Rory Carroll's posts

Erin dropped this question in Slack last night and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Since I started…

If you’re looking for an overlanding rig, but you refuse to buy one that you can’t hold in your hand and/or put in…

As you may have heard, Elon Musk became the richest person in the world yesterday, thank god. (Elon, if you’re…

These mergers often feel like big steps toward a totally homogenized car business where badge engineering and strict…

Assuming you aren’t, like a lot of people, going to have to plow your $600 pittance into rent, food, credit card…

I’ve had the 911 above since maybe 2007. When I bought it it was a tired old sports car and I drove the wheels off…

I’ve been stuck in the snow probably a dozen times in my life. I’d say more than half of those times were the result…

I deleted Uber at the same time everybody else did. If I remember correctly, I deleted Lyft, too. I’ll admit I…

Everyone knows that winter is the best season for driving. You’ve got your slipping, your sliding, your low-speed…

There are a few cars that have earned an unassailable position in the dream car pantheon. Everyone just intuitively…

If reading this site has taught me one thing, it’s that some cars are pretty good. But also, that there are cars…

Automotive failures are weird. The process of designing, building and selling cars is enormously complex, and it’s…

It’s strange, but cars like the Lincoln pictured above don’t really exist anymore. Displaced by the…

Over the last several years, I’ve been lucky to be in a position where people hand me the keys to very fast cars.…

Right now, as you’re reading this, you are running out of time to buy this good ’61Cadillac I found on Hemmings.…

In the early aughts, I paid $600 for a black ’69 Ford LTD Sedan (not pictured above) to serve daily driver duty. It…

Polestar has worked very hard to make the new Polestar 2 EV available to reviewers in different cities across the…

For about the last decade or so, I’ve been in the habit of carrying a Leatherman in my right front pocket pretty…

Jason’s post about bustleback cars of the ’80s could not have been better timed. I’d recently spotted a Cadillac…

When I started here, I was under the mistaken impression that Oppo had been killed a while back. I was relieved to…