The Slate electric truck preorder window opened June 24, and the response has been the loudest signal yet that a genuinely cheap, genuinely basic new vehicle is what a big slice of the market has been waiting for: more than 180,000 reservations for the Bezos-backed startup’s stripped-down pickup. Now that pricing, specs, and the production … Read more
Your first track day is one of the best ways to find out what your car — and you — are actually capable of, in an environment designed for exactly that. No oncoming traffic, no speed limits, runoff room when you get it wrong, and corner workers watching every inch of the circuit. But a … Read more
Every tire on the road carries its complete resume molded into the rubber — size, speed capability, load limits, age, even which direction it’s supposed to spin. Once you know how to read a tire sidewall, you can spot an unsafe tire in a parking lot, catch a shop installing the wrong spec, and decode … Read more