TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2026VOL. XXVI · NO. 15
Section — Cars

Cars.

Engines with opinions. We tell you what the spec sheet won't.

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The Roads Got Brighter. Driving Got Harder.

Headlight glare isn't a generational gripe — it's a design failure hiding in plain sight.

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Nissan Heard the Comments Section and Built the Xterra Around It

Sometimes the loudest engineers are the ones who never worked at the company.

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The F40 Doesn't Lie

Lewis Hamilton just changed the bar for how famous people introduce themselves to each other.

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Your Car Knows Before You Do

GM's new sobriety detection doesn't wait for you to start the engine. It starts watching when you cross the parking lot.

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The Repair Bill Didn't Go Away. It Just Got Weirder.

EVs were supposed to end the age of the mechanic. They just changed the vocabulary.

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The $15 Filter That Costs You $300 in Labor

Automakers will charge you for every upgrade. They won't tell you what they hid behind the dashboard.

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The Middleman Tax Nobody Voted For

Franchise dealer laws aren't consumer protection. They're a toll booth.

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Your Eyes Aren't Broken. The Headlights Are.

Car designers won the brightness war. Everyone else is losing.

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BMW Just Admitted That Driving Still Matters

A promise to keep the manual alive isn't a nostalgia play — it's a confession about what cars are actually for.

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Honda's CEO Walked Into a Chinese Factory and Came Out Humbled

When the person running one of the greatest car companies in history says 'we have no chance,' you should probably start paying attention.

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Hamilton Doesn't Owe You a Press Release

A seven-time champion, an F40, and a video that looks nothing like anything his PR team approved.

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Infiniti Is Talking Like It Means It This Time

700 horsepower and a target painted on the Escalade V — now they just have to show up.

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Nissan Looked at the Turbo-Four Trend and Said No Thanks

The new Xterra is keeping its V6, and that's either the most stubborn decision in the segment or the smartest one.

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Mercedes Wants Its $175K SUV Back

When the wheels might fall off, 'very unlikely' isn't the reassurance you think it is.

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The Convertible TrailBlazer Shouldn't Work. It Does.

Chevrolet didn't ask permission, and that's exactly why this thing is hard to look away from.

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Lewis Hamilton Didn't Post a Selfie. He Posted an F40.

When you announce a relationship by drifting a Ferrari F40 through Tokyo at midnight, the message isn't about the relationship.

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The Astronaut Already Knew

Before Maranello figured out where the engine belonged, someone who'd orbited the Earth had already parked the answer in his driveway.

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Your Car Is Watching You Walk

GM just patented a system that decides if you're too drunk to drive — and the line between safety net and surveillance is thinner than a lane marking.

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The Electric Bill You Didn't See Coming

EVs were supposed to end the relationship with your mechanic — instead they just changed the invoice.

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The Car That Refuses to Lose

Most hypercars are investments in the sense that a bonfire is an investment — spectacular, then gone. Pagani figured out something different.

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Your $80,000 Car Has a $15 Filter Behind Six Hours of Labor

Somewhere, an engineer signed off on this, and that person should have to explain themselves.

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The Lie You Could Park in Your Driveway

Some cars didn't fail because the engineers got it wrong — they failed because nobody stopped to ask whether the whole idea was honest.

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