The minivan was once a glorious thing. But the derision it has faced over the past couple of decades made its demise inevitable. The ubiquitous minivan will soon be gone. Its percentage of total vehicle sales is down to 2% on a descending graph that shows no indication it will level out. Instead, it looks …
Could the Tesla Cybertruck rival the original Mustang for the most desirable vehicle in its maiden year? It looks like it’s on the way as CybertruckOwnersClub.com tabulated Cybertruck orders based on reservation numbers. They are saying 532,048 reservations have been recorded for Cybertrucks. At $100 per reservation that’s over $53 million in Tesla’s petty cash …
It’s the package you would want from a Mercedes, but does it look like a New York taxi? We can’t say the look of the 2021 Mercedes AMG GLE 63 S is something we aspire to own. It looks like a bloated CLS, but it’s got almost double the horsepower. So we guess you could …
One of the most astounding things about owning a Ferrari is not the car itself but rather the process of purchasing one. If you think someone just walks into a Ferrari dealership and purchases his or her new Ferrari you are wrong. You can’t just buy a new Ferrari no matter what you have. Money, …
Many times within the digital domain of Motor Biscuit we have lamented the demise of the station wagon in the US. We have argued that an SUV is just a lifted station wagon with big tires and a bigger footprint. Yet SUVs proliferate and wagons contract. But in a recent interview with BMW National Dealer …
Everyone is griping about how there are no more manual transmission vehicles anymore. But, there are. It’s just that no one is buying them. If you want one, then buy one. Let your friends at Motor Biscuit help. Here are nine different cars you can still row through the gears with a manual trans. Some …
Well, this isn’t good. A Porsche Taycan sitting in a garage spontaneously burst into flames a week ago. It burned to the ground and also destroyed the garage located in South Florida. Porsche says it is investigating the incident. While we don’t know if EVs are more likely to go up in flames than internal …
Yes, we know VW has a strong commitment to electric vehicles. It’s almost like it’s cramming them down everyone’s throats. It’s trying to make amends for the Dieselgate cheating it got caught up in. Now that it has developed an EV platform it calls “MEB” here comes the flood of VW EVs. Just to make …
If you get approached to purchase a warranty after the manufacturer’s warranty runs out be very careful. There are both legit and scam companies out there that want to sell you a warranty to cover service costs for your vehicle after the manufacturer’s warranty expires. Ads like “Final notice! Your vehicle warranty will expire soon. …
How many years has it been since Ford announced it was bringing back the Bronco? Would you believe it’s been three and counting? How many years are we supposed to wait before Ford comes through? It sounds like the day may be upon us, finally. Ford dealers attending the NADA Show in Las Vegas were …
In spite of having been a brand for 110 years, Alfa Romeo is withering away. Alfa’s assembly plant in Cassino, Italy, will stop producing the iconic Giulietta hatchback by the end of the month. The plant will be converted over to begin producing a Maserati SUV based on the Giorgio platform found under the Stelvio. …
GM is pulling in as it positions itself for the uncertain future. It announced today it will kill the iconic Holden brand of GM vehicles in Australia. It is also pulling out of the other countries it sells right-hand-drive vehicles to which are New Zealand and Thailand. It already left the EU when it sold …
Sport Trucks were a thing in the 1990s. Then lifted coal rollers on 38-inch tires rolled all over them and that was that. Lowered, pastel Silverados on 17s were the s**t, at least here on the left coast. Chevy even did its own version for its S-10 truck called Xtreme. Now it looks like we …
Mercedes is getting hit from two fronts greatly affecting current and future models, and not in a good way. Times are tough as manufacturers try to navigate through tough new emissions requirements in Europe. Penalties are massive for not complying with the increasingly stiffer pollution mandates. And in the case of Mercedes, it has shifted …
GM works in mysterious ways. We keep saying it and it keeps making mysterious moves. Costly moves. Even being a fly on the wall probably wouldn’t help much because there are sometimes decisions that make no sense. Take the DOHC Blackwing twin-turbo V8 engine for instance. It died last month when it was announced the …
There are thieves and then there are Robin Hoods. We’ll leave it up to you to decide which one is the bad guy in this latest saga of new-age car drama. It seems that Tesla takes away electronic features some of its cars are equipped with. This happens when they are resold or end up …
A hot rod needs a high-performance powertrain. Yamaha has just the crate motor for your next project but it’s not internal combustion. No, it’s a high-performance electric motor. Even though there is not a lot of demand within Yamaha’s product portfolio its engineering team came up with this slick motor. That’s why it is making …
