Boompa!
My Space's success has not gone unnoticed. No, I'm not talking about pedophiles. I'm referring to the Lords and Lordettes of the "new media," who are busy tr…
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Podcast: Jag and Landie Still Winners With Wynn-Williams
You've got to feel sorry for the Brits. Once home to some of the world's best– er, most charismatic vehicles, the country has seen their automotive cro…
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Podcast: Lieberman Checks In (Again): Gabba Grabber Hey!
Fresh from some serious seat time in the Ford Mustang GT Convertible, Jonny Lieberman rang up TTAC HQ to schmooze about all things automotive. After listenin…
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General Motors Death Watch 86: Pickups Stick
Last Thursday, Mark LeNeve declared that General Motors has “turned a corner.” Obviously, GM’s Vice President of North American Sales and M…
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Ford's Bowled Moves
We have a rule in my house: no sugar cereal until you eat your "good" cereal. By the time the girls have inhaled a bowl of non-sweetened Cheerios, Weetabix o…
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General Motors Death Watch 85: The Calm Before the Storm
According to GM, happy days are here again. Profits are up, costs are down and the company’s turnaround plan is on track. The automotive media have swa…
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My Veyron Dot Huh?
When I ordered my first Ferrari, I spent entire nights dreaming of rust, mechanical failures, stratospheric repair bills, cliff face depreciation, uncontroll…
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Here Today, Corn Tomorrow: The E85 Road Trip
With only 750 American gas stations providing the corn juice for flex-fuel vehicles, there's more E85 hype than E85. Which is the point collegiate road tripp…
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BMW's Ultimatum
According to BMW’s ad for its M products, “history and compromise cannot be made at the same time.” Huh? What about The Missouri Compromise…
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Front Line: Porsche Salesman Kirk Stingle
A new TTAC podcast feature is born: a conversation with a car salesman about what's going down on the front line. We begin with my go-to Porsche guy, Kirk St…
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Meet Sajeev Mehta
On the same day TTAC published Sajeev Mehta's less than flattering review of the Lucerne, a Buick spinmeister emailed the site to offer a cross-Canada jaunt…
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Dino's Sex Wagon (I Kid You Not)
As a kid, I instantly "got" James Bond: look cool, kill the bad guys and the girl's yours. I was a little vague about what you did with her afterwards, but t…
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Meet Frank Williams
Frank Williams came to TTAC's attention after he cc'ed us on an email to Car & Driver. The long time C&D reader was all het up about Brock Yate's summary exe…
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Ask Patty. Go on, You Know You Want To…
I’m not a big fan of segregation. Obviously, US car culture splits into distinct niches: hot rodders, low-riders, urban gangstas, tuners, etc. Equally…
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Porsche Cayman S Revisited
The moment I dropped the hammer on the Porsche Cayman S, an entirely unexpected emotion welled-up inside: fear. I was holding the wheel of the world’s…
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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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General Motors Death Watch 83: The End of Days
Relax. The news that GM stockholder Kirk Kerkorian has been playing footsie with Renault/Nissan doesn’t represent some kind of paradigm shift for GM or…
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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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General Motors Death Watch 79: The Vision Thing
When the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the world’s largest automaker tells his shareholders to think long-term, there’s only one word f…
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General Motors Death Watch 77: Bull
Why is GM's stock rallying to a six-month high? Delphi's Sword of Damocles still sways above The General's head. Their market share and sales continue slidin…
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Henrik Fisker Checks In [Pt. 2]
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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]
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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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Lieberman Mucks About With Maserati
When Maserati PR offered TTAC a Georgia junket to thrash some of its models on road and track, we checked our policy (full disclosure and we're good to go) 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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General Motors Death Watch 75: Desperate Times
Rabid Rick Wagoner lacks self-esteem. Why else would GM's CEO submit himself to triple presidential humiliation? First, Bush tells GM to take a hike– e…
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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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Toyota Yaris Liftback Review
My automotive odyssey began in a Ford Pinto. I didn't need Ralph Nader to tell me that The Blue Oval's first sub-compact was a death trap. The Pinto was so n…
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General Motors Death Watch 71: The Butterfly Effect
Now that General Motors is poised on the brink of disaster, the smallest setback could send the The General sliding into bankruptcy. What will be the straw t…
