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2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E: Is the EV SUV Comfortable for Tall Folks?
Being so damn tall makes it hard to drive sports cars. There are some I simply can’t physically get inside. That’s one reason why I love the Ford Mustang—it easily fits my 6-foot-10 frame. So, I had to find out if the Mustang Mach-E could match its coupe counterpart’s surprising spaciousness during its stay in our stables. 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E: Squeezed in the Saddle Key in my pocket, I walked up to the driver-side door and pushed the release button—no handles here. The door popped out so I could grab its little fin to swing it open. Like I always do, I adjusted the seat to its lowest and rearmost setting before climbing in. The front door apertures are large, which made it easy to slide in (and later out) without knocking my noggin. So far so good. But...
The History of the Rugged, Full-Size Chevrolet K5 Blazer
Ford had the Bronco. Jeep had the CJ. Even International Harvester—the tractor company—had the Scout. And General Motors had…nothing? Into that sport-utility vacuum, the Chevrolet K5 Blazer was born. With it, GM created a 4×4 that was both a direct response to the existing spectrum of SUVs and yet also apart from it. The key difference was size: Unlike its would-be rivals, the Blazer was based on the automaker’s successful full-size pickup truck. That cost-saving measure allowed it both to come to market quickly and to deliver greater capability than its competition. See all 7 photos Sun’s Out, Top’s Off Chevrolet was no stranger to the SUV world, having produced the Carryall/Suburban—a large, truck-based wagon—since the mid-1930s. Although offered with four-wheel drive, ...
2020 Ram 2500 Laramie 4×4 Cummins Long-Term Update 1: Burdening Our Beast
Ram 2500 Full Overview Guffman, our 2020 Ram 2500 Laramie long-termer, has been making up for lost time by remaining in almost perpetual motion since his midsummer arrival, including a golf outing to northern Michigan and numerous trips to cabins. We therefore struggled to find a moment to schedule replacement of the sliding rear window we knocked out while hauling a grill north. After copious confusion and finger pointing between our dealer (who doesn’t “do windows”) and a local glass shop, FCA ended up installing the $416.56 part for us at HQ. That fixed, we put those auto-leveling rear air springs to a serious test. Record water levels have caused Lake Huron to breach a stretch of seawall at my summer place. Doubling its size to rectify the problem required us to mix 1...
Watch the 2021 Toyota Mirai Relieve Itself (of Its Water Emissions)
Will this be the least mature automotive coverage you read all week? Very likely. In any event, we currently have a 2021 Toyota Mirai in for evaluation, and it is a completely serious electric vehicle powered by a high-tech onboard hydrogen fuel cell. This tech uses hydrogen as a fuel to generate electricity by a chemical process, thereby emitting only H2O—water—as a byproduct. On the Mirai, that water is ejected beneath the car via a little spigot that the driver can control using a button on the dashboard. Push the button, and the Mirai evacuates its water. Our immature side took things from there. See all 32 photos Look, it’s not often you can describe something like a car as “peeing,” but when those opportunities arise they cannot be wasted—water expelling pun in...
This Is the Hardcore, Track-Ready Stelvio GTAm Alfa Romeo Won’t Build
See all 33 photos Just like a Giulia GTA, our purely hypothetical Stelvio GTA would be lighter—let’s say 220 pounds lighter, just like its sedan sibling. So, too, would it adopt a bevy of carbon fiber components: the driveshaft, hood, front fenders, bumper, rear fender extensions, and so forth. Aluminum and Lexan are also used strategically to reduce mass further. A Stelvio GTAm would certainly include carbon-fiber shelled racing seats up front, six-point racing harnesses, and more aggressive aero aids. Would Alfa go so far as to delete the rear seat, like the Giulia GTAm? The question is academic, so let’s move on (but, we hope so!). However Alfa Romeo would spec it, the QF’s 505-hp, 2.9-liter twin-turbo V-6 would likely get pumped up to 540 ponies, exhaling through an A...
Bentley Reveals Holly Jolly Flying Spur V8 Commissioned by Santa Claus Himself
In a historic move no doubt influenced by PETA lobbyists and mounting pressure from both the Elks Lodge and Caribou Labor Union, manufacturing mogul and holiday god-emperor Santa Claus (née Saint Nicholas) is apparently retiring his traditional reindeer-flown sleigh for something a bit more terrestrial. Nothing is written in the snow yet, but Bentley’s latest bespoke commission appears to be right in line with Father Christmas’ well-known aesthetic sensibilities. Chalk it up to too much eggnog or finally getting a smooch under the mistletoe from the Spirit of Ecstasy, but the Crewe-based automaker is uncharacteristically forthcoming about the identity of this mystery buyer. In a release full of cheer, Bentley all but confirms Kris Kringle as the force behind this commission; as...
