Opinion 
Everybody Piles On Toyota – Even Hollywood(View Comments)
It’s not a good week to be Toyota.
Every day, the news wire rattles and hums with stories of every ambulance-chasing attorney from sea to shining sea jumping on board to sue the world’s largest automaker for every fender-bender in the last 10 years. As if that wasn’t enough, Toyota now has customers suing because the [...]
American Public Dumber Than Sack of Hammers – Film at 11
According to a report out by AutoPacific today, Americans have not only forgotten about the killer high gas prices of 2008, but they’re getting right back into the same big SUVs and gas hogs that they couldn’t give away the last time fuel prices took a trip to the stratosphere.
The good folks at AutoPacific tell [...]
Burying the Past Decade
With the popping of a million Champagne corks, tonight we’ll be saying “goodbye” to the first decade of the new millennium. You’ll excuse me if I take this opportunity for a little self-indulgent retrospection.
The previous decade was a fascinating rollercoaster for me, professionally. I entered it as a refugee, an injured soldier of the 1999 [...]
Thanksgiving Turkeys – Five Cars We’d Rather Forget
Across America this day, families are gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving. The holiday was founded by our ancestors because they figured if we traveled long distances to get together with our relatives once a year, we’d give thanks that we didn’t live closer.
Time was, everyone’s relatives lived in the same town, or on a nearby farm. [...]
Pony Wars – We Rank the Retros
There are a few basic truths in the automotive enthusiast world. The first is that everyone likes engine power. We may praise our Miatas as momentum and handling cars, we may describe our Mini Coopers as comfortable, fun and rated highly in Grins Per Gallon, but there’s something special about a big gnarly V8 and [...]
Toyota’s Haichi Subaku: 2011 WRX?
Co-developed between Toyota and Subaru, the FT-86 concept is a throwback to the small and fun sports coupe mindset. But, how will an AWD version fit into Subaru’s lineup? We have a theory…
Katayama Speaks Out and We Agree
Yutaka Katayama is the man who took Nissan/Datsun from a xenophobic second-tier Japanese domestic automaker to an international powerhouse – and he did it by proving the value of the product in motor sports, then selling great cars at affordable prices without a lot of useless drama. He’s renowned for his affection for people and [...]
Open letter to an arrogant and ignorant father.
When it comes to cars, nothing riles editor Ryan Douthit like a dad considering to buy his teenage son something as powerful as a BMW M5 or Audi S4. Just buy your kid a gun and be done, okay?
Leno’s Bizarre Top Gear Translation
The Jay Leno Show introduces its “Green Car Challenge” amidst much fanfare. Editor Ryan Douthit feels it’s a ridiculous Top Gear rip-off that stupefies and astounds in all the wrong ways.
50 Years of Saving Your Butt
When I was a kid, wearing your seatbelt was terminally un-hip. No, not for us was the stodgy old belt – we were invincible and laughed in the face of death!
We were also stupid, and some of us died because of it.
Racing drivers know that you drive better when you’re held firmly and comfortably in [...]
