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The Fisker Karma is a car with a fairly short but quite strange life. Originally released in 2012 as a strikingly…

In July, an Uber driver we’ll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a…

We get emails all the time from people asking us to identify cars they encounter, and these are some of my favorite…

Helen Hudson will tell you what the 15th Ward was like when she was a girl. In the 1950s and early ’60s, the…

Uber changed how its surge pricing works last year. Not for riders, but for drivers. The changes have resulted in…

Monster Jam is, nominally, a competition, but really it’s just a cool monster truck show—and apparently a profitable…

“Fat, dumb and happy.” That’s how convicted former Fiat Chrysler exec Alphons Iacobelli and Monica Morgan, the wife…

In July 1999, Jim Wright and his wife Joyce were traveling along a New Mexico roadway in their 1995 Fleetwood…

Walt Disney once mused that it’s “kind of fun to do the impossible,” so it’s likely the animation mogul would’ve…

Hi, I’m Ishaan Jhaveri. I’m a data journalist who works with Gizmodo Media Group’s Special Projects Desk. I worked…

When Don Foss started his career as a car salesman, he recognized early on that most of his prospective customers…

Richard Parker locked down a job at a Ford plant in the Detroit area, and, like most residents of the region, needed…

Champion Porsche in Florida has made a name for itself as the largest Porsche dealer in the U.S., a reputation…

Parts arriving broken or weeks late. Horrible customer service. An office where employees were spied on with…

Last Friday, at the pretentiously-named-with-a-comma-even “The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering” event in Monterey,…

U.S. regulators want to find out which Goodyear officials were involved in assessing a possible defect in an RV tire…

The scene outside of New York City Hall in late May was several years in the making. Dozens of taxi and livery…

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has opened an investigation into an allegedly…

In a scene full of shady Japanese car importers, Florida-based Rivsu Imports was supposed to be one of the good…

In June 2002, facing numerous complaints about a tire that had been installed on thousands of motorhomes, Goodyear…