Here Are The Best Car Buying Stories Of The Week
A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under her after she brought it in for repairs. If that wasn’t bad enough, months later, the c...
Fisker Fails, Shady Dealers And Failing V6s In This Week’s News Roundup
Selling cars is often a soul-crushing grind. So it’s understandable that dealership employees might feel pressure to cut corners. As one New England dealership recently found out, though, if you get caught straight-up scamming, there can be some pretty...
Fastest Speeding Tickets And Tungsten Cubes In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup
The Tesla Cybertruck is unlike most trucks that have come before it, and thus it has attracted a new set of buyers who wouldn’t normally drive a big pickup. Owning and driving a truck that’s over 18 feet long, nearly 8 feet wide, and built like a Frigi...
Weekend Car Culture Roundup June 01, 2024
It was only a matter of time before someone in a Tesla Cybertruck crashed into a crowd at a sideshow. While attempting to do some sort of reverse donut thing (I think) at a gathering in Chicago, a dark copper-wrapped Cybertruck backed right into a crow...
Weekend News Roundup June 01, 2024
A recent study found that Tesla vehicle batteries degrade at a faster rate than the manufacturer’s warranty assures. Recurrent discovered that the range plummeted to 64 percent of the EPA-rated range after three years after combing data from 12,198 Tes...
Cars You’d Keep For Life, Worst Design Flaws, Terrible Ride Quality And Your Best Answers Of The Week
I didn’t expect to touch a nerve when I asked y’all about the most egregious car design flaws but boy, I did not realize the can of worms I was cracking open. Some of you brought up decades old grudges against cars long since passed while others are ex...
Tesla Cybertuck Woes, EV Fears And Union Action In This Week’s News Roundup
Parking lots full of Tesla vehicles are becoming impossible to ignore as the electric automaker seemingly can’t sell enough cars and trucks to match its rate of production. According to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehic...
Tesla Trouble, Bob Lutz Kills Cars And Big License Plate Feelings In This Week’s News Roundup
Riding aboard the Steamship Authority ferry, a Tesla Cybertruck finally made its way to Nantucket last Thursday, and once it was off the boat, its owner wasted no time becoming enough of a nuisance that he earned his own local news article. Later the s...
Wild Car Features, Very Smart Brain Geniuses And Bears In This Week’s Car Culture Roundup
Cars have radically changed over the last few decades, adding technology like touch screens, cameras, and voice assistants, while quietly losing features that were prevalent for years. Depending on your persuasion, some of the advancements have positiv...
Gas Station Night Club, Carolina Squat Trucks And A TikToker’s Dilemma In This Week’s News Roundup
Auto loan debt is at an all time high. While some of the blame for that can be put on things like stubbornly high interest rates and ever increasing car prices, some folks just never learned the kind of financial skills required to make a smart car-buy...