• Volkswagen Replacing ID.4 With All-Electric Tiguan

    Volkswagen Replacing ID.4 With All-Electric Tiguan
    Volkswagen has announced that it will be launching an all-electric version of the Tiguan SUV as a replacement for the ID.4.While the Tiguan has seen sales slipping a tad in recent years, it remains a popular model for VW. This is likely at the core of what's driving the name change, since we’re betting the new model has much more in common with the ID.4 than the current version of the Tiguan.“More than 8.3 million Tiguan vehicles produced demonstrate the strength and trust associated
  • Ford Hires Nate Bargatze as New Service Pitchman

    Ford Hires Nate Bargatze as New Service Pitchman
    Ford has spent years renting celebrities to sell its wares, and its latest hire is a comedian whose main qualification is that he can't work on his own car. Nate Bargatze is the face of a new ad campaign built to lure customers back to the dealership service bay, and the pitch is aimed squarely at people who have no idea what happens under the hood.The effort is called "Real Parts. Real Pros. Real Easy.," and it rests on three selling points: genuine parts, technicians trained specifically on y
  • Question of the Day: Should Fuel Economy Mandates be Tough or Evolutionary?

    Question of the Day: Should Fuel Economy Mandates be Tough or Evolutionary?
    Today, the Trump administration lowered the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) from 50.4 mpg to 34.9 mpg by 2031. This applies to passenger cars and light duty trucks. The CAFE at the end of 2024 was 30.1 mpg.The final move in Trump’s “Freedom Means Affordable Cars” reportedly allows automakers more flexibility in the types of vehicles they build to attract more buyers. It would also reduce the average price of a new vehicle by $1,300 and save $138 billion during the next f
  • Tesla's Semi Has the Range. The Chargers Are the Problem

    Tesla's Semi Has the Range. The Chargers Are the Problem
    Tesla finally has a 500-mile electric truck rolling off a real production line, and the thing works. The problem is that a truck rated for 500 miles per charge still needs somewhere to plug in, and the network that would make cross-country electric freight possible barely exists. Tesla's own website shows two public megawatt chargers running around Los Angeles, which is not a network so much as a rounding error.
    That gap is the whole story of electric trucking right now. The vehicle is the easy
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  • Rare Rides Icons: The Ford Taurus, Modernizing Family Transportation (Part VI)

    Rare Rides Icons: The Ford Taurus, Modernizing Family Transportation (Part VI)
    We resume our Ford Taurus coverage today and wade into the multi-faceted arrangements that were trim levels and options at its launch in 1986. Ford didn’t have it all figured out right away, and there were small changes made here and there throughout. So while the brochures might have specified this or that feature or appearance as part of a trim, a Taurus on the lot may have been slightly different!
    The information presented here is taken from a 1986 Taurus brochure, a version from Septem
  • Junkyard Find: 2013 Subaru Outback with Manual Transmission

    Junkyard Find: 2013 Subaru Outback with Manual Transmission
    If you walk into a North American Subaru showroom today, you'll find that their only new vehicles available with three pedals are the BRZ and the WRX. In the not-so-distant past, though, the U.S.-market Outback could be purchased with a six-speed manual. I found one of the final examples of that powertrain rig in a Denver-area car graveyard last spring.The fourth-generation Outback, sold in North America for the 2010 through 2014 model years was quite a bit bigger and more SUV-like than its pred