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General Motors Death Watch 70: Locked and Loaded
Before you can buy a firearm in Rhode Island, you have to finish a gun safety course. My instruction consisted of a pot-bellied ex-State Trooper telling war…
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Honda Fit Sport Review
Fit. That's a good one. At the exact moment that America's obese SUV's are giving the country petrochemical chest pains, Honda invites us to get healthy. Why…
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Toyota FJ Cruiser Review
Toyota is the master of the pastiche. The company's designers never met a Mercedes they couldn't morph, or a Bangled BMW they couldn't bootleg. Granted, capt…
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General Motors Death Watch 69: Running Out of Gas
You've got to wonder about the mood at RenCen these days. Watching the price of gas crest $3 a gallon must make GM CEO Rabid Rick Wagoner feel like the Capta…
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General Motors Death Watch 68: Predestination
The ancient Greeks knew the truth: character is fate. If Oedipus hadn't been such an asshole he wouldn't have killed his father, married his mother and kept…
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Cadillac Escalade Review
The new Cadillac Escalade is a mission critical machine. It's one of the few remaining General Motors products whose sales don't depend on Mexican-sized kick…
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General Motors Death Watch 66: No No Nadir
At yesterday's New York International Automobile Show, Bob Lutz provided the hook for GM's PR counterattack. Of course, the Car Czar's rallying cry wasn't pl…
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General Motors Death Watch 65: When Billy Met Ricky
I wonder what Billy Durant would have made of Rick Wagoner. GM's founder was a man of great honesty, intelligence and drive. He was also a high school drop o…
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Volkswagen Golf GTI DSG Reviews
I don't know about you, but I've been feeling sorry for Volkswagen for a while now. VW didn't so much lose their mojo as strap it to the nose of a Titan IVB…
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General Motors Death Watch 63: GM RIP
At 9:30am this morning, a group of lawyers representing bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi will appear in front of Federal Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain. Th…
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Lamborghini Gallardo SE Review
Testing a Gallardo SE in Miami is like sipping Chateau Lafite Rothschild in a public urinal. The little Lambo was born to annihilate the twisting mountain ro…
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General Motors Death Watch 62: Grounded
Ward's Automotive recently profiled Pete Gerosa, GM's former Vice President for Field Sales, Service and Parts. Although Gerosa's heading for retirement, he'…
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Lincoln Zephyr Review
Badge-engineering. You know the drill: take a run-of-the-mill bog standard plain Jane vanilla sort of car, add some external bits and internal pieces, tweak…
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General Motors Death Watch 60: Bankruptcy is Good for the Soul
It's official: bankruptcy is good for GM. In their recent ass-covering exercise for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), The Ford Motor Company list…
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Volkswagen Beetle Review
The power of love is a curious thing. It makes one brand weep, another brand sing. Change a bug into a little white Dub. More than a feeling; that's the powe…
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General Motors Death Watch 59: X Marks the Spot
Yesterday, The Detroit News caught-up with Maximum Bob Lutz at the Geneva Auto Show. GM's Car Czar was busy unveiling Saab's Aero-X, a Corvette-based concept…
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General Motors Death Watch 58: Supply Side Economics
A couple of days ago, I was talking to an auto industry analyst about the world's largest automaker. We were discussing the cracks in GM's hull, trying to fi…
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Audi A3 3.2 DSG Review
Anyone who looks at the new Audi A3 3.2 DSG and sees an overpriced economy car should not be allowed to play with Rottweiler puppies. While Ingolstadt's dimi…
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General Motors Death Watch 57: What the Dickens?
This is a tale of two Tahoes. The first is a wildly successful SUV that's flying off the lots at full price: a Hail Mary pass that will put General Motors ba…
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Chevrolet Tahoe LT Review
The SUV is dead. Long live the sedan on stilts! Yes folks, Chevrolet has transformed their Tahoe from a cheap and cheerful workhorse for environmentally inse…
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General Motors Death Watch 55: My Kingdom for a Horse
As our GM Death Watch series gains traction, I've taken to scanning the skies for black helicopters, stashing Glocks around the house and avoiding the fine c…
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Mercedes E350 4Matic Review
Getting old is not for sissies. Aside from a general degradation in motor skills, sensory perception, memory and earnings, the 401K set is prone to health co…
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General Motors Death Watch 53: On A Plate
I once showed-up for a job interview in the adult film industry. (It was an honest mistake.) Before I bailed, I complimented Mr. Triple X on the spectacular…
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BMW M5 Review
When I saw a mustard-colored Bentley GT rocketing towards my all time favorite highway exit, I knew lunch was served. Paddling from seventh to third and pres…
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