Small Car

The V8 engine was initially found in premium-brand automobiles. Cadillac introduced one of the first mass-produced V8s in 1914. They exploded in popularity in the 1950s and remained a common engine option through the muscle-car era from the mid-Sixties to the early Seventies.

Ranger isn’t the cutting-edge near-luxury pickup some shoppers may be looking for, but it is a solid, functional, fun-to-drive small rig that may prove to be just the right size for shoppers looking for something both capable and garagable.

Jill and Tom welcome industry analyst Jamie Butters to the program. Jamie shares news regarding his new radio show, and walks the hosts through a number of big stories that broke this past week, including Ford opening a factory in Spain to Chinese-car production.

The Cybercab is not fitted with a steering wheel, floor pedals, or side mirrors, instead, it was engineered from its inception for use as an unsupervised “Level 4” autonomous vehicle with no human controls.

It would to easy to read this situation incorrectly. It’s not that Subaru is trying to build an electric-vehicle lineup that is similar Toyota’s, it’s that Subaru is unapologetically selling the SAME EVs as Toyota. And, Toyota is totally cool with that.