Etc : Car News And Reviews

Every April 1st, carmakers and car fanatics do their best to stir up the internet with their April Fools pranks. This year featured some doozies, with everyone from Lexus to Honda to McLaren getting in on the action.…

While you can certainly drive a car with your everyday tennis shoes, if you really want to have the best possible feedback from your pedals, get yourself a pair of proper driving shoes.…

Cadillac has made a announcement that allows 2017 Cadillac CTS sedans to communicate with each other. Caddy calls the new feature “Cadillac V2V,” and says that it lays the groundwork for a safer future.…

If you’re a fan of motorsports and you haven’t been to a desert truck race, you’re genuinely missing out. I recently had a chance to attend the Mint 400 race, part of the Best in the Desert Series, this past weekend in the area around Las Vegas, and can tell you that you NEED to make this on your must-do list.…

I live in Colorado Springs, and drive to Pueblo most days for my day job down I-25. There is a massive field right next to Pikes Peak International Raceway or PPIR that I’ve seen filled with Volkswagen cars a few times, only to emptied and filled again.…

Nashville, Tennessee is the epicenter of country music and it is known for attractions such as the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Johnny Cash Museum which are both wonderful museums.…

I’m a big fan of how the Mercedes-AMG GT R looks and performs. Mercedes has now teamed up with Cigarette Racing to create a gigantic 50-foot Marauder racing boat inspired by the AMG GT R.…

The folks at Volvo, when describing the interiors of their new modern cars like the S90, V90, and XC90, call it a ‘Scandinavian Sanctuary.’ It’s one of the many reasons why we love their luxury vehicles as much as we do.…

The manual transmission continues to become more and more of a rarity in modern cars – especially here in the US. After all, most modern automatics are faster and more fuel efficient than their manual predecessors.…

If you look back at cars in the 1970s and 1980s, the vast majority of them were angular and boxy. But at some point in the 1990s, those corners started to soften, leading to the curvy and smooth designs we’re used to today.…

It’s been revealed that Subaru has landed a permit to test autonomous cars in California. This is good news as it brings us one step closer to fully-autonomous Outbacks.…

Jaguar Land Rover recently launched a new program that lets fans of their vehicles experience them like never before – driving sideways on a massive ice-covered lake Northern Sweden – the same lake that car companies have been using for testing vehicles in the most extreme winter driving conditions since back in the 1970s.…

In general, I don’t think cars should be made into convertibles unless they were engineered that way from day one. Typically, chopping the roof off of a production vehicle causes all sorts of stability and body roll issues, regardless of how much you want the wind blowing through your hair.…

If you are one of the folks that plunked down a deposit for the weird Elio Motors three wheeler, you might as well come to grips with the fact that your money is almost certainly gone.…

What goes together better than dune buggies and boating? If you said, “peanut butter and chocolate,” then I’d agree, but a close second is the dune buggy and boat thing.…