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
Back in the 1960s, the Ford Mustang felt unstoppable. It exploded in America almost instantly, selling faster than Ford probably expected, and before long the company wanted to bring that success to E
When the numbers keep dropping month after month, it stops feeling like a rough patch. That’s where Ford is right now. They entered 2026 already down 8.8 percent after Q1, and April only made
Summer AC problems always feel personal. You get in, the seat is hot, the steering wheel is basically a panini press, and you hit the AC expecting relief. Instead, the vents give you lukewarm nonse
Kia’s first pickup hasn’t really taken off in Australia, and that’s a tough place to stumble. This is Ranger and HiLux territory. If you don’t land right, you get ignored.
Nobody thinks they need a car emergency kit until they’re standing on the shoulder of a highway at 11 pm with a dead battery and a phone that’s about to die too. It happens more often t
Slate kind of came out of nowhere last year with a very clear idea. A cheap electric truck, under $20k with incentives and no extra fluff. That alone was enough to get people paying attention fast. Si
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
For years, electric trucks have had one big problem. They kept showing up with prices that made them feel less like work vehicles and more like luxury tech experiments. That is why Slate is getting