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The Financial Page

Car Wars

Is China’s electric-vehicle industry a threat to the U.S., or something to learn from?
Culture Desk

Goodbye, Hunk of Home

When you trade in the old car, trade me in, too.
Plate Patrol

At Large with New York’s One-Man Crime Spree

Gersh Kuntzman, a vigilante who fixes up license plates that have been defaced in order to evade speeding-ticket cameras, confronts a potential perpetrator downtown.
Shouts & Murmurs

I Live in the City from the Car Commercials

There is no one here, save for me, the witness. Me and the Driver.
Shouts & Murmurs

This Stop Sign Is Taking Forever to Turn Green

You should always use your seatbelt, because it holds the seat’s pants up. In this day and age, it’s not appropriate to sit in a nude chair.
Dept. of Transportation

The VW Bus Took the Sixties on the Road. Now It’s Getting a Twenty-first-Century Makeover

Once, it sparked dreams of community and counterculture. What’s gained—and lost—when flower power is electrified?
Road Trips

Night Driving

“What if this strange officer who has refused to say why he stopped me shoots me? What if he says I jumped out and pursued him to the back to attack him?”
Fiction

A King Alone

“That was probably part of why he gave people rides. How grateful they were in a world where almost no one would stop to help a stranger.”
Road Trips

Wide World of Disney

“We went to Disney World not out of some ironic feeling for Disney and what Disney represents but because we wanted to ride Space Mountain.”
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 15th

“Do you have any idea what kind of gas mileage you were getting?”
Daily Comment

A Better Idea Than Releasing Oil from the Strategic Reserve

It’s time to do away with the S.U.V. loophole.
Afterword

The Man Who Drove a Badillac

Even as a young man in West Philadelphia, Gilbert Hilton had a gift for getting noticed.
Rabbit Holes

The Semiotics of a 1999 Toyota Corolla

The YouTube channel Regular Car Reviews delights in cultural critiques of boring automobiles.
Shouts & Murmurs

The Trigger

Annals of Technology

America’s Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric

Ford’s F-series trucks make up the best-selling vehicle line in the U.S. Can its new F-150 Lightning compete with Tesla in the E.V. market?
Letter from the Southwest

Old Trucks for New Money

The booming market for certain vintage vehicles is driven by a particular vision of authenticity.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, October 21st

“It’s good to get out of the city for a day, even if the rental-car options are limited.”
Growing Pains

Driving Lessons

I thought I had lots of fears—thunderstorms, forest fires, bears—but these were not the right kind of fears for driving.
Going Going Dept.

Looking for Gold at a Department of Finance Vehicle Auction

At an impound lot in Gravesend, Brooklyn, bidders know that the car they nab for a song won’t come with a key. But will it have an engine?
Culture Desk

My Life in Cars

I lucked into the romance of driving at its fervent peak.