Please welcome to another edition of As The Hype Turns, and this week is a very special episode. Today we see the new Suzuki Jimny, as it is gushed upon by two weird car nerds, one of which is a Land Rover obsessive. Is the Jimny good? By their accounts, yes.

Formula 3 driver Sophia Floersch went flying through a track fence and into a photographer stand during a horrific crash at the Macau Grand Prix on Sunday, at a street circuit known for being fast, tight and downright scary. She went into spinal surgery Monday, coming out seven hours later in stable condition.

Even in the current unpredictability of our news cycle, I don’t think anyone could’ve fathomed a reality where we’d wake up to headlines that Carlos Ghosn—the ruthless turnaround artist who saved Nissan from the brink nearly 20 years ago and united it with Renault and then Mitsubishi—would be arrested on charges of…

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: If you live where there is serious winter, you really need to consider winter tires on your daily driver. Yes, even if you have all-wheel drive. Yes, even if it clearly says “ALL seasons” right there on the receipt from the tire store. It just makes good sense.

“A four cylinder?!” full-size truck customers will cry upon visiting their local Chevy truck dealer after this fall. In the half-ton pickup space, an engine with so few cylinders is unheard of. But after driving the 2019 Chevy Silverado 2.7 Turbo, I’m not sure it should be, even if I’m not entirely sold on this…

I know that for some who pray to the Gods of Octane it is heresy to say this, but I’ll say it anyway: I like electric vehicles. I spent much of my misguided youth terrorizing the East Coast in electric golf carts and as I grew older that attraction never faded. So when I got the chance to be among the first to drive a …

Financial scandals at Nissan, Ford’s ideas on making profit from your personal data, cuts to oil output, fuel-economy numbers on four-cylinder pickups and fewer configuration options on the next-generation Ford Explorer. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, Nov. 19, 2018.

Maserati has not been hot for awhile, despite a brief glimmer of hope when the Maserati Levante crossover was introduced a couple of years ago. It’s a problem FCA’s new CEO Mike Manley claims was caused by an identity crisis, and now he wants to give the brand the focus it deserves.

I have a theory that we’re looking at city cars the wrong way. The ideal car for a dense urban environment isn’t some little hatchback with a tiny engine, like a Smart Fortwo or a Mini Cooper. No, what you really want for city living is a hulking, cushy luxury sedan. And to test this theory, I’ve recently acquired …

To the next person who ends up with the top job at Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi: Call me, I have ideas.

The original MSRP on today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW i3 was over fifty-five thousand dollars. Like all limited range electric cars, the i3’s depreciation is extreme. Let’s see if this one’s current price might make that downward spiral a fun ride at least.

Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has been arrested and might face expulsion after Nissan says that he reportedly used company money for personal expenses and other “serious acts of misconduct.”

Coming into the final, title-deciding race in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, it was Joey Logano versus the Big Three—the season’s three dominant drivers, who have won 20 of the year’s 36 races combined. Despite it all, Logano came out of the race with his first Cup Series championship.