Cars

For 20 years, AMG has taken innocent and docile Mercedes and injected them with tire-shredding torque, roaring exhausts and spine-shattering suspensions (for an anthropomorphic analogy of AMG’s work, click here).

In the 1968 film “Bullitt,” Steve McQueen careened through the streets of San Francisco in a Highland Green Ford Mustang. Fifty years later, Ford’s homage isn’t just a show pony or a collector’s toy; it’s the best Mustang currently for sale.

It’s a funny irony in the car world that the least talked-about models often sell the most. The Equinox is Chevy’s second best-selling vehible behind the Silverado, and nobody I spoke to had ever heard of it.

The Ford F-series is the best-selling vehicle in the world. In 2018, someone drove home in a new Ford truck every 30 seconds.

In 1945, the Beetle nearly went extinct. An Allied bomb crashed through the roof of the Wolfsburg factory, but didn’t explode. A year later, Britain needed cars, Germans needed jobs, so they spooled up the assembly line.

The Jeep Wrangler is like a bacon double cheeseburger – gristly and unrefined, yet patriotic and sacred. It’s imperfect, yet precisely nobody wants it to change.

For Hyundai’s new luxury brand to develop a gas-powered sports sedan in 2019 was a risky move. But the result is utter brilliance.

In 1999, if you asked a preschooler to draw a car, she’d probably draw a sedan. In 2019, she’d probably draw a crossover.

The word “Corvette” may evoke midlife crisis jokes, but the modern ‘Vette is an exceptional all-rounder that every sports car shopper should consider.