Cars keep changing and not everyone's thrilled about it. Automakers used to build whatever they wanted. Now there are rules for everything. Emissions, noise, safety, design, all of it. The EPA say
Drum brakes are mostly gone now, though weirdly the Audi Q4 e-tron still rocks them in back for some reason. Took forever to get here. Disc brakes got invented way back in 1902, same year drum brakes
Parking hasn't really changed in over a century. The goal is still the same: don't hit anything. Self-parking technology promised to fix that by taking human error out of the equation. And if
Audi isn’t just teasing anymore - the China-only E7X is now out in the real world doing cold-weather testing. Shortly after early photos of the production model surfaced, Audi released a ne
Start-stop has always been one of those features that splits drivers down the middle. You roll up to a red light, the engine shuts off, and just as you’re about to move again, it kicks back on.
Car keys are basically becoming obsolete. Around 2020, automakers started letting people unlock and start their cars with an Apple Watch. Pretty wild when you think about it. How it works depends o
The Takata airbag crisis remains one of the biggest safety failures in automotive history. It started with a Honda recall back in 2008 and has since snowballed into more than 67 million recalled airba
As of 2025, you can't buy a new car with a factory CD player. Subaru redesigned the Outback and ditched it. Lexus updated the IS, killed off the RC, and that was it. The last holdouts are gone.
Apple CarPlay is basically a dealbreaker for most people shopping for a new car these days. You plug in your iPhone, and boom - your apps are right there on the car's screen. No fussing with terri
Cars are getting heavier every year, and there's no sign of it stopping. The EPA has been tracking this since the early '80s, and new vehicles just keep adding more weight. Electric batteries,