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Enthusiasts often think in simple binaries. Manual transmission good, automatic transmission bad; hydraulic power steering good, electric power steering bad. All-season tires fall into the same boat, compared with their more specialized summer or winter brethren. But reality isn’t quite so simple. Not all all-season tires are bad, just as not…

BMW has a new, entry-level race car called the M2 Racing. It starts at €98,000 ($111,421 at today's exchange rate), which gets you a fully kitted car ready for the track. Except it lacks one thing the road-going M2 has—an inline-six engine. Instead, the new M2 race car packs a…

The new, sub-$20,000 Slate Truck is unlike anything on sale in America today. It’s also tiny. Like, really, really tiny. Like, shorter-than-a-Honda-Civic tiny. Initially, I was thinking the Slate would be about the size of a Ford Maverick, but we have to go way back in automotive history to find…

Crank windows are returning to the American car market. The last passenger vehicle to be offered with a manually cranking window died last year. But you'll now soon be able to purchase a car with unpowered windows again thanks to startup Slate and its astoundingly cheap electric Truck.

It’s here. At a Thursday event in Los Angeles, startup Slate Auto revealed what it’s calling simply, the Truck. It’s a tiny electric pickup funded at least in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and astonishingly, a targeted base price of $20,000 after federal tax incentives for EVs. 

Update: The Slate Truck is here. Check out all the details and specs in our full reveal article.

Porsche on Wednesday unveiled a new trim for the 911 called the Spirit 70, meant to evoke the company's 1970s design. In addition to the bright Olive Neo paint and the funky graphics, the 911 Spirit 70 uses Pasha—a wavy checkered pattern Porsche offered in the 1970s—for much of the…

The struggle is real for Nissan. The Japanese brand didn't have a good year in 2024, and with tariffs wreaking all kinds of havoc on the industry, 2025 will have its own set of challenges. Now, it sounds like plans for two new US-made Nissan electric sedans have been canceled.

Bugatti just released a video and accompanying photos of the Tourbillon's amazing, Cosworth-built, naturally aspirated V-16, and obviously, we're poring over all of it. What jumped out at us is the V-16's unique timing system. It's unlike anything we've ever seen in an automotive engine.