Comfy Cars, Small Cars And American Cars In This Week's QOTD Roundup

Car enthusiasts often flock to the cars with the highest horsepower numbers, loudest exhausts, or fastest Nürburgring lap times, but sometimes we want to be coddled, too. Life is all about compromise, and when you build a car that’s focused solely on providing the most comfortable experience possible, it usually comes at the sacrifice of other traits like agility or style. Or at least up until modern times; the levels of comfort, speed, safety, technology, and handling in new ultra-luxury vehicles would send someone from the ‘70s into a coma. - Logan Carter Read More

Some of us come to terms with it later than others, but one of the most important lessons a child can learn is that you can’t always get what you want. We are not the center of the universe, and sometimes things just don’t go our way. As a kid, that often meant not being able to eat as much ice cream as you wanted or having to go to bed before the movie was over, but the same lesson applies as an adult, especially if you’re a car enthusiast. For some reason, the automotive world doesn’t revolve around a tiny group of folks who are still happy to shift their own gears. - Collin Woodard Read More

There are a lot of awesome jobs in the automotive world that you could be doing. Maybe it’s designing your dream cars, racing your dream cars or maintaining your dream cars. However, for every good job out there I bet there’s at least one awful job. - Owen Bellwood Read More

It’s been over a week since Ford CEO Jim Farley said America needs to fall in love with small cars again. We asked readers earlier this week what those vehicles should be. There were recommendations for a wide array of small cars that ranged from subcompact SUVs to traditional hatchbacks. A few people let their imaginations run wild and designed completely new machines. Without further ado, here are the compacts the country should embrace: - Ryan Erik King Read More

At the Aspen Ideas Festival last weekend Ford CEO Jim Farley stated that there is a societal need for consumers to fall back in love with smaller cars. Ironically, Ford culled nearly every car from its model lineup. The Mustang is the only car in the ballpark of being classified as small still produced by the Blue Oval. - Ryan Erik King Read More

In theory, new cars are just better. You get the latest safety features, upgraded technology, a better powertrain and the satisfaction of knowing other people know you got the new one. And to some degree, that’s true. Anyone who says they’d rather be in a car from the late 1970s in a crash instead of a brand-new crossover is either lying or doesn’t know what they’re talking about. That said, there are definitely cases where the older, recently canceled version of the car is still more desirable, causing you to wish the automaker had just kept building it. - Collin Woodard Read More

Happy Monday, folks! I hope you all enjoyed a nice little 4th of July weekend, filled with beer, hotdogs and freedom (as long as you ignore all of the bad shit going on right now). Anyway, to celebrate the Fourth, we decided to ask a very American question. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

Automakers will often team up with non- automotive companies for things like special edition cars, merch, etc. Sometimes the partnerships make sense. Remember Subaru’s L.L. Bean editions or Ford’s Eddie Bauer Explorers and Expeditions? Other times they come across as trying too hard—take Cadillac’s Bulgari partnership. - Lawrence Hodge Read More