Lieberman Focuses on Ford
I know, I know; there's been a lot of Ford and GM bashing on this site as of late. All of it deserved. As long as car companies make crap cars– and tha…
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Chrysler Finds the Key to Patriotism
With all the talk in these parts about what it means to be an American automobile manufacturer, I couldn't resist Chrysler's press release about arranging so…
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Volkswagen Phaeton Found on the Moon!
This weekend, a conspiracy of VeeDub owners will assemble in Roswell, New Mexico for the seventh annual New Beetle “2K Car Show Weekend." According to…
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Lieberman Stays Focused
Jonny Lieberman thinks SUV's should look like they're ready to win World War II or go to the moon. Shrugging off that da-da-esque assertion, we schmooze abou…
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KBB: The Coolest Cars Under $18k
The original idea: interview Jack Nerad about the type of cars parents buy for their teens. When I finally got kbb.com's Executive Editor on the blower, he i…
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Dunlop: Art or Science?
I'm always amazed at how easily automotive PR folk slip into jargon-laden sound bites. I guess when your work involves something that doesn't appear on civil…
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Lieberman Checks In
Our thanks to Redwing Studios for repulsing and rebuilding TTAC after the Romanians tried to turn our site into phish food (don't ask). And also to you for r…
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Henrik Fisker Checks In [Pt. 2]
And so it's time to ask Mr. Fisker the obvious question: what's the ugliest car in the world? Although the former Ford design jeffe and current coachbuilder…
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Henrik Fisker Checks In [Pt. 1]
Once upon a time, wealthy people didn't just pop down to their local Ferrari dealer, pick-up an Enzo and ask for their change in F430's. They commissioned a…
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Silver Auctions: Mad Money for Muscle
TTAC writer Terry Parkhurst suggested I give Mitch Silver of Silver Collector Car Auctions a call. Mitch's mob aren't the biggest of the big, but they've dev…
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Drop Top Or Die
openairtours.com has a second-by-second counter marking down the moments until the next time 200 convertibles hit the road in Wisconsin. TTAC respects that…
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Driversed.com [podcast]
All I remember about my driver's ed class was a film (remember film?) about a nerdy mid-Westerner who performed all these ridiculous pre-flight checks ('Ligh…
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Mann Hummel Symposer [podcast]
TTAC receives a great deal of excrutiatingly boring PR copy on a daily basis. When I caught sight of this sexy PR prose poem, I had to know more: 'The purely…
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Ray Wert Checks In [podcast]
Ray Wert is a member in good standing of the so-called 'Swedish Mafia': the new breed of internet-based automotive journalists who write what they think and…
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Meet Jonny Lieberman
In the run-up to our June re-launch, The Truth About Cars is proud to present a new feature: the TTAC Daily Podcast. The 10-minute recordings will feature in…
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Low Marks for Hi Tech
Our main man Daniel Howes of the Detroit News recently asked 'what the Hell happened to mass customization"? Mass customization means building a product to a…
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  • SCE to AUX All that lift makes for an easy rollover of your $70k truck.
  • SCE to AUX My son cross-shopped the RAV4 and Model Y, then bought the Y. To their surprise, they hated the RAV4.
  • SCE to AUX I'm already driving the cheap EV (19 Ioniq EV).$30k MSRP in late 2018, $23k after subsidy at lease (no tax hassle)$549/year insurance$40 in electricity to drive 1000 miles/month66k miles, no range lossAffordable 16" tiresVirtually no maintenance expensesHyundai (for example) has dramatically cut prices on their EVs, so you can get a 361-mile Ioniq 6 in the high 30s right now.But ask me if I'd go to the Subaru brand if one was affordable, and the answer is no.
  • David Murilee Martin, These Toyota Vans were absolute garbage. As the labor even basic service cost 400% as much as servicing a VW Vanagon or American minivan. A skilled Toyota tech would take about 2.5 hours just to change the air cleaner. Also they also broke often, as they overheated and warped the engine and boiled the automatic transmission...
  • Marcr My wife and I mostly work from home (or use public transit), the kid is grown, and we no longer do road trips of more than 150 miles or so. Our one car mostly gets used for local errands and the occasional airport pickup. The first non-Tesla, non-Mini, non-Fiat, non-Kia/Hyundai, non-GM (I do have my biases) small fun-to-drive hatchback EV with 200+ mile range, instrument display behind the wheel where it belongs and actual knobs for oft-used functions for under $35K will get our money. What we really want is a proper 21st century equivalent of the original Honda Civic. The Volvo EX30 is close and may end up being the compromise choice.