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2021 Ford Bronco First Drive Review: The Long-Awaited 4×4 SUV Is Absolutely the Real Deal
Ford Bronco Full Overview The 2021 Ford Bronco is easily one of the most anticipated vehicles of our fledgling decade, and we won’t keep you in suspense: Our initial impression after driving the new two- and four-door Bronco is that it absolutely lives up to the hype. Driven on-road or off, viewed as a getaway/adventure vehicle, a family truckster, or as a piece of retro automotive art, the Bronco feels like a winner. Indeed, Jeep’s longtime off-road champ, the Wrangler, now has some serious 4×4 SUV competition, as does our 2021 MotorTrend SUV of the Year, Land Rover’s epic Defender. We had the Wrangler in mind as we saddled up a Bronco in Austin, Texas, for our first on-road drive. Our trusty steed was a mid-level four-door Black Diamond model—seriously, who came up...
2024 Honda Prologue: The Brand’s Electric SUV for North America Has a Name
The slow drip of information about the new electric SUVs coming from the Honda and Acura brands continues with this latest droplet from the information faucet: the higher-volume Honda model will bear the name Prologue. The 2024 Honda Prologue is due to arrive in 2024, and its name signifies its role as the forerunner of a series of new, high-volume, battery electric vehicles from the Japanese brand. This includes a luxury, performance SUV for Acura, which is also slated to go on sale in 2024. No name for the Acura has been revealed yet. Call the GM The point of all this sharing is to create scale, which brings down the costs of various EV components, including batteries, for both GM and Honda. Co-development also means shared costs, and the Honda and Acura SUVs will be built in a GM plant ...
2021 Mercedes-Benz E450 4Matic One-Year Review: Hello to a Family Friend
Mercedes-Benz E-Class Full Overview Mercedes runs deep in my family. From my grandma’s inimitable diesel S-Class—white with pink pinstriping—to the late-’80s E-Class models my parents drove for years, I grew up road-tripping from their backseats. Later, I learned to drive in a 1988 300TE, the same wagon I’d taken naps in during long highway drives a decade earlier. Although my parents moved on to other brands, MotorTrend has a history of its own with the E-Class. We recognized the E-Class as our 1996 Import Car of the Year before experiencing the all-around excellence in the updated E-Class, our 2021 Car of the Year. Now we get to spend an entire year with the 2021 Mercedes-Benz E-Class, and we have some questions. There’s more at stake here than you might thi...
Rolls-Royce’s Landspeed Collection Is Lightly Salted Luxury
There are lots of special-edition Rolls-Royces with interesting details and backstories. Heck, there’s one with the entire Arabian peninsula on its hood. Or how about another that includes a cryptographic mystery concealed in glyphs hidden around the car? The special models Rolls-Royce recently pulled the wraps off of, however, are a little more traditional. These models are none the weaker for it, either, as the Landspeed Collection celebrates the remarkable career of the Thunderbolt land speed racer, which was powered by twin Rolls-Royce aero engines. See all 31 photos Available on the Dawn and Wraith in Black Badge form, the limited run (25 of the former and 35 of the latter) is chock full of cues that celebrate both the Thunderbolt and the famous Bonneville Salt Flats. ...
2020 Ram 2500 Laramie 4×4 Yearlong Test: How It Spent Winter
Ram 2500 Full Overview Yes, it’s summer, but we only recently found this winter report tucked between the seat cushions of Guffman, our long-term 2020 Ram 2500 Laramie 4×4. So, we figured we might as well share how the truck spent the colder months in Michigan, where the truck is based with our Detroit staff. When we ordered Guffman, we didn’t check the box for the Ram 2500 HD‘s $145 Cold Weather Group’s grille cover and block heater. That’s because the truck would live in Detroit, not Yellow Knife, and our oil never turns to Jell-O. But because diesels throw off less waste heat than gas engines (that’s part of their efficiency secret), and because the owner’s manual recommends covering the grille at temperatures below freezing—and also becaus...
