Car, Truck, and SUV News and Reviews

Paul Baker spent 18 months building the kind of car from the 1960s that he always loved: a futuristic dome-topped “car of the future.” Built on a BMW Z3 chassis, covered in sculpted polystyrene and fiberglass, the Cosmotron garners loads of attention at car shows and everywhere it goes.…

Hyundai arrived at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a new toy to share: a new Blue Link smartwatch app that allows owners of Blue Link equipped Hyundai vehicles to connect with their cars through their smartwatch a la Dick Tracy (or maybe I’m thinking of Michael Knight).…

To show off the capabilities of their 2015 Cherokee, Jeep pulled off an impressive feat, transforming a street in downtown Vancouver, Canada into a rocky mountain road.…

Audi has been successfully testing its autonomous vehicles on the streets of Florida and at speeds of nearly 150 mph on the track. But what practical use is it if you can’t really go anywhere?…

The aftermarket automotive specialists at SR Auto Group is in the process of creating a new Liberty Walk Ferrari 458. While it’s still a work in progress – awaiting a lowered suspension, a new titanium exhaust, and a few more parts from Liberty Walk, it already looks astounding.…

Last month we talked a bit about the teaser image that Infiniti had shown off for its Q60 concept car. You really couldn’t tell anything about the car in that teaser image with the car swathed in shadows.…

The Toyota Highlander has long been one of the most popular mid-size SUVs on the market. Its most recent redesign was for the 2014 model year, and that’s the version I managed to spend some time with.…

The Fiat Dino Spider is a car with a terrific heritage, getting its start at Ferrari then being built by Fiat. In fact, Petrolicious gave us a great tour of the two-door convertible that’s worth another watch.…

If you live in Venice, Italy, there’s no place to drive a car. But that didn’t stop one man from figuring out a way to have a Ferrari F50 anyhow. …

The new BMW M4 looks to be an impressive performance coupe both on and off the track. We wouldn’t be surprised if a good number of buyers took advantage of BMW’s European delivery program and, while they were waiting for their new BMW to roll off the line, they pay a visit to Nürburg for a few laps of one of the most vaunted circuits in the world, the Nürburgring Nordschleife.…

The Land Rover Defender 110 certainly has plenty of off-road capability even in its native form. But what if you were to squeeze a 6.2-liter V8 Corvette engine under the hood that produces 430 horsepower and 398 lb-ft.…

Automotive transmissions are one of the most complex bits of mechanical engineering we interface with on a daily basis. And while today’s transmissions are far more complicated than they once were, the core principals of adjusting gear ratios to adjust the force going to an axle are largely the same.…

Vaughn Gittin Jr. is a member of the Monster Energy drift racing team, and that means he gets to travel the world — along with his Ford Mustang RTR – to compete in drift events, show off his skills, and hang out with drift event girls.…

The current model Donkervoort D8 GTO is an astounding performance car, with a lightweight design and powerful engine a la Caterham, the D8 GTO can get from a standstill to 62 mph in just 3.3 seconds.…

It’s hard to buy a car and have it ever be worth more than what you paid for it. It doesn’t matter if you have spent thousands in modifications; typically a car is simply worth less down the road.…