Despite the scandal surrounding Volkswagen and its diesel engines that dominated the final months of 2015, the vehicles we drive today are cleaner, more fuel efficient, safer and faster than they have ever been since Karl Benz first fired up his…

If it’s a business day in 2019, there must be another crossover utility vehicle being announced somewhere in the world. Sure enough this day happens to coincide with the first press day of the 2019 New York Auto Show and Hyundai is here with the…

The second-best selling nameplate in the current Ford lineup behind the perennially leading F-series trucks is the Escape. With more than 126,000 units sold through the first five months of 2016, the only Ford car that comes close is the Fusion with…

More than two years after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration first issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications in the U.S., the agency is finally ready to move forward. Following…

Ford has spent the past five years carefully calibrating its scope and is now finally ready to aim directly at the heart of Jeep and pull the trigger. The weapon Ford has crafted is the second in its lineup to wear a badge shaped like a wild horse…

Throughout the 56-year history of the Mustang, Ford has consistently introduced a range of limited edition variants, many of which have become icons in their own right including the Boss 302, GT350, GT500 and of course the Mach 1. The Mach 1 is…

There was a time in history when a Buick station wagon was the quite literally the master of the road. So much so in fact that Buick called it the Roadmaster. But somewhere along the way, American car buyers fell out of love with wagons and then…

Developing a vehicle that can drive itself takes a lot more than just some complex artificial intelligence, state of the art graphics chips and expensive sensors. At least it does if you want the vehicle to drive itself around safely and reliably in…

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation of AMG Motorenbau und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, better known to fans of fast cars simply as AMG. The firm which was started by a pair of ex-Mercedes-Benz engineers focused on racing engines…

There was a lot about 2016 that was terribly disappointing but this is not the place to discuss those things. Instead I want to celebrate some of my favorites among the dozens of different vehicles I drove over the past year. I got to spend anything…