Neal Pollack
New York Observer
Austin, TX, United States
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The High-End Plug-In: How Plug-In Hybrids Can Lead the Way to the Electric Car Era
Plug-in hybrids are a reasonable transition for drivers not yet ready to fully embrace the electric-car future. → Read More
2024 Subaru Crosstrek Review: ‘More Than Enough for Anything’
Fold down the seats, fill it with gear, and take it to the mountains. → Read More
The McLaren Artura Is a Rocket From a Racing Company
At $250,000-plus, people looking for a ground-floor entry into the supercar market couldn’t possibly do better. → Read More
Is the Ford F-150 Lightning Worth It If You Actually Need a Truck?
The F-150 Lightning is one of the most amazing personal vehicles to have ever existed, but infrastructure problems are keeping it from being fully effective. → Read More
Fully Charged: The Electric Car Revolution Is (Almost) Officially Here
It’s hard to say exactly when the glorious fully-electric vehicle future will arrive. But at Fully Charged Live, one of every three cars in the parking lot was electric. → Read More
How ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Created the Most Realistic Car Races You’ve Ever Seen
Stunt-driver Robert Nagle reveals the revolutionary tool that made the car race scenes in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ possible. → Read More
Has Maserati Lost Its Luxury Appeal?
How the smooth-looking, loud mini sports car became a relic. → Read More
‘BH90210’ Proved Itself To Be The Ultimate Meta-Commentary on Generation X
Who'd have thought that Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling, of all people, would be the ones to help an entire generation look soberly at their own reflection in 2019? → Read More
Brooklyn’s Formula E Race Reveals What We Can Expect From Electric Cars of the Future
The once-promised electric car future appears to finally be materializing. It’s not noisy, it’s more than fast enough and it doesn’t smell like exhaust. → Read More
Is the US Inhospitable to Electric Car Ownership?
You need more than disposable income to buy an electric car in the U.S. You need disposable time. → Read More
Who Is Rolls-Royce Targeting to Buy Its $325,000 Ultra-Luxury SUV? The Car Contains Clues.
Who is in the market for a Rolls-Royce luxury SUV that starts at $325,000? The car leaves its own clues. → Read More
On Loving Off-Roading, Even When You’re Pulling for a Future That’s All-Electric
Explaining the allure of off-roading, even when you’re personally hoping all-electric vehicles will take over the world. → Read More
The 2020 Range Rover Evoque Goes Electric for Europe, While the US Gets a ‘Mild Hybrid’
The Range Rover 2020 Evoque debuting in the US is what they call a 'mild hybrid.' It saves a tiny bit of gas, but mostly it makes car companies feel better. And it's an example of how we're falling far behind Europe. → Read More
Audi Reveals the Writing on the Wall: Gas-Guzzling SUVs Will Soon Be Shameful Relics
Manufacturers say that consumers only want SUVs, but driving these gas-guzzlers increasingly feels like swanning around at a tacky costume ball on the night the comet hits. → Read More
Driving Be Damned: How Life Without Cars Could Save the World
Imagine a world without cars. The Green New Deal actually tries to do that. At the very least, it imagines a world without combustion-engine cars, proposing a society where electric vehicles would be rare supplements to a massive network of high-speed rail and public transportation → Read More
‘The Kominsky Method’ Excels At Capturing The Particular Dynamics Of Men Dealing With Grief
Anyone who's experienced great loss should be able to relate to this show. → Read More
‘The Final Table’ On Netflix Is A Pretentious Display Of Global Overconsumption
There's more than a faint whiff of colonial noblesse oblige behind all the cooking. → Read More
Why Can’t Every TV Show Be As Entertaining As ‘The Last Kingdom’?
The Last Kingdom walks the line between historical realism and high camp. → Read More
How I Used a Hellcat Redeye to Finally Get My 16-Year-Old Son to Like Me
Dodge's muscle car, the Challenger Hellcat 'Redeye,' offered a chance, possibly the last one, to get my 16-year-old son to think I'm cool. → Read More
My Teenage Son and I Went to the Same Music Festival. Our Experiences Were Totally Different.
At Austin City Limits Music Festival, the heat, the hype and musical acts like Metallica and Travis Scott provided very different experiences for a father and son. → Read More