From tires to tech, rust to road trips, here is all your latest automotive news and expert car buying, maintenance, and driving advice. Whether you’re hitting the road in the hottest wheels or just trying to keep your clunker street legal, we’ve got you covered.
The compact luxury SUV market just got more crowded. The all-new Cadillac XT4, introduced to the world last September, falls right in the middle. Recently Therese Pinazzo, one of the XT4’s exterior designers described this vehicle to me as not understanding “how small it is.” A couple of weeks later, … Read More
We recently began comparing the big new Lincoln Nautilus with the Lincoln Navigator, which is so much, much bigger, one of our party got lost and drowned somewhere amid the sea of leather in the back row. Maybe you don’t need a vehicle that comes with its own postal code. … Read More
I had the good fortune recently to drive the Lincoln Navigator and the all-newish Lincoln Nautilus for a week at a time each and almost back to back. What an interesting compare-and-contrast essay that makes! First off there’s the unignorable aquatic theme. Long before a nautilus became an expensive way … Read More
Cars with doors that hinge at the rear instead of the front were popular in the first half of the 20th century, but they were so dangerous they were dubbed “suicide doors.” It was easier for passengers to fall out of the cars if they weren’t wearing seat belts, and … Read More
When asked why he wanted to climb Everest, George Mallory was alleged to have said, “Because it’s there!” A popular adolescent joke pondered why a dog ‘wash’ his privates. Because he can (ba-dum-tss). And why do you think the Americans were the first to land on the moon? Umm, because … Read More
