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This article from Motor Trend explores the evolution of supercars throughout history, discussing the origins of the term and its interpretations. Notable examples of supercars, such as the Lamborghini Miura and McLaren F1, are highlighted, and the blurred lines between sports cars, muscle cars, and supercars are discussed. The emergence of hypercars, like the Bugatti Veyron and Koenigsegg models, is also mentioned. The author acknowledges the increasing ambiguity in defining a supercar in modern times. The article includes a comprehensive list of various supercars and four-door supercars, discussing their performance and design features and their significance in the world of supercars. [Extracted from the article]

We sold 27.' Toyota chief engineer Masato Tanabe is curt with his answer. I had asked if Toyota had plans to sell its recently redesigned Century--the chauffeur-driven, ultra-luxury sedan that's [...]

There's an old joke: You ask, 'What's the difference between an elephant and an ant?' The mark answers, 'I don't know, what's the difference?' You reply, 'Come on, you don't [...]

Circle back to six years ago when 11 MotorTrend judges unanimously voted the then-brand-new Tesla Model S the 2013 Car of the Year. Were we nervous? Yeah, sure, of course. [...]

Wind your mental clocks back about three decades. The year is 1985, Ronald Reagan just began his second term in the White House, and a new Korean car company was [...]

At some point in the past I spent time behind the wheel of the old QX50; however, I have no memory of doing so and as such hold no opinion [...]

There's a line from Moby-Dick, 'In a whaler wonders soon wane.' Cetaceans are awesome creatures, magnificent mammalian consequences of evolution. Awesome, in the older, proper sense of the word. And [...]

* It's like deja vu all over again, again. Yes, dear Motor Trend readers, it's that special time of year when we trot out the latest pony cars from Detroit [...]

Let's dispense with the elephant in the room. The Lamborghini Urus has as much to do with the LM002--aka the Rambo Lambo, the amazing Countach-powered stud of an SUV favored [...]

The 2018 Motor TrendCar of the Year program started out as so many of them have for the past seven years: with me stopping off to grab three bottles of [...]

Patron saint of literary cool Joan Didion--who stalked the steamy, smoggy canyons of Los Angeles in a Daytona Yellow 1969 Corvette Stingray--once said, 'Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.' If only Didion [...]

'Hey, man,' the Ram PR dude said to me. 'Would you mind starting out in the Hemi 2500 Tradesman?' No, dude, I silently thought to myself. I did not drive [...]

The first-generation Porsche Cayenne--you remember, the vehicle that purists said would be the death knell for Stuttgart--rode on a platform engineered by Porsche, and it was incredible. Honest-to-goodness sporty handling [...]

I suppose we can table this question until Ram launches its electric pickup late next year, because you know a TRX EV won't be far behind. FORD F-150 LIGHTNING FORD MAVERICK GENESIS G90 GENESIS GV70 HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 UPDATE HYUNDAI SANTA CRUZ UPDATE KIA CARNIVAL ARRIVAL KIA EV6 LUCID AIR MAZDA CX-50 SUBARU WRX VERDICT RAM 1500 TRX TOYOTA COROLLA CROSS RIVIAN R1T VOLKSWAGEN ID4 UPDATE ARRIVAL: 2022 Kia EV6 Wind AWD "We're ready to spend a year with Kia's first dedicated electric vehicle." Verdict: 2021 Ram 1500 TRX "The mighty TRX remains the supertruck we fell in love with, but the world has changed." To defend Ram a bit, 7,700 miles of overlanding off-road is not a normal use case for this truck, and if you're shopping for a TRX, just put our transcontinental adventure and the subsequent long repair out of your mind. [Extracted from the article]

For this 250-mph attempt, Bugatti brought test drivers Jamie Morrow and Pierre-Henri Raphanel to figure out the safest way to break the 400-kph barrier. I spoke with Morrow the next day (Bugatti owners were there making their 400-kph attempts), and he said the car I drove sometimes hit 250 mph and sometimes only 245, depending on the wind. Pro Driver Jamie Morrow Has an Adventurous, Nerve-Wracking Side Gig THE MAN IN THE RIGHT SEAT You every might Bugatti not know review it, but you've almost ever read happened with a pro driver sitting in the passenger seat. The Bugatti team drops the pressures on all four, and now the Super Sport thinks the tires are too low and it refuses to go into Top Speed mode. [Extracted from the article]

There ain't nothing Shakespearean about it. The ponycar wars are no longer a Tempest in a teapot. Gone are the days when Camaros and Mustangs were straight-line beasts (at least [...]

