On some older cars, each headlight wears a wiper blade small enough to look like a toy. It can be an amusing sight now, particularly when one blade has stopped halfway across the lamp. The equipment h
Washing a car in winter can feel wonderfully pointless. The bodywork is clean for perhaps half a journey. Then a truck passes in the opposite direction, the windshield receives a cold brown showe
Inside a modern automotive design studio, there are enormous screens, virtual-reality headsets, laser scanners, 3D printers and computers capable of rendering a car so convincingly that its paint appe
Wash a car in the evening and look through its wheels the next morning. The brake rotors may have turned bright orange. The change can happen quickly enough to feel impossible. The discs looked cle
What happens when Chevrolet turns two everyday models into characters from Pixar’s Cars? That is exactly what GM brought to D23, where a 2026 Colorado became Ramone and the 2027 Bolt took on the
What would the man who designed the Tesla Model S do with the very first example of its final edition? In Franz von Holzhausen’s case, the answer is simple: protect it and leave the design alone
The car looked spotless when it was parked. Then it rained overnight, or perhaps the wheels received an enthusiastic blast at the car wash. By morning, the shiny brake rotors had turned orange. Not sl
It is a cold morning. The windshield is cloudy, the cabin feels like a refrigerator, and the defrost button has just been pressed with all the optimism available before coffee. Then the A/C light come
A bad movie car can do more damage than a bad line of dialogue. Most people will forgive a lot if the story is moving. They will forgive a plot hole, a ridiculous explosion, even an actor tryin
There is a very specific kind of rage that only happens at night. A driver is heading home, minding their own business, and then some enormous pickup appears in the rearview mirror. Not even