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For decades, we defined luxury cars by the quality of the materials and how well they were screwed together. The engines were also a major selling point since the large-displacement ones were typically reserved for the flagship models. In 2025, automakers playing in the upper echelon try to one-up each…

Hillclimb cars are the coolest. Usually, hillclimb events have no restrictions on power or aerodynamics, so builders chuck as much downforce and boost into their cars as physically possible. That results in some truly wacky machinery, like this Ferrari-powered Lotus that looks like more wing than car. 

If you lived around Eureka, California in the early 1980s, you might have caught sight of a Dodge Ramcharger decked out in the California Highway Patrol livery sitting alongside the road. Vintage police cars come in a variety of flavors, and if those more traditional options from Ford and Chevrolet…

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said earlier this week that Formula 1 should consider switching back to V-10 power, seeing as how the series will soon run solely on synthetic fuels. We couldn't agree with him more. The V-10 era of F1 brought some of the best-sounding cars on the planet,…

If you live in a place where it snows, you should have a set of winter tires for your car. But we understand if you don't want to go to the tire shop twice a year to get your tires swapped out. That's what all-weather tires are for. Unlike all-seasons,…

Tokyo Auto Salon is one of the great wonders of the car world. It’s the land of the Japanese performance aftermarket, the Mecca of tuners like HKS, RE Amemiya, and Top Secret. And it’s been on my bucket list since I started reading blogs in the early 2010s.

Ford Motor Company is recalling 240,000 SUVs because their seatbelts might not have been properly secured during the assembly process. The recall affects the 2020-2021 Ford Explorer and 2020-2021 Lincoln Aviator. According to the recall notice, the vehicles could have improperly secured seatbelt anchor bolts at one or more seats.

Once upon a time, Polester was Volvo's plucky performance division. Before the brand split off to do its own thing, it debuted the much-loved V60 Polestar in 2017, injecting some much-needed life into Volvo's tried-and-true station wagon. In 2020, the duo followed up on that success with an even more…

There could be some changes in store for the 2026 Chevrolet Corvette. The 'Vette's assembly plant in Bowling Green will halt production for several weeks between now and May, including a two-week closure at the end of March.

I won't further lament the slow death of the V-8. I won't bemoan the fact that there are fewer than 30 manual cars left on the US market. Hell, I won't even bring up the fact that Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge have all but given up on the four-door muscle…

Automotive design is an interesting art. The radical styling ideas first sketched on paper rarely end up on the production car as imagined. However, automakers sometimes give their designers freedom to go wild, giving way to incredibly cool results. The creative minds at Peugeot have done just that, remaking the…