Polestar has been Volvo’s in-house performance brand since 1996, providing higher-performance versions of Volvo cars, much like Mercedes-Benz’s AMG or BMW’s M. You know how that works. Now, though, Volvo is spinning Polestar off into its own unique brand, with Polestar-badged cars that, while they may share some…

Ever since Warren Robinett hid his name in the Atari 2600 game Adventure, there’s been a rich and wonderful tradition of developers hiding little fun secret things in computer software. This one, found on Russian-made GAZelle Next vans and trucks, is especially good: you can play Tetris on the little dot-matrix screen…

Cars of a given era tend to look alike. They’re designed with a common design vocabulary of the time and often follow common trends. Even so, cars that are dead-on doppelgängers for one another (that aren’t badge-engineered twins) are pretty rare, especially when one of the cars is one of the most-recognized vehicles…

Despite a loud, idiotic subset of fans who seem hell-bent on proving to the world they’re the worst sort of people, I still like Rick and Morty, the gleefully-nihilistic animated show about a dimension-hopping scientist and his hapless grandson and, occasionally, Buttworld. Like anything worthwhile, Rick and Morty has…

I know we sometimes get accused of giving Tesla more than their share of guff here (to be fair, we also get accused of fellating them, so, you know, can’t win) but I noticed something about the new Model 3 that I really feel like deserves mention. It has to do with the windshield wipers, but sort of encapsulates most…

There’s very little information about what exactly happened in this dashcam video, but it appears to be from Jamaica, and appears to show a car wash worker taking a customer’s car for a joyride. It also appears that the worker made a colossal mess out of everything.

If you have an Erector Set laying around somewhere, congratulations! You’re properly equipped to make an accurate scale model of a new military vehicle concept, the Partisan One. The Partisan One is a rugged, wildly basic 4x4 that’s built from a simple frame of right angles and bolt-on parts. It’s supposed to be…

Most Americans only know Daihatsu from the sad little Charade that was sold here back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and that’s a huge shame, because I’m starting to believe that Daihatsu is the only truly and consistently wonderful modern automaker. That’s probably hyperbole, but look at their two new concepts for…

“Can we just park right in the ocean?”

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this or not, but one of the biggest competitions in the automobile world is happening right now, under our very noses: the race to see what vehicle will be delivering our mail. The Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) that has been delivering America’s mail since the 1980s is nearing the end…

A reader named Justin sent us the link to a small, not particularly well-viewed YouTube channel called NewbieMechanic, which is essentially just a bunch of videos of a British guy wrenching on his Toyota MR2. He’s not really a great mechanic, the videos aren’t particularly well-done, but they’re so honest and simple…

I was tipped off about a very exciting and rare car available on Craigslist, and the unnamed tipper wasn’t wrong—this thing is an absolute unicorn. It’s also exactly the kind of car that, if you find it interesting, will make you realize just how deep down the automotive rabbit hole you’ve fallen.

Global geekdom is experiencing complicated and confusing sensations in their collective bathing suit areas thanks to tonight’s release of the second trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. My job, of course, is to scour the trailer for interesting vehicle or droid-related information, and, boy, does it look like there’s…

The Ford Five Hundred is about as close to a ghost as an automobile can get. Even if you see one, it’s hard to be sure exactly what you saw, or if you even saw anything at all. It’s very existence is confusing to most people—was it a thing? Was a just a Taurus? Have I ever seen one? The Five Hundred is so meh it’s…

So far, the big automotive news about the latest Replicantsplotation movie, Blade Runner 2049, is that it seems that French cars like Peugeot will make their return to America with some very impressive flying cars. I have some potentially bigger news, though: it appears that in 2049, there’s at least still some old…

Need to feel a little bit better about everything, forever? I figured you might. Luckily, that’s possible by watching these two Shiba Inus (ignore that lazy one sleeping in the foreground) lean like pro motorcycle riders as they’re driven around in what I think is a little Kei van.

If you break it down, a lot of what living is about involves evaluating situations and then making the best decision you can. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Leverne Doran of Nottingham, Maryland, failed pretty dramatically by this definition of living, since he crawled onto the hood of a middle school bus…

A storm in Rio Negrinho, in the North of Santa Catarina, Brazil, brought down a good number of trees. One of those trees came right down on a Volkswagen Kombi, smacking it right in the middle, the result looking like what would happen if you dropped a small barbell onto a loaf of bread. The difference, though, is that…

The internet was aware that Palmer’s days were numbered with Renault even before the driver himself knew, and now it’s official: Joylon Palmer’s last race with Renault (and likely his last F1 race, period) will be in Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix.