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
In 2007, Volkswagen decided to completely lose its mind in the best possible way. The result was the Volkswagen Golf GTI W12-650, a one-off experiment so outrageous that no production Golf, not even t
Buying a used car is always a gamble. Sometimes you score something barely driven and certified. Other times you end up with absolute garbage. The trick is stacking the odds in your favor, and one eas
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
Used cars have gotten stupid expensive. Early 2020, the average used car went for about $20,500. Now it's closer to $27,000 according to CarGurus. That's a 25% jump in six years. People are de
Dry rot on tires isn't really rot at all. It's the rubber breaking down chemically, showing up as cracks, fading, and weird lines on the sidewalls and treads. New tires are flexible and dark b
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
Suzuki has officially wrapped up the Swift Sport ZC33S with a Final Edition, and with it, the end of its last proper hot hatch. The new-generation Swift doesn’t offer a performance version at al
Stuck in traffic, watching someone cut you off for the third time in five minutes, it's pretty easy to assume your state is full of the worst drivers on earth. But some states actually are worse t
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.