In the world of collector cars, something profound is changing. While on the surface it may seem like a subtle evolution from an obsession with 1960s-1970s “big iron” muscle machines, it’s more significant than that; the entire market is becoming far more personalized, nostalgic and driven by emotional attachments than simply a collection of rare […]
The Premium Gas Myth: An Expert Guide to Modern Car Care
Car maintenance tips tend to have an incredibly long shelf life, lingering long after the actual technology on which they were based have become entirely obsolete. It’s a common phenomenon to find yourself relying on driving and car maintenance habits learned from your parents or grandparents-habits which may not really apply any longer. What might […]
America’s Most Popular Imported Cars of 1975
The year 1975 represents something of a milestone for the US car industry. In the decades that preceded it, the highways and driveways of America were a predictable panorama of enormous domestic cars. The global oil crisis of the early 1970s, however, completely turned how consumers thought about cars on its head. Fuel efficiency, mechanical […]
Front-Wheel Drive Legends: 12 Cars That Defined an Era
Front-wheel drive has had an unfair reputation-mostly in the eyes of performance junkies, where it’s synonymous with being unexciting compared to RWD power. For years it was associated with practicality rather than emotion, a stigma that neglects how much ingenious engineering was poured into developing the platform into something capable and enjoyable. The history of […]
Wheels of Wonder: A Journey Through Top Car Museums
Many people think of car museums as quiet places filled with static machines covered in dust. That description is nowhere near what these museums are actually like. In fact, a good car museum seems like a time capsule where movement, sound and feeling are kept alive inside still images of metal and glass. The machines […]
Toyota Recalls New Land Cruiser, Lexus Models for Software Glitch
Vehicles in today’s world have become very different from what they were just a few years ago. Driving, once dominated by mechanical parts like the engine, gearbox, and various gauges, is now a more sophisticated combination of hardware and software, with digital dashboards presenting information such as vehicle speed, fuel status, navigation directions, vehicle status […]
Celebrating the Flawed, Unloved, and Adorable Guilty Pleasure Cars
Here is a type of affection that most car lovers never admit to feeling. Not the perfect machine, the speed demon or even a beautiful design language. It’s a feeling that originates from cars that aren’t exactly perfect. They are a bit awkward, a little bit controversial and a little bit of a failure in […]
Ford’s Major SUV Recall: A Guide for Affected Owners
We buy cars, and while we rarely think about them doing so, it appears that there’s an implicit sense of trust bestowed on them. You get in, you turn the key, you hear the engine roar and assume that everything operating within the vehicle is functioning as it is supposed to. Recall notices, however, put […]
The Dodge Ram SRT-10: How the 500HP Viper Truck Became Attainable
The Dodge Ram SRT-10 appeared at a time when trucks were still mostly seen as working, utilitarian vehicles rather than aspirational high-performance machines. Trucks existed to haul, tow and to take punishment; to handle like a sports car was simply not a primary design consideration. Dodge unleashed a machine that was completely the opposite of […]
Legendary Junkyard Car Collection Emerges for No-Reserve Auction
In the world of classic cars, there are pristine private collections kept behind closed doors, and then there are legends. For decades, the vast and secretive collection of the late Rudi Klein belonged firmly to the second category. Since 1967, his Los Angeles “junkyard” became a place of fascination, filled with everything from dust-covered Ferrari […]