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The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Screens in cars: It’s a sore subject for many, and everyone seems to have some opinion on it, whether they actually like cars or not. I’ve always believed that while we could never go back to the way things were—modern vehicles are just too complicated to have buttons for every single setting—there’s a line as to what’s reasonable, and automakers have long since crossed it. But after spending a week with a Lucid Air Touring, I think…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Consumer Reports just published a new used-car reliability leaderboard, ranking 26 popular car brands from “most” to “least reliable,” based on survey results. The top of the list won’t surprise anyone. The bottom is a different story—Tesla is dead last, suffering the particularly harsh indignity of getting beaten by Jeep in the reliability survey. According to CR‘s latest study, Lexus topped the list with a “77” (out of 100) score, then Toyota was closely behind in second…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Big ol’ screens in cars affect every driver, whether directly or indirectly. Even if you’ve vowed to never buy a vehicle with an iPad on the dash, you’re sharing the road with folks who already did that. Blame them if you want, but it’s not entirely their fault that cars these days have done away with physical buttons in favor of distracting screens. It’s turned into a real mess, and it started with automakers giving customers something…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. If you’ve ever wondered how easily the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine from Back to the Future could get up to 88 mph, today is your lucky day. AirShaper released a 3D model of the movie car that you can manipulate and analyze yourself. Or you can read the company’s report to see how aerodynamic it really is. AirShaper is a cloud-based CFD design tool. Short for computational fluid dynamics, CFD software mathematically models the flow of liquids…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. British firm YASA claims its axial flux motors will make big power while eliminating the need for big brakes—at the rear of the car, at least. Regenerative braking means EVs rely less on their mechanical brakes than internal-combustion vehicles. And because most braking force is distributed to the front wheels regardless of powertrain type, rear brakes can be downsized. That’s how the Volkswagen ID.4 gets away with rear drum brakes, for example. But YASA is taking this…