The most visited car brand showrooms, by city. Are you looking for your dream car or a fancy luxury car? If you’re not sure where to start looking, why not start with what your neighbors are interested in? Luxury car sales are soaring this year, but overall, there are a lot of great options in…
What on Earth Is Stellantis? Your Guide to the Wild World of Automotive Brands and the Corporations That Own Them
Keeping track of automotive brands can be a hassle. There have been so many mergers, divisions, and closings among the car world that it can throw anyone for a loop—even experienced automotive journalists. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what someone means when they say “the Big Three” or why you’ve heard the name “Stellantis”…
What’s Next for the Electric Vehicle? Stellantis Has an Idea
The electric vehicle is the future. But what can we expect? You might not recognize the Stellantis name just yet, but you will soon. It’s the name given to the merger that took place between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and European-based Group PSA, which made the Renault, Peugeot, and Citroën brands. And with a big merger…
2020 Fiat 500 X Sport Review: Happy Rides in a Happy Car
Fresh air. Sunshine. Smiles. Happiness. And that’s just how I felt when I got behind the wheel of the 2020 Fiat 500 X Sport, the all wheel drive crossover from Fiat. Being in quarantine for so long, it was time to get out and go for a drive. Right now, it feels like a drive…
7 Sexy Sports Cars to Fulfill Your Need for Speed
Sexy sports cars are not just for the boys. More and more women are getting behind the wheel fulfilling their need for speed. After all, we are just as worthy of the thrills and exhilaration of driving cars that turn heads. While we’d never recommend speeding behind the legal limits, we do suggest finding those wide-open…
The New Fiat 500X: A Small, Mighty, and Fun Fiat SUV
The 1.3L Turbo Engine in the New Fiat 500X is small, yet mighty. I used to think that smaller engines were not as powerful as larger engines and were sluggish in acceleration, that is until I drove the Fiat 500X, a Fiat SUV that is an all wheel drive four-door crossover. A smaller engine makes…
What Drives Her: Lisa Copeland Is Crushing It in the Auto World
And She Wants You to Crush It, Too. Lisa Copeland was a college student majoring in fashion, and she had curated a regrettable habit of spending the money her parents had sent her for car insurance on new clothes. It was most unfortunate, she says, when she totaled her car in an accident. Her father…
What Drives Her: Nicole Longhini, Brand Manager, Fiat North America
Don’t ask why she wanted to work in the automotive industry. You might make her cry. Seriously. Nicole Longhini’s passion for autos is so deep she gets emotional talking about it. And it’s not the typical passion—speed, physics, engineering— that drives her; it’s how autos connect her to people, her family and to her first…
The Brand New 2017 Fiat 124 Spider: The Perfect Mid-Life Crisis Car
The sexy and sporty 2017 Fiat 124 Spider. Middle Age is rough. The wrinkles, the responsibilities, all of the little people always nagging you to cook stuff, clean stuff and drive them places. It’s enough to make you snap! Understandably, many of us do. But before you go off and have a mid-life crisis, let’s make sure you have a good one. Have a crisis that…
Trekking from SFO to LAX in the 2016 Fiat 500X
Not just looking cool on a road trip, but staying that way, too. Every six to 12 months, the Blab team goes on an offsite trip to think differently. When I heard the Blab team was going on our yearly retreat to southern California, I instantly wanted to make it a road trip. Driving to Southern California from…