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How to Challenge a Friend to a WhipJury Faceoff
You have been in the parking lot argument. Both cars are right there. Both owners are convinced. Nobody is backing down. Here is how to end it in a way that neither of you can argue with...
Cam Walsh
The 5 Car Rivalries WhipJury Can Finally Settle
Some arguments have been running for decades. Not about performance numbers or lap times or reliability scores. About which car looks better. That question has never had a clean answer because it has never had a neutral judge. WhipJury is that judge. Here are five rivalries that are long overdue for a verdict...
Jeffrey Wiley
How to Take a Car Photo That Actually Does Your Car Justice
Most cars look worse in their owner's photos than they do in real life. Not because the car is bad. Because the photo is. A great car shot in flat midday sun in a Walmart parking lot with a cluttered background and a straight-on angle will lose a faceoff to a mediocre car photographed well. This is not fair. It is also completely fixable. Here is what actually makes the difference...
Cam Walsh
Stop Arguing About Whose Car Looks Better. Here's How to Settle It
Every car person has been in this argument. Two cars, two owners, zero agreement, and a conversation that has been going in circles for twenty minutes. Your car looks better. No, mine does. Yours is common. Mine is refined. Yours is trying too hard. Mine knows exactly what it is. Nobody wins because nobody has a referee. Until now.
Cam Walsh
Best Car Colors by Decade
Car color is not just a design decision. It is a cultural document. The colors that dominated each decade tell you more about what was happening in the world than almost anything else on four wheels. Paint responds to war, prosperity, economic anxiety, pop culture, and technology in ways that body styles and engines do not. Here is the full story, decade by decade, with a verdict on which era actually got it right...
Cam Walsh
Two-Door vs Four-Door: The Design Trade-Off Nobody Talks About
The debate about two-door versus four-door cars almost always ends up in the same place. Two doors look better. Four doors are more practical. Case closed, move on. But that framing skips over something more interesting, which is why the two-door almost always looks better, what specifically it does to a car's proportions, and the cases where the four-door actually wins...
Cam Walsh
Why the Same Car Looks Different in Every Color
Pick any car you know well. Now imagine it in five different colors. It is genuinely a different car each time. Not just a different shade but a different personality, a different price bracket in some cases, a different argument about what kind of person drives it. Color is doing more work on a car than on almost any other designed object, and most buyers underestimate how much the choice matters until they see their car in the wrong one...
Jeffrey Wiley
Sport Mode vs Comfort Mode: Does Lowering a Car Always Look Better
Ask any car person whether a lower ride height looks better and the answer is almost always yes. Slammed cars get photographed. Stanced builds get hundreds of thousands of views. The conventional wisdom in car culture is that closer to the ground equals better looking, full stop...
Cam Walsh
Why Americans Don't Buy Good Looking Cars
Walk through any parking lot in America and run a quick count. Crossovers, trucks, more crossovers, a few SUVs, one sedan that belongs to someone's dad. The cars that consistently rate highest on design, the ones that win awards and get photographed at auto shows, are largely absent. Meanwhile, the vehicles moving off dealer lots..
Jeffrey Wiley
The Best Looking Cars Nobody Actually Buys
Some cars stop traffic. They get photographed in parking lots by strangers, get threads started about them on forums, and land on every best-looking list written in the last five years. Then you check the sales numbers and wonder why nobody is actually buying them...
Jeffrey Wiley
The Worst Color You Can Buy Any Car In
Car color is personal. Everyone knows that. But some colors are not just a matter of taste. Some colors are objectively bad decisions that flatten great designs, age poorly, and make buyers regret the moment they signed the paperwork. This is about those colors...
Jeffrey Wiley
Black vs White: Which Color Makes Any Car Look Better?
Every car looks different in black. Every car looks different in white. And almost every car owner has a strong opinion about which one is right. This debate has been running in parking lots, forums, and showrooms for decades and it never gets old because the answer actually depends on the car...
Cam Walsh