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V6 engines are disappearing - even from luxury sedans like the Mercedes E-Class - a type of car which used to come standard with one. It now comes...

Jaguars were famous, once, for their silky in-line sixes and V12s - as well as their uniquely elegant English styling. Nothing else looks like...

When does 450 horsepower seem kind of . . . limp? When you’re behind the wheel of something with more than 700 horsepower. That’s the difference -...

The name change - even if April Foolsey - is indicative of what this change is all about. The Volkswagen was - literally - the people’s car. It was...

Now highways are racist - and must be cancelled. So saith the new Oberbefehlshaber der Transport - Pete Buttigieg. Whose bona fides to hold this...

The '21 Ram TRX I am test-driving this week has more than three times as much horsepower (702) as the 455 V8 in my '76 Trans-Am made when it was new...

You can’t reduce the size of a 4x8 sheet of plywood to hide the rising cost of one - or shave some length off a 2x4x8 - without it being not only...

Why do so many - practically everybody, in many areas - Diaper? Even in the absence of "mandates"? Even when the "mandates" aren't enforced - at...

Selections have consequences - again. You may have noticed how much more you’re paying at the pump now that Orange Man is gone. For most of the...

The Genesis GV80 does not have a V8, as its name seems to suggest it might. But it does have something else that’s getting hard to find in a...

How long will it be before people make monthly payments on toothbrushes? It’s not all that far-fetched when you consider that many are already making...

California’s deciders want to ban everyone’s cars. If we’re talking about cars that aren’t - cough - “zero emissions” electric cars. The state’s...

You used to be able to get a V6 in a Honda Accord sedan. But now that one’s a four cylinder-only sedan. The good news is, there’s a new sedan made...

The American driver is being nudged into electric cars like the Tesla and most Americans are already driving cars like the Tesla in that almost all...

Remember when trucks were simple - and inexpensive? They still are both - just not here. And ironically, they are built by the same company that...

Teslas continue to crash into things, automatically - most recently in Michigan, where a Tesla Model Y drove into a stationary state police car....

Some people are confused - as well as neurotic. They want what is styled a “safe” car - and the government panders to this fear by implying that any...

Hybrids are getting popular again - because gas is being made expensive again. It's an interesting - a bizarre and entirely artificial - dynamic....

For generations Ford worked closely with Firestone, which not only provided the tires installed on new Fords but also developed them to work with...