Humans, when faced with a challenging obstacle, revert to an instictive mode that has only two possible settings:…
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If you’d like to learn to fix cars, you probably don’t want to start out by rebuilding an engine or replacing a…
Savage.
Buying a Honda Insight is still the worst decision he’s ever made, a problem somehow solved by the second worst decision he’s ever made.
Car culture can be amazing. A bunch of people gather on a random day in an empty parking lot and talk about their…
Oh, Red Bull. Never change. Here are the four Red Bull and Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers in perhaps the best press…
Earlier this month, Formula One troll-king Bernie Ecclestone referred to the drivers as “windbags” in the assorted…
Last month Freddy “Tavarish” Hernandez and I joined Adam Carolla and Matt D’Andria on the CarCast podcast to talk…
You’ve all been there. It’s time for a new car, but your job and personal life and just don’t really give you the…
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I recently had the opportunity to bring my Aston Martin to Washington, D.C. This involved spending two and a half…
Same reason a 737 has a blunt front side and a F22 has a sharp nose— we’re talking low speed aero here. The goal is to efficiently channel air around the car and not to stab through it. The frontal area of the car stays the same whether it sharpens to a point on the ground or is a blunt brick.
Not an aerodynamics expert either, but I’m guessing it has more to do with pedestrian impact regulations in Europe. They result in large, blunt front ends to spread out the impact area on a person’s legs. Just look at all the recent Mercedes cars. Not sure they can make a sleek front end and still meet those regs.
Relax. It’s called a refresh for a reason.
I don’t think anybody will claim it’s all new, since it’s just a very minor refresh.
Elon Musk’s campaign to eliminate false grilles has won a very important battle, on the very face of their flagship…
The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety just released a report detailing the effects of higher speed limits on…
I’m sorry to say that I’ve never really found anything all that interesting in my motor oil. Just the usual grit and…
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You see a 2015 Ford Focus, I see an Aston Martin. No, really.