Developments over the past week or so have forced me to come to a startling conclusion: There’s a new crisis heading toward us and it’s unavoidable.
Electric automaker Tesla has produced its first Model 3 sedan, a highly anticipated car because it carries a relatively low sticker price.
I’m still feeling nostalgic for the days when the car industry kept us enthralled and wondering what new marvelous machine they would come up with next.
I hate the 1980s. While I love everything about those years – except the Civil War, that really sucked – I hate the decade itself, mostly because I can’t have it again.
Electric car maker Tesla says its much-ballyhooed Model 3 car for the masses will go on sale on Friday.
One of the many curiosities of living in Lebanon during the Civil War had to do with how we got our first impressions of cars, especially certain rare...
If you’ve been following the collector car market recently, you may have noticed that prices seem to be going down again.
I used to think that idioms such as “With age comes wisdom” were idiotic concepts that people uttered so others would think them enlightened.
HIV experts at an international conference starting on Saturday are keenly courting colleagues in oncology to explore whether advances in harnessing the...
Learning new things, eating and drinking well, not smoking and limiting hearing loss and loneliness could prevent a third of dementia cases, health experts...
Politically ambitious pups and kittens: Put your resumes aside.
In a boxing world often dominated by promoters, self-promoters and glitz – exhibit A, Mayweather vs. McGregor – Alberto Reyes likes to do things the...
For Tamanna, a Lebanese non-profit inspired by Make-a-Wish Foundation, “things have a way of happening."
A trio of Lebanese fashion designers pooled their international experiences for Thursday’s Summer Pop-Up at the Cream Boutique in Saifi Village.
One of two baby peregrine falcons born on the University of California, Berkeley campus died after flying into a window, university officials said Wednesday
Britain's Natural History Museum in London suspended a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale in its main entrance Thursday, drawing attention to vanishing species...
For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of Associated Press journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way...
A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research center devoted to ninja – the black clad assassins known for secrecy and...
I have a theory.
In an exclusive interview with the The Daily Star, Negib Debs, general manager of Gargour Automotive Co., sheds light on the strategies and initiatives that...
Continuing with our look back at cars that were quite popular in the 1970s, including in Lebanon, we bring you the Z-cars, classics from the Land of the...
There are far too many things we take for granted today.
Whenever the topic of SUVs is brought up, someone invariably mentions how they would love to own a “Range Rover” Defender.
I often remind myself that to truly appreciate something old, I must judge it not by today’s standards, but according to those prevailing at the time of its...
Fred Croatti often drives his silver Dodge Charger Hellcat to the grocery store, turning heads as he rumbles through the parking lot with a supercharged...
Pick pretty much any mass-produced car rolling off the factory floor today. It looks spiffy and smart doesn’t it, all gleaming with its new coat of paint,...
Sometimes you need to tackle a topic head on, call a spade a spade if you will, and here it is: No one ever dropped several hundred thousand dollars on a...
It turns out I make a good assistant.
If someone asks me about my favorite decade for music, it would be the ’80s hands down.
Revolutions in the auto industry are few and far between these days, especially as we’ve grown to expect that cars will feature performance, styling and...
Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" in battles that ravaged the northern...
I’ve often heard it said that in the event of a nuclear explosion, the only things that would survive are taxes and cockroaches.
Gathered on the shores of Lake Geneva for Europe’s biggest annual car show, leading automakers expressed cautious optimism Tuesday about the industry’s...
The Peugeot 3008, the French automaker's offering for the hot mid-size SUV segment, has been named "Car of the Year" by dozens of European motoring journalists.
For well over two years now we at The Daily Star have been offering our readers our two cents on the latest cars offered by the auto industry.
There are baffling mysteries out there that constantly gnaw at me.
Ford Motor will spend $1 billion to take over a robotics startup to acquire more of the expertise needed to reach its ambitious goal of having a fully...
Up until a few weeks ago, I’d grown increasingly convinced that the auto industry simply wasn’t interested in pampering customers with modest budgets.
One of the ironies of the auto industry is that every gain in any aspect of a car comes at the expense of something else.