About Eric Peters

Eric Peters

Eric Peters

Eric Peters has been writing a column about cars since the ‘90s -- and working on them since he was a kid. He’s the author of “Automotive Atrocities: The Cars We Love to Hate” and “Road Hogs.”

He has written for the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Celebrated Living and the American Airlines in-flight magazine, as well as online platforms. He is a regular guest on various radio programs around the country.

In addition to test-driving the latest cars, Eric writes about classic cars and motorcycles. He owns a bright-orange ’76 Pontiac Trans Am that has outlasted his marriage, and a number of weird old bikes, including a ’75 Kawasaki S1 250, the smallest three-cylinder two-stroke motorcycle ever mass-produced, which he restored himself.

He’s a member of the International Motor Press Association and the Washington Automotive Press Association. He graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and currently lives in the woods of rural southwestern Virginia, not far from Roanoke.

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2026 Infiniti QX60 Apr 21, 2026

Now that every "car" company sells mostly crossovers, how do you get the crossover you're hoping to sell to stand out from the crowd? One of the ways Infiniti has come up with is to offer a crossover that has an engine that's different than the engin... Read More

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2026 Mazda3 Apr 14, 2026

In case you didn't know, Mazda only sells two cars now — and one of them (the Miata) isn't exactly what you'd call a family car. Everything else Mazda currently sells is a crossover. Except for one other. It's the 3 — still availab... Read More

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2026 Lexus GX550 Apr 07, 2026

How much difference does two years make? About $3,385 is how much. That is how much more Lexus is asking for the 2026 GX550 — which is otherwise identical to the 2024 GX550. This isn't Toyota's fault, by the way. It is a consequence of the tari... Read More

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2026 Volkswagen GTI Mar 31, 2026

Once upon a time, Volkswagen's GTI was a hopped-up Golf. The Golf (also called the Rabbit for a while) was the mass-market model; the GTI the performance model — similar to the way there's a Mustang and also a Mustang GT. Both the Golf and the ... Read More