It was the crash heard around the world: Dale Earnhardt, inarguably NASCAR’s biggest star, was killed on the last lap of the Daytona 500 on February 18, 2001. You already know that. What you may not know is how his death affected one of his best friends: Michael Waltrip, until then a journeyman driver who,

One of the hardest tasks the judges face every year at Best Driver’s Car is ranking the contenders—not just naming the winner, but determining the rest of the finishing order from second- to last-place. With so many worthy contenders, the 2019 Best Driver’s Car field was one of the toughest we’ve had to rank yet.

You’re forgiven for not knowing exactly what the Suzuki Jimny is—or for calling it the “Jimmy,” which was a GMC SUV in the ’90s. The little 4×4 isn’t sold here in the U.S., which is really too bad because it’s the small, affordable, elemental SUV that’s been missing from American dealerships since Jeep’s Wrangler went

Quick Stats: Ronde Barber, Analyst for Fox NFL, Super Bowl champion Daily Driver: 2017 Ram 2500 (Ronde’s rating: 8 plus on a scale of 1 to 10) Other cars: see below Favorite road trip: Tampa to Pennsylvania Car he learned to drive in: Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme First car bought: 1997 Toyota 4Runner Fox analyst and

Fire season in California will have ended by the time you read this, and it was another nasty one. An unusually dry fall season kept first responders busier than they’d like to be, including truck-driving volunteers who rescue livestock from ranches and farms in harm’s way. When I got the call that Friday afternoon from

Quick Stats: Billy Dee Williams, actor Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Daily Driver: 2017 Mercedes-AMG C43 (Billy’s rating: 10 plus on a scale of 1 to 10) Other cars: See below Favorite road trip: to Malibu Car he learned to drive in: 1956 Buick Special First car bought: 1966 Austin-Healey 3000 Mark III Billy

Hey, can we talk? You, the car enthusiast who devours MotorTrend for the high-end stuff. And you, too, the retail-ready shopper who comes to us for practical buying advice. You both have lots of questions about the new Mercedes-Benz GLB crossover. But what you really want to know is, simply: Is it any good? Let

It’s a good time to be a millennial. I mean, not in the socio-economic sense—we’re underpaid, overworked, and can probably forget about retirement. But when it comes to cars, our generation is finally being catered to. From affordable and fun Subaru BRZs, to the tech wizardry that is the Tesla Model 3, it seems that

The debate will rage for a while: whether Ford’s new electric crossover should be part of the Mustang family. Outrage over Chevy attaching the Blazer name to a car-based SUV has largely died down and purists need a new focus for their outrage. In Ford development labs in Dearborn and Detroit, the evolution of the

No other car show on Earth offers as much vehicular variety as the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show. Each year, the massive aftermarket trade show draws thousands of car enthusiasts and nearly as many cars to Las Vegas, Nevada. Sprawled across the roughly 3.2 million square feet of the Las Vegas Convention Center you’ll

The speedo readout flicks past 170 mph, the basso V-8 growl from under the hood louder and more urgent than ever. We’re closing on 7,000 rpm, near the top of sixth gear, when I do something rarely done in a 500-horsepower sports car these days: Simultaneously lift off the gas, dip the clutch pedal, and

We’ve waited more than 50 years for a mid-engine Corvette, and as the GM-UAW strike drags on, 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 buyers could tag an extra few weeks or more onto the delivery date. Unionized GM workers have been on strike since September 15 as the two sides work to hammer out a new deal

The C-Class is Mercedes’ best-selling car in the U.S., so you better believe the brand takes the redesign seriously. Before the 2021 Mercedes-Benz C-Class arrives, we sat down with AMG’s Tobias Moers at the 2019 Frankfurt auto show to learn more about the 2021 C-Class AMG models and the future of AMG. With Frankfurt hosting

AMG sprinkles its magic on nearly every Mercedes—except for just a few models. AMG chief Tobias Moers reminded us of the fact while we were at the 2019 Frankfurt auto show, which hosted unveilings of many models including a new GLB 35 AMG. A compact three-row family crossover isn’t our first association with the sport-focused

If you’re a luddite who insists a pony car must have eight atmospheric cylinders, stop reading now. Otherwise, if you enjoy front-engine, rear-drive fun regardless of what’s under the hood, let me tell you about the Ford Mustang EcoBoost Turbo High Performance Package. What started as a weekend project among some of Ford Performance’s biggest

