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1 week ago | 
caranddriver.com | Aaron Robinson |Larry Webster
From the May 2003 issue of Car and Driver. Okay, so it has been five years since our last "First Annual Olympics of Rust." As you can see, our devotion to regularity basically ends with your subscription renewal notice. Meanwhile, your many letters of complaint have been scrupulously filed in the bottom of a parakeet's cage. Before subsiding deeper into this story, note that this new and hardly improved battle of the beaters has a different format, if you can call it that.
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3 weeks ago | 
centredaily.com | Aaron Robinson
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3 weeks ago | 
ledger-enquirer.com | Aaron Robinson
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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Aaron Robinson
Our current national obsession with what it means to be an American has inevitably spun off a side conversation about what it means to be an American car. After all, we are the nation that married the automobile till death do us part. We have paved an estimated 61,000 square miles of roads and parking lots, a share of our continental landmass greater than the state of Georgia. Our households annually spend around $700 billion on cars and parts and another $400 billion on fuel and oil.
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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Aaron Robinson
This story was originally published June 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM.
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson
The arrival of mass television in the 1950s spawned the golden age of the advertising jingle. Detroit was all-in, from “It’s Delightful, it’s De-lovely, it’s De Soto,” to “What a Thrill to Take the Wheel of a Rocket Oldsmobile.” But it was two jingle composers named Leo Corday and Leon Carr, working for Chevrolet’s longtime ad agency Campbell Ewald, who wrote what became the magnum opus of all car ditties.
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson
People who study airplane crashes talk a lot about the failure chain. It’s never one thing that causes an accident but a sequence of small missteps, or a failure chain, that eventually combines to produce a really bad outcome. Such was the case when I drained the fuel tank of the 1933 Wolseley Hornet Special that I recently bought with my friend Rick Shaw.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Aaron Robinson
18 hours agoBattery-operated vehicles were a mainstay more than a hundred years ago, but only a few still exist — one happens to be in Jay Leno’s garage. More than a century before Tesla rolled out its first cars, the Baker Electric Coupe and the Riker Electric Roadster rumbled down American streets. …
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1 month ago | 
hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson
People often complain that those gorgeous and slippery concept cars that automakers create to tout their brand vision and design prowess get watered down to weak sauce by the time they reach production. Trust us, there is a good reason for this. As well as a good reason for why designers never get promoted to the CEO job at car companies.
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2 months ago | 
hagerty.com | Aaron Robinson
As I sat waiting to turn left at a busy intersection, I noticed the five late-model cars across from me only because all of them were white. I looked around; every car waiting or whizzing through the intersection for a full minute was white, black, gray, or silver. Suddenly, a red Toyota Highlander appeared, and it stood out like Jessica Rabbit in a nunnery. The 1973 Land Rover in which I was trundling to the local cars and coffee is painted a yellowish tan known as Limestone.