Not that it benefits Tesla CEO Elon Musk much (we’re joking) but he’s got a warning. He says that those who may be buying a new car need to expect “residual values of gas/diesel cars to plummet in the coming years.” Over the next decade, 24 European cities with a population of 62 million people …
In their zeal to blast into electrification faster than light huge companies like Mercedes Benz and General Motors; and smaller manufacturers like Audi and Jaguar all rely on outside suppliers for much of their EV components. One main piece of the electric puzzle is batteries. LG Chem supplies the batteries to many EV manufacturers and …
The Nissan Titan in its current form has been with us for a long time. Since 2004 it has remained basically unchanged. For 2020 it has some styling mods but has cut lots of features and options it once had. Between its age and how much Nissan has cut from previous years, it places the …
This is what “unique” looks like. But this is also why unique isn’t necessarily the same as good. Before you is the Hispano Suiza H6C Dubonnet Carmen. It’s inspired by a one-off for French racing driver Andre Dubonnet back in the 1930s. It will spin-off to be a production Hisso that should be available just …
In a move that surprised more than a few at the 2020 Chicago Auto Show a limited-edition 2020 F-150 Harley-Davidson model was revealed. A limited-edition anything is an expectation for popular models from different manufacturers. It’s just another way to add sizzle to both hot and slow sellers. So a limited-edition Harley-Davidson F-150 is coming? …
Everything for Aston Martin rides on the DBX SUV. If it doesn’t get this right and/or if it doesn’t sell the company is toast. It will be gone by 2022. Aston Martin went public in late-2018. Since then the stock price has dropped 75%. At the time of the IPO, the Aston Martin company was …
And you thought cross-town rivalries in Detroit were dead? Last year the Ford Mustang beat out the Chevy Camaro in sales by almost 25,000. Chevy wants to cut that lead or even take the lead in 2020. If it can’t at least Chevy wants a fight so it has an exclusive offer pitched directly to …
For 2021 Toyota is adding yet another off-road theme for the Tacoma, Tundra, and 4Runner. This one is called “Trail Editions.” Don’t be confused even though you can currently get these trucks with the TRD Off-Road, TRD Off-road Premium, and TRD Pro off-road themes. The question is what makes the Trail Editions versions different from …
Ford is going to make the fabulous GT go out with a bang. For such a limited production vehicle that will see production end in 2022, it has lavished the GT with many new surprises. The 2020 GT will get some unnecessary updates making it, even more, desirable than it already was. The least of …
Nobody’s buying sports cars. Has it really come to this? Are SUVs and pickups all that will be left? That and autonomous rolling toasters? From the latest sales figures for 2019, we have to surmise the end of the sports car is nigh? We’ve assembled a baker’s dozen of those that stand out for their …
What the world needs right now is a new, rugged, off-road van. Not really, but if you have always wanted one here’s your dream come true. The UAZ SGR Combi Expedition is an off-road van with proven ruggedness in the harsh environs of Russia. That’s because it is a Russian product. It has been since …
General Motors makes decisions in a time/space netherworld we mortals know nothing about. While we look upon many of its historic brands with reverence, it looks to them as only names bonked onto an ever devolving line of subcompact mushmobiles. What once stood for performance, style, engineering excellence, or desirable transportation in its simplest form, …
This company started making electric vehicles 20 years ago. The EVs were highly developed, had a range of 100 miles which wasn’t great but made them popular for short commutes, and sold as many as it could make. The cars were mostly owned by celebrities and actors who praised them at every opportunity. Free advertising. …
Here’s another vehicle we wish would be sold in the US, and can’t understand the business plan behind not selling it here. It makes so much sense for VW to sell its T5 Multivan in the US. But we’re not here to debate Volkswagen’s poor judgment. You can read about Dieselgate to find out how …
Ford’s fourth-quarter financials for 2019 were revealed yesterday and a lot of numbers, projections, and apologies were floated around. But with as much spin as was spent on the dismal Q4 results there was one figure missing from it all; 99. This is the percent of income that fell from 2018. A 99% plunge. In …
Lakers great Kobe Bryant was an NBA superstar. He was also known as a generous person. His young wife Vanessa turned 19 in 2001 and Kobe wanted her to have something special for the occasion. Probably one of the most outrageous, ostentatious cars at that time (or any other time for that matter) was the …
Part of what you are buying when you buy a Ferrari is exclusivity. And fast, we don’t want to forget that part. But the whole Ferrari thing is how it looks. You don’t see them every day, even in Hollywood. So it’s that exclusivity combined with performance and heritage that makes a Ferrari a Ferrari. …
