The Toyota Prius may be quite popular (at least here in SoCal), but that doesn’t necessarily make it desirable. Okay, a lot of people do find the car that has become synonymous with hybrids and...
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Regardless of whether you consider the original World War II Jeep, the 1935 Chevrolet Suburban Carryall or something else to be the Adam of sport utility vehicles, the bottom line is the primordial soup of...
Over the decades, numerous Japanese automobiles originally developed primarily with the home market in mind have found second homes here on this side of the Pacific. These Americanized JDM models have existed for various and...
During automotive history’s dark ages (a.k.a. the early-1970s to the mid-1980s), fuel economy shot right to the top of many new car buyers’ priority lists, as the Malaise Era (as it has come to be...
Developing a new car is a very, very involved process that takes years. That’s a lot of time in which some rather crazy stuff can happen: The company undertaking the task of birthing the new...
Launching a new car or truck is an absolutely monumental undertaking, more monumental than average person can comprehend. From the market researching to the designing, engineering, testing, government certification, and marketing, there’s a lot of...
Time, the cliché claims, waits for no man. Yet there are many occasions where man has declined to wait for time, being too far ahead of the curve, if you will. The history of the...
You know the old line about death and taxes, right? Well it seems like you can add “Ferrari won’t build an SUV” to those sure-things; company officials have said time and time again that that’s...
The first muscle car era is looked upon fondly by both gearheads who lived through it and those of us who came along after it. Consequently, Detroit has spent much of the last decade catering...
It used to be that the inline-six was the internal combustion engine layout jack-of-all-trades. You’d see big, long-stroke ones powering trucks of all shapes and sizes, small and high-strung ones propelling sports cars, and medium-sized...