Along with sketchy mechanics, speed limits and faulty O2 sensors, tree sap is a your car’s worst nightmare. Once it has marred your otherwise pristine paint job, the stuff just won’t come off. The good news is that there’s actually an easy way to remove the plant excrement.
Bentley’s 6.75-liter V8, also known as the “6 3/4 Litre“ because old England doesn’t use decimals, is one of the most famous engines in all the world of cars. It’s been in production in some form since 1959, and it has enough torque to pull the entire crust off of the Earth. And now Bentley’s CEO says its days are…
The Indianapolis 500 doesn’t greet winners with a big bottle of champagne as most races do. They hand the winner an ice cold bottle of milk. This creates a curious artifact every year: a list of driver’s milk preferences. Who wants the whole experience? Who’d rather water it down? Behold! Here’s this year’s list.
Good Morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Tough day at work so far? Your partner on your case about those groceries you forgot? Get all your frustrations out watching this hydraulic press apply 500 tons of force to steel car wheel. Oh yeah. Crush, baby, crush!
I’ve covered bad judges and bad attorneys before. A few people have asked if I have ever seen a bad client. Sure! So here are what I consider the three most entertaining of those clients that I can describe - and one more bad attorney thrown in just for fun.
A man in Washington state bought a used BMW that he thought was in good working order, only to have the engine completely fail on him three days later. Turns out he never saw the check engine light because that was covered up with duct tape.
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams.
If you still haven’t picked up Audio-Technica’s coveted ATH-M50x headphones, Amazon will sell you a pair for $90 today, as long as you don’t mind buying a refurb. That’s the best cash price we’ve ever seen, so if you’ve had these on your wishlist for awhile, this is the day to buy them.
Look, up on the page! It’s a wagon, it’s a minivan, it’s… it’s… today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda Civic! Let’s see if this rare Shuttle comes with a price that you might just consider to be super-duper.
“This car looks sketchy and dangerous,” writes The Smoking Tire introducing Roland’s Datsun 260Z. Or at least, a car that looks mostly like a 260Z.
Between having to drive big, automatic cop cars all the time, and being party-poopers who pull us over just when we think we’re starting to have fun, cops may sometimes seem like the anti-gearhead. But that’s so wrong, and officer Matt from Colorado is proof.
After breaking ground on a billion dollar factory in Sparks, Nevada earlier this month, Faraday Future is now working a deal on a second facility in Vallejo, California. So—a Bay Area factory and a larger Nevada-based factory. Sound familiar? Oh yea! That’s Tesla’s deal.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego did an experiment to see what could be learned from just the information many cars are already recording. The result was that the way people drove was as identifiable as a fingerprint.
Are you team Porsche, or team McLaren?
When looking up images for the 1964 Imperial that Don Draper drove in an episode of Mad Men, I stumbled upon a 2006 concept car that has the new Lincoln Continental beat by a wide margin in the Bentley-lookalike category.
In China, a beautiful dark purple Jaguar XJ blocked a Range Rover Evoque from an exit, leaving the SUV’s driver with only once choice: to repeatedly bash the luxury sedan out of the way in a loud, chaotic spectacle that will bring tears to your eyes.
Today, British PM David Cameron bought a £1,495 Nissan for his wife to drive. Or did he?
