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Sep 14, 2020

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2020 Acura NSX Road Test | The cerebral supercar

The 2020 Acura NSX is the kind of car you're pumped to drive. You think about it the night before. You read up on it. You tell your friends and family. You notice passers-by admiring it in the driveway. They try to be sly. Some gawk. There's anticipa…

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2021 Ford Ranger Tremor brings extra off-road capability and style

There are oodles of ways to configure an off-road-ready 2021 Ford Ranger, thanks to many different Ford Performance parts , kits and stage packages . And now there's yet another option in the Ranger Tremor, which packs plenty of choice upgrades in a tr…

Supercharged, 810-hp carbon fiber Shelby GT500CR takes a year to build, costs $300K

Classic Recreations has unveiled a limited-edition, resto-modded Mustang that looks like it raced right out of a Hot Wheels catalog. It features a carbon fiber body, and it's powered by a supercharged V8 engine. Wisconsin-based SpeedKore, which is k…

Ford says emissions regulations will keep a V8 out of the Bronco

Ford doused cold water on the rumors claiming the born-again Bronco will sooner or later gain an optional V8 engine. While an eight-cylinder might fit, the company needs to keep the SUV's CO2 emissions in check. "We have to manage the CO2 implicatio…

Rivian R1T faces first competitive test in Rebelle Rally

Not long ago, the Rivian R1T electric pickup engaged in a very public bit of development testing as a support vehicle for "Long Way Up " — the trip Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman took on Harley Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles from Ushuaia, A…

Oregon wildfires melt vehicles, blacken driveways

PHOENIX, Ore. — Matt Manson stared at the burned-out corpse of his pickup truck on Friday, which sat on a blackened driveway in front of a smoldering pile of rubble that once was his house. Like other residents of the small agricultural town of Phoe…

Ford Expedition will enter 2021 with more standard and optional features

Ford's biggest SUV, the eight-seater Expedition , will enter the 2021 model year with a longer list of standard and optional features. The extra content will help it fend off four new SUVs from General Motors. Motorists in the market for the long-whe…

Aston Martin AMR-C01 is an Aston you can drive in your living room

Aston Martin has made a lot of amazing cars over the decades. But none of them have been able to be driven inside a house. That sort of changes now, as Aston Martin has collaborated with driving simulator company Curv to create the AMR-C01 simulator …

Junkyard Gem: 1973 Mercedes-Benz 280C

Car shoppers seeking a slick-looking-yet-sensible luxury coupe in 1973 had plenty of choices from the Motor City, including the Pontiac LeMans , the Mercury Montego GT , and the Plymouth Satellite . Price tags on those machines started at $2,920, $2,926…

This is the sketch that became the '75–'76 Chevy Caprice

It's always interesting to see the initial design sketch for a production car, as it takes a familiar-to-us form and shows the idealized version of that car, the designer's blue-sky dream before it went through the mill of production feasibility, mar…