To some, Concorso Italiano is a Monterey Car Week event for only the most obsessive Italian car nuts. While it’s true that each year you may see far too many “garden variety” Italian exotics—think rows and rows of Ferrari 308s and 458s, Alfa Spiders and Lamborghini Gallardos—if you look in the corners and along the

Think about your ideal car collection—how many vehicles could you reasonably live with? It’s probably fewer than this automotive armada of some 200 collector cars in rural Minnesota. Blessed with plentiful acreage and productive crops, a farmer by the name of James Graham amassed a huge number of cars and trucks over his lifetime. Graham

In light of the news that there will be no 2020-model-year Volkswagen Golf R, we’re bringing back this May 2018 comparison with the best from Subaru, Honda, Ford, and VW. Enjoy. Every generation has one. Volkswagen Golf GTI. Acura Integra GS-R. Mitsubishi Evo. If you smuggled automotive magazines in from Europe, perhaps it was the

We aren’t thrilled with the V-6 engine in the Cadillac XT5. In the past, we’ve called it coarse and said it lacks gusto, which is disappointing considering the vehicle is otherwise fun to drive with sharp steering and handling. Now, the XT5 is adding a turbocharged four-cylinder engine option that we hope is better matched

After debuting the insane 1,972-hp Evija, Lotus is now showing off a sports car customers in the U.S. actually have the chance to own. The 2020 Lotus Evora GT is headed to North America with 416 hp and a claimed 0–60 time of 3.8 seconds. The model replaces the Evora 400 and Evora Sport 410,

Cadillac has announced pricing information for its new compact sedan. With a starting price of $37,890, the 2020 Cadillac CT5 is $3,355 less expensive than a base 2019 BWW 3 Series, and $2,305 less expensive than a base Audi A4. It also undercuts the Lexus IS by $1,695. The CT5 comes standard with a 2.0-liter

Watch out, BMW M2 and Audi RS3: There’s a new contender for the hyper-compact crown. The Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 lives again, now with far more power and performance than before. Packing the new M139 turbocharged 2.0-liter I-4 engine—the most powerful production four-cylinder in the world—the CLA 45 throws down 382 hp and 354 lb-ft. A

Read More2019 McLaren Senna GTR Is an Insane Track Toy2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Makes 760 HP!Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato Review: Wild Thing While the Le Mans car ran with 18-inch iron rotors, the Mark II is fitted with 20-inch carbon-ceramic discs, as well as a retuned Bosch anti-lock system. The car runs on 19-inch Michelin

Last Thursday at the MotorTrend office in El Segundo, Super Street hosted a magazine release event to celebrate its first-ever Mazda-specific issue. The event invited MotorTrend On Demand subscribers, local Mazda owners, and automotive social media influencers to come check out some of the modified cars featured in Super Street, which includes Mazda Motorsports’ iconic 767B race

Happy 48th Elon! It’s Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s birthday today, and what better way to celebrate than with a gallery of photos of the man himself hamming it up for us during a recent interview we conducted with him. It’s been a whirlwind year for Musk, filled with good and, er, some not so good

Nissan only sold the Patrol in the U.S. from 1962 to 1969. It was an outlier during that time, too, because during the 1960s, it wore a Nissan badge when every other model from the company donned the Datsun name. At the upcoming Barrett-Jackson Northeast auction, you can get yourself in a cool gray 1979

If you’re looking for a car more versatile than a typical sedan but don’t want a crossover, your choices are limited, especially if it must be stylish. That leaves you to look at hatchbacks and wagons, and thankfully the ones still available in North America aren’t all staid and vanilla. Despite its svelte, low-slung appearance,

Midcycle product updates are tricky. Capital is typically limited, so you can’t do much with the sheetmetal or engineering bits. But you need your vehicle to feel current compared to the competition that has come out since you launched the car. The pressure is even more intense when your vehicle is the 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class

The 2020 BMW M8 completes the two-door 8 Series range as a stylish yet potent grand tourer that’ll be right at home doing triple digits on the Autobahn. Available with up to 617 hp in M8 Competition guise, the 2020 M8 replaces the M6 as the top dog of the Bavarian automaker’s lineup of performance

The incredible happened when Toyota redid the Corolla Hatchback for 2019: it turned into something of a driver’s car. The improvement over previous Corollas was immediately noticed during our 2019 Car of the Year tests. Even with 168 hp and 151 lb-ft on tap from its 2.0-liter I-4, our judges mostly agreed that “this is