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Mercedes Could Be Banned From Selling Cars In The US Over Chinese Ownership
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (1660+ words) Welcome back to the working week. If you're a fan of the complicated interplay between industrial policy, economic nationalism, and global car production it might thrill you to read about it. If you're a German automaker that relies on the…...
The Soviet Union Once Tried To Revolutionize Motorcycles By Strapping A Rotary Engine To A Bike That Looked Like A Hearing Aid
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (990+ words) NSU and Wankel generated a plethora of patents for their work, and they were quick to license the engine's design out to anyone crazy enough to try to put it into a vehicle. NSU itself would use the rotary for…...
Airplane Engineers Once Designed A Crazy Plane That Carried Bulky Cargo Out In The Open Like A Giant Flying Pickup Truck
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1273+ words) As wild as the Flatbed looks, the concept of using an aircraft to carry external cargo isn't the craziest idea. The most iconic heavy cargo lifter in history, the late Antonov An-225 Mriya, was built to carry the Buran, the…...
If You Know What 'Travel Ball' Is, You Might Need A 2026 Chevrolet Traverse RS
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1941+ words) If you're not a parent, then the concept of "travel ball" is maybe foreign to you. If you're not a parent, you can probably stop reading about this vehicle, as it's not for you. Even if you are a parent,…...
Why It Was So Hard To Love The Ford 'CVH' World-Car Engine From The 1980s, Even Though It Was Pretty Solid
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1459+ words) Ford's CVH engine, produced for a quarter of a century, was its world car engine from the '80s onwards. It lasted the same time period as the American market Ford Escort, and Ford also installed it in various other cars. Designed…...
The Weirdest New Engine Has Eight Pistons, Four Cylinders, No Crankshaft, And Is Shaped Like A Tube
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1370+ words) The world has seen valiant efforts to beat the piston engine. I have now written about seemingly countless gas turbine projects and a handful of Wankel rotary cars. There have even been derivatives of the piston engine, like the free-piston…...
Doug De Muro's Cursed Mercedes-Benz A-Class Awaits A New Life At Copart After Several Owners And A Crash
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1137+ words) Unfortunately, Doug would learn that even a city car with a three-pointed star on it is, we'll say, an acquired taste. The car would go through at least a few more owners after Doug, only to end up in a…...
I Drove The Most Luxurious Polaris Slingshot And It's The Weirdest Car That's Somehow Not A Car
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1922+ words) This is now the third year in a row that I've tested the Polaris Slingshot. The bones underneath America's most alien three-wheeler haven't changed much over those years. Instead, Polaris has performed most of its work on what's bolted on…...
The Best Affordable AWD Winter Beater Is Not A Subaru, It's This Forgotten Suzuki
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1298+ words) The Suzuki SX4 had always been something I was aware of, at least in a "hey, it's one of those rare little hatchbacks!" kind of way. But it wasn't until my good friend at Subaru sang Suzuki's praises after owning 2 Kizashis…...
Piloting An Old Cessna Has Taught Me These Valuable Lessons That Every Car Driver And Person Should Learn
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1019+ words) This has completely stalled out the practical part of my training. The cruel twist? When the bad news hit in February, I had just been cleared for my first solo. My wife even bought a Go Pro to film it!...