* Every once in a while, a moonshot car shot comes along and defines the future of a brand. Think about the Porsche 959. What was a limited-run hypercar in [...]

* You activate Drift mode in the new 603-hp Mercedes-AMG E63 S 4Matic+ by tapping the dynamic toggle switch to Race mode, turning off all the electronic no-fun nannies, placing [...]

* The most fascinating aspect of the new Lamborghini Huracan Performante isn't its increased power, new tires, reworked suspension, or improved ABS system. It isn't its recalculated stability and traction [...]

* The Lexus brand thundered onto the automotive scene nearly 30 years ago with the LS 400 flagship sedan, which sniped the German brands with the concept of affordable, reliable [...]

* The Bugatti Veyron quite famously came complete with 10 heat exchangers. That 1,001-horsepower projection of Ferdinand Piech's ego made so much heat it needed 10 coolers to keep it [...]

* Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to our SUV of the Year honors. The venerable Stuttgart brand has twice before taken home the Golden Calipers, once in 2007 for the three-row [...]

The article discusses the new Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, which is the only hybridized model in the 911 lineup. The GTS features a hybrid system that includes a motor in the transmission and a 3.6-liter flat-six engine boosted by an electric turbocharger. The hybrid system provides a total combined system power of 532 hp and 449 lb-ft of torque. The GTS also has various design changes, such as movable gills for improved aerodynamics and a start button instead of a key. On the track, the GTS demonstrates rapid acceleration and impressive grip, with the ability to rotate under braking and power. Overall, the article suggests that the new GTS is a superlative sports car that showcases the 911's electrified future. [Extracted from the article]

Do you know what the best-selling German car in America is? No, not the BMW 3 Series--my initial assumption when the question was posed to me. Why, it's the Volkswagen [...]

Aston designer Miles Nurnberger - who stands about 6-foot-2 - tells me he and Marek Reichman, Aston's 6-foot-5 chief creative officer, were the design bucks for Valkyrie's interior. Despite doing all the aero stuff F1 designer Adrian Newey mandated, the Valkyrie team made sure the car lived up to Aston's beauty standards. Tests & Drives Bring it on", the smiling Aston Martin PR man said to Mate Rimac, then the 31-year-old CEO of just Rimac, now CEO of Bugatti Rimac. Aston Martin's CEO at the time, Andy Palmer, said I could sit in the second most outrageous show car I'd ever laid my eyes on, and the poor Aston PR man had to smile and make it happen. [Extracted from the article]

* What do the Porsche Carrera GT, the McLaren MP4-12C, and the Ferrari 458 Italia have in common? Besides engines mounted amidships and houselike price tags? The three of them [...]

* I've had many a wild taxi ride in my life; it's the hidden cost of constant travel. From seeing 110 mph in the back seat of a Crown Vic [...]

* We named the sixth-gen Camaro our 2016 Car of the Year. That's the highest praise we can give a vehicle. I remember sitting around after the vote with my [...]

* Jay Lamm, founder and chief perp of the 24 Hours of LeMons, has described racing thusly: 'Going around and around in a circle is one of the stupidest things [...]

* We first met the Audi Q7 10 years ago. Historians will note that it was Audi's first ever SUV. These days, SUVs account for 42 percent of Audi's U.S. [...]

* Call us crazy. Or mad, insane, demented, disturbed, affected--whatever descriptor you feel best suits our diminished mental state--but we really like gigantic SUVs with way, way more power than [...]

* Put yourself in my shoes for a minute. You're racing down Mount Teide, a 12,000-foot volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, in the latest 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera [...]

Audi's parent, Volkswagen Automotive Group, has a problem. This time it doesn't involve diesel. I lived with the all-new second-gen R8 for a week, and aside from design, it's hard [...]

