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Screenshot: VHTRacing A few years ago, I saw this little Finnish Toyota Starlet run at the Mt. Washington hillclimb. I don’t think my ears have stopped ringing. Advertisement I loved the car so much that I still check up on it every so often, making a note to check in on Mikko Kataja and his Starlet. Here he is at Mt. Washington back in 2017: That is a tight, tight little one-and-a-quarter lane road, and this Starlet makes it look like a highway. It doesn’t exactly hide the bumps, though. That is a rough, rough course, and I don’t know how Kataja made it out of the car with all of his ...

Photo: Volkswagen The original GTI arrived in 1976, and in 2021 Volkswagen wants to charge you more money for a hatch that more or less came out in 2016. But VW has a good excuse for doing it this year: the GTI’s 45th birthday. Advertisement The German carmaker announced the release of its GTI Clubsport 45 to commemorate the near half-century that the GTI has been around. The hot hatch will have a limited release and will start at €47,790 EUR in Germany, or roughly $57,500 USD. Before you get too worked up: No plans to offer it in the U.S. have been announced

A Cultural Arms Race I am about to cover the most contentious topic in all of modern auto writing. It isn’t the classic arguments that leap to mind first — electric motor vs. internal combustion, Ferrari vs. Lamborghini, turbocharger vs. supercharger — it’s something much more mundane. Is a truck an appropriate purchase for the majority of people that buy them? Advertisement First, some background on the subject matter: Pickup trucks are massively popular in America, with the Ford F-series truck being America’s best-selling vehicle for a staggering The typical argument for truck en...

Read more about Maruti Suzuki climbs after February sales rise 12% YoY on Business Standard. Maruti Suzuki India rose 1.71% to Rs 6,990.20 after the car major's total sales jumped 11.8% to 1,64,469 units in February 2021 over February 2020.

You may remember last week when I wrote about an absurdly hyperbolic claim of alleged life-saving from a Tesla driving via its Level 2 semi-autonomous Autopilot system; this week, I have another one, but this one is a little different because it was brought to my attention by a Tesla-stan who was very sure this would end up in us writing “something positive about Tesla.” Well, friend, you’re in luck, because that’s exactly what will happen. I say this because I’m positive that Tesla on Autopilot drove like a moron.