In 1959, Bill Mitchell was newly in charge of Cadillac’s design department. Keen to shrug off his predecessor’s gaudy choices, Mitchell made sweeping exterior changes for a single all-out year full of sweeping body lines and excessive fins. Alongside the exterior design changes on the new Eldorado Seville, Biarritz, and four-door Eldorado Brougham...

Today our podcast went deep on which brands are the cheapest and costliest to maintain.Now I am curious what your experiences have been. Has your car-ownership experience matched Consumer Reports' findings? Or have you, for whatever reason, experienced the opposite.It seems obvious that most people would have an experience close to what CR found,...

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Piggybacking off our earlier match between the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4, this week’s throw-down will be between the 2024 Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla.While neither model sells quite like it used to, due to the popularity of their crossover equivalents, there are few mass-market rivalries as long lived as the Civic and Corolla. Be you someone...

We generally don’t comment on the reshuffling of corner offices at an OEM – but when the design boss at a Detroit Three automaker allegedly sends an email out of the blue saying ‘peace out’, it’s worth sitting up and taking notice.Anthony Lo was the chief design officer at Ford, joining the company in 2021 after a stint as VP of design at Renault....

Today's UCOTD is a 2001 Volkswagen Cabrio GLX. This one is stock and the seller says it's in perfect condition. I was a bit concerned about the condition of the body as I viewed the pics, but I think that's just a wire, not a cracked body panel.It's a five-speed stick and there are 175K miles on the clock. Our seller says that the car has been well...