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The average price of a new car in 1970 was $3,543. Don’t get super excited. Thanks to inflation, that really means $31,411.13 (those 13 cents are very important). But compare that to 2025, when the average price passed $50,000 for the first time. Or last week when it ballooned to $51,974 — yet the market is still…

There’s so much happening these days, it’s almost impossible to keep up. But before high-speed internet became ubiquitous, things really did feel like they moved at a slower pace. Americans got their news from the same newspapers, watched the same nightly TV anchors, and actually had time to talk about current events before the news…

McLaren is bringing something special to the Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 9, but it isn’t some rebodied hypercar that uses sentiment to sell overpriced collector’s items to tech bros. Instead, the McLaren Special Operations (MSO) team went digging through its own archives (I’m imagining a warehouse like the one at the end of Raiders…

Red Bull Racing is finally ready to run its production hypercar in anger over four years after announcing the ambitious project. The championship-winning F1 team’s RB17 made its debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday, with the 1,267-horsepower track-day monster roaring up the estate’s famed hill climb during the Supercar Shootout. Over the course…

Specialty auto parts retailer O’Reilly Automotive has floated a $10 billion bid to purchase the Napa Auto Parts brand, among others, from Atlanta-based Genuine Parts Co. While consolidation seems to be the name of the game in retail these days, a merger between two of the largest auto parts sellers would likely mean less choice…

It’s been nearly a month since President Trump decided to put a stop to opening another crucial crossing for trade between the U.S. and its second largest trading partner, Canada. In this latest chapter of the ongoing Gordie Howe Bridge saga, it appears the man whose job it is to iron out the details plaguing…

The old Mercedes-AMG CLA45 was primarily known for having a hilarious amount of horsepower for a compact sedan, and the new generation of CLA is carrying on that mantra into the electric era. AMG unveiled the new CLA45 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and it uses three electric motors to deliver 671 horsepower. That’s…

Class is a funny thing in the U.S. I’m an affluent, out-of-touch coastal elite because I blog about cars on the internet and leased an electric vehicle after seeing it advertised for $159 a month. The fact that I live in Georgia, don’t make anywhere close to six figures, and buy groceries at a Kroger…

According to Fiat, suburban sweet life is slowly cruising around small quiet streets, preferably near the ocean, in your adorable Topolino, while silently judging your neighbors trying to look as cool in their golf carts. OK, so maybe I added the last part, but relaxed driving in a small coastal town is the dream that…

Thanks to ongoing public-awareness campaigns, most people nowadays realize that leaving your children in a hot car can quickly have fatal results — not that the knowledge has ended the practice. In fact, another 37 children died just last year as a result, bringing the death toll since 1990 to at least 1,172. And while it doesn’t…