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Reputation Management: Recalls That Blow up in Your Face
7+ hour ago (373+ words) Welcome back to'Reputation Management! We are again revealing the underbelly of local automotive retailers'places like car dealers and service shops'with fictional service tales inspired by real customer reviews. How do we make these stories seem like they could really happen?...
How a Tamiya Tank Helped NASA Stop Space Shuttle Tires from Exploding
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (411+ words) Going into orbit has always been expensive. A typical NASA Space Shuttle mission, for example, pulled a whopping $2.24 billion (adjusted for inflation) from federal coffers, which put a lot of pressure on the program's engineers and managers to make sure…...
Driving Canada’s Most Challenging Roads in a 100-Year-Old Ford
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (916+ words) The Model A was owned by my friend Ted's father, who passed away a few years ago. I'd speak to Ted about it occasionally, and I eyed other Model As for sale online, so I had a sense of the…...
Rumor: Buick Might Bring a Sedan Back to America
1+ week, 2+ day ago (485+ words) Rumor: Buick Might Bring a Sedan Back to America'Hagerty Rumor: Buick Might Bring a Sedan Back to America Stay up to speed with stories written by drivers, for drivers. Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and…...
We Are All Automotive Archivists
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (303+ words) Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. A few years after that, I bought a 1931 16-cylinder Cadillac. The seller had all the paperwork, too, but when it came time to…...
How Czinger Uses AI and 3D Printing To Chart a New Hypercar Course
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (337+ words) Hypercars are getting boring. The cultural staying power and impact enjoyed by benchmarks from yesteryear like the Porsche 959 and McLaren F1 have shrunk from decade-defining feats of engineering into a series of very brief flashes atop the high-performance heap. The modern…...
What's Better, a Concours or Custom Paint Job?
3+ week, 3+ day ago (726+ words) Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. But enough about me, let's get into the meat of this thought exercise: if you had the money to make it happen, would…...
Inside McMurtry's Mission to Elevate Electric Vehicles to Another Plane of Performance
3+ week, 3+ day ago (588+ words) Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. It has been 10 years since the company was founded, but Britain's McMurtry Automotive is finally on the cusp of delivering its revolutionary Sp'irling…...
Happy 10th Anniversary, You Daily Driver, You
3+ week, 4+ day ago (876+ words) Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. My 2003 BMW 530i is different. Its origin story is burned into my mind. I contacted the seller and asked about the "electrical problem." He…...
Donut Lab's Solid-State Battery Cells Charge from Dead in Roughly Five Minutes
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (521+ words) Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. One key caveat in his piece was that a third party had not yet verified Donut's claims. Now, one has. In an announcement…...