The press and industry previews are over in Detroit. This weekend, the Cobo Center opened its doors to the public, allowing thousands of guests to decent upon the fleets of new cars inside. As per tradition, our team compared notes and picked the 5 best and 5 worst […]
We’ve wrapped up and cleared the floor of the COBO Center. While the media goes home, automakers will shuffle around their displays and prepare for the public show opening on the 16th. Until then, you won’t be able to see any of the new models in person. Here’s […]
After a tumultuous travel day for many attendees, the 2016 North American International Auto Show could have gotten off to a slow start. Despite the frigid morning temperatures, things got heated inside the COBO Center. Here’s our favorite five from Day 1. BMW M2 BMW wowed today with […]
You might think the craziest thing Dodge has done in recent memory is launch the 707hp SRT Hellcat. You’d be wrong. When the sensible people at FCA weren’t looking, Dodge went and dropped the SRT’s 6.4L V8 into a Challenger R/T and called it a day. The sheer […]
You can’t build an opinion with one data point. After a mostly-successful week with our first-ever electric vehicle test, Kia wanted to know if we’d like to try another. Without much consideration, we decided that yes, we would. After all, once you’ve driven the world’s most affordable EV, […]
“That’s one of them cars you see in NASCAR.” The Chevrolet SS was in one of the few places where it would be positively identified – a local car show. In a field between Camaros new and old, the SS is an oddity. While the SS has much […]
September 12-20 was National Drive Electric Week. The initiative aims at raising awareness of all-electric vehicles that, “…are fun to drive, are less expensive and more convenient to fuel than gasoline vehicles, are better for the environment, promote local jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil”. Some […]
Nismo’s approach to the 370Z can be captured in a single word: kaizen. Kaizen simply means “change for better”. In the corporate world, kaizen has become MBA jargon synonymous with continuous improvement as it pertained to Japanese auto manufacturing. As a philosophy, it refers to the practice of […]
Halfway up the mountain, I remembered. I remembered the pleasure of honest steering as I sliced into a hairpin. I remembered the confident click of a well-tune gear lever as I powered up the next incline. I remembered the proper balance of a well-sprung sports car as I […]
The American sedan is dying. Full size sedans are downsizing their powerplants, shuffling their drive wheels, and wholly being usurped by crossovers. The era of big, rear-drive sedans with large displacement V8s seems to be waning. Ford has been out of the game for years. The Chevrolet SS, […]
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