Picture Car Confidential #45: Slate First Drive — A little over a month ago, I joined the assembled members of the Fourth Estate in Carson, California, at Slate Auto’s design headquarters. We were there for a “first ride” in the soon-to-be-launched Slate pickup. Like devotees…
iOS 27's iPhone Handoff Feature Expanding to More Carriers This Year — Apple last week announced that Verizon and EE will support iOS 27's new iPhone Handoff feature later this year. The feature allows you to switch between any two iPhones running iOS 27 while using the same…
Ferrari Luce: Blindsided by the Light — The moment has come. The Luce, Ferrari’s first battery electric vehicle, is here, and it’s quite unlike anything ever to emerge from Maranello. The Luce—Italian for “Light”—shines in a very different direction. Much of that is d
That Famous NASCAR Boom Tube Exhaust Sound Was an Accident — The design of race car exhaust has been a fine science for decades, but few designs have been as notable—or have had the ear-splitting appeal—of the “boom tubes” of NASCAR stock cars in the early 2000s.…
How to get perfectly smooth frosting on cake — Whether you prefer Italian or Swiss, the goal is to have a frosting that’s smooth, silky, and pipes like a dream. However, the biggest enemy to a smooth buttercream can be the most frustrating to troubleshoot: tiny air bubbles.
Bugatti W16 Mistral Blanc Éternel Bridges Tradition and Tech — In 2011, Bugatti teamed up with a Berlin-based porcelain maker named Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM) to design a distinctive, one-off Veyron Grand Sport called L’Or Blanc. The model stood out as one of…
1988 Mercedes-Benz 560SL: Best of the Breed — The 1972–89 Mercedes SL roadster, internally designated the R107, was a long-lived chassis. As with a lot of classics, the debate between car people usually centers on which ones are the best: the newest, or the earliest ones? While…
Macy's and American Eagle Drop, JetBlue Dips | Stock Movers — On this episode of Stock Movers: - Macy's (M) shares are lower, erasing an earlier advance, as investors weigh much better-than-expected comparable sales and adjusted EPS in the second quarter against a less robust…
False nines? 4-4-2? The tactical trends defining World Cup so far — The return of 4-4-2? False nines? BBC Sport looks at the tactical trends emerging at the World Cup so far.
Ferrari’s 12Cilindri Manuale Suggests Tails Can Wag The Dog — Automakers have a history of listening to customer feedback, even if they don’t make a big deal about it. Manual conversion kits for F1-transmission-equipped Ferrari 360 and 430 models, and even the later…
Rubio, Jaishankar Urge Trade Deal Despite Pharma Tariff Threat — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar reinforced the importance of concluding an interim trade agreement between their two countries during a meeting in Manila on Wednesday.
Cherished Buick Has Spent 113 Years with the Same Family — “We guarantee that all Model 25 Buick Touring Car Motors will develop more power and speed than any stock Foreign or American Motors of equal size. Buick Power and Speed are the inevitable result of correct design,
Barn Finds — Unrestored Classic And Muscle Cars For Sale
Bovensiepen 05 GT Is an M5 Touring-Based Follow-up to the Alpina B5 — Alpina began writing the next chapter in its story when it joined the BMW Group in January 2026. The Bovensiepen family that started the company is no longer involved in running it, but it’s staying in…
2026 GMC Yukon AT4 Ultimate Review: Denali in Danner Boots — Recently, my wife was in the market for a vehicle to replace her beloved but 15-year-old V-6 Toyota RAV4. (I lost the argument to get a minivan, given our 1-year-old and second baby on the way.) Some kind of three-row…
I created my own cheap VR headset using this phone and glasses combo — Skip the expensive headset—this lightweight pairing does what I actually use VR for.
Is an Old Packard Worth Reviving? Ask a Man Who Owns One — The Packard Motor Car Company’s slogan was “Ask the man who owns one.” Although it has been decades since anyone has been able to buy a Packard off the showroom floor, it’s still possible to own one of these incredible…
Apple Watch to get ‘major overhaul’ next year, says leaker - 9to5Mac — Apple Watch Ultra 4 is rumored to have major design changes, and per a new leak, the ‘Series’ line could get its own big upgrades next year.
