Remember when MTV played music videos and VH1 also played videos, but MTV was cool, and VH1 was the lame channel for your parents? Then MTV stopped playing videos and turned into Real World and Road Rules all the time–then some weird amalgamation of Real World/Road Rules that was really a game show? At which […]
Whilst chatting with a friend the other day, our conversation turned toward cars and the auto industry, specifically upcoming models and potential innovation. During this discussion, my friend asked a question that was, in the moment, rhetorical, and he quickly moved on to something else. It was only afterward, when looking back, that I had […]
At this point, it’s pretty clear that the race is on by auto manufacturers to have the leading all-electric pickup on the market. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are set to take over the industry, with every major manufacturer focusing on converting more and more of their lineup to electric models. One of the most recent big […]
With the recent return of the Ford Bronco, there’s been plenty of heated debate about whether the Bronco or the Jeep Wrangler is the better off-road SUV. For decades now, Jeep pretty well had that title locked down with very little real competition from the other big manufacturers. The Ford Bronco changed all of that, […]
Determining the most comfortable Buick seems like it should be a pretty simple feat, but the problem is that “comfort” is a pretty subjective term. In addition to that, there are lots of different ways we could define “comfort” and how it relates to a vehicle that you’re in. With quite a few different models […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a woman goes to a car service center because she wants an oil change; the mechanic quotes her a fair price for it, but during the oil change he finds all kinds of other problems and things that need major repairs. In the end, she pays double or […]
Although it might be hard to imagine how that’s possible, it would seem that current testing for car safety – crash testing in particular – is, in fact, sexist. Or at least not designed with gender equity in mind, and the results are quite deadly. In the long list of things I never thought I […]
It’s the beginning of a new year, and as we bid a not so fond farewell to 2021, I prefer to focus more on the future and what it has to offer. In particular, I can’t help but be excited about the vehicles that are going to start hitting the road this year–at least in […]
That’s a great question and one that might seem initially simple to answer, though the reality is–as you might expect–a bit more complicated. It really depends on what we mean by “powerful,” and this is a term that gets thrown around a lot when discussing full-size trucks without always having a proper definition behind it. […]
Ever since the rise of marketing and advertising, brand names have become vitally important: a tremendous amount of time and money now goes into picking the name of a company or new product. That hasn’t always been the case, however, and many of the companies that we know are named after a person rather than […]
Although superheroes are what we should aspire to be, there’s no denying that the villains are often more interesting and compelling. This isn’t a coincidence; storytellers tend to make villains more appealing and “cool” as a reminder that there’s always a temptation to do the wrong thing. How well this works is, perhaps, up for […]
Although comic books, movies, and other tales are often named after their heroes, to me, it’s the villains of these stories that are more important. A hero is defined by his or her villain in much the same way that light is defined by the shadows and darkness at the edges of its illumination. Without […]
CurrHere we go again. The news cycle in the auto industry is an interesting creature: there are predictable peaks and valleys throughout different times of the year. As you’d expect, a lot of excitement each year tends to start bubbling in the weeks around the major auto shows, and the end and beginning of each […]
If you’re even mildly interested in the goings-on of the auto industry and the big companies within it, then you’ve likely heard about the partnership that was recently announced between Tesla and Hertz, one of the biggest rental car companies in the world. This is a major announcement for both of them, though for somewhat […]
For anyone who watches the auto industry, 2020 seemed like a strange and difficult year (it was for pretty much everyone) – but then 2021 said, “Hold my beer,” and went completely off the deep end. There was so much going on this year that it was hard to keep up – the auto industry […]
Even though the Rivian R1T all-electric pickup was first announced several years ago, well ahead of the models that are soon-to-be its competition, it was looking a bit dicey for this EV truck. There have been numerous delays for various reasons, and with the launch of the Tesla Cybertruck and Ford F-150 Lightning drawing ever […]
Whether you like it or not, advertising is all around us: it pervades print media, television, the Internet (I certainly don’t have to tell you that), and even the world we live in. No matter where you look, you’ll probably see a commercial somewhere around you, which means that advertising is not only a part […]
Life is full of great mysteries: What ancient alien species built the pyramids? If the sky was green instead of blue, how would you know where to stop mowing your lawn? And what kind of vehicle would Aquaman drive? Unfortunately for you, I don’t know the answers to those first two; fortunately, however, I can […]
In the annals of geekdom, certain questions arise again and again: Who’s the better captain, Kirk or Picard? Who’d win in a fight, Muad’Dib or Luke Skywalker? And can Magneto use his mutant control over magnetism to lift Thor’s hammer? I’m going to explore the apex of such impenetrable mysteries: what kind of car would […]
Although they’re one of the parts of a truck that we tend to interact with the most, all-too-often, the bed and tailgate are overlooked when we think about a pickup. For example, consider the 2022 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD, one of the largest and most powerful trucks available from Chevy. When people look at this […]
