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Precast: Nissan Qashqai, Mulally Doolally?
Car names are a happy hunting ground for motoscribes and headline writers. Nissan Armada? Please. Versa? Vice springs immediately to mind (and not because of any other websites I may or may not have...
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Precast: Super TT, Paris DUI, RS60 Replica, GM Warranty, CLS Wagon, Renault...
It's one of those happy, clappy news days when pistonheads have a surfeit of stories to investigate from the privacy of their cubicle. I sometimes wonder what creates this compulsive fascination with...
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Precast: Hydrogen-Powered 7-Series, Drop-Top 300C, New G35, Fiero Redux?
So, BMW develops a flex fuel gas/hydrogen powered vehicle and we're supposed to give them tree-hugging props? I don't think so. I give them far more credit for perfecting and selling the diesel...
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Precast: V12 Diesel Audi, Hornet no VeeDub, Baby Junketeers
I suppose I should get myself into a lather about the fact that GM has lured collegiate journalists to Las Vegas for some major junket action. As listeners to this podcast will discover, I just can't...
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Precast: Hydrogen Hype (Still), Panda Laid Bare, I Sing the Auto Electric
As you will hear in today's precast, my first forray into Ferrari ownership brought me face-to-face with the studied indifference that is England's erstwhile service culture. Not only did the...
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Precast: Wiesmann, CL63 AMG, HEMI Slowdown?
Whatever you can (or cannot) say about BMW, the company makes some damn fine engines. Jay Shoemaker's review of the 335i hailed their direct injected twin turbo six pot as one of the finest...
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Precast: Maybach’s Pearl Jam, Alfa Redux Redux, Porsche Mule
As the son of a Holocaust survivor, the Maybach brand gives me the heebie-jeebies. Which is kind of strange. I've got no beef with Mercedes, a brand whose products provided Herr Hitler with his most...
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Precast: Bugatti Puh-lease, Cellular Mitosis, Breath a Lie Sir, China Uber...
Yes, yes, the next installment of the Ford Death Watch is coming. Who'd a thunk I'd write 90 episodes of the GM Death Watch only to watch Billy's Blue Oval Boys hit the buffers first, and in such...
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Postcast: Killer B, Karmann Resurrected, Sports Customs, Nanny This, Racing Line
The American automotive media is just as obsessed with the thrill of the new as the industry itself. Even though websites like this one (OK, not exactly like this one) have transformed two month lead...
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Precast: Limo Love, Gord, Toyota Brands Earth, Miatamino, Endo
Limos blow. They're unsightly, often comical beasts that exchange comfort for size (well, length) and offer all the tactile pleasure of a mid-market motel (pleather chairs, paper napkins, five pound...
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Precast: Hammond Injured, Veracruz Taillight, Crossover and Out or Justin Time?
You may have noticed that I haven't posted a precast in a couple of days. Truth to tell, TTAC contributor and former Car and Driver editor Stephan Wilkinson knocked the wind out of my sails with an...
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Precast: Medusa S-Type, PAG Knock-offs, Hammond Better, DP
Jaguar is one heck of a brand. The company took the automotive world by storm, not once, but twice. The first revelation arrived just after WWII. England entered the conflict with an Empire and...
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Precast: Paris Not Hilton, MINI and Diesel Redux, The Hannitization of GM
When I moved back to the US from the UK, I was delighted to discover right wing media commentators. After living in a country with a media dominated by anti-American, government intervention in all...
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Podcast: Maybach Jr., Aston’s Alphanumerological Excess, Midas Muffler, Alpha...
It’s been a while since my description of the Subaru B9 Tribeca’s front end as a “flying vagina” got TTAC banned from… BMW’s press fleet. At the time, the German company’s PR flack promised/threatened...
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Precast: Death Proof Digression, Video Games, Mercury Falling, Ring Ring
My first ever dream car was the Batmobile, and yes, I'm talking about George Barris' Lincoln Futura riff. Looking back, it's funny how I totally missed the TV show's camp humor. Like the cut from the...
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Precast: Do Mitsubishi’s Dream of Electric Sheep?, Volvo’s Manic Depressive...
My first car was a golf cart, courtesy of The Ocean Reef Club. Actually, props to the parental units. They handed me the key to the open-sided electric conveyance, slipped me a charge-worthy room card...
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Precast: Ferrari Four Wheelin’, i and i, Steering Clear of the M6, Bangle RIP?
A four wheel-drive Ferrari? On one hand, it sounds like a bald-faced betrayal of Ferrari's brand proposition: extreme rear wheel-drive performance cars prone to lurid oversteer slides into solid...
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Precast: Audis on Parade, VIP vs. Bling
For many years, US President Abraham Lincoln thought that deporting slaves was the only workable solution to an intractable political issue. In 1861, a “colony” was established off the coast of Haiti...
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Precast: Occam’s Edge, Two-for-One Pagitude, Hoons R Us, Eleanor Rows So...
I'm of two minds on this whole hoonage business. One one hand, it's entirely possible to hoon about in a high speed car at significant velocities without endangering anyone save yourself and/or your...
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Podcast: Lieberman’s Got Edge
So Jonny tells me that he's returned from a first class junket to The City by the Bay and by the way his new best bud ace auto scribe Dan Neil's coming over to his for a poker night. Suddenly I'm...
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