Set the cruise control to 70 mph and glance at the navigation screen. It may insist the car is traveling at 67. Increase the cruise setting to 71. GPS grudgingly moves to 68. The two displays can sp
For most of car history, one assumption sat underneath everything. There would be a driver. Not just in the vague philosophical sense. Physically. Literally. A person in a seat, looking forward
Leasing a car has this annoying habit of making smart people act like they understand things they absolutely do not. You sit down at the dealership, someone starts talking in a calm, confident
Some misheard lyrics just become part of civilization. Nobody even argues about them anymore. They just live there forever, lodged in pop culture, passed from one generation to the next like a
There are a lot of specialty license plates out there. Too many, honestly. Some of them make perfect sense. Military plates, university plates, wildlife plates, charity plates, the usual stuff.
Car people love a comeback story. Give a nameplate twenty years in the grave, hint at a revival, throw a teaser online, and suddenly half the internet starts acting like an old badge alone is
A bad movie car can do more damage than a bad line of dialogue. Most people will forgive a lot if the story is moving. They will forgive a plot hole, a ridiculous explosion, even an actor tryin
Fourteen percent. That’s how far Ford’s May sales slid compared with last year. On paper it looks like a red warning light, 190,000 vehicles that never drove off the lot. Social feeds
I still remember the day I fell for the pitch. My hatchback had just come out of a basic wash, and the detailer, towel in hand, grinned like he’d discovered electricity. “If you reall
Most drivers assume they would know if something serious was wrong with their car. That seems fair. If a vehicle has a safety problem, surely someone would call, email, text, send a giant red enve