A retired police car can make an ordinary used-car listing look expensive. There is plenty of room, a purposeful set of steel wheels and the promise of hardware built for a harder life than the school
A photograph of a Citroën DS traveling with one rear wheel missing looks as though someone has caught the car halfway through a mechanical disaster. The body sits unexpectedly level. The front wh
The woodgrain paneling on an old station wagon rarely fools anyone. Even when new, the printed vinyl was not likely to be mistaken for hand-finished mahogany. It was wood in the same way a kitchen
Automotive fashion has produced few ideas quite as curious as taking a finished steel roof, covering it in textured plastic and charging the customer extra. For several decades, buyers did exactly tha
A concrete barrier beside a highway looks like one of the least forgiving objects a car could encounter. It is heavy, rigid and often positioned only a few feet from traffic moving at serious speed.
The emergency jack in a car’s trunk rarely inspires confidence. It is narrow, awkward and usually accompanied by a handle that looks as though it escaped from flat-pack furniture. Then ther
A used car with gleaming paint, freshly shampooed carpets, and half a dozen pine-scented air fresheners may look beautifully prepared for sale. Or it may be trying much too hard. Flood-damaged
There’s a moment that happens to a lot of SUV owners. You see a lifted 4Runner or Tahoe rolling past on chunky tires looking like it just escaped a mountain trail somewhere in Utah, and s
Back in 2015, a Shelby-tuned F-150 felt like a wild idea. A pickup with muscle-car branding and supercar-level power seemed almost excessive. These days, it fits right into a market where high-perform
Off-road trucks are a crowded space right now, but Ram clearly thinks there’s room for another one. That’s where the new Ram 1500 BackCountry comes in. It starts life as a Big Horn 4&ti