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There's been a noticeable shift in the automotive industry this year. Automakers are rethinking their roadmaps that had put them on a path toward full electrification. Electric vehicle adoption is slowing in the United States, and the federal tax incentives are set to disappear soon. That makes pouring billions of…

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. 

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…

It’s been almost three years since prototypes of the 718 EV were first caught testing. Car paparazzi initially spotted the Boxster, but it didn’t take long before the Cayman appeared in front of the camera. Although prototypes have been around for a long time, the production version remains elusive. That…