Jaguar and Volvo’s ads are both terrible
Personally, I prefer ads that say, one way or another, ‘this car goes fast’
Cars
Saturday
Sunday
Are electric vehicles really the future?
When it comes to cars, tomorrow can take its good old time in charging ahead
Wednesday
Why after Covid does everyone drive like maniacs?
If you feel as if the driving public is increasingly unsafe, you’re not alone
Monday
How Formula One took America by storm
One of the world’s most popular sports has begun to get a foothold in the US
Monday
With the vintage car enthusiasts at Lime Rock
A usually quiet town in Connecticut finds autos roaring around the racetrack
Monday
Forget trains: American car culture is worth defending
We have a lot of space and a lot of horsepower, and we will not apologize
Thursday
Vanity plates and the fight for free speech
The First Amendment sends one down some odd paths
Monday
A driver’s license, if you can keep it
Americans should embrace more personal responsibility on the road
Thursday
Whatever happened to the good old American trolley?
Once streetcar lines connected even rural areas; now they’re almost all gone
Tuesday
The sad demise of American car culture
Homogenized modern vehicles have made driving mundane
Sunday
Modern cars reek of liberalism
They’re dehumanizing, boring and treat you like the nanny state
Friday
Escape vehicle
The automobile’s artifice is its art, but it is still an art of artifice
Friday
The cars of the future
For those of us who enjoy a more leisurely driving experience, the future shines bright
Thursday
The dream of driverless cars is dying
I was worried that going to the autonomous vehicle exhibition in Stuttgart would be tantamount to an atheist walking into St Peter’s while the Pope was conducting a mass. There is something religious about the fervour with which adherents to the driverless credo practise their faith and promise us a new kingdom. Their proselytising has indeed convinced many. Politicians are making outlandish statements, such as Jesse Norman’s two weeks ago, that ‘Our entire use of roads is to be revolutionised by autonomous vehicles’, and pouring large sums — a promised £180 million so far — into bizarre research projects such as the development of strange robot cars slower than a
Thursday
Is Trump’s ‘space force’ really such an insane idea?
Americans traumatised by their current president could be forgiven for thinking that his demand for a ‘space force’ was about protecting the country from aliens. Aliens, that is, of extraterrestrial persuasion, not the ones currently hurling themselves against the southern border. What, really, is implausible these days? As baseball savant Yogi Berra said when told that a Jewish woman had been elected mayor of Dublin: ‘Only in America.’ But as it turned out, Donald Trump’s demand to have a new sixth branch of the US armed services is about protecting America’s satellites and cyber capabilities. A worthy goal. Per the President’s custom, he didn’t inform the White House that he
