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How McLaren's F1 Team Accidentally Helped Invent Torque Vectoring

The late 1990s were highly innovative and developmental phases for Formula 1. Electronics were advancing, and the rulebook provided plenty of grey areas to exploit, something teams were more than willing to do. Out of this grew one of the championship's most fascinating but short-lived innovations: McLaren's infamous "extra pedal."

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This Lifted Toyota GR86 Was Made To Rally. And You Can Actually Buy One

Sports cars aren’t supposed to go off-road. At least, not on purpose. But companies like Lamborghini and Porsche flipped the script with their lifted, ruggedized supercars in the Huracan Sterrato and the 911 Dakar. Real ones will also remember the Aixam Mega Track.

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This Modern Testarossa Concept Is What Ferrari Should've Built

The Ferrari Testarossa name carries a lot of weight. Not only is it one of the most iconic Ferrari sports cars ever built, but it also cemented its place in pop culture with its starring role in Miami Vice. So when Ferrari revived the Testarossa earlier this year as a…

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Listen To Subaru's New STI Model Rev Its Boxer Engine

Update: This story has been updated with a new teaser video in which you can hear the sound of Subaru's new STI model.

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Why McLaren's Headquarters Keeps Showing Up in Hit Movies

For as fast as they are on the track, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown understands that Formula 1 teams are slow embrace the outside world. In the era of the show Drive to Survive, Brown recognizes that teams have to open their doors in more ways than one.

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SEMA Is Fighting To Save America's Local Race Tracks

Race tracks across America are endangered. Every few months, there’s grim news of another small road course getting bulldozed in favor of Amazon warehouses or apartment buildings. It all seems futile, especially when even iconic tracks like WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca are under fire.

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This Hemi V-8-Powered Jeep Renegade Is an Excellent Use of Free Will

The Jeep Renegade never exactly had a glowing reputation. It was the cheapest and least capable SUV in Jeep’s lineup, so much so that it didn’t even make it past the 2023 model year due to weak demand. Performance was never part of the plan either—but one owner clearly didn’t…

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Trump's Kei Car Solution Only Creates More Expensive Problems

Cheap, affordable cars have all but disappeared from showrooms, replaced by high-priced crossovers and SUVs that many Americans can’t really afford. That’s a problem in 99 percent of the country where a vehicle is required for daily life. If you have a job, go to school, or want to buy…

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This State Wants to Remove Some Speed Limits Entirely

Arizona lawmakers want to eliminate speed limits—at least on some stretches of road. A new proposal by State Representative Nick Kupper aims to create "derestricted speed zones" on certain rural interstates throughout the state.

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The 10 Coolest Cars You Can Legally Import to the US In 2026

As the country’s commander-in-chief recently discovered, there’s a whole world of cool, interesting cars that exist outside the US. But you can’t just import whatever you like. American foreign car collectors must wait 25 years from the date an overseas vehicle was manufactured before it can be imported here.

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Corvette ZR1 Stuns Ferrari 296 GTB in a Drag Race

The Chevrolet Corvette is an unbelievable value, with a price-to-performance ratio that puts some exotic European brands to shame. The Corvette ZR1, the ultimate iteration of the eighth-generation model, isn’t cheap, but it is cheaper than the Ferrari 296 GTB—and it’s faster in a quarter-mile drag race, too.

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What Bentley Has Planned for 2026: A New Supersports and an Electric SUV

For Bentley, 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most significant years in the brand’s modern history. The British luxury automaker is expected to introduce two dramatically different new models: the hardcore Continental GT Supersports and Bentley’s first fully electric SUV.

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We Went Inside BMW's Secret Design Lab

You could say BMW has been on a design streak lately. Whether that streak has been good or moderately horrifying is up to you, reader. But there’s no doubt that BMW’s designs are the cornerstone of many cases of Extreme Car Enthusiasm.

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Suzuki Built Five Adorable Concepts We're Not Allowed to Have

It’s been over a decade since Suzuki stopped selling cars in the United States, attempting to move the Kizashi sedan, the Equator pickup, and the Grand Vitara SUV before throwing in the towel. But, Suzuki still builds new cars for other markets, cars we can’t have, like the five adorable…

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New Corvette Grand Sport Could Debut With a 6.7-Liter V-8: Report

General Motors is spending a boatload of money on a sixth-generation small-block V-8 engine. That new motor will power an assortment of vehicles, including the Chevrolet Corvette. It should also come in two sizes, which means the company's iconic sports car could get an even larger engine.

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Toyota Once Built a Coupe That Weighed Under 1,000 Pounds

They say weight is the enemy of performance, but it also hurts efficiency. At the 1991 Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota wanted to demonstrate that you can do more with less. Enter the AXV-IV, the fourth vehicle in a series of experimental concepts that did things radically differently. The intent behind…

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We Actually Got a Chinese Rotary Engine Before GTA VI

The Wankel rotary engine is the stuff of legends: a compact, high-strung, ultra-smooth motor with a single triangular rotor at its heart. Mazda, of course, is a pioneer of the Wankel engine, using it in cars like the Cosmo, the RX-7, and the 787B race car. But this new rotary…

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Audi Has Confirmed Its New Sports Car. Here's Everything We Know

The Audi TT successor is finally starting to take shape. The Concept C, unveiled late last year, offered an early glimpse of the return of Ingolstadt’s beloved sports coupe.

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The $20,000 Car Is Officially Dead in America

As of today, there isn’t a single new car in America that starts at under $20,000. Nissan has discontinued the Versa, with production of the small sedan officially ending earlier this month. Nissan has confirmed the Versa's death in a statement to Motor1, saying:

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Audi Made a Stop-Motion Holiday Video With Die-Cast Cars. It's Awesome

Audi is officially getting into the holiday spirit. The automaker recently shared a short video on its Audi USA Instagram page that reimagines Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with die-cast cars drifting through the snow instead of flying reindeer. It’s cute as hell.

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The Alpine A110 Could Still Come to America: 'We Need To Go to the US'

One thing that remains constant in the automotive industry is change, and there has been a lot of it in the last few years. Tariffs, Chinese electric vehicles, and government regulations have made long-term planning difficult, prompting many automakers to alter their plans on the fly. But not every company…

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These Are the Best Cheap Cars We Drove in 2025

With average new car prices hovering at around $50,000 in the US, good, cheap cars are getting harder and harder to find. Many budget-friendly entry-level sedans have disappeared from automakers’ lineups entirely, while SUVs get larger—and more expensive—every year.

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America's Last Volvo Wagon Is Dying As Buyers 'Overwhelmingly' Want SUVs

Volvo is just months away from becoming an all-SUV brand in the United States. It’s hard to believe it has come to this, but the sole remaining wagon is going the way of the dodo. Order books for the V60 Cross Country will close in late January, with U.S. production…

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Whoops: Two Porsche 911 S/Ts Somehow Ended Up With the Same Badge

Building cars is hard, and sometimes even the best automakers make mistakes, including Porsche. Thankfully, the automaker was quick to rectify a flub in which two limited-edition 911 S/Ts featured dash plaques with the exact same serial number—1,724—and the mistake might have gone unnoticed if one owner hadn't attempted to…

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Volvo's New Font Is Designed To Make Screens Safer. We Have a Better Idea

Volvo is big on safety. The Swedish automaker practically invented the traditional three-point seatbelt, and it’s been innovating in the space ever since. Now, Volvo is turning its attention to making its in-car screens safer—not through better technology or more buttons, mind you, but through typefaces. Yes, typefaces.

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