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America just issued a federal safety recall for exactly one pickup truck, a single 2026 Toyota Tundra whose accessories made it 1 percent heavier than its label said — the paperwork puts the defect rate at 100 percent, and the fix is a new sticker
1+ day, 48+ min ago (340+ words) Toyota is known for being very reliable and safe, with the automaker willing to delay technology upgrades just to ensure everything has been tested extensively. But that doesn’t mean Toyota never has recalls. The latest recall is probably the funniest,…...
The three electric SUVs that undercut the Tesla Model Y on price all did the same thing Tesla will not: they kept the buttons — a Hyundai at $35,000 with a gauge cluster, a Kia that charges 10 to 80 percent in 20 minutes, and a Rivian with a bigger frunk
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (589+ words) Tesla is often people’s go-to choice for electric vehicles, but times have changed. Elon Musk is borderline insane, and other EV-focused automakers have frankly surpassed Tesla in terms of technology, capability, and style. The Tesla Model Y proved that electric…...
The Ford Mustang outsold every non-premium sports car in America combined in the first half of 2026, something it hadn't pulled off since 2008 — 28,725 sold against 4,007 for its closest rival, a seven-to-one beatdown of the Toyota GR86
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (667+ words) The Ford Mustang gets a lot of flak in the car community. There’s the whole crowd-into-the-Cars-and-Coffee-exit thing. But there’s no denying the Mustang is a dominant force in the US, and it’s for a reason. So far this year, more…...
The camera that watches your face is now mandatory in every new EU car, and testers say it beeps when you glance at the landscape, hunt for a song or check the kid in the back seat — America's own version has a mandate, a funded law, and no finish line
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (797+ words) The European Union has decided that new cars must come with a camera pointed at your face, and drivers are not happy. The goal is safer roads. The camera is part of an “advanced driver distraction warning system,” or ADDW,…...
A 320-ton driverless truck with 2,700 horsepower just became the 1,000th of its kind to go to work, hauling gold ore through Nevada on a fleet that has moved 11.5 billion tons of rock — while Waymo and Tesla still argue about 3,500 robotaxis
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (1308+ words) Meanwhile, there are more driverless haul trucks moving rock around the planet right now than there are Waymos on American streets. They weigh 320 tons each and nobody argues about them. On April 21, Komatsu announced it had commissioned its 1,000th autonomous ultra-class…...
Volkswagen is preparing to kill nearly half the models it builds after its China sales collapsed by more than a third in a single quarter — the CEO's fix is fewer cars, built faster, with less complexity
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (804+ words) Volkswagen had quite the week. On Thursday, the company announced plans to slash its model lineup by up to half. On Friday, it explained why: sales fell 8.6% in the second quarter of 2026, dragged down by a China collapse of 36.6%. Yes,…...
I spent days driving the Subaru BRZ and it captures almost everything that makes driving great — then you touch the reversing camera, the USB ports and the infotainment, and it's ten years out of date on every one
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (1034+ words) Earlier this year, I wrote a piece comparing the Subaru BRZ to a Porsche. I highlighted the similarities, namely the boxer engine, the RWD configuration, and the manual transmission. It was obviously a bit tongue in cheek, and any real…...
A 3,500-ton German machine named Mary just started spinning a 49-foot cutting wheel under Adelaide's houses, working 24/7 with 20 specialists riding inside her — and on a good day she covers 33 feet
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (1275+ words) Mitsubishi stopped building cars at Tonsley Park, on South Road in Adelaide, back in 2008. The buildings came down. Part of the site is now an electrical substation. That substation was put there to feed tunnel boring machines. On July 1 the…...
American engineers just rebuilt a jet engine that spent its first life hauling 747s across oceans to burn pure hydrogen, a flame eight times faster than natural gas that climbs back up the nozzle and cooks the hardware feeding it — and the first four ever built have never run a single hour
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1202+ words) Every gas turbine sold this decade seems to arrive with the words “hydrogen ready” printed somewhere on the brochure. Usually that means the machine can swallow a splash of hydrogen mixed into natural gas, five percent, maybe thirty, before the…...
A Brooklyn company runs a Class 8 semi on the metal-free fuel everyone else is trying to burn, splitting ammonia into hydrogen on board and filling the tank in eight minutes, and it just took the same box to a 40-megawatt power project in South Korea
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1357+ words) Ammonia has spent the last few years being sold as the fuel that finally cleans up shipping. It is carbon-free when it burns, the world already makes it by the shipload for fertilizer, and the biggest marine engine builders on…...