Tesla Model 3

BYD, Nio, Zeekr, Leapmotor and Xpeng are Chinese electric car brands, several of them huge, and most people can't tell them apart. One makes its own batteries, one swaps them in three minutes, one is owned by Volvo's parent, and one is partly owned by the company behind Jeep.

The 2027 New York International Auto Show is expected to take place in late March to early April 2027 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. Based on ticketing listings currently available, the show opens March 30, 2027. Official confirmed public dates from the NYIAS organization have not yet been announced as of mid-2026, but the show follows a consistent annual schedule that makes the window predictable...

American car design peaked twice. The first peak was the 1950s, when post-war prosperity and genuine cultural euphoria produced colors, proportions, and detail work that no subsequent era has matched. The second peak was shorter, more aggressive, and in many ways more interesting: the roughly decade-long window from 1964 to 1974 when American muscle car design produced some of the most visually forceful objects ever put on public roads. Then four things happened simultaneously and it was over within eighteen months...

Every few months a new obituary gets written for the sedan. Sales are down. Automakers are canceling models. The crossover has won. The four-door is finished. And every time someone writes that obituary, the Toyota Camry sells another 300,000 units, the Honda Accord moves another 200,000, and the Tesla Model 3 quietly becomes one of the best-selling vehicles on the planet. The sedan is not dead. A specific group of automakers decided it was not worth their effort, walked away, and then pointed at falling sales as proof the customer did not want it anymore...