Hotly Anticipated Chevy Corvette C8 Z06 Delayed Years
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SpeedKore’s Mid-Engined ’68 Charger Is a Fast and Furious Muscle Machine
Vin Diesel’s Fast saga character, Dominic Toretto, has a thing for classic Dodge Chargers (and family—it’s a whole thing). So, it’s no surprise a 1968 Charger appears in the latest Fast film, F9. What is surprising, however, is the fact this classic muscle machine houses its engine behind the cabin. You’ll recall that an original ’68 Charger situates its engine in the nose. Yep, Dom drives a mid-engined 1968 Charger in F9. And it is not only the engine’s placement that wows, either. Credit to the visionaries at SpeedKore who fitted this Charger with a modern 707-hp supercharged 6.2-liter “Hellcat” V-8. Then, to really put a cherry on top of this crazy cake, SpeedKore mated this big bent-eight to a Graziano transaxle from a Lamborghi...
In the Army Now: Meet the Mil-Spec Citroën Ami
See all 5 photos Truth is, for people who do what we do, the Ami is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s comedy gold: silly-looking, ridiculously underpowered, and French. And now it seems it’s the Armée de Terre (ground forces) latest recruit. The French military has added four Citroën Amis to the motor fleet at its base in Istres in the south of France, which means perfect sense. How can any self-respecting republic protect the homeland without a micro-car that looks the same coming as it does going? Turns out that, much to our chagrin, the French army will not be marching into battle at the wheel of these voiturettes. Actually, the truth is both a bit boring and disappointingly sensible: The Amis will be used to shuttle people and lightweight cargo around the Istres-Orange-Sa...
The 2022 Civic Si Will Definitely Be Available as a Sedan
We’re in the midst of a blizzard of 2022 Honda Civic news, and it looks like the flurries will keep on coming until the verdict is rendered on the new Civic Type R—which we’ve really only been able to speculate about so far. But that’s for another time. For today’s slice of the Civic pie we finally have a bit more news on the sporty Si: The sedan body style is making a comeback for the new 11th gen Civic’s Si variant. Specific details around the Si—like what the powertrain will be, how much power it will make, and if there will be any new trick tech—are still pretty spartan. The last Civic Si relied on a buttery-smooth 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder which we had only one major complaint about: rev hang during shifts. Hopefully Honda will resolve tha...
Mazda MX-5 Miata Will Survive Company’s Electrification Push
Even though Mazda’s MX-5 Miata sports car is lightweight, small, and easy on gas, those environmental positives won’t be enough to save it from the automaker’s eventual pivot to full electrification. But that doesn’t mean the Miata is going anywhere. In a technical briefing for media about the company’s “Medium-Term Technology and Product Policy,” the chief technical officer revealed that the Mazda roadster would be included in plans for lineup-wide electrification by 2030. The news snuck out via the Kamura News, a Japanese publication that listened in on the briefing call. Mazda plans to be fully electrified—with 25 percent of its models fully battery-electric and the other 75 percent incorporating hybrid or PHEV technology—by 2030, joining many o...
Gotham’s Wealthiest Man Drives an Old Mercedes-Maybach Concept Car?
Michael Keaton is set to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne (and presumably Batman) in the upcoming film The Flash. Whether the Caped Crusader’s famous Batmobile from the 1989 and 1992 movies Batman and Batman Returns makes a cameo in the forthcoming superhero flick remains under wraps. That said, it seems as though Keaton’s Bruce Wayne will tool about in an extraordinary vehicle of his own: the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet concept car the German automaker revealed during Monterey Car Week in 2017. At least that’s what film buff Grace Randolph claims. Randolph tweeted out images of Keaton filming on The Flash set, including an image of the massive Mercedes convertible (presumably wearing a detachable hardtop). “This is [Keaton’s] car”, she...
The Ford Maverick Has an Appropriate Namesake in the ‘70s Compact Car
Put the 1970 Ford Maverick next to a 2022 Maverick, and it’s nigh impossible to see any through line. The original is a strange mishmash of an archaic idea of what an economy car should be, floating in the stylistic space between the subcompact (and much-maligned) Pinto and the sporty (but portlier) Mustang. The successor? A compact unibody pickup that shares its bones with the svelte Escape and brawny Bronco Sport. In the sheetmetal, there’s not much to link them. But the ideas that birthed the original Maverick seems, to us, to be equally applicable to the new one. Here’s the pitch: an affordable, practical compact car with some flair, serving to replace the Falcon in its role as the volume leader in the Ford range. The Falcon was in a sales slump for a variety of reaso...
