The Truth About Cars
For this week's TTAC podcast, we chatted about the cars that U.S. News & World Report dubbed the best cars for teens for 2024. Now it's your turn.If you have a teen, or have a youngster approaching teen years, what would you buy them -- or advise them to buy?If you have grown kids, what did you have them drive?And of course, if you feel like...
Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru conducted a press event designed to explain why they’re walking away from full-blown electrification. While this is something numerous automakers have done in recent months, the “Multipathway Workshop” faced a predictable amount of criticism from EV acolytes. The event was hosted by a trio of Japanese CEOs and their top...
With graduation season in mind, these are the best cars for teens.At least according to U.S. News & World Report, anyway. John Vincent, the Senior Editor and Correspondent/Vehicle Testing at U.S. News, stops by to chat about their findings.Matthew Guy and I also discuss NASCAR's rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600 and a wet 'n' wild weekend in racing...
Today we bring you a car that remains one of my favorite casualties of the great bailouts/bankruptcies of the late Aughts -- a 2009 Pontiac G8. This one has a V6 and 190,000 miles on the odo.It needs transmission work, plus some minor interior work. The body has some dents and dings.Besides that, our seller says the engine runs well, the A/C blows...
Whilst the little Fiat 500 is presently only available with an all-electric powertrain, reports have surfaced that the Italian marque will soon offer the scamp with a gasoline-powered engine as well – potentially as early as the 2026 calendar year.To be clear, this was always in the hopper, if unofficially. Even though the present model was introduced...
The future of Tesla’s Supercharger team is anyone’s guess at this point, but that hasn’t slowed GM’s march toward adopting the automaker’s North American Charging Standard (NACS). GM will soon join Ford and Rivian as early adopters of the technology, with an official telling InsideEVs that it plans to “stick to the timeline that we previously announced.”...