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If the best daily driver sits at the center of a complex Venn Diagram, it might look something like the 2025 Porsche Taycan 4S Cross Turismo. 

The Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Truck debuted in April with promises of 201 horsepower, 150 miles of range, and most importantly, a sub-$20,000 asking price. But thanks to President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," that affordable price tag may be out the door before the truck even hits the road.

The 718 is one of the last truly great sports cars. It receives near-universal praise by adhering to a simple formula: An engine in the middle and a manual transmission, packaged into a sleek, well-built layout. This collection of attributes is exceedingly rare in 2025.

You’re not going to hear a high-ranking official from an automaker say negative things about a product. It makes perfect sense to hype up something your employer is selling, yet we were still taken aback by what Porsche’s newly appointed boss in Germany declared: "For me, the Taycan is the…

Fiat had no choice but to pause production of the 500e several times due to low demand. Realizing the situation wasn’t improving, the company announced last year that it would fit its smallest hatchback with a gasoline engine. A new production line at the Mirafiori plant is already operational and…

In June 2017, Richard Hammond crashed a Rimac Concept_One during a hill climb event in Switzerland. To say it was a close call would be an understatement, as the electric hypercar burst into flames and fell down a hill moments after the journalist got out of the wreckage. He lived…

For its 50th birthday, the Porsche Club of America worked with Porsche to create a special model commemorating the golden anniversary, the 2006 911 Carrera S Club Coupe. The PCA and Porsche collaborated again 10 years later for the club's 60th with the 2016 911 Carrera GTS Club Coupe, and…

I hadn’t driven a normal C8 Corvette before our latest YouTube review. I had seat time in a Z06 at Willow Springs and rode passenger in an E-Ray, but never put street miles on America’s mid-engined cross-plane V-8 sweetheart. Finally, five years later, I got to try the thing. I’m…

Subaru is conservative these days. It sticks with technologies it knows well, evolving its cars gradually over the years. Even when it does something new, it’s often long after the rest of the industry. But in the 1990s, Subaru was gloriously weird and experimental. Witness Subaru’s largely forgotten sequentially twin-turbocharged…

The Internet hasn’t exactly been kind to the new CLA, but the World Wide Web isn’t paying Mercedes to keep the lights on. Buyers are, using their hard-earned money. The three-pointed star is happy to report that demand for its electric sedan is strong, with production chief Joerg Burzer describing…

Ferrari had its reasons for abandoning manual gearboxes after the 2012 California. Only two or three convertibles were ever sold with a stick shift, but the low take rate wasn’t the only factor behind the gated shifter’s demise. Back in 2016, former tech boss Michael Leiters explained there’s no manual…