Why Windshield Pillars On Modern Cars Got So Thick They’re Now A Genuine Safety Risk
Why did modern cars’ A-pillars get so much thicker than they used to be? The answer involves a surprising tradeoff between protection and visibility.
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Alpine Calls For Calm After Franco Colapinto Caused Multi-Car Pileup In Baku
While Alpine avoided naming any particular driver, team principal Flavio Briatore made it clear before the race that Colapinto’s fanbase was a problem.
Subaru WRX GD25 And BRZ ZC15 Anniversary Editions Have Bad Names, But At Least The WRX Gets A Sick Wing
Neither of these special edition Subarus have any extra power, but they both get gold wheels and some chassis upgrades.
What Months Of Living With Our Yellow BMW M5 Touring Taught Us
A 717-hp wagon is easy to like for the first week, so the more useful update comes after the novelty wears off. Our G99 BMW M5 Touring in BMW Individual Dakar Yellow has now been
BMW Is Building 115 TT-Themed M 1000 RRs, US Preorders Open Tuesday
BMW Motorrad is building 115 examples of the M 1000 RR Limited Edition Isle of Man TT, one for each running of the Tourist Trophy through the 2026 race, and US customers can get in
BMW Is Supersizing The iX3’s Face At A Shopping Mall
BMW has found a new way to get people talking about the iX3 in Brazil: make its face absolutely enormous and stick it in a shopping mall. No, this isn’t a particularly elaborate Photoshop job
Here’s Every BMW Coming To The 2026 Athens Auto Show
BMW originally said it would attend the 2026 Paris Motor Show in October, but the company has since changed its mind and pulled out of the French event. However, that doesn’t mean BMW is sitting
Start Them Young: BMW Is Teaching Five-Year-Olds About Cars
Forget learning your ABCs. BMW thinks five-year-olds should be figuring out what they want to do with the next 50-60 years of their lives. The automaker has launched a new initiative called Apprentice 2036 to
Forget Your Certification: GM Wants to Automate Forklifts Now
The push for autonomous driving has a strong profit motivation. From taxis to trucking, corporate executives dream of the day that they’ll be able to replace professional drivers with sensors and code to save money
One Time, Mercedes-Benz Mechanics Built a Snarling V8 Hatchback
In the early 2000s, Mercedes-Benz was a study in contrasts. The automaker was going all-in on AMG performance models, stuffing big naturally-aspirated V8s anywhere they would fit. But it was also continuing to move downmarket