The Latest Breaking News on Cars

Stellantis, the car-making behemoth that owns no fewer than 14 brands, seems to be having a difficult time getting over last year’s sales slump. In the first quarter of this year, Stellantis car sales in the United States went down 12% compared to the first three months of 2024, reaching…

April Fool's Day hasn’t been the same since the whole "Voltswagen" fiasco four years ago (remember that?). But a few automakers still take the opportunity to have some fun and celebrate the occasion via their official channels.

The last manual Volkswagen GTI has been built and sold, a company spokesperson confirmed to Motor1 on Tuesday. The lucky buyer, Jamie Orr, documented his buying experience on TikTok, giving us an up-close look at the car.

Anyone with a few hundred thousand dollars and half a business sense can restomod a Ford Mustang or Porsche 911. Yawn. It takes a truly unique mind to reinvent the 1988 Isuzu TFR as a modern pickup. Thankfully, that's exactly what Isuzu engineers did for the Bangkok International Motor Show.

If you've tried to get your hands on a new hybrid Toyota lately, you've probably realized that it's easier to schedule a private audience with the Pope than land a fresh Prius. It turns out that the Japanese automaker has found that even if the world isn't ready for EVs,…

Car designers do not simply draw cars. To be a great one, you need a deep technical understanding, and must form productive relationships with everyone involved in making a vehicle come to life. Bugatti design chief Frank Heyl is a perfect example.

Blob-shaped crossovers dominate our roads. It’s impossible to avoid them, each more devoid of appeal than the last. Aerodynamics and safety standards have shaped today’s cars to be largely the same flavor of bland. A few special vehicles break from that mold. 

Carrera is an evocative word—Spanish for "race." Once upon a time, Porsche reserved that term for its most hardcore sports cars, ones that required specialist knowledge to operate. Famously, the Fuhrmann four-cam in the original 1955 Porsche 356A Carrera was essentially a race engine that would shake itself to death…

If I told you that Brabus made motorcycles, maybe some of you wouldn’t believe me. And to a certain extent, it’s kind of true. Brabus doesn’t make motorcycles—or cars—for that matter. They’re a customization and performance outfit, after all. But that’s not to say that they don’t know how to…

Hyundai knows how to build its image to make its origins as a maker of simple, cheap cars a distant memory. Many of its production cars are punching above their weight, but it’s also the source of many bold and enticing concepts, the latest of which is the Insteroid study,…

Nissan has a product problem. The company can make great cars when it wants to, but an institutional addiction to letting things wither on the vine has created a problem with staying competitive—and the perception of being cutting-edge.