Americans are obsessed with big cars, which is why every Walmart parking lot is filled with three-row SUVs. Hot hatches, on the other hand, haven’t traditionally been popular amongst Yanks, but you wouldn’t know it based on today’s awesome offerings like the Fiesta ST, Mini Cooper S, Fiat 500 Abarth and Golf GTI.
If you’re a hipster fiending for a “rugged” lifted hatchback, you might want to look into the Mazda CX-3, Jeep Renegade, Honda HR-V, Mini Countryman and the rest of the subcompact crossovers on this list.
If you’ve got a bunch of kids but you live in a congested city, you’re not going to want to run around in a giant Chevy Suburban. Instead, you’ll want something a little more compact like the Kia Sorento, Land Rover Discovery Sport, Acura MDX and the rest of the cars on this list of moderately-sized people-haulers.
If you value comfort and opulence over driving excitement, you’ll want to be driven in cars like the Mercedes S-Class, Cadillac Escalade, and the rest of the vehicles on this list of ostentatious-mobiles.
Despite all the fuel economy and safety regulations forcing engineers and designers into corners, right now is a glorious time for gearheads. Here are a bunch of cars that prove that we enthusiasts are more spoiled than we think.
If you’re looking for giant SUVs with ridiculous power figures, these are your choices.
Times have changed since the 1990s, and most SUVs no longer come with solid axles and body-on-frame construction. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any true off-roaders for sale. Here are ten, along with their Buyer’s Guides so you can get all the sweet, sweet details.
Just in case you missed any of our day one coverage of the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, here it is — all zipped up into one big post for your pleasure.
It's noon here in Detroit and we're taking a 15-minute breather. While we catch our breath, enjoy our full 2012 Detroit Auto Show coverage — every reveal and lifted skirt — below.
[Beams of light from the Tribute in Lights reach into the sky above lower Manhattan. Image by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images News]
Los Angeles has been, collectively, freaking out for weeks now about the two-day closure of a long stretch of the 405 (one of the city's major highways) and now, finally, that day is upon us. And it's not really that big of a deal.
What is it about bicycle lanes that turns people into shouty braindead panic robots? Case in point: This news report casts bike lanes as literally a terrorist threat.
Uh oh! God is mad about Casey Anthony. So mad he sent an enormous, end-times style haboob, or dust storm, to sweep across Phoenix. (Just kidding! There is no God, only the aimless movement of sand across the desert waste.) And the fellow who filmed this video seems to have realized that the best way to confront the…
Despite news gas prices are slipping for the weekend, your wallet's still probably feeling the hurt of your last fill-up. Don't panic! Use this comprehensive guide to help cut the cash you're sending to big oil.
We've spent so much time talking about hatred on public transportation today, let's take a moment to consider the things that we love about it, okay? Here are a couple of cute subway-related videos that will make you go, "Awww."
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Jowly asshole Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, is a security-obsessed paranoiac who spies on his employees, installed blast-resistant plexiglass in his office windows, carries a concealed weapon, and travels with a full-time retinue of bodyguards. All of which may help explain why the cops were called to his New…
This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
K-PAX racing's successfully turned a bone-stock Volvo C30 hatchback into an all-conquering, track-eating race car. Driver Robb Holland's given readers a rare week-by-week glimpse into how they did it, which we've gathered below. More »
Lucas Ordoñez won the first GT Academy time-trial contest, giving the gamer-racer his start in the FIA GT4 series. Now he's signed to Team Signatech Nissan, and will compete in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mind-blowing. More »
