Why are automakers shifting from offering options consumers can buy, to those they can only rent? Well, it’s not to benefit the consumers.
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The perfect addition to your hollowed-out volcanic lair.
Nothing is less interesting than other people’s dreams.
Driving through the entire expanse of Joshua Tree National Park in an overlanding vehicle hardly makes one unique these days. But that didn’t stop us from doing it.
“When it comes to North America, everybody who buys cars in our segment is probably here.”
Step one: buy a Beetle. Step two: find a Cuban welder. Step three: watch a shit ton of YouTube weaving videos.
“The margins on that are huge,” Michael Dean, automotive equity research analyst from Bloomberg Intelligence, told Insider. “You’re talking about 75 or 80 percent.
The American roadway death epidemic saw its greatest increase in a century, last year. The slaughter is rooted in analog issues–Booze, Belts, and Speed. Might the solutions also be analog? My investigative report for Road & Track.
Bentley re-created the most valuable car in their history, and they made twelve copies of it. Each costs $2.1 million dollars. It’s called the Blower Bentley. I like saying “Blower Bentley.”
It was drizzling the morning I drove the $2.1 million Bentley Bacalar. The car is a classic barchetta, Italian for “little boat,” and collector automobilese for “I’m so rich, if it rains, I take the jet.” As such, it has no roof. That didn’t stop me from a proper test drive.