Category: Popular Mechanics

Mainly, the advice is: don’t buy a car. But there are some workarounds.

“These are muscle trucks. They’re monsters.”

Click on the thumbnails above (and then click again) to view a crappy scan. Or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

I was so confounded by the requisite inputs that at one point I simply released the controls and turned to my instructor. “Can you show me a picture of this machine and explain how it moves?” She looked at me like I was a talking dog.

My latest humiliation, for Popular Mechanics.

Along with a slew of top-notch colleagues, I answer this eternal question. (But I provide the final answer.)

I chat with Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann about back doors and forced induction. Read our interview at Popular Mechanics.

Full Disclosure: I’ve always rooted for the Decepticons. My latest on autonomous cars, for Popular Mechanics.

The Chicago Auto Show is the Land of Misfit Cars. But as odd as the reveals there were, they were also oddly on-trend. Find out why in my latest for Popular Mechanics.

As another sign of the imminent takeover of all human life by the Robots, a giant, automated, and autonomous parking lot is slated to open in Brooklyn soon. I investigated this eerie subterranean android lair for Popular Mechanics, and the resultant article is out in the October print issue. Click the images above to view a crappy scan, or just buy it on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

Do we really need car dealerships anymore? Despite their recent legal battles to sell cars directly to consumers,Tesla thinks the answer might be, yes. My first piece for Popular Mechanics.