Olivia Hicks is a motorsport journalist covering everything electric, both on and off track. She grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, spending several afternoons peeking at the next day’s news in her father’s ...

So you want a pickup truck, but all the modern half-tons are just too big. Even the little ones, the Rangers and Colorados and Tacomas, are so tall and squared-off and aggressive — it's all too much.

At the other end of the performance spectrum is the tiny VW Rabbit Pickup, a truck-like thing that debuted way back in 1979. As with so many of the trucks here, I get the appeal of these simple ...

It also has the base four-on-the-floor manual transmission. The diesel version got a standard five-speed, which cost an extra 205 bucks in the gas-burner, or about $648 in 2022 bucks. No automatic ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...