A dedicated space for the industry’s most pressing controversies. We break down conflicting perspectives on technical, economic, and market-driven topics, providing a critical look at the arguments that divide the automotive community.
Karma Doesn’t Make Cars: Why It Bought a 27-Year-Old Software Company Before Its First Electric Vehicle There’s a sentence Marques McCammon repeats every time someone asks him what Karma Automotive actually is. He doesn’t say “we’re an electric car manufacturer.” He doesn’t say “we compete with Porsche” or “we want to be the next Tesla.” … Read more
Factorial Energy: The Battery That Could Kill Liquid Lithium As You Know It There’s a company in Massachusetts that’s about to rewrite the rules of the electric game. It’s not Tesla. It’s not CATL. It’s not any of the names you see splashed across headlines every week. It’s called Factorial Energy, it was founded by … Read more
WEIGHT IS THE ENEMY: HOW YOUR TWO-TON CAR DESTROYS ROADS, PARKING STRUCTURES, YOUR WALLET AND PROBABLY YOUR LIFE Everything you’ve been told at the dealership is wrong. Every SUV ad showing a happy family crossing a mountain pass. Every brochure promising safety through size. Every assumption you’ve made about progress and protection. You’re about to … Read more
MA-FIA Chapter VI: When Being American Isn’t Enough This article is part of the investigative series “La Mafia de la FIA” by Not Enough Cylinders, documenting the structural failures of international motorsport governance. The 2,500-Car Wall To compete in IMSA’s GTP class, a manufacturer must produce more than 2,500 vehicles per year for worldwide sale. … Read more
F1 Academy, the Golden Cage There’s nothing more insulting than being gifted something you’d already earned. In 1975, Lella Lombardi scored points in a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Not in a women’s category. Not in a parallel championship. In the same Spanish Grand Prix where men risked their lives every Sunday. Sixth place. Half a … Read more
MA-FIA IV: The Stolen Spectacle — Everything the FIA Took from You that You Should Never Have Lost 1,200 track limit infringements in a single Grand Prix. V10s at 19,000 rpm silenced by hybrid vacuum cleaners. Refuelling banned so the winner is now whoever exits the single pit stop first. And when drivers asked for … Read more
MA-FIA III: The Price of Racing — How the FIA Turned Motorsport into a Billionaire’s Theme Park €50,000 a year for your 8-year-old to race karts. €1.3 million per season in F3. Nearly a million for a rally car you can’t buy. And if you make it to F1, over a million euros just for … Read more
MA-FIA II: The e-Fuels Lobby — How F1 Became Saudi Arabia’s Trojan Horse 35 barrels a day of “sustainable” fuel. 9 million barrels a day of crude oil. And a PR machine lobbying the European Parliament so you can’t buy a petrol car in 2035… while they keep pumping oil until the end of time. … Read more
MA-FIA: How the FIA Is Destroying the Very Sport It Claims to Protect They sell you sustainability while cashing cheques from the world’s biggest oil company. They promise governance while gutting their own ethics committees. They talk about sport while blocking anyone who won’t pay the toll. And when you ask where your money goes, … Read more
The Great Electric Horsepower Scam: When Adding Power Is as Easy as Turning Up the Volume There’s an elephant in the electric car showroom, and nobody wants to talk about it. The automotive industry has been selling horsepower for over a century as though each one costs blood, sweat, and thousands of hours of engineering. … Read more
Porsche Cayenne — The SUV That Saved Porsche by Betraying Everything It Stood For Porsche Cayenne: The SUV That Saved Porsche and Destroyed Its Soul Let me tell you the most uncomfortable story in the history of Porsche. It’s not the IMS bearing. It’s not the 914. It’s not the tractor Ferdinand Porsche designed before … Read more
The Deprofessionalization of Auto Repair Shops: No Succession, No Future There is a silent crisis eating the automotive world from within. It is not the transition to electric vehicles. It is not Euro 7 regulations. It is not fuel prices. It is something far more basic, far deeper, and far more dangerous: we are running … Read more
