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Motor Trend is a magazine that was founded in 1949 by Robert E. "Pete" Petersen. It began as a solution to the lack of advertising dollars from Detroit for Petersen's previous magazine, Hot Rod. The first issue of Motor Trend featured a sports car built by Frank Kurtis on the cover and aimed to appeal to a broad group of automotive enthusiasts. Over the years, Motor Trend has become known for its rigorous testing and evaluation of new cars, trucks, and SUVs. It has also awarded the Car of the Year, Truck of the Year, and SUV of the Year titles, which have influenced the automotive industry and consumer purchasing decisions. Motor Trend has adapted to the changing media landscape and now produces content for various platforms, including websites, television, streaming platforms, and social media. Despite the ups and downs, Motor Trend remains committed to sharing stories about cars and the people who love them. [Extracted from the article]

Dunes ripple off into the distance under a brassy sky. The Audi dances over stutter bumps as it slaloms between piles of soft sand. A quick flick of the wrists [...]

No one saw Tesla coming. A Silicon Valley startup putting electric motors into a handful of Lotus sports cars was about as niche as automaking gets. Then Elon Musk took [...]

The road jinks and heaves over the rolling hills, a gray ribbon carelessly tossed upon a rumpled green-brown sward. Grazing sheep bow their heads in the bracing wind. God rays [...]

Market research never created a great car. No one asked GM to build a Corvette or Ford a Mustang. The engineers and entrepreneurs who made cars that changed the world--Ettore [...]

* There was a certain inevