Toyota didn't build its reputation on horsepower. It built it on the kind of mechanical stubbornness that lets a truck...
Industry
Deep dives into the business of cars — manufacturer moves, supply chains, market trends, and who’s winning and losing.
When the European Union hammered Chinese electric vehicles with hefty tariffs in late 2024, Brussels expected to choke off the...
The anti-EV crowd has a favorite talking point, and it goes something like this: Sure, electric cars might be clean...
The Vega That Destroyed Chevy’s Subcompact Dreams: How a 24-Month Rush Job Killed an Aluminum Engine
Chevy's 1971 Vega was supposed to be GM's answer to Japanese subcompacts flooding the American market. Instead, it became a...
Your new car is watching the road better than you ever could. It’s scanning for pedestrians, measuring gaps to traffic,...
The year was 1900. Most automobiles were still basically motorized carriages—ungainly contraptions that jostled passengers around unpredictably and broke down...
In 1962, Oldsmobile dropped the Jetfire into showrooms sporting America's first production turbocharged V8—and almost immediately, GM realized it had...
That "ringers" phenomenon from the 1960s muscle car era wasn't magic—it was luck. One factory-fresh Chevelle would run a 14.5-second...
Seventy-three percent of light-duty cars sold in 2023 had direct-injection engines. That's not a coincidence—it's the result of automakers chasing...
In the mid-1960s, Mack Trucks was bleeding money. Cash-flow problems, tanking market share, and an engine lineup that couldn't compete...