Audi has sold more than 12 million A4s worldwide going back to 1972, when the car was called the 80/Fox. That's a remarkable number of cars. To give you some [...]

Before we started, had you asked any of us nine judges if the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro had a snowball's chance in Hyundai's desert proving grounds of winning our 2016 Car [...]

* Do you remember exactly when it was that cars--high-performance sedans in this case--got so dang good? I don't. The BMW M3, yeah, sure, that has always been special. Other [...]

* 'We learned a lot from launching the Huracan,' Maurizio Reggiani tells me. Lamborghini's always-smiling head of research and development and I are standing on pit row at Circuit de [...]

* When writing a car review, I generally try to throw some misdirection into the first paragraph to keep the reader guessing. Not here. 'Wow, wow, wow, WOW! That's better [...]

The DBX707 is sublime as far as performance SUVs go, and most of us were having too much fun to care about body type, but in the end, it's still "just" an SUV. Other performance cars delivered more overtly spicy experiences, so although the M240i didn't make our finalist cut, it's far from a bad car. Therein lies the rub with the Genesis G80 - this is a luxury car first and a sport sedan second, and no amount of Sport Prestige (the car's trim level) can change that, not even an electronically controlled suspension with sport tuning and rear-wheel steering (part of a $6,300 package). The judges also took issue with the Michelin Primacy tires, which often squealed for mercy and lacked the grip a performance SUV should deliver. [Extracted from the article]

If you take an ICE vehicle and an EV and lock them in a room, by the time the world ends the undriven electric car will have already resulted in more bad stuff than the undriven gas-powered car. Gas-powered vehicles have both direct and indirect emissions, while electric cars - I'm specifically talking about battery-powered vehicles, or BEVs, but we will just call them EVs - only have indirect emissions. Electric cars produce more CO2 than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. [Extracted from the article]

Some editors found it made the car more fun and engaging, but the majority thought the manual car handled worse than the DCT version we also had on hand and that the pedal spacing wasn't great. The front diff lets you just hammer on the car through corners, staying on throttle where other front-wheel-drive cars would wash out." 2022 Audi RS 3 PROS Rambunctious handling • Unique engine • Fun torque-split modes CONS Lake of brake pedal feel • Laughable pricing • Tight cabin The characterful RS 3 is one Audis of the you most can buy today, right up there with the V-10 R8 supercar. "Looking for the most fun lap, I was just driving it sideways, rotating it, working on car control, and it's absolutely beautiful, this car.". [Extracted from the article]

The Cayenne Turbo GT is just a tick quicker than the DBX707: The Porsche hits 60 mph in 3.0 seconds, and the Aston does so in 3.1. Here, beauty is in the design of the Aston Martin DBX707 Part athletic shoe, part old Mercedes, the DBX707's cabin is an exciting place to be. As smitten as we were with the Aston's engine, the ZF eight-speed transmission in the Porsche beats the Mercedes-sourced nine-speed unit in the Aston Martin. Tests & Drives For about two years, we could easily say Lamborghini's Urus was the world's best-driving super-SUV. [Extracted from the article]

Heavy metal. One of the great music genres, sure, but it's also a challenge to overcome when dealing with cars built mostly from steel. Because steel vehicles, like bricks, are [...]

It is in tact nice deja vu an over again. This comparison test goes back decades--literally. The world first saw the Ford Mustang in 1964. Chevrolet followed up Ford's ponycar [...]

'What about Ken Block?' We had a Ford Raptor scheduled for our Ignition video series. The plan was to take the beast to the massive piles of sand at the [...]

The most flabbergasting aspect of the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 isn't that it exists, but that it's a production vehicle. As in you can buy one. AMG has already built [...]

Power. Can you ever have enough? That's a question our predecessors spent a great deal of time discussing during the bad old days of the 1980s. These days, we Motor [...]

After 38 spins around Hyundai's proving grounds, we had our eight finalists. The next step of the exhaustive process involved more driving and arguing than we should admit. COMPACT Kia [...]

* Welcome to the 65th running of Motor Trend's Car of the Year award. Our blue sapphire anniversary marks a significant moment in the timeline of automotive history because cars, […]