MILAN — The car a person chooses, like their choice of dog, says an awful lot about them. I’ve made this assertion before about supercars, but it holds for basically every car purchase. What car […]
SAN DIEGO — The manual transmission is on its way out. Over the past decade, as automatic transmissions have gained gears and ubiquity, the practical advantages of a manual have disappeared. They have worse fuel […]
SAN ANTONIO — The Ford F-150 Lightning is the most important electric car ever made. It’s also the most important pickup truck ever made. A pickup truck is the ultimate “but I might” vehicle. But […]
SAN DIEGO — It seems like every carmaker is making a full-throated conversion to electric. New EVs are everywhere, and my inbox is filled with announcements of new battery factories and vehicle assembly facilities, and […]
HEALDSBURG, Calif. — On the wonderful television show Ted Lasso, AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton is regularly chauffeured around in a Rolls-Royce Phantom. The cars of Ted Lasso, as with just about everything else on […]
ENCINITAS, Calif. — It seems common wisdom in the EV community that Toyota is somehow late to electric cars. Tesla, it’s correctly noted, has been beating the pants off everyone when it comes to electric […]
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The American appetite for pickup trucks is insatiable. Millions are sold every year across various sizes and price points, but it always seems like there’s room for another new one. See […]
STURBRIDGE, Mass. — The last thing you want to see at 9:30 PM, two hours from your destination, is a low tire pressure warning light. But that’s what happened in my 2021 Toyota Camry XSE […]
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — When General Motors announced that its first electric pickup truck would wear the legendary Hummer badge, I giggled. The idea of an electrified Hummer, the gas guzzlingest of all the gigantic SUV […]
SAN DIEGO — Electric cars, aside from some of those made by Tesla, haven’t been the most exciting vehicles on the market. That’s a problem because as much as people like sensibility and good fuel […]
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