Podcast Episodes

Illinois Reveals the Vanity License Plates It Banned for 2025—and Some Are Hilarious

Everyone loves a tasteful, funny vanity plate. At roughly $200 or more for a personalized number plate in Illinois, it pays to make sure yours stands out for the right reasons. Still, the state draws…

Published on 3 days, 4 hours ago

Exploring The Bugatti Tourbillon Interior: Where Watchmaking Replaces Screens

Bugatti is using the new Tourbillon to reset what a modern hypercar cabin should feel like, and its interior concept goes in a very different direction from the usual wall of touchscreens.

Led by Chi…

Published on 3 days, 4 hours ago

Beautifully Restored Datsun 240Z For Sale With 5,500 Miles Shows Why the Original Z Still Matters

The Z That Started It All

When it comes to Japanese sports cars, the classic Datsun 240Z is considered the benchmark for the Nissan Z line. The long hood, short deck, and clean lines have held up bett…

Published on 3 days, 4 hours ago

Alpine Is Eyeing America, but an SUV May Decide Its Fate

Alpine is Renault's performance brand, and its long-rumoured arrival in the United States has had a few tariff-related speed bumps along the way. But the idea is far from abandoned. Talk of an Alpine…

Published on 3 days, 5 hours ago

Chrysler Once Sold a K-Car in Japan—and It May Be Extinct Today

K-Car, not Kei Car

In '80s Japan, the economy was booming. Buying power was sky-high, and the homegrown carmakers knew it. It's one of the reasons why we ended up with such iconic JDM cars. Chrysler w…

Published on 3 days, 5 hours ago

How This Volkswagen Golf GTI Gave Disabled Drivers Their Freedom Back

Volkswagen’s latest brand story is not about lap records or Nürburgring times. It is about a C6 quadriplegic racer, a hand-control hot hatch, and how a Golf GTI can become a tool for independence ins…

Published on 3 days, 5 hours ago

Waymo Robotaxis Froze During San Francisco Blackout, Exposing A New Failure Mode

A major power outage in San Francisco turned Waymo’s driverless fleet into rolling roadblocks, as the company’s autonomous cars encountered dark intersections, stopped, and then mostly refused to mov…

Published on 3 days, 6 hours ago

Ford Is on Track to Double the Previous U.S. Recall Record

It's been a tough year for automakers, from the loss of federal tax credits causing a greater slump in EV sales to the challenge of tariffs raising prices for everything else, and Ford will be especi…

Published on 3 days, 6 hours ago

This China-Only Volkswagen Passat Hybrid Boasts Nearly 100 Miles of Electric Range

Volkswagen is giving its China-market mid-size sedan a serious electrified upgrade. The new Passat plug-in hybrid, badged Passat ePro, debuts as a China-only model with a bigger battery, much longer …

Published on 4 days ago

New Study Finds Touchscreens Make Drivers Significantly Worse

Touchscreen Concerns

A detailed study presented at the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology is now offering compelling evidence for something that most of us already kno…

Published on 4 days, 1 hour ago