Lose weight in America, and your friends will give you a nice pat on the back and make corny jokes about how thin you are. Lose weight in Siberia, though, and a giant truck will come by your house and dump 3,000 pounds of coal on your lawn. Wait, what? Read more
Welcome to Paper Jam, the feature where we highlight the best automotive advertisements from the past! Print might be nearly dead, but our scanners are just getting warmed up. Read more…
The National Security Archive has published what is said to be the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear weapons targets and applied weapons strategy that has ever been declassified. The report includes details for purposefully targeting civilian populations and military infrastructure for the systematic destruction of the Soviet Bloc. Read more
Ford’s concept car department was doing some genuinely interesting stuff at the tail end of their first century. There was their Focus Ghia concept (1992), the wonderful Mark Newsom 021c concept in 1999, and the less-well-known 24-7 concept from 2000. Let’s talk about that one, because I love it. Read Read more
Filed under: Etc., Humor, Videos As is a Festivus tradition, the Autoblog editors air some of their automotive grievances. We’ve got a lot of problems with this industry… Continue reading The airing of the automotive grievances The airing of the automotive grievances originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 23 Dec Read more
Filed under: Recalls, BMW, MINI, Safety, United States The civil penalty concerns 2014 and 2015 Minis that were not recalled soon enough after failing to meet U.S. side-impact crash protection standards. Continue reading NHTSA slaps BMW with $40M fine for slow Mini recall NHTSA slaps BMW with $40M fine for Read more
[Thank heavens for all those patriotic Volkswagen drivers out there in Berlin who make sure Getty photographer Sean Gallup will always find something we can use in case Angela Merkel says something about the Dieselgate scandal. Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.] Read more…
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