Every now and then, car enthusiasts want to photograph something, whether it’s for everyday carspotting, a club magazine, a sales ad, or just their own collection. As a car writer-photographer, I can provide some tips for you. Carspotting and cars that you own have some rather different rules, so I’ve split them up. Universal rules […]
Lucid Motors’ first car, the Lucid Air, will appear in April at the New York Auto Show. The Silicon Valley automaker developed its own powertrain technologies, and reportedly has the world’s most efficient electric engine: the range is predicted to be 400 miles (easily beating any Tesla), without extra-large battery packs. The company claims its […]
Here are all the electric pickups we know about, in one table. There are many blank spots, and not every factoid is final or definite or even on the same scale; for example, GM’s release on its Hummer lists torque at the wheels, but that doesn’t correspond easily to the SAE torque we’re used to […]
Of all the automakers, General Motors was the greatest success story of the J.D. Power long-term survey. Sure, Toyota dominated by coming in #2 of mass-market brands and #2 of luxury brands (Lexus), but GM’s performance was stunning given where the company was ten years ago—or twenty years ago—or thirty—or forty—or fifty or sixty or seventy […]
The Jeep Cherokee had a fairly minor transition into its second generation, by ordinary standards; the vast majority of the car was untouched, but a new engine (a brand new engine, a 2.0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder) was added and some tech features were upgraded. Buyers now got standard LED headlights, and the appearance and trim levels […]
Rivian has major backers, a massive backlog of orders, and the old Diamond Star (Mitsubishi/Chrysler) plant in Illinois. Tesla has marketing money can’t buy, including constant sci-fi media propaganda pushing Nikola Tesla’s genius to levels he himself (immodest though he was) would be surprised by; and they have plants in California and China. Bollinger has […]
The Cadillac CT6 was a surprising tour de force: boasting Cadillac’s Blackwing V8, rear wheel drive, and a Tesla-“Autopilot”-beating “Super Cruise” autonomous driving system, the sedan was supposed to be a reputation-remaker. The top sales year, though, was 2017, when it hit 10,542 in the United States. No other year hit five-figure sales, and 2019 was […]
There’s yet another player in the electric-truck market: Arrival, a British company which landed a 10,000-truck order from UPS ($440 million). The deal also comes with UPS buying a portion of Arrival, making it a partly-American-owned company; but Hyundai-Kia has also bought in, to the tune of $110 million, and will sell some Arrivals as […]
GM has shown a trailer-braking concept system that can stop a truck and trailer in the same distance as the truck on its own—at half its gross vehicle weight rating. Possibly the best part of the system is that it can use existing components. The system uses GM’s “eBoost” system, with a trailer that is […]
Lucid Motors will show off its first production vehicle in April at the New York Auto Show. The new automaker, based on Silicon Valley, is using its internal technologies, and is building a factory in Arizona; the first cars built for sale will appear around the end fo the year. Though most people today are […]