Canola Oil Wasn’t Always Food, Exploding Rockets and More

Canola Oil Wasn’t Always Food, Exploding Rockets and More

Photo: US Coast Guard Taking a chance on a 1950s German vehicle listed on Craigslist can be tempting, but there’s typically a lot of work involved in getting them running reliably. When the vehicle in question is a cruise ship, and not a Mercedes-Benz or a Porsche, the task is exponentially more difficult. California resident … Read more

Weekend News Roundup September 28, 2024

Weekend News Roundup September 28, 2024

Image: Irvine Police Department Police departments across the country have been scrambling to be the first to purchase one of Tesla’s Cybertrucks. For whatever reason, the low-res truck appeals to law enforcement. Irvine, California looks to be the first police department in the country to have purchased the electric truck, and after it was been … Read more

Starliner Returns, Feds Reign In Truck Bloat And Jon Bon Jovi Saves A Life In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup

Starliner Returns, Feds Reign In Truck Bloat And Jon Bon Jovi Saves A Life In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup

Boeing’s first foray into manned space flight has been an unmitigated cock up. Starliner launched to the International Space Station with two astronauts onboard in June and landed back on Earth two months later without them after issues were uncovered with the craft. Now, more problems have surfaced during Starliner’s… Read more… Read original article … Read more

A Dirty Dealership, A Nice Van And A Dead Mitsubishi In This Week's News Roundup

A Dirty Dealership, A Nice Van And A Dead Mitsubishi In This Week's News Roundup

A Honda dealership in Bowie, Maryland is facing civil charges after it allegedly engaged in “unfair or deceptive trade practices at nearly every stage” of new vehicle sales, according to Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown. – Andy Kalmowitz Read More Read more… Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator … Read more

Weekend News Roundup July 27, 2024

Weekend News Roundup July 27, 2024

The Tesla Cybertruck sucks. It’s been a reliability disaster, can’t even survive a simple car wash, is incredibly difficult to repair, has edges that are so sharpowners have ended up in the hospital from their injuries, and it looks like it was designed in a lab to crush pedestrians. It also hasn’t been crash-tested… Read … Read more

Weekend News Roundup June 15, 2024

Weekend News Roundup June 15, 2024

We miss the Honda Fit. We really do. It was an inexpensive subcompact, sure, but it was also so much better than it had any right to be, and it more or less made the competition irrelevant. There were less-expensive alternatives, but they just didn’t havethe level of charm, practicality and refinement of the Fit. … Read more

Weekend Car Buying Roundup June 01, 2024

Weekend Car Buying Roundup June 01, 2024

I’m a fan of little funky cars, so I was stoked when I learned that Fiat was bringing its new 500e to the United States. For a company whose only other offerings are leftover 2023 model year 500X crossovers, you’d think Fiat would lay down some good deals on the tiny new electric 500 to attract … Read more

Weekend News Roundup April 27, 2024

Weekend News Roundup April 27, 2024

Things are not going well at Tesla right now. The stock is down more than $100 per share year-to-date, as many as 20,000 people are set to lose their jobs, the Cybertruck keeps breaking, operating profit is expected to be down 40 percent when it’s announced later today and the $25,000 electric vehicle that Tesla … Read more

Tesla Cybertruck’s Low Milage, EV Leasing And A New Hyundai Santa Fe In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup

Tesla Cybertruck’s Low Milage, EV Leasing And A New Hyundai Santa Fe In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup

Image: RAM Shane lives in Wisconson and has a Ram truck that served him well when he was fixing up his house, but he is tired of the poor MPGs and bad ride quality. He wants to sell the truck and buy two cars, a daily driver with modern features and all-weather traction, and something … Read more

Weekend Beyond Cars Roundup January 20, 2024

Weekend Beyond Cars Roundup January 20, 2024

Brightline high-speed passenger trains operate between Orlando and Miami and hold the unwelcome distinction of being both the first intra-city high speed rail in the U.S. and the deadliest trains in America, by far. After three people died at a single grade crossing in two separate incidents last week it seems the… Read more… Read … Read more