When Rivian arrived, nobody had heard of it. It was a startup with no history, no dealer network, and no proof it could build anything at all, going up against Ford and Chevrolet and Tesla in the electric truck race. On paper, it should have been swallowed whole. Instead, the little company that came out…
Some car companies announce a new vehicle, build the hype, and then quietly delay it. Rivian announced a new vehicle, had a tornado rip the roof off the factory where it was being built, started production anyway five days later, and then delivered a vehicle that landed on best-of-year lists from writers who normally spend…
The Rivian R2 Performance and the Tesla Model Y Performance carry the exact same $57,990 sticker, and once each company adds its destination and order fees, the out the door totals stay within a rounding error of each other. So the money can’t settle this one. The cars have to speak for themselves. And these…
If you’ve been driving an HW3 Tesla for the past year, you know exactly what it feels like to watch everyone at the table get served while you’re still waiting on your order. HW4 owners kept getting shiny new FSD updates. You got to watch. That’s a rough place to be when you paid for…
Audi used to make a car called the R8, a mid engine V10 supercar that could embarrass machinery costing three times as much. When it went out of production, a lot of enthusiasts quietly mourned the loss of Audi’s halo car, the vehicle that proved the brand could build something exotic. What most of them…
In a market where every new EV seems to shout about its zero to 60 time, its screen size, or its ability to perform a light show in your driveway, the Audi Q4 e-tron does something almost radical. It just tries to be a good car. No party tricks, no drama, no interface that requires…
For years, Audi‘s electric vehicles carried a small asterisk. The Q4 e-tron rode on Volkswagen’s MEB platform, the same architecture underneath the ID.4. The larger Q8 e-tron used a modified version of a combustion car platform. They were good EVs, but they were built on borrowed foundations, adapted rather than purpose designed. The Q6 e-tron…
Used EV asking prices are higher than they were a year ago. Cox Automotive put the average listing price at $37,441 in August 2026, up 8.2 percent from August 2025, though it slipped 1 percent from July. Used EV sales rose 14.7 percent over the same year. That average hides a split. On CarGurus, asking…
The 3 Series is the car that made BMW famous. It’s the reason “ultimate driving machine” became more than a tagline. For decades, if you wanted a sport sedan that was fun to drive and happened to be practical enough for daily life, the 3 Series was the answer before the question was finished. Now…
Most electric cars are very eager to tell you they’re electric. They come with futuristic dashboards, spaceship sound effects, exterior styling that looks like it arrived from the year 2040, and enough screens to run air traffic control. The BMW i5 does almost none of that, and that restraint is the whole point. It’s a…