A concrete barrier beside a highway looks like one of the least forgiving objects a car could encounter. It is heavy, rigid and often positioned only a few feet from traffic moving at serious speed.
The automobile conquered continents, crossed deserts and survived two world wars before anyone decided it desperately needed a secure place for a paper cup. For much of automotive history, drivers
Speed has become ridiculously easy to buy. A modern electric crossover can pin its passengers to the seats while carrying three children, a week’s shopping and a suspicious amount of sports equi
Picture a grocery-store parking lot in 1993: Tauruses, Accords, maybe a stray Explorer. Fast-forward to the same lot in 2026 and you’re surrounded by tailgates. Statistically that feeling is
Some transmissions are basically automotive cockroaches. Not glamorous. Not exciting. But somehow impossible to kill. Meanwhile, other gearboxes seem to explode emotionally the second yo
We drove from Austin to Dallas a few weeks ago, and somewhere around Waco I started paying attention to what was around us on I-35. Trucks. SUVs. Crossovers. More trucks. We kept counting fo
The average car on American roads is now almost 13 years old, which sounds surprising until you think about what a new car costs now. Then it sounds completely logical. A lot of people are h
More cars have active safety features like automatic emergency braking and lane keep assist than ever before yet fatality statistics are higher now than over the past 12 years according to the Insuran
While SUVs have taken over from the sedan as the vehicle design of choice for American masses, the latter still has its place. Not only do they generally look better than the tall and ungainly SUV cro
While Washington and Beijing rarely see eye to eye, Chinese car buyers have long been remarkably unified in their affection for one American brand. That brand is Buick which last year delivered 436,72