Dan Neil

2010 Ferrari 458 Italia: Dashing through the snow in a wicked red sleigh

June 1, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

MARANELLO, Italy — Snow is a beautiful thing. Yet it's not snowflakes I see drifting into Ferrari's brick courtyard on the Via Abetone, the Temple Mount in this, the Jerusalem...

Suzuki SX4 earns its stripes

June 1, 2019 at 6:04 a.m.

It's a well-known principle of quantum mechanics that racing stripes make a car faster. Depending on the width and color of the stripes, accessorizing paint schemes can be good for...

Tesla Motor's Model S show electric car, a lovely, porpoise-sleek design from the Silicon Valley automaker, is just barely ambulatory. The windows are fixed. The power-steering motor groans. The seating...

SECOND OPINION: BMW 335D

August 22, 2021 at 9:50 a.m.

Mike Hanley, CARS.COM Many U.S. drivers spend a lot of time mired in stop-and-go traffic, and that's where diesels shine, thanks to their prodigious amounts of torque at low engine...

Lockheed selling jobs to sell jets

August 22, 2021 at 10:04 a.m.

The F-22 Raptor is America's premier air-superiority fighter, but the Obama administration has signaled that the Air Force will get no more than the 183 planes built or on order....

At Detroit auto show, makers with big problems think small

May 23, 2019 at 3:17 p.m.

DETROIT — With the economy crashing, Americans are tightening their belts and automakers are ready to sell them smaller pants. On Sunday at Detroit's auto show, General Motors Corp. revealed...

Automakers talk small in Detroit

August 22, 2021 at 10:55 a.m.

With the economy crashing, Americans are tightening their belts and automakers are ready to sell them smaller pants. On Sunday at Detroit's auto show, General Motors Corp. revealed the Spark,...

Song of the open road

January 30, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

The Road. Do you hear the power of those words, all those songs pouring into your head like the dusty stream from a grain silo? Are you suddenly tangled up...