Raphael Orlove's posts

It is increasingly clear to me that I will never own my dream car. Never drive it. I’ll only ever come close to it,…

There’s something strange about this Alpina B8 Gran Coupe. Normally there’s a fairly clear delineation between the…

While Volkswagen is content to give Europe a $25,000 EV in 2025, Germans can get one for $13,000 right now. The Dacia…

Tesla’s new camera (No. 7 in the illustration above, from the manual) watches you, transmitting images and video…

A good buddy of mine has been my guiding light in bad car decisions. I remember the Porsche 912 shell he was in…

Having lived through the Bush years, my eyes always gravitate to any increased flag-waving nationalism. So while you…

That car above is Seat’s Mii Electric, which starts at £19,300, or around $26,700 in a straight conversion. Expect…

Two bus drivers got caught up on the wrong block in Brooklyn this week, both claiming they had the right of way when…

Pikes Peak is one of the oldest, greatest, most dangerous races in the world, and when there’s a new documentary…

Ford has realized that, well, a lot of its employees have been doing just fine working from home. All that and more…

The car is the four-seater, mid-engine sports car that Ferrari produced in the early 1980s, the Ferrari Mondial…

It had everything: a fully electric drivetrain, handsome styling, and an incredibly dorky name for the people who…

A parts shortage means that GM is shipping full-size pickups with a missing fuel economy module, and that means…

The New York City government has set aside $65 million of federal stimulus money to fix the debt crisis among taxi…

We go on and on about how making cars is hard. Startup after startup crumbles away, particularly in the world of…

I’m a little worried about this new statistic from the pandemic. All that and more in The Morning Shift for March…

I have spent only an extremely limited time in a BMW E23 7 Series, in large part because it was my old boss Patrick…

There was a brief moment in my car life when I had read about the great cars, but hadn’t quite gotten to the part…

Whenever a car company comes out with a new model, it commissions photos to be taken of it. They’re for internal…

Sure, everyone claims that they want clean energy, but the way that breaks down country by country produces some…