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The recent rise of startup rocket companies has led many to declare we’re living through a second great Space Age, and Lamborghini couldn’t have asked for a better backdrop to unveil its all-new V-12 flagship supercar, the 2024 Revuelto. Indeed, Lamb

Buick is finally clearing up the confusing situation where it sold both the largely unrelated Encore and Encore GX SUVs, the former being the one that looked like a potato on wheels and the latter being the one that looked like, well, a slightly larg

Is the Nissan GT-R keeping the dream alive or overstaying its welcome? The sports car has certainly stoked enthusiasts’ hearts over the years, and it still delivers mind-blowing performance. But it’s been a long, long time since the R35 generation ar

The hardest part about setting the bar is you’ll forever be judged against it. Honda’s Accord has been a leader in the sedan market for years. Now there’s a new version and although it’s improved in many ways, the 2023 Accord doesn’t quite rise to th

Mazda has been moving upmarket for a few years now, to a place between mainstream and luxury automakers. That mission has yet to be fully realized, but the new CX-90 arrives to keep pushing the plan as it replaces the CX-9 as both Mazda’s largest SUV

When Chevrolet introduced the second-generation Colorado in 2015, the company marketed it as an all-new pickup. The reality was far murkier, as what Chevy really brought over to North America was little more than a modified version of the truck it ha

After decades of absence, the Land Rover Defender returned to America with a bang, winning our 2021 SUV of the Year award in its initial four-door, inline-six-powered 110 form. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include the short-wheelbase, two-d

The seventh-generation SL-Class is fast and sporty, designed fully by AMG with the goal of making it among the most performance-focused roadsters to wear the three-pointed star since the SL 300 Gullwing. We’ve already spent quite a bit of time evalua

The Cadillac Escalade has always played to the distinctly American flavor of luxury where more is always more. In the hot-rod Escalade-V, that excess finally crosses into the absurd. Hand over $68,125 on top of the Escalade’s $85,690 starting price,

Essentially BMW’s fully electric 7 Series, the i7 xDrive60 is a superb luxury four-door. It doesn’t take long to understand why it costs more than the 740i or 760i gas models, but what really caught our attention was how it felt at the test track. Th

Our personal-luxury comparison found the Ford Thunderbird edging out the Olds Toronado, Buick Riviera, and Pontiac Grand Prix. Our story included compliments for the T-Bird’s cigarette lighter and criticism of its ashtray. In a van matchup, the Ford

As a person actively engaged in the electric utility industry for most of my career (engineering and operations), I found your April 2023 article on “electric car lies” most interesting. There are many misconceptions and misinformation floating aroun

Honda CR-V …………………… $37,510 Hyundai Tucson ……………… $37,505 Kia Sportage ………………….. $39,255 Mazda CX-5 …………………… $38,710 Nissan Rogue ………………… $43,030 Subaru Forester ……………… $37,720 Toyota RAV4 ………………….. $41,710 Welcome to the compact SUV market. If you’r

“Bring it on,” the smiling Aston Martin PR man said to Mate Rimac, then the 31-year-old CEO of just Rimac, now CEO of Bugatti Rimac. In early March 2019, I found myself seated below them inside the Valkyrie prototype on the Aston stand at that year’s

Historians will regard few automobiles as more groundbreaking than this one. Never say never, but few—perhaps none—will be as uncompromising. Below we highlight just some of the eye-popping stats, facts, and figures future enthusiasts will remember f

It weighs as much as a small school bus and has more torque than a heavy-duty pickup—and it left us grinning from ear to ear. Packing 830 hp and 1,200 lb-ft of torque, outfitted with 35-inch off-road tires, and capable of bolting to 60 mph in 3.5 sec

Buying a premium SUV isn’t the only way to show the world you’re moving up in life. Used to be, buying a small luxury car like the Acura Integra or Audi A3 was the principal method for making that flex. These days, the segment is growing again as aut

The Hellcat era is ending the same way it began back in 2015: with an obscene amount of horsepower, a devil-may-care attitude, and almost complete indifference toward handling. The 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170—the last of Dodge’s Last Call com

The 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 runs on alcohol to make a hellraising 1,025 horsepower, and Dodge isn’t going to let any of us forget it. The bezel around the hood scoop shouts “ALCOHOL INJECTED,” and the name of the car is a play on the alco

It was 1967, and the pony car market was incandescent. Chrysler was predicting the “specialty compact” segment would grow to 1.5 million sales by 1970, of which it could easily claim 200,000 or more. The company set about designing a replacement for

The Demon 170 represents the final 2023 Last Call model, a string of seven special editions released over the past year as Dodge’s Charger and Challenger models prepare to stumble into the alley, having swigged their final shots of gasoline. Here are

When things are working as designed, the fuel sprayed into your car’s engine doesn’t explode, it burns. That may seem like a subtle distinction, but it’s an important one if, say, you want to make 1,025 hp from a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8, as the 20

Seven hundred and seven. Even jaded by the hypercar arms race and what had become relatively mainstream 400-plus-horsepower sedans, we gasped at the sheer audacity of the Dodge Challenger Hellcat when it was unveiled nearly a decade ago. You mean it’

Service Life 8 months/13,642 miles Average Fuel Econ 19.9 mpg Unresolved problems None Maintenance cost $208.21 (inspection, oil, tire rotation) Normal wear $0 Base price $54,195 As tested $64,670 EPA City/Hwy/Comb fuel econ 19/25/21 mpg Recently, I

Service Life 3 months/3,076 miles Average Fuel Econ 2.2 mi/kWh Unresolved problems None Maintenance cost $0 Normal wear $0 Base price $69,269 As tested $80,889 EPA City/Hwy/Comb fuel econ 78/63/70 mpg-e One of the big selling points for the Ford F-15

Service Life 6 months/9,578 miles Average Fuel Econ 20.2 mpg Unresolved problems None Maintenance $88.04 (oil change, inspection, tire rotation) Normal wear $0 Base price $42,774 As tested $43,170 EPA City/Hwy/Comb fuel econ 23/29/25 mpg Driving new

UPDATE: 2021 Kia Seltos Service Life 12 months/14,852 miles Average Fuel Econ 22.9 mpg Unresolved problems None Maintenance cost $141.19 (2x inspection, oil change) Normal wear $0 Base price $26,610 As tested $26,915 EPA City/Hwy/Comb fuel econ 25/30

Service Life 12 months/14,908 miles Average Fuel Econ 15.3 mpg Unresolved problems None Maintenance cost $0 Normal wear $0 Base price $64,050 As tested $74,960 EPA City/Hwy/Comb fuel econ 17/22/19 mpg Deserved or not, Land Rover has a reputation for

Base Price $30,090 As Tested $33,530 Service Life 12 mo/11,263 mi Average Fuel Econ 22.3 mpg OPTIONS SV Premium package ($2,660: panoramic sunroof, power liftgate, heated front seats and steering wheel, rear sunshades); Scarlet Ember paint ($395); fl

After much waiting—only four years late!—the electric Tesla Semi’s initial customer, PepsiCo, has taken delivery of its first examples of the big rig. We got a look at the trucks at an event celebrating the transformation of the beverage and snack co