle to do it is a Defender-based truck built in the United States through the joint venture it's cooking up with Stellantis. That's the report from Britain's The Times, which pegs the U.S. pickup segment at $80 billion and frames the move as a fightback under JLR boss PB Balaji, who has already cut 4,000 jobs.
Reports have claimed that Costco has been forced to raise the price on its Kirkland Signature oil blends and will even be rationing how much customers can purchase within a given timeframe. This has led to subsequent concerns that other major retailers may soon do the same.
Ram brought back the Rumble Bee. The very first retail example just changed hands for $1.5 million, and the buyer is UFC President and CEO Dana White, who scooped up the one-off truck at Barrett-Jackson in Las Vegas on Friday, along with a customized 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10 thrown into the deal.
Today, if a car company announces a 700-horsepower luxury SUV with a six-figure price tag, the reaction is usually a shrug. Of course it does. Every luxury manufacturer has one. Bentley has the Bentayga. Lamborghini has the Urus. Aston Martin has the DBX. Rolls-Royce has the Cullinan. Ferrari even joined the party with the Purosangue.
Buying a new car in America keeps getting more expensive. The exception, oddly enough, is the segment that spent years being written off as too pricey to bother with.
Ford Racing rolled out its first-ever Formula One apparel line, and the pitch is history rather than the present. The Ford Racing x Formula 1 collection leans hard on a vintage Ford F1 race car, splashed across T-shirts and hoodies, with prices running from $55 to $125 on the Ford merchandise website.
Oil pipelines were struck in Saudi Arabia last Thursday, encouraging rampant speculation about the world’s already inflated energy prices. Worse still, nearby trade routes are now claimed to be under hostile occupation.
The General's Cadillac Division built Coupes de Ville for the 1949 through 1993 model years, after which the De Ville name became sedan-only until the end came in 2005. Today's Junkyard Find , spotted last year in a Denver-area yard , is one of the last two-door De Villes ever built.
The pitch for electric cars always leaned on costs. No fuel taxes, no trips to the pump, cheaper miles. Britain took that pitch, wrote it into policy, and championed the switch to battery power. Now the treasury has noticed the obvious problem: every electric car on the road is a customer who no longer pays fuel duty, and fuel duty is a very large number.
For the better part of a decade, Chrysler has been a brand kept on life support, its lineup shriveled down to the Pacifica minivan. There was serious talk of killing it off entirely or converting it into some vague "mobility business." Now Stellantis has a different idea: turn Chrysler into the cheap option.
When the Taurus sedan and wagon launched in 1986 , the space-themed event included an upscale sibling that arrived as Mercury’s flagship offering. More aerodynamic looking and with nicer trim, the Sable was intended to appeal to a slightly more daring customer with its design. Let’s take a little diversion into Sable styling.
The claim comes from Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, who used an X post on Wednesday to float a rumor with no named sources behind it: that President Donald Trump is preparing to open the American market to Chinese cars as part of a broader deal.
The ongoing feud between the Department of Transportation and Ford Motor Co. about the automaker’s involvement with Chinese battery makers seems like, well, a pissing contest to distract consumers from high car prices, high gas prices, and other issues.
Hey everyone! Just a heads-up that this video was originally filmed in Czech and dubbed into English using AI. It might not be 100% perfect, but we didn't want the language barrier to stop us from sharing Filip's pivot from diesel to EV. Enjoy the ride!
If you have ever fought your own dashboard to change the temperature in your car or answer a phone call, the data now backs you up. Infotainment systems have become the single largest source of complaints from new-car owners, and while nearly every other part of the modern vehicle is getting better, the screens are stuck in place. Roughly a quarter of everything owners gripe about now traces back to the multimedia stack.
Volvo will be dropping the all-electric EX40 from its North American lineup next year, despite it and the rest of the 40-Series models being on the cusp of a global refresh. This decision comes after the automaker eliminated the similar EC40, opted against bringing the smaller EX30 EV to our market, and revised its own electrification targets. It would seem that EVs have not worked well for the brand. However, that is contingent largely upon where they’re being sold and how those sales are calculated.
Affordability is the industry’s buzzword these days. One might think that would mean automakers are bringing down prices and that new cars and trucks would be less expensive, right. Uh, no.
A visual postcard of the British Car weekend at the Gilmore Car Museum from the Michigan Automotive Relic Society (MARS) crew. This event is an anchor point for many MARS members. A chance to see all your out-of-town friends gather in Southwest Michigan. Oil leaking everywhere and an accumulated 12 horsepower in a grass field.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra still calls electric vehicles (EV) the "end game" for the automaker, even as she concedes the road there is longer and bumpier than the company once planned.
The new frontier of automotive surveillance appears to have arrived. Texas now has garbage trucks (and other vehicles) equipped with AI-powered cameras that are supposed to evaluate properties to determine which Dallas residents need to be issued government fines. As the trucks run their usual route, the system is supposed to be giving each lot scores — which determine what kind of action the city might take against the relevant property owners.
Stellantis is calling more than 200,000 Jeep vehicles back to dealers in the United States, this time over a tire-pressure monitoring system that reportedly isn't doing its one job.
