Like many big cities, Seoul, South Korea, is dotted with enormous apartment complexes, buildings that rise ten or more stories into the sky and house hundreds of families. For many Koreans, these apartments aren't a path to homeownership, they are the home they seek...
I've been driving a lot of Toyota vehicles recently, which has been a fascinating dive into product design and evolution. From the outside, it would be reasonable to figure that there's a reasonable amount of standardization across vehicle models in a lineup, but it's...
You might be part of a peaceful llama herd but that's not enough to save you. Your prescient llama pal Esmerelda has seen the future and it's bleak: There's a meteor shower hurling towards your corner of the meadow and if you and your llama friends don't whip up some...
Intended to slot in neatly between the popular Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, the Venza is an interesting vehicle in the Toyota lineup. The first gen Venza was based on the Camry and was sold from 2008-2017. The new, improved Venza is based on...
One of the great benefits of being an auto writer isn't just that I get to drive a lot of cars, but that I get to spend some meaningful time with each vehicle too. A 30 minute test drive is useful for potential buyers, but an entire week where the weather changes, you...
When the TV series Ms. Marvel premiered in 2022, a lot of traditional Marvel Cinematic Universe fans were surprised and delighted to find that the protagonist, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), was of Indian descent and lived in a family that was wrestling with balancing...
Toyota has gone through a couple of generations of its tremendously popular Prius at this point. I owned one myself for many years back when my kids were smaller, and generally really liked it. The Prius was also one of the vehicles that convinced car owners that...
I'm driving a beautiful 2023 Genesis GV70 electric vehicle this week and having just spent the last two days zipping all over the state, my battery was looking pretty depleted. The problem is, as an occasional EV driver, I haven't spent the money to install a 220V...
Honda's been gradually evolving its entire car lineup, learning manufacturing and design tricks from its upscale Acura brand and adding tech and safety improvements all its own too. The perennially popular CR-V compact SUV got a design update for 2023 and when I had...
You're part of a team of archeologists who have discovered a secret temple deep in the El Salvadorian jungle. Getting there's tough enough, but once you arrive, you realize that you're going to have to carefully traverse long passages of stone slabs, lining up the...
Most car writers love to focus on the most expensive vehicles they can drive, whether it's $90K luxury SUVs or $250K supercars. I get it, those are really fun to drive and who doesn't want to live in the lap of luxury, if even for just a short while? When I talk to my...
Alas, poor Nessie! For almost a hundred years, the poor misunderstood dinosaur has been lurking deep in Loch Ness, in the cold northern reaches of Scotland. First reported in 1933, it has become one of the more famous cryptids in modern mythology, with various...
Savvy drivers already know that the unheralded minivan is in fact one of the most useful and versatile additions to any family, whether you've got 2yo twins, tween sports fanatics, or a teenager who's constantly asking for a ride to the mall with a half-dozen of their...
It's tough being a gnome nowadays. Every mine has a dozen claims and the OG gnomes who already have a stake in the ground tend to be very possessive of their gem and mineral rights. Except one gnome who has thrown down the gauntlet: Whoever can mine the most gems in...
Whether the excellent Train to Busan reminded Asian filmmakers of the spine-tingling fun and fear of zombies, or just caused every other filmmaker to try and emulate director Sang-ho Yeon's hit horror export, there are a lot more zombies in Korea, China, and elsewhere...
Planet Dave is run by Dave Taylor, who has been writing about film, cars, games, and his lifestyle for many years. He's based in Boulder, Colorado and assures readers he's only occasionally falling into a gravity well or temporal distortion field.