The automotive landscape is changing, but are your tastes? Do you think there’s a car (or truck!) out there that might be your “forever” automobile? Better yet, can you buy it for $68,000 or less? That’s this week’s installment of “Here’s some arbitrary amount of fake money: go buy something.” Here are the rules; they’re
Having already committed to producing nothing but electric vehicles by 2030 and being “climate neutral” by 2040, it doesn’t come as a major surprise that Volvo will stop building and selling diesel-fueled vehicles next year. Way back in 2017, Volvo signaled its intention to phase out diesel engines due to rising costs of emissions technologies.
For the first time since 2019, the United Auto Workers union has gone on strike after failing to reach a deal with the three Detroit-based automakers. This strike is different from every other strike of the past, though. Never before in the UAW’s 80-plus-year history has the union ordered a strike on all three major
To the surprise of no one, Jeep has taken a lot of the new bits and pieces featured on the latest Wrangler that debuted earlier this year for the 2024 model year and grafted them to the Gladiator pickup truck. What is somewhat surprising is what’s been left on the chopping block, notably the SUV’s
It looks like Nissan isn’t ready to give up on its personal-luxury-sporty-but-practical crossover just yet. A spy photographers near Metro Detroit snapped these shots of the next-generation Nissan Murano out and about on public roads, albeit wearing heavy camouflage. As buyers shift more toward off-road-inspired utility vehicles, models like the Nissan Murano and its most
The Nissan Hardbody — it’s a pickup truck, not a gym rat — was a staple on and off American roads throughout the 1980s and into the the mid 1990s before it was replaced with the Frontier line. And it seems the Japanese automaker is looking to dip into its history with a new Hardbody
DENVER — On the surface, it would seem that the Polestar 2 electric car is the most direct competitor in America to the Tesla Model 3. Look closer, though, and you may decide it is instead the antithesis of Tesla’s lowest-priced EV sedan. In fact, in many ways Polestar as a brand is quite unlike
We’re car people, not camper people. That said, we’ve all been behind the wheel of a truck or SUV with a trailer hitched up, either for our own vacationing purposes or just to test out the capabilities of a new vehicle as part of our test driving duties. So, for this week’s What Would You
Last week, data begin filtering into the blogosphere suggesting that $20,000 is no longer an adequate sum to park a nice late-model used vehicle in your driveway. Some numbers: in 2019, the average cost of a used vehicle in America stood at $23,351. Just four years later, that number rocketed to $34,491 in 2023. So
We just spent the entire day in and around the Motor City enjoying the automotive sights and sounds of the Woodward Dream Cruise. According to the event’s website, the Dream Cruise attracts over a million people every year to see a collection of “more than 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest
