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Subaru has invented a word to describe the XV concept debuting at the Shanghai auto show: “protren,” a combination of “professional tool” and “trendy design.” Such clunky wordsmithing was unnecessary, though, since this is simply a tarted-up version of the next Impreza hatchback. (Our choice would have been “hatchcon,” but that’s at once infinitely more [...]

Through the windshield the horizon is tilted. Neck muscles strain against G-forces to support the weight of a crash helmet. Senses are bombarded with sounds —the painful scream of tires against as­phalt, the belligerent roar of a 289 Ford—and smells; good British leather and traces of gasoline vapor. We are halfway through the Hook, Lime [...]

Insurance is very expensive today. The state of Montana has made auto insurance mandatory and therefore, every motorist must have it. Every motorist has to comply with the financial responsibility laws. These laws ensure that every motorist is able to pay for damages caused, if he is involved in an accident. The tort system also [...]

The Metropolitan police force put the wrong fuel into its fleet of cars on 612 occasions in the last three years, at a cost to the taxpayer of f200,000. Every time a petrol car has to be fixed after being filled with diesel or vice versa, it costs up to f1,400. According to an investigation [...]

Mercedes-Benz chose Southern California for the worldwide first-drive program of its freshened 2009 SL-class roadster on account of, we thought, its friendly, relatively predictable March weather and access to fabulous roads. Although the blessed Left Coast location has both of those things, Mercedes attributed its choice of locations to something even more significant, asserting that [...]