Free Up Some Museum Space for Carroll Shelby’s Personal 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra
You’re not part of the Miller family dynasty of Utah Jazz and Miller Motorsports Park fame, are you? Shucks, that means you’ll probably never get some seat time in the first Shelby Cobra ever. When the Millers purchased chassis CSX2000 at auction back in 2016 for just under a whopping $14 million, they were the first owners of the car—other than Carroll Shelby himself. If you’ve still got that “Carroll Shelby’s Personal Cobra” slush fund still bristling with zeros, great news: Mecum Auctions has another one of Carroll Shelby’s roadsters up for grabs, and this time it isn’t one of those namby-pamby, prissy-pants slabside 260 Cobras (we jest!), but one of the original street-spec 427 Cobras that launched a million replicas. According to Mecum, ...
That Time Chevrolet Made a Horrifying Alien Abduction Film to Introduce the Corsica
Today, we bring you a break from Christmas carols and fashionably ugly sweaters for a decidedly non-holiday-related bit of absurdity: A short movie about aliens abducting the new-for-1987 Chevrolet Corsica and the hapless family within. Go on, run through this two-and-a-half minutes of total weirdness, and if by the end you don’t hate us for making you sit through it, we’ll explain, or at least expound. This oddball film was, apparently, an introduction for Chevrolet dealers to their new front-wheel-drive family sedan, the Corsica. If you can’t bear to watch, it shows a family driving down a dark road when their Corsica quits—something that wouldn’t strike the owner of any GM product from the mid-1980s as terribly unusual. But no, this wasn’t a failure due to ...
Ford’s Forgotten ’70s Mid-Engined Rally Prototype: The Fascinating GT70
Gotcha! Never heard of the Ford GT70? We’re not surprised; Ford built only six GT70 prototypes built before it canned the program in the early 1970s. Rabid, well-informed Ford fans know Ford of Europe is essentially a semi-autonomous unit operating under the greater Ford umbrella; it develops its own cars, trucks, and vans for consumption across the pond. Occasionally, us Yanks get a crack at some European product—the prior Focus, Fiesta, and today’s Transit van being examples—but we were never privy to some of Ford’s hotter European stuff, including the awesome Ford Escort. See all 7 photos Underneath Ford of Europe’s purview, Ford U.K. made quite the name for itself on the big-time rally stage in the late 1960s, chalking up wins across the continent in the mini-bu...
The Pagani Huayra Tricolore Is a $6.75 Million Groundbound Fighter Jet
Just like the Zonda before it, only three examples of the Huayra Tricolore will be built, and each is going for $6.75 million a pop. For a little context, the Zonda Tricolore sold for “just” $1.47 million when it was new, a comparative bargain. The Huayra has been changed extensively for the Tricolore special edition, though. The body is a blue carbon-fiber weave with blue accents for the headlights, blue detailing on the wheels, and the red, white, and green tricolore stripes flowing down the sides of the car. Pagani also fits a new front splitter and rear diffuser for added downforce, as well as a new front bumper designed to guide cool air directly to the engine, per the automaker. Other exterior details include rear wing supports shaped to mimic the tailfin of the Aerm...
2024 Canoo MPDV First Look: Square-Deal EV Delivery
The folks responsible for the Canoo EV, the Los Angeles-based firm whose stated aim is to free customers from the shackles of vehicle ownership, are now hard at work on an electric multi-purpose delivery van aimed at dramatically lowering the total cost of operation for small businesses, last-mile delivery companies, independent contractors, utilities, service technicians, and more. Behold the 2024 Canoo MPDV1 and MPDV2. Both will be based on the same flat and low skateboard chassis that underpins the Canoo EV (like that vehicle, the wheelbases of the MPDV1 and MPDV2 measure in at 112.2 inches). It employs a steel frame and a low-profile control-arm-type suspension with transverse leaf springs front and rear. Steering and braking are both “by wire,” and the vehicle fe...
Chevrolet Traverse, Equinox Go Dark With New Midnight, Sport Editions
According to Chevrolet, their blacked-out trim packages are the candy everybody wants. Last year, 20 percent of Chevrolet Trax buyers chose either the Midnight or Sport packages, and one-third of Chevy Blazers went out the door with the RS package. So, guess what that means? More Midnight, more Sport, and more RS packages! Blacked-out trim for everyone! Don’t want your Traverse quite that murder-y? Then you’ll want the Sport Edition, which gives you a choice of paint colors all garnished with black for the grille, fog light bezels, wheels, roof rails, and badging. Both trim packages are available on LS and LT trim levels. Traverse Premiere buyers, meanwhile, can still get the not-quite-as-blacked-out Redline package. The RS trim package (which, back in the day, stood for Rally ...