Picture Car Confidential #42: Citroën Rendezvous and the Miraculous M35 — Much as I like cars, I don’t go to a lot of car shows. In fact, I make a special point of avoiding such gatherings where the competitors’ enthusiasm for correctness borders on obsessive. To be clear, I’m…
Lamborghini Urus SE Performante Is Almost as Quick as a Temerario — Lamborghini is after the SUV segment’s performance crown, and it’s bringing one hell of a weapon to the battle. The new Lamborghini Urus SE Performante lands as a plug-in hybrid family-hauler with…
Never Stop Driving #195: The Craftsmen — Next week, Monterey Car Week will once again lure thousands of enthusiasts to the California coast for auctions, concours, and the usual parade of eight-figure Ferraris. The mid-August week is a reminder that California is a hotbed of…
3 brilliant free, open-source (FOSS) apps students should try this weekend (Aug 14–16) — Free, open-source software that does more for your studies than most paid apps.
Another 5 “Bad” Cars I Want Anyway — At this point, now 15 cars and three installments into this exercise in aspirational automotive masochism, it might seem like cars with bad reputations are my real passion. That’s not strictly true, but my interest in the…
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and… — When I learned this issue of the magazine was devoted entirely to American cars in recognition of the USA’s 250th anniversary, I was reminded of a catchy 1970s jingle that many car fans over 55 can probably still sing to this day: “We…
Buzz Buzz: Dodge Teases the Return of the Super Bee — The video is just 15 seconds long and features exactly zero shots of an actual car, but it’s hard to mistake the latest teaser from Dodge as anything else: Super Bee is coming back early next month. As someone with a…
Evel Knievel Fans Have One More Reason to Viva Las Vegas — It takes something special to become an icon in the automotive world. Few people have established themselves so firmly in the cultural zeitgeist as Robert Craig Knievel. Even using his government name, you can already tel
Getting to the Bottom of Ford’s $28,350 Fathom — Vaguebooking is defined as a cryptic message posted on social media, with the intention of eliciting a response from followers. There’s a new Ford on the way, and it might be among the most anticipated vehicles in…
2027 Maserati Grancabrio Trofeo First Drive: Rational Irrationality — There’s no shortage of supercars, and the Maserati GranCabrio intentionally steers clear of them all. Despite the numbers on the spec sheet, it’s more of a grand tourer that’s at home…
At Under $11K, a TVR S3 Is Fast, Frugal Fun — These days, the average price of a new car in the United States is nearly $50,000. The absolute cheapest new vehicle right now is the 2026 Hyundai Venue, which starts at a little over 20 grand. Gas is over $4.50 a gallon (6 bucks, if
Two Friends, a Big-Block Mopar, and the 100-Year-Old Mother Road — Markku Jaakkola has been a fan of American cars since he was a child. Growing up in Finland, American cars weren’t easy to come by. Still, Jaakkola found some like-minded enthusiasts who shared a passion for…
Instagram's New Video Editing Tool Quickly Makes a First Draft — It creates a rough edit in 10 seconds.
From Peking to Paris in a Pontiac GTO — One of the things I didn’t consider was the dust. It is so fine and it gets… everywhere. There were times when we couldn’t see the end of the GTO’s hood, it was so thick. A lot of Kazakhstan was that way, so many old roads they’d…
Paramount agrees to pause Warner Bros deal while court case plays out — The delay, filed in court on Friday, can cost Paramount $1.7bn in fees if the deal is not closed by next June.
GPS Trackers: The Last Line of Theft Defense — A total of 659,880 vehicles were reported stolen nationwide last year. Most of those are used cars like Hyundai Elantras and Honda Accords, which are easy to part out. But classic cars are hardly immune. In 2025, 207 total loss…
Offy: Four Letters. Four Cylinders. Four Decades as the Engine to Beat. — Chew on that for a bit. We now live in an age when memes are born, flourish, and are forgotten over the course of a week. So how did the Offy manage to spend four decades as the undisputed heavyweight…
Iran prepares to keep economy alive as US threatens further sanctions — Iran’s authorities say they could shift to offensive operations as Washington considers further sanctions.
