by on January 14, 2026
Matt Farah has made a life for himself that should make most gearheads sick with envy. On his YouTube channel The Smoking Tire, Farah regularly reviews some of the world's best cars, including recent posts taking the new 992-generation Porsche 911 Targa 4S out for a spin and blasting around the Angeles National Forest in a Ferrari F8 Spider . Now, Farah turns his attention to the all-electric Polestar 2 for a test drive in Malibu to see how this potential Tesla Model 3 competitor fares during so...
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by on January 14, 2026
Everyone in the automotive industry knows that electrification is the way of the future. Just look at the Ford Mustang Mach-E with 1,400 horsepower screaming through some drifts or Elon Musk's Tesla models as they dominate drag strips. Lucid's VP of Design Derek Jenkins even said that the Saudi Monetary Wealth Fund is hedging its bets with a $1 billion investment into the EV market, a serious sign of the changing times. Now, Chevrolet has announced a new pilot program for a potential electric co...
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by on January 14, 2026
The Polestar 2 shares much of its design aesthetic with its higher-spec hybrid sibling, but at a price that's at least somewhat closer to reasonable. The starting sticker price expected to begin around $61,000 before government incentive. That should place it in competition with higher-trim Tesla Models 3 and Y, which will share the Polestar 2's setup of an electric motor powering each axle with 201 horsepower and 243 lb-ft of torque (for a combined output of 402 ponies and 487 lb-ft of twi This...
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by on January 13, 2026
"What’s nice about electrification is that you’re able to expand the attributes beyond internal combustion. So you’re able to go much farther with performance than ever before. You’re able to give people more space without making the car much larger, give them more cargo capacity. Just the overall technical experience is next-level. Oh, and by the way, the car is zero-emissio The first thing to establish is that, if electric cars are going to have a hope of resonating and becoming more ubiquitou...
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by on January 13, 2026
Pointing at the centrally mounted touchscreen—yes, it's a whole lot like an iPad—from outside the car, Gianni walked Ryan through adjusting the rearview mirrors and selecting various driving functions like the aggressiveness of the regenerative braking and the steering weight. We got the A/C blasting (out of very classy vents hidden in a knuckle on the long dash) and the nav system running. Gianni told us we had 25 minutes or so on our own with the car, and we were The point Gittin Jr. and many...
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