Toyota badges can get weirdly confusing once you start paying attention. For years, TRD was the name people knew. Toyota Racing Development. Simple enough. If a Toyota had a little extra attitu
Car batteries don’t just wake up one morning and decide, “you know what, I’m done.” Well… okay, sometimes they do. But most of the time? It’s more like a slow,
There’s a weird pattern in the U.S. car market. We stop buying something, automakers kill it, and then a few years later everyone starts asking, “wait… why did we get rid of that?&r
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
Four-wheel steering has been around longer than you think. From the early 1900s to be exact although it's become a buzz-word much more recently for big luxurious cars specifically. Part of the all
These days the pickup truck is way more popular than it was 30 years ago. Back then the pickup was just beginning its transition from something normally used for work to a vehicle folks without blue-c
Looks like the U.S. President has a new ride for when the famous limo stays behind. The United States Secret Service has quietly added a pair of heavily modified SUVs known as the Cadillac Escalade Ca
Regular people collect baseball cards, stamps, comic books. Gets pricey sometimes but mostly just hobbies for people with a little cash to spare. Celebrities making millions? They go big. Lots of famo
America does plenty of things right when it comes to cars. Muscle cars? Nobody builds them better. Full-size trucks and SUVs? Same story. But naming car products? Americans get weirdly serious about i