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Tesla’s Latest Patent Could Mean the Second-Generation Roadster Will Have Over 1,500 Pounds of Downforce, Which It Definitely Needs If It Truly Gets SpaceX Rocket Thrusters

By Olivia Richman — Oct 2, 2026

The 2027 BMW 3-Series Has New Design and New Performance, And New, Confusing Names!

By Olivia Richman — Oct 1, 2026

Here’s Some Crazy Stuff You Can Buy Instead of Spending $230,000 On the Bentley Torcal

By Olivia Richman — Sep 25, 2026

“Looks Like China Copied a Rolls-Royce”: The 2028 Bentley Torcal Was Fully Revealed, And It’s Ugly and Uninspired

By Olivia Richman — Sep 24, 2026

“It’s Giving Marriott Bonvoy”: McLaren’s New Logo Is Boring, Corporate, and Sterile, Just in Time for its Upcoming SUV

By Olivia Richman — Sep 23, 2026

The 2027 Mustang GTD Spirit of America Is Getting Closer, Reminding Us That the U.S. Still Has Some Cool Cars After All… If You Can Afford Them

By Olivia Richman — Sep 23, 2026

You Can Reserve the Tesla Roadster Again… But No, We Still Don’t Know Anything About It Beyond That It Can “Fly.” That May All Change In October

By Olivia Richman — Sep 19, 2026

A British Carmaker Fitted Anti-Lock Brakes to a Road Car in 1966 and All-Wheel Drive 14 Years Before the AMC Eagle. Then It Went Bust, and It Just Came Back With 940 Horsepower

By Dave McQuilling — Sep 7, 2026

Honda has paused the Civic Si four times now, the last one in July alongside the Integra A-Spec, and the executive who runs its American sales told a press panel the manual audience will probably keep shrinking, and that both cars are coming back anyway

By Olivia Richman — Aug 27, 2026

Somebody threw stones at the only Koenigsegg Gemera in Denmark while it sat outside a Copenhagen hotel with doormen on the street all night, smashing windows, doors and mirrors on a four-seat hypercar its owner had taken delivery of about a week earlier

By Olivia Richman — Aug 27, 2026

Porsche built three development cars, ran crash and airbag simulations, put 1,000 kilometers on the Nordschleife under seven minutes a lap and wind-tunnel tested a rear wing to 150,000 km of wear, all for one slant-nose 911 that already had an owner before it existed

By Olivia Richman — Aug 24, 2026

A $2.5 million American hypercar just sold out 71 cars in four hours at The Quail, a naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V8 and a gated six-speed with no screens — Hennessey starts building them in 2029, and the engine is still in development

By Olivia Richman — Aug 20, 2026

McLaren brought the stick back. Porsche confirmed one. Spyker came back from the dead with a gated shifter. Lamborghini parked a 1,065-horsepower hybrid V12 in the middle of The Quail with a dual-clutch and said a manual is not on the list

By Olivia Richman — Aug 20, 2026

While Porsche just gave the Taycan a 105-kilowatt-hour battery, 16 new colors and a fake eight-speed that mimics engine braking, a German report says management and the works council have already agreed to stop building it, after 41,000 sales in 2023 became 6,000 in half of 2026

By Olivia Richman — Aug 18, 2026

The first Ferrari Luce just sold for $40 million at RM Sotheby’s during Monterey Car Week, Chassis 0 of a 5,000-pound four-door EV that lists at $640,000 and was estimated at $1.1 million, with every dollar going to the Ferrari Foundation and the buyer’s premium waived

By Olivia Richman — Aug 18, 2026

Supercars are in trouble: Influencers may flock to them at Monterey Car Week, but rich people aren’t actually buying them

By Olivia Richman — Aug 15, 2026

Jaguar is keeping the Type 01 powertrain a secret until October, but the interior is out, and a spine down the middle walls the four seats into separate pods like a doctor’s waiting room

By Olivia Richman — Aug 13, 2026

There are 100 of these in the world, they weigh 2,198 pounds, they have a fan on the back that spins at 7,000 rpm, and one of them has been driving up and down 17-Mile Drive this week ahead of Monterey Car Week

By Olivia Richman — Aug 13, 2026

One of only three four-rotor Mazda prototypes ever built caught fire under a tent in the Laguna Seca paddock while its engine was being warmed up, and the Le Mans winner that shares that engine layout was sitting in the same paddock

By Olivia Richman — Aug 11, 2026

Dodge sold 81,168 Durangos last year, its best in two decades, and that one 15-year-old SUV made up roughly 90% of everything the brand moved in the first half of 2026, so the plan now is to sell people colors that aren’t white

By Olivia Richman — Aug 8, 2026

Hennessey built its new $2.5 million hypercar around the number 71, making exactly 71 of them and setting the stabilizers to deploy at 71 mph and sit at 71 degrees, because the plane it is named after is the SR-71

By Dave McQuilling — Aug 4, 2026

While a Porsche 911 Turbo S costs $270,300 to reach 200 miles an hour, Chevrolet just got there for $73,495 with a naturally aspirated 6.7-liter V8 making 535 horsepower and no turbo anywhere on it

By Olivia Richman — Jul 31, 2026

A 535-horsepower Corvette with a 6.7-liter V8 was doing 130 on County Road 13 North in Florida, a two-lane road posted at 45, and the deputy who stopped it waved away the insurance papers and cuffed the driver

