Muscle cars are all well and good, but nothing says “get out of my way” like a hulking crossover with a front end so full of grille it looks as if it could suck the air out of Ford Field faster than the Detroit Lions. One glance of a BMW X6 M in your...
It’s starting to look like a trend: The Aston Martin V12 Speedster has no roof, no windscreen, and a high price (in this case, $815,000), like the Ferrari Monza, Bentley Bacalar, and McLaren Elva. The Speedster was inspired by Aston Martin’s own DBR1 race...
The roofless, windshield-less, ultra-rare, ultra-expensive supercar space is getting busy. We had the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2; then we got the McLaren Elva, and now the Aston Martin V12 Speedster is joining the ranks. McLaren will let you add a windshield to the...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. vehicle fleet hit a record for fuel efficiency in 2018, averaging 25.1 miles per gallon (mpg) in real-world driving as it rose 0.2 mpg, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said. The fleet is also preliminarily anticipated to jump to 25.5...
Audi is next out of the Volkswagen Group gate with hot versions of its battery-electric rides. The Ingolstadt automaker announced S versions of the E-Tron and E-Tron Sportback, which add power and performance by adding a third motor to the drivetrain. The standard...
Ford extracted an amazing amount of value from its rear-wheel-drive Fox platform, which stayed in production from the 1978 model year through 2005 (if you consider the SN95 Mustang to be a true Fox, as I do), and we don’t have space here to list every single...
Flying cars have a new name: Organic Resupply Busses, or ORBs, as the Air Force puts it. Late last year, the U.S. military branch announced a program called “Agility Prime” seeking to turn commercial advances with flying cars into military applications....
Volvo is building its own battery packs; the aim is to make them safer by having them integrate better into their vehicles. The automaker’s first EV, the XC40 Recharge, will be the first vehicle with a pack built by Volvo.In addition to creating the hardware,...
Lego adds to its growing lineup of realistic automotive Creator Expert kits with a new icon: the Fiat 500.Modeled after the 500F, which was produced from 1965 to 1973, the kit consists of 960 individual Lego brick pieces and is nine inches long when completed.The...
