The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has already been devastating for the automotive industry overall, with sales falling off a cliff, factories shuttered, and few signs of recovery any time soon. It will take months and years for the full scale of…

Electric Trucks Could Prove Pivotal In EV Survival Through Downturn

There are two kinds of SUV folk: Those who need them, and those who want them. For the former, every millimeter of cargo space counts, every third-row seat represents one extra kid they can tote. For the latter, it’s all about convenience, comfort,…

Volkswagen Goes For Style and Substance With Atlas Cross Sport

On the week I had the Audi S8 to drive, there was precious little that I could actually do with the poor thing. The stay-at-home orders had begun proliferating, places were closed. and we were frantically adapting to a variety of bewildering new…

Can You Still Pull A Heist In Audi’s Epic New S8 Sedan?

Kia Motor Corporation claimed two big wins at the , which saw its winners announced this morning via live stream. The company’s Telluride SUV won the top title of World Car of the Year, while its Soul EV claimed the World Urban Car title. Porsche,…

Kia And Porsche Dominate World Car Award Winners

An abandoned, mile-long stretch of rural highway that ran through the ghost town of Centralia, Pa.—a site that had become a popular tourist attraction in recent years thanks to its relentless tagging by graffiti artists—has been closed permanently.…

Coronavirus Claims A Spontaneous Public-Art Masterpiece: Graffiti Highway Is No More

There’s no crossover/SUV on the market—with the possible exception of the outrageously over-the-top Lamborghini Urus—that’s quite as distinctively designed as the Alfa-Romeo Stelvio. But where the Lambo works to upend every convention with…

With A Sublime Design, Alfa’s Stelvio Sport Hits Nearly All The Right Notes

Polestar 1, amid the trees of Norway
Maneuvering a car on snow and ice is always a dicey proposition. Grip changes by the inch. Even the most capable traction-control and all-wheel-drive setup can still dispense moments of terror. Find a patch of…

Seeking Snow In Norway—In Polestar’s 600HP Hybrid

Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge, touring the fall colors.
The various strengths of the new Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge tend to sneak up on you, even if the “base” car—if such a word can be applied to any Rolls—is itself an absolute sledgehammer…

With Darker, Moodier Black Badge, Rolls-Royce Gives The Cullinan SUV The Look It Deserves

Vehicle technology has progressed massively over the years. In just the last two human generations alone, we've gone from basic cruise control to cars that can steer themselves, change lanes, track other vehicles, and brake on a dime. Zero-to-60…

Car Seats Are Getting Wired—and Weird

Automotive engineering is a perpetual tug-of-war between performance and safety. Cars need to crumple like accordions in crashes, yet remain supremely stiff and strong while cornering. They need to be light enough to accelerate like rockets yet…

How Honda Balances Pedestrian Protection and Vehicle Strength

They annual car prom known as the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance, held yesterday on the Monterey Peninsula south of San Francisco, caps off a week of automotive bliss for enthusiasts. Prowling the golf course under the bright sunshine, attendees to…

Best and Boldest from Sunday's Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance

The Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance wrapped up this afternoon with the crowning of Best of Show. That honor went to a 1931 8-Liter Gurney Nutting Sports Tourer with an inline-six cylinder engine. Not only was it the first time Bentley has claimed…

At Pebble Beach, Bentley Scores A Winning Birthday Present

I've found that when you take an SUV on a dirt road, you do so somewhat at your peril. This might seem counter-intuitive, given that this would appear to be precisely what they're designed for, but it's true. Ground clearance alone doth not an…

Hyundai's Massive New Palisade SUV Packs Some Surprises

It’s fairly astonishing to contemplate the fact that the Bentley Continental GT has been with us now for about 17 years. It feels like just yesterday that the British carmaker, newly under the wing of corporate parent Volkswagen, foisted this sporty…

A Master Class in Weight Management: Bentley’s Continental GT V8

Driving the Ferrari 812 Superfast with a colleague recently—fast, of course—the topic of the Corvette came up. How could it not. It was very much in the news due to the imminent arrival (tonight) of the new version, and if you squint your eyes, this…

Can Ferrari’s Front-Engined Supercars Outlive … The Corvette?

Yesterday in New York City, 22 race cars didn't exactly roar through Brooklyn—but they were going awfully fast. The clean, quiet cars were competing in the third New York City e-Prix, an all-electric race series now in its fifth season. The New York…

Scenes From NY's Crazy, All-Electric, Innovation-Driving E-Prix Race

Bentley celebrated its 100th anniversary yesterday by showing off a vision of what driving on its 115th anniversary might be like. The EXP 100 GT concept, a sleek and futuristic, optionally piloted sport coupe, brings a host of innovations that…

Innovative Bentley Concept Shows Ultra-Premium Carmaker Thinking Way Ahead

In late August of 2017, I loaded an Audi Q7 to the gills. I had camera gear, plastic storage bins filled with food and camping supplies, luggage belonging to five additional people, three telescopes, six pairs of binoculars, and about two hundred…

A Road Trip To the Sun

At the aeromobility-focused Uber Elevate conference in Washington, D.C. this week—an event focused on the company's ever-expanding efforts to make flying air-taxis a real thing—a very terrestrial gadget sat tucked in between multirotor helicopters…

Uber Debuts JUMP Scooter Upgrades At Aeromobility Conference

There's something kind of strange about the new BMW M850i: It really shouldn't be this good. I mean that in all seriousness. It shouldn't have this much power—523 horses from its 4.4-liter, dual twin-scroll turbochargered V8—because the full…