From an online job site listing comes the first confirmation Ford will produce an all-new Mustang in 2022 as a 2023 model. Posted on LinkedIn is a job listing for engineers to be the “final sign off on the Ford 2023 Mustang S650 program.” We’re thinking S650 is internal lingo for this next-gen ‘Stang. We’re …
We have “forever meat” that is fake beef and Olive Garden which is fake Italian food. Artificial Christmas trees and spray-on tanning also come to mind. So, why not fake 1960s Corvettes? We’ve all seen conversions taking a C-5 Corvette and turning it into an This is like that only different. First, it comes from …
Whenever you’ve got someone making over $40 million a year plus endorsements, you know they’ve got some killer cars. Such is the case with Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. He’s considered one of the most valuable players in the NBA and is a three-time NBA champion. Just for some context he also has two …
In the ongoing saga of Nissan’s death wobble comes still more disturbing news. As you may or may not know Nissan is tanking. Profits have plunged and dealers are having problems staying afloat with vehicles in competitive markets like mid- and full-size pickups. In those segments, the average model age is 20 years old. Now …
You know about the “baby Bronco,” right? It’s the Bronco-Lite version of Ford’s up and coming body-on-frame Bronco. It will be a crossover based on the Ford Escape as opposed to the Bronco which is based on the Ranger platform. Baby Bronco has been an easy way for us scribes to distinguish between the two …
There have been tons of studies over the last few years as marijuana becomes legalized in more states. The latest comes from Washington state where the AAA Foundation has public health officials worried. THC-positive drivers in fatality crashes have hit 18% since marijuana was legalized there. That is more than double the rate before legalization …
If you live in Sweden or in conditions like those in Sweden, then you know about certain wild animals that must be avoided but sometimes can’t be. When a moose crosses your right-of-way you only have two choices. You can hit it which is definitely not recommended under any circumstances. Or, you can swerve to …
Why can’t German manufacturers build decent pickups? If you thought the Mercedes X-Class was a good pickup you can thank Nissan. The X-Class pickup was just a thinly disguised Navara. That’s in Nissan Navara. Mercedes odd decisions surrounding the X-Class didn’t help, either. Like leaving the largest market for pickups out of any distribution plans. …
Things are getting tougher for car companies trying to navigate the new world of electrification and tightening EU emissions regulations. The largest market in the world is China, and sales are slumping like never before. Consumer demand has spoken and cars are out; SUVs are in. If you’re a company like Aston Martin you must …
Troubles for former Nissan CEO, prison escapee, and future made-for-TV movie subject Carlos Ghosn mount. The Japanese government won’t let up on him after he snuck out of the country without a visa under house arrest in Tokyo. They’re mad as hornets, embarrassed, and lashing out at anyone connected with the former head of Peugeot-Renault. …
If you’ve ever wanted a contemporary version of the 1970s hippie van your time ran out a few years ago. Ford’s Transit Vanwagon and the regular wheelbase of Chevy’s Express van are as close as you can get, which isn’t very much. They’re not like those tall Euro-Sprinter vans that are now sold in the …
This is not s pretty picture but it does two things. Posting the average fatalities on each state’s most dangerous highways will give you a general awareness to remember to drive safely and to be aware. The other is to give you a heads-up for which highway is the most dangerous in your state. This …
What’s the chance that once all of the paperwork and mumbo jumbo is over that the Chrysler Fiat/PSA merger will reward us with this? This is the Alpine A110 SportsX concept. Did you think you only liked SUVs before seeing this? In some ways, this is like an SUV. We want it but will we …
Could this be the first sports car-like SUV? Let’s be honest; the Porsche Cayenne or Jaguar E-Pace SUVs are, well, they’re SUVs. They’re bulky, big, and are more station wagon than sports cars. But their origins come from true sports car DNA. So does Lamborghini’s Urus SUV come from sports car heritage. But this widebody …
You can’t make this up. Back in October, GM issued a recall of almost 550,000 vehicles for brake issues. It covered Cadillac CT6 sedans, Silverado 1500 and Sierra 1500 pickups; all from 2019. The problem was a software error with the antilock brakes and stability control causing the brakes to fail. Or as GM puts …
Two different articles on major news sites surprisingly show how Nissan is not only not showing a profit but instead is circling the drain. It’s in much worse shape than we thought. Many say it’s “do or die.” There is dissension among the three top leaders of Nissan, it is eliminating 4,300 white-collar jobs and …