By Olivia Richman — Jul 30, 2026

Lotus fans keep begging for a V8 Emira, and the factory answered with two fewer cylinders: a 416-hp 2.0-liter it calls the fastest four-cylinder production car on Earth, 186 mph flat out and 60 in 3.7 seconds

By Olivia Richman — Jul 27, 2026

A factory-stock electric Lotus just beat the Tesla EV lap record at Sepang by more than seven seconds, a 905-horsepower sedan with zero track modifications taking down a Model 3 that was stripped and rebuilt specifically to hold it

By Olivia Richman — Jul 25, 2026

Bentley just replaced the roar of a V8 in its first electric car with a live drum kit, viola and bass, after studio tests showed what people actually miss about the engine is the rhythm, not the exhaust

By Olivia Richman — Jul 20, 2026

Gordon Murray just ran his new Le Mans GTR prototype around the Circuit de la Sarthe with Dario Franchitti driving, a longtail V12 with a six-speed manual, and all 24 being built are already sold before anyone outside the buyers has seen a price

By Olivia Richman — Jul 7, 2026

Hennessey just revealed a 2,031-horsepower hypercar at Goodwood with something almost no hypercar offers anymore, a gated six-speed manual you shift by hand, and only 12 will ever be built, each starting at $2.64 million

By Olivia Richman — Jul 7, 2026

Shelby just pushed the Ford F-150 Baja Raptor past 1,000 horsepower, out-muscling the Cybertruck — and the price lands at practically $200,000 for a pickup truck

By Olivia Richman — Jul 2, 2026

Everyone calls the Ferrari Luce an ugly Nissan Leaf knockoff, one collector emailed Ferrari back to call it an “abomination” he’d be caught dead driving, and yet all 88 units for China just sold out before the Beijing launch, even though BYD’s supercar costs half as much and is faster

By Olivia Richman — Jun 30, 2026

Ferrari’s $600,000 electric car got panned as the ugliest six-figure car ever, yet pre-orders flew, and now we know why: Ferrari is reportedly telling clients to buy it if they want to keep their spot in line for the good cars

By Olivia Richman — Jun 20, 2026

Cars used to be sharp, wedge-shaped and aggressive. Now even Ferrari builds rounded blobs, and there are three real reasons the wedge died: safety rules, aerodynamics, and the way cars are now made

By Olivia Richman — Jun 15, 2026

Everyone Thinks Ferrari Just Ruined Itself With One Car. The CEO Quietly Made a Promise That Says Otherwise

By Olivia Richman — Jun 3, 2026

Rolls-Royce Just Built the Most Powerful Car in Its 120-Year History — and It Doesn’t Have an Engine

By Olivia Richman — Jun 2, 2026

Everyone From Ferrari’s Former Chairman to Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Has Trashed the New Luce, and the Stock Dropped Eight Percent. Ferrari Says the Bank Transfers Are Already Coming In — From Who, Nobody Can Figure Out

By Olivia Richman — May 31, 2026

Toyota Built a Four-Door Supra in 1996 With a Turbocharged Inline-Six and a Five-Speed Manual. As of This Year, Every Model Is Finally Legal to Import to America

By Olivia Richman — May 25, 2026

A Florida Shop Built a James Bond Aston Martin DB9 With Real Flame-Throwers in the Grille. Bidding Has Reached $22,222. California Won’t Let the Buyer Drive It Home

By Olivia Richman — May 19, 2026

Lotus Just Teased a 986-HP V8 Supercar — and Its Own Fans Are Already Furious

By Olivia Richman — May 12, 2026

Volkswagen Spent $1.5 Billion Trying to Take on the Mercedes S-Class. This Is Why it Failed

By Dave McQuilling — May 12, 2026

Toyota Once Produced a Car to Take On the BMW M5. Customers Loved It. Then Toyota Killed It

By Dave McQuilling — May 11, 2026

We Just Got Spy Shots of Maserati’s New Lineup. Maserati Sent Them — and They Look Like Flip Phone Pics

By Dave McQuilling — May 8, 2026

Most Miatas Sell for $5,000. One Went for Almost $100,000 — Here’s What Made It Different

By Olivia Richman — May 6, 2026

There’s a New Reason American Off-Roaders Are Picking This British SUV Over the Toyota Land Cruiser

By Dave McQuilling — May 3, 2026

“When You Give It a Face, You Give It a Personality”: Why the Maker of America’s Hottest EV Is Stripping Both Out

By Olivia Richman — May 2, 2026

A V8 Performance Car Is Keeping Manual Alive in 2028, But These are the Best New Manual Cars of 2026

By Olivia Richman — Apr 30, 2026

Roses, Constellations, and Clay courts: A Closer Look at Serena Williams’ Custom Lincoln Navigator

By Dave McQuilling — Apr 29, 2026

The Next Nissan GT-R Was Almost Coming to America — Until One Thing About Washington Stopped It

By Olivia Richman — Apr 27, 2026

V12s Aren’t Dead in 2026 — They Just Needed Ferrari to Drop One in the Last Place You’d Expect

By Dave McQuilling — Apr 26, 2026

Everyone’s Talking About Porsche Selling Its Stake in Bugatti — but They’re Scared to Admit What Comes Next

By Olivia Richman — Apr 26, 2026

I Got Inside BMW’s New 7-Series in New York — One Detail Tells You Where the Brand Is Really Headed

By Dave McQuilling — Apr 24, 2026
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