Who here likes planets? I know I do—hell, I even live on one! I suspect there’s many fellow planet-enthusiasts out there, which is why I decided to do this: try and find cars named for every planet in our solar system, including our disrespected pal, the dwarf planet Pluto. Aside from a couple of well-known examples,…
It seems like every other automotive press release is about autonomy or alternative energy. Is every other car an EV or a plug-in hybrid? No, obviously, but this study shows an interesting breakdown of how popular alt-fuel cars really are, and where.
There’s a lot of ways to make cars. You can stick the engine in the front, middle, or rear, you can drive two or four wheels, front or rear, and all these with all sorts of combinations. Lately, you can shove batteries and motors somewhere, too.
Right now, in America I think it’s easier to get an SUV than it is to get, say chlamydia. Pretty much every single car brand you can buy in the American market offers (or has real plans to offer in the near future) either an SUV or a crossover/CUV type of vehicle. But not all. There’s still a few holdouts.
It’s a sad day for those of us who liked knowing that there was a company building big, V8-powered beasts, just like here in America, down at the bottom of the Earth. The company was GM’s Australian subsidiary Holden, and today they finished their very last car. Let’s see how much changed from the first Holden to the…
Much like Olympic wrestlers or supermodels, talking about cars can get pretty weight-obsessive. How much a car or truck weighs affects how much it can carry, its performance, its efficiency, how hard it is to stop and on and on. But when we talk about cars and weight, it’s not just how many pounds. There’s a number of…
More than any other superhero, Batman is known for his car. In fact, he’s one of the few major superheroes to even have a car worth a damn, anyway. I think I once saw Superman parking a Geo Prizm. That’s why the Batmobile is so important, and why there’ve been so many of the things.
We finally know how much Fiat Chrysler’s unholy alchemy experiment, the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, costs: one hoagie less than $85,000. Since we also know the car’s horsepower, that means we have all the constants needed to compute that most important of mostly useless automotive-metrics, the legendary…
I know all of you are upstanding, law-abiding citizens. I know the very idea that you would violate the sacred trust that is known as a ‘speed limit’ is barely possible to comprehend. I get that. Even so, I suspect you might find this chart of police car headlight patterns handy, for, you know, purposes of general…
As is common every few years, a new Fast and Furious movie is upon us. The new one seems to be about explosions and car hacking and another absurd vehicular heist, based on the trailer. This is a far cry from the Fast and Furious movies of my youth, which were mostly about NOS and gear shifting and tuna sandwiches.…
Have you ever gotten in a cab and wondered how much it would cost if you just had the driver keep going until they ran out of land? Of course you have. If you live in America, I’m sure you’ve either crossed the country at some point, or at least wondered about it. Have you ever wondered what the most expensive way to…
At this moment, if you so chose to, you could spend $18,650 on a “London’s punk scene”-inspired leather jacket. My wife described this jacket as a “$20,000 Halloween costume,” and I think that’s a pretty good assessment. You could also spend exactly $18,650 on a 2017 Kia Rio EX. Let’s compare the two.
The idea of comparing the pace of development of computers to cars has been around a while. Snopes traces the idea all the way back to some early-internet joke in 1997, even. Fundamentally, it’s sort of an absurd comparison—the two technologies are so different, they’re really not comparable. I did it anyway.
It turns out Toyota rules the world, Russians are in love with Hyundai, Honda has Canada on lockdown, and Mini’s real big in Southeast Asia.
In what was heralded as a landmark decision last month, the International Maritime Organization agreed to cap the sulfur content of marine fuels by 2020.
There’s an awful lot of Serious Business happening in America right now. I’m pretty sick of it. Let’s take a moment to ignore the news and the polls and the leaks and focus on something that actually matters: what animals would be what-wheel-drive?
That deafening sound of shock and surprise coming from Chicago was the result of something that happens so infrequently it makes the coming of Halley’s Comet look like a Maserati’s trip to the shop: the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Just for fun, let’s compare the most-sold cars in America from the Cub’s two most…
Have you ever been communicating with a friend via semaphore flags, trying to describe the door handle of a car, but then collapsed from exhaustion trying to describe the handle? Of course you have. We all have. Luckily, this is another problem I’ve solved, thanks to this definitive taxonomy of car door handles.…
Yesterday, I wrote about how a new study showed that the average American can no longer comfortably afford an average-priced car. This got me thinking about exactly when cars got so damn expensive, which is what led me to Corvettes, this chart, and a realization that I may have been thinking about this wrong. I’ll…
Many of us who spend the majority of our non-eating, non-masturbating hours thinking about cars often lament how much alike so many modern cars look. We decry how homogenous the carscape has become, and wish for a return to a mythical past. Sure, lots of cars do look alike now, but the truth is, it’s always been like…
