2019

Iconic auction house RM Sotheby’s has a very special automobile going up for auction. The car is a 2019 Koenigsegg Regera and is the first example to appear at a public auction. Koenigsegg made only 80 examples of this hypercar between 2016 and 2020.

The Ford Ranger is my favorite small pickup truck on the market today. It has rugged looks, modern driving dynamics, and great power for its size. Now, Ranger owners can now get an added performance boost that’s officially sanctioned by Ford Performance.

Over the years, I’ve driven a number of vehicles based on FCA’s full-size car platform, which underpins the Dodge Challenger, Charger, and Chrysler 300. Most of the models I’ve been in have been muscular rear-wheel drive cars with giant HEMI V8s, and crazy amounts of horsepower.

I’m the opposite of a trendsetter or even a trend-follower. Heck, I still wear flannel shirts as if Nirvana was about to top the charts again (if only). So, when I say that sporty SUVs and crossovers, are all the rage, you can rest assured that they still are in vogue.  

Many of the best bands of all time have great front men. And the best of them have stage presence, personality and showmanship. Well, if my review vehicle were a front man, it’d be Freddie Mercury.

If there are two things that symbolize Ford performance cars more than anything else, it’s the Mustang, and the iconic blue and orange Gulf livery that was worn by the Le Mans winning Ford GT40 back in the late 1960s.

While much of the recent Corvette buzz is about the mid-engined 2020 Corvette, the C7 is not only a car you can walk into a dealership and buy today, but is the only way you can get a supercharged V8 in a Vette for the foreseeable future.

Over the years, many automakers have taken aim at sport luxury brands BMW and Mercedes-Benz to see if they could knock one of these long-reigning champs off of their pedestal. Just as many have failed to do so.

Dodge has announced a new limited edition package for the already very cool Charger SRT Hellcat. The package is called the Octane Edition, and it offers what looks like a pretty good bang for the buck.

Before we get too far into this review, a little transparency first. For the last year, I’ve been writing my second book – about the history of the Ford F-Series pickup. So when I got the 2019 version of America’s best-selling vehicle to drive, I was excited.

Forget everything you know about BMW. Forget the iconic M3. Forget the bonkers M5 Competition. Forget the all-new 8-Series. The 2019 BMW M2 Competition is the best car BMW sells, full stop. The smallest and quickest BMW benefits from selecting from a massive parts bin of stuff.

Acura plays in a very competitive sandbox vying for the premium crossover and SUV market. So with the release of the latest generation of its mid-size RDX crossover, it was dedicated to the notion that they would not just offer the same features as their challengers, but that they would outdo them on performance, technology, and luxury, all while beating them on price and overall value.

If you look up the word overkill in the dictionary, it should have a picture of the BMW M5 Competition as an illustration of the term. Everything about BMW’s fastest and most powerful sedan is absolutely ridiculous… in the best way possible.

With so many of cars on the road today being front-wheel or all-wheel drive, if you put someone into a high-performance car with rear wheel drive and let them go, things can go very wrong, very fast.

Let’s face it. The folks over at Hennessey Performance are insane. They build cars with way more power than they really need or can use much of the time. Take the new HPE1200 kit for the C7 Corvette ZR1.