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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Elon Musk, the CEO of multiple companies including Tesla, just supposedly exited his time attempting to gut the U.S. government. Days later the black-eyed (literally) executive is accusing a government-run agency of corruption. On Friday, the Tesla Charging…
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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Electric trucks aren’t all that green, aren’t that practical, and aren’t cheap. Still, a market exists for pickups like the Ford F-150 Lightning, and it grew big time last year. The International Energy Agency reports that in 2024,…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. A few years ago, all major U.S. cell carriers began shutting down their 3G wireless networks, which subsequently took vehicles that relied upon it offline. This effectively ended remote start, location, and locking services for some of the…
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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. In January 2022, Amazon and Stellantis announced a multi-year partnership formed to develop a suite of software that was expected to end up in millions of cars starting in 2024. The agreement was proudly presented as a way…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. It’s fascinating how today’s algorithms can dredge up something from the depths of the internet and serve it up to vast swaths of people. If not for that phenomenon, this video of a clever “disappearing car door” system…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The Cadillac Escalade IQ is big in every sense of the word, from its wheels (24 inches, standard), to its length (224 inches, or 228 inches for the even bigger Escalade IQL), to its power (up to 750…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The radical-dude ’80s and ’90s aesthetic has been celebrated so much that I’m finally a little sick of it. No hate to the Radwood diehards, but I think we’ve seen enough synthwave sunset imagery to last another generation.…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The Germans have been a fickle bunch as of late, at least when it comes to naming their vehicles. Volkswagen is the latest to reassess its branding strategy with plans to do away with the alphanumeric “ID” badging…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The phrase “they don’t build ’em like they used to” means different things in different contexts. When it comes to safety, “building ’em like they used to” means setting aside many of the basic safety features that we…
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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra’s Cinderella arc may be coming to a close. Over the past year, we’ve seen a whole lot of hype for the 1,500-plus-horsepower, all-electric SU7 supersedan. But after some recent, high-profile controversies, owners are starting…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Old postal Jeeps aren’t worth much. So many of them were built, and so many of them were trashed, that they weren’t even a dime a dozen. Shoot, they were more like a nickel a dozen. That’s not…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Cameras are weird, and some situations in everyday life expose this weirdness. Ever try to film or snap a picture of an old tube TV? You get bands of colors, rather than a complete image. Or, have you…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter If you’ve ever been to East Texas, chances are you’ve driven on U.S. 290. This massive freeway nominally runs from Houston to Segovia—not a town, so much as a diminutive spec on the map—but the stretch between Houston and Austin is one of the most…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter Connected cars are great, as they let you communicate with other systems and devices via the internet, but connectivity opens the door to hacking. As it turns out, hacking a Nissan Leaf isn’t nearly as difficult as it might sound if you’ve got the right…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter Check out this neat little mod you can bolt on to your Toyota GR86, Subaru BRZ, or Scion FR-S. It’s an air duct that rides on the lower control arms, routing fast-moving air toward the front discs and calipers to cool them off. This looks…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter It’s no secret that the size of pickup trucks has swelled, especially over the past few decades years. Pickups that used to be somewhat tiny just aren’t anymore, like the Ford Ranger and Chevy Colorado. New model bloat is a real thing, and then you…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter For all the fun and versatility they offer, the conversation around the Mk 8 Volkswagen Golf GTI and Golf R revolved around pretty much one thing when both hot hatches launched a few years ago: the lack of physical buttons in the interior. Everything was…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter There are strange things afoot in Beantown, and for once the chaos isn’t related to massive government transit projects or the general layout of its street grid. Navigating Boston can be tricky on a good day, but folks who rely on Apple CarPlay (or Android…
Sign up for The Drive Daily If you like cars and have liked them for more than a decade, you probably have an opinion on screens. How many should a car have? How big should they be? Are they even useful at all? Enthusiasts will debate to no end over…
