Posts Written by Paul Strauss

In the 20th century, World’s Fairs were some of the best places to see concepts for the future of technology and transportation. At the 1964 New York World’s Fair, General Motors turned up with the Bison, a concept design for a truck that looked like something that might be used in space exploration, rolling along the surface of a lunar colony or something.…

Spanish automaker SEAT’s CUPRA performance division is showing off one of the sickest looking hot hatches we’ve seen in a while. The UrbanRebel Concept was designed to tease its electric future while still retaining its sports car character.…

LEGO Japan, Legoland Japan, and Toyota Gazoo Racing teamed up to create an incredible 1:1 scale replica of the 2021 GR Supra. Built to celebrate 35 years of Supra, the model is made from an insane 477,303 LEGO bricks and took builders took roughly 2400 hours to design and assemble.…

Now that Nissan has taken wraps off of the new 2023 Nissan Z, we can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the 7th-generation Z car, which now packs a 3.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V6 engine that makes 400 horsepower.…

When I was a kid, the Countach was the sexiest car. Every kid dreamed of having one, despite its ridiculous price tag and impracticality. That’s part of what made it so special.…

With vehicles like the Palisade, Sonata, Kona, and Veloster N in its current line-up, there’s never been a better time to own a Hyundai. For 2022, the Korean automaker completely revamped its popular Tucson compact SUV, making it more stylish, comfortable, versatile, and quicker.…

Sold under the Honda brand name in Japan, the Acura Integra was a popular and beloved 2+2 sports coupe from the time it debuted in 1986 until it went off the market in 2006.…

Yet another incredible car you could never buy, the 1938 Phantom Corsair was a true thing of beauty – especially in comparison to the other cars of its era, which largely were stoic rides that looked a bit like limousines.…

With the advent of adaptive radar cruise control, driving over long distances has become much less tiresome than it once was. These systems can dynamically adjust the speed of your vehicle based on the distance between you and the cars in front of you so they’re equally useful at high speeds and in rush hour highway traffic.…

The new Lotus Emira is one sexy-looking sports car. It’s got an amazingly sleek and aerodynamic style, and I love the body sculpting visible from every angle.…

It’s been a long time since you could purchase a new Peugeot here in America, but back in the 1980s you still could. During that period, the French automaker built the Quasar, a boldly styled concept vehicle that turned up at the 1984 Paris Motor Show.…

While visiting Toyota’s North American headquarters in Plano, Texas a few weeks back, I was given a top-secret walkaround of the new 2022 Tundra. No cameras were allowed in the room, and along with the numerous other journalists at the event, I kept tight-lipped about what I saw.…

The current trend in vehicle reveals is not to show the whole car or truck until we’ve been teased to death with various bits and pieces in the weeks and months leading up to the actual reveal.…

Lexus makes some pretty great vehicles, but if there’s been one complaint about their cars in the last decade or so, it’s their dated and counterintuitive infotainment system.…

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new compact pickup truck here in America. Sure, we’ve got the Ford Ranger, Chevy Colorado, and GMC Canyon, but those still don’t seem that small to me.…