Washing a car in winter can feel wonderfully pointless. The bodywork is clean for perhaps half a journey. Then a truck passes in the opposite direction, the windshield receives a cold brown showe
Open the door of a large American sedan from the 1950s and the front seat looks less like a modern cockpit than a particularly comfortable sofa. There is no center console dividing driver and passe
A classic car could provide a cigarette lighter within easy reach of the driver, another for the front passenger and sometimes individual ashtrays for the people in the back. Yet bring a cup of coffee
A long road trip in a gas car is mostly about endurance.nA long road trip in an EV is about logistics. That is the real difference, and it is a bigger one than a lot of people realize until the
For a few years there, the future looked pretty settled. Every glossy car commercial had the same mood. Silent roads. Blue charging lights. A handsome crossover gliding past a wind farm. The
A couple years ago, it honestly felt like gas cars were being sent to the retirement home. Every commercial was about EVs. Every automaker had a giant electrification plan. Politicians were thr
Your car’s interior is the part you actually deal with every day. Not the horsepower. Not the badge. The seat. The steering wheel. The dashboard you stare at in traffic while wondering why every
Charging used to be the annoying part of owning an EV. Not the driving, not the range. The plug. You’d pull up to a station and still have to double-check if your car could even use it. Tha
Car advice has a funny way of surviving long after it stops being true. Some of it came from older cars. Some of it came from guys who sounded confident. Some of it probably started because it made so
For a while, the car industry talked like the future had already been decided. Gas was on the way out, EVs were the next obvious step, and hybrids were just the awkward in-between phase people would m