Your Project Car Anti-Guide — The path for tackling a project car successfully is varied and meandering, even in the best scenario. Navigating it either forces you to go with the flow, or else you live a frustrated life until you either sell the car or reluctantly get it to a poi
This ’64 LeSabre Is a Burst of Buick Sunshine — I wasn’t looking for a car as I walked through the Syracuse Nationals in July 2022. But then I spotted a Camelot Rose 1962 Buick Skylark with an Arctic White hard top for sale. I was in love, but my mechanic husband wasn’t…
Are Battery PoweredTrailers the Shortcut to Cleaner Long Haul Freight? — European pilot joins the quest to electrify trailers
Final Parking Space: 1978 Ford Pinto 3-Door Runabout — What was the best-selling Detroit subcompact car of the 1970s? The Ford Pinto and its Mercury Bobcat sibling, of course, and I’ve found a good example of Dearborn’s little horse at a car graveyard in the shadow of
Final Parking Space: 1982 Chevrolet S-10 — Right now, the smallest new Chevrolet pickups available for sale in the United States are behemoths that scale in at nearly 5000 pounds and have wheelbases that stretch beyond 126 inches (Silverado—up to 157 inches) and 131 inches (Color
Final Parking Space: 1999 Mercury Mystique LS with 5-speed and 350K Miles — Two weeks ago, we had a 1993 Honda Civic with 414,982 miles on its odometer as our Final Parking Space subject. That very same day, I visited my favorite Denver-area car graveyard and spotted a Mercury…
According to You: Favorite Driving Roads of 2026 — Last week I asked about your favorite driving road for this year, hoping that the responses would open new doors that lead to new roads for us to enjoy. I had a bit of a hidden agenda with this question, as my fellow writers…
Simpson Design Infuses the Humble Miata with Classic Euro Styling — Visitors to this year’s Monterey Car Week were likely overwhelmed by the cornucopia of machinery, but among the standouts were a couple of coachbuilt rarities. Styled by Giovanni Michelotti and crafted by…
The Deadliest Decade: The Battle for Aero Supremacy — Thus commenced the Battle for Aero Supremacy. Not another race passed where a new wrinkle wasn’t introduced. It wasn’t immediately clear whether this was a testament to the technical ingenuity of Formula 1 or to…
The Last Piece of (And About) the Lotus’ Air Conditioning — It was nearly a year ago that I wrote my first piece discussing the pros and cons of electric air conditioning compressors. In it, I said pretty stridently that a big con is that much of the PR for electric A/C is an…
Admit It, You’re BMW Clown Shoe-Curious — Whenever a Skunkworks project escapes an automaker’s back room and actually reaches the buying public, it’s worth marking that moment in history. Inherently, these are fringe products—adaptations of larger ideas that…
Ford History Repeats Itself at Alan Mann Racing — There’s barely room to squeeze between the race cars in the workshop at Alan Mann Racing. The Goodwood Revival is fast approaching, so much of the activity is focused on a Lotus Cortina and an AC Cobra, which will take to the…
A Primer in Basic Electrical Troubleshooting (Part II: Using a Multimeter) — Last week, I stepped through the basics of automotive electrical circuits, explained how electrical current needs to flow from battery positive through the load device, to chassis ground, and back to bat
VW’s Golf Rallye G60 Truly Was the Golf R of the ’80s and ’90s — Nowadays, the facelifted version of Volkswagen’s eighth-generation Golf R is widely acclaimed as a potent, grippy hot hatchback. With 328 horsepower, 295 lb-ft of torque, all-wheel drive, and a sub-five-second run…
750 Words - Practice Writing Every Day — A private daily writing habit.
1975 Pontiac Grand Ville Brougham Convertible: Last Call for the Big Drop-Top! — I love Grand Villes. Knowing nothing about them, never seeing one, a person could still infer that it is something special. And big and luxurious. And they would be right! For a few brief years in…
Does Analogue 3D really make retro games 4K? Here's what you should know — The Analogue 3D does a great job at upscaling old N64 games, with a few caveats.
Final Parking Space: 1942 GMC CCKW “Deuce and a Half” — The 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America is this Saturday, so it seems fitting that we should have a heroic World War II truck as this…
Zelda. Again. Still. Always. — I’ve been down for the past couple of weeks with an odd combination of gut and back issues. It’s all minor; it’s being resolved, but I’ve been running at quarter speed, and long wrenching sessions where I’m bent over or twisting under an engine…
How $51 and a Hammer Saved My Corvette Road Trip — Few things get me as excited as a road trip. It is one of the only experiences in life that I actually prepare for; everything else is a feat of just-in-time execution that usually—usually—comes together. A few weeks ago, ahead…
Michael Wright, ‘The Five Heartbeats’ and ‘Oz’ Star, Dies at 70 — Michael Wright, star of 'The Five Heartbeats,' 'V,' and 'Oz,' died at the age of 70.
11 Cultural Hits of Route 66 at 100 — The best thing about U.S. Highway 66 is that it isn’t really a highway. Although the official designation dates back 100 years, to 1926, much of the road existed before that as stretches of state and municipal byways. Route 66 is thus a kind
Revealed: Trio of Special-Edition Porsche 911s Celebrates Toy Story 5 Stars — There will be some very special guests at today’s red-carpet premiere for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5: Three heavily customized Porsche 911s. The cars, a product of a collaboration betwee
Big Vehicles Need Bigger Brakes: Brembo Boldika Answers the Call — How heavy are big pickup trucks and high-performance electric SUVs these days? Heavy enough that domestic manufacturers asked Brembo for bigger, more powerful brakes. The Italian outfit’s solution: the…