Known for its sensible, reliable cars, Toyota is a ubiquitous presence in the U.S. Despite this extreme popularity, the thing most Americans don't know is that the Japanese brand kept many of its most luxurious and fun cars for its home market.

When Ford and International Harvester got together, it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

About a month ago, I spent the better part of two days driving and eating my way around the Nashville area, courtesy of Nissan.

Why? Ostensibly, it was an opportunity to get up close and personal with two of Nissan's major manufacturing plants. But there was a subtext that cannot be ignored, due to policies emanating from over 600 miles away in Washington, D.C.

The Yarbo Snow Blower is an advanced autonomous snow removal device designed to clear driveways and walkways with minimal effort.

It’s a safe bet that most DIYers are grateful to the wrenching deities for the democratization of LED illumination – especially when talking about work lights. Your author used to toil under cars and in tight spaces with incandescent work lights that heated themselves to approximately the surface of the sun, as I’m sure you all did as well.

In this episode we put our 3-step retrofit framework to work on real-world VW/Skoda/Audi upgrades—so you can tell at a glance what’s truly plug-and-play and what needs wiring or coding.

Join the MARS crew as we take our classics out for a chilly fall drive up to Holland, MI, for the GRM meet-up at Eclectic Motorworks. With clear skies, cold temps, and salt-free roads, it was the perfect excuse to stretch the legs on our cars.

Speed Academy is building an E90 BMW M3 with the S65 V8 with a DCT transmission to be the best street car ever.

The 2025 Lotus Emira V6 is a highly anticipated mid-engine sports car that promises to deliver exceptional performance at an affordable price.

Cadillac introduced what would be the final generation Eldorado - the twelfth - amid a flurry of product activity and a vision of brand rebirth. When it debuted in 1992 alongside a new Seville, both models previewed what the brand would look like moving forward: angular, European-inspired, and altogether less baroque than outgoing models. The Northstar was supposed to power these new flagships, but alas it was not ready and the new models fell back on the trusty 4.9-liter V8. Like the carryover engine, the new Eldorado was more similar to the old one than it appeared.

With 345 horsepower and gorgeous bodywork, the 1957 DeSoto Adventurer is one of the greatest designs of the 1950s.

Every car company has at least one ghost in the cupboard. A machine that should have been, could have been, but never was. For Audi, that ghost is the Avus Quattro.

Perhaps you've heard the term "manspreading". It refers to when a man seated on a busy subway car spreads his legs so wide that it makes it difficult to sit next to him. Well, now we have "carspreading", thanks to the BBC.

The 1961 Econoline Van and Ford Club Wagon and Cab over pickup when introduced were going to change the way everyone in the industry built a van.

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Polestar announced last week it is beginning efforts to provide bi-directional charging—from home to vehicle and vice versa—starting with residents in California who get a Polestar 3.

The XoMotion by Human in Motion Robotics is a cutting-edge robotic exoskeleton designed to empower individuals with mobility challenges.

The sporting event or concert was fun, but escaping from the crowded venue to return home, or on to another destination, can present several dilemmas—dealing with traffic if you drive yourself, catching a ride share or cab that can be costly, or relying on public transportation, if it’s available.

Space Perspective is redefining space tourism by offering civilians the chance to experience the edge of the atmosphere aboard its pioneering spacecraft, Spaceship Neptune.

Cadillac’s sales fell precipitously after the brand downsized all of its vehicles in 1985 and 1986. Once the downsizing transformation was complete, sales fell by over 100,000 units and continued to decline through 1991. In 1992 the company began the attempt to rework its image (again), shed the design cues of the past, and appeal even more to the mythical “Euro intender” customer who could theoretically be persuaded into a Cadillac.

Welcome to our 2025 SEMA Show Las Vegas coverage full of the coolest and most insane cars, trucks, and parts.

The American Honda Collection Hall is the official U.S. museum of Honda & Acura products.

After a stellar sales year in 1985 with a partially downsized product range, Cadillac sales promptly fell by over 100,000 units in 1986. The debut of the exciting new Allanté in 1987 did not act as a halo for the brand as intended, and the roadster managed only 3,363 sales its first year. Would 1988 be the year Cadillac rebounded? Not quite. 

So on this channel we have discussed some weird takes on internal combustion, but the one we will be covering today might just be the weirdest of them all this is the wave disc engine.

We take the 1968 Mustang coupe out for it's final drive of the season and reflect on the first year of ownership. I also clue you in on the plans for next season and what we are going to do over the the winter.

“Corporate profits as a share of national income have increased. . . so have customer complaints.”

To support Your Future Machine’s contribution:

Kia EV9 owner and returning guest, Todd George joins the show to talk about the transition from the 2024 model with a CCS port to the 2026 model that now comes standard with a NACS port.

In a conference room in downtown Detroit, Mazda’s top North American safety executive played the short crash test video once, then twice for me, becoming more enthusiastic and emphatic each time.

The eleventh generation Eldorado got more exciting as it neared its end with reintroduction of the Eldorado Touring Coupe in 1990. The sporty Euro-inspired model had inexplicably gone missing after 1985. The big news for its final outing in 1991 was the new 4.9-liter V8, which just about brought engine standards to where they should have been circa 1986. These changes and the shuffling of the other models in the brand’s portfolio were all an effort to bump Cadillac’s sales figures during a difficult time.

When Raymond Loewy gathered a team to design the Studebaker Avanti in the 1960s, the car that emerged was expected to be the last hope and savior of the century-old auto manufacturer.

Host Ed Garsten welcomes Kelly Law, PR Manager at PR and marketing agency The Brand Amp.

Astrolab’s FLEX (Flexible Logistics and Exploration) Rover is a highly adaptable vehicle designed for cargo transport, construction, and exploration.

The downsized Cadillac Eldorado appeared in 1986 in its smallest ever iteration with the HT4100 V8. Within two years it shed the troublesome engine in favor of the (HT4100 derived) 4.5-liter V8 and received a visual update that made it longer and more Cadillac-like. It was also dethroned during that period as the brand’s halo two-door, as the Allanté arrived in 1988 as GM’s super expensive competitor to the Mercedes SL. The 1989 model year brought a few new features and a revision of vinyl roof configurations, but the really exciting edits arrived in 1990.

The Lamborghini Countach, as we all know, was the car that defined the 1970s and 80s supercar. Sharp angles, scissor doors, a shape that looked like it had been cut with a set square, and performance that terrified everyone brave enough to sit behind the wheel.

Yes, yes, there were environmental considerations and regulations that gave rise to the need for U.S. OEMs to produce electric vehicles.

But there were likely to be some other considerations.

One is that automotive stocks didn’t do particularly well on New York Stock Exchange.

The SmartDrive MX2+ by Permobil is a power-assist device designed to reduce shoulder pain and fatigue for manual wheelchair users.

Public EV charger utilization is a broken model and Madhav Ayyagari and David Alspaugh, co-founders of Inductive Robotics, may have figured out a way to fix it through autonomous EV charging.

Imagine logging 20,000 remote miles in northern Canada and Alaska, crossing all of British Columbia and heading deep into the Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territory, and our country’s final frontier, Alaska, in late summer and the dead of winter. The roads are rough, the weather equally as so, especially as we travel above the Arctic Circle—again.

The Honda N-Box is, according to French consultancy  Inovev, the best-selling Kei car in Japan.

These are very small vehicles that drive on the public roads in Japan, not golf car-like units that you see in places like Palm Springs.

So what is the size of a Kei car?