Posts Written by Paul Strauss

With the stock exhaust, the Ram 1500 TRX already has a pretty imposing exhaust note. Those dual TRX pipes produce quite a ruckus hooked up to that 702-horsepower supercharged Hemi V8 engine.…

I’ve spent quite a bit of time driving various models of the Toyota Tacoma over the last few years, and it’s still one of my favorite pickup trucks.…

Hyundai recently released its Ionic 5 electric crossover, and now the Korean automaker has its sights set on the electric sedan market. Taking aim at the Tesla Model 3, the Ioniq 6 is the most aerodynamic car that Hyundai has made to date.…

Nissan redesigned its venerable Frontier mid-size pickup truck for the 2022 model year, and it has a lot of great things going for it. I spent a week with the updated truck back in December in Chicago and liked it.…

In the early 1970s, Ferrari produced the 308 Dino GT4, a fantastic little sports car designed by Marcello Gandini of Bertone. After its initial release, the Italian automaker wanted something to wow the 1976 Turin Motor Show attendees and asked Gandini to work his magic.…

While concept cars are often thought of as futuristic objects of desire, oftentimes the designs are so “outside of the box” that they just end up being awful.…

Last year, Toyota rolled out its Corolla Cross compact crossover. Like most other Toyota vehicles, it’s getting a hybrid variant. Looking like a RAV4 that went through a shrinker ray; the Corolla Cross is quite a good-looking little vehicle.…

You can currently buy a production BMW roadster in the form of the Z4. Here’s another very different 2-seater designed by the German automaker. The BMW Just 4/2 was actually the winner of an internal design competition at BMW back in 1995.…

The Land Rover Defender currently comes in 2-door and 4-door versions that seat up to five in their default configurations. The Defender 90 can seat up to six with an optional first-row jump seat, while the Defender 110 can seat seven if you add the third-row bench seat.…

Italian design firm and coachbuilder Pininfarina has contributed to the design of some truly awe-inspiring cars, from the original Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider to just about every Ferrari built since the 1950s.…

I kind of consider the 1990s my “lost decade” – I didn’t really care for mainstream music, movies, or cars during most of that period. Sure, there were some outliers like Radiohead, The Matrix, and the Nissan Skyline, but for the most part, I didn’t really connect with pop culture.…

Usually, when an automaker shows up at a trade show with a concept car, it’s a vision of a future design direction, new technologies, or a preview of an actual production vehicle.…

The Nissan Pathfinder has been a solid and popular SUV choice ever since it debuted back in 1985. Over the years, the Pathfinder has bounced between being a rugged body-on-frame vehicle to a more comfortable, unibody daily driver and back.…

With Chevy showing off its 670 horsepower Corvette Z06 this week, demand has been incredibly strong, with at least one dealer reporting over 1000 people on their waitlist.…

From the 1960s to the 1980s, custom cars were commonplace in TV shows, from The Beverly Hillbillies to Batman to Knight Rider. One of my favorite TV cars of all time has to be the coffin-shaped Drag-u-la that Grandpa Munster raced in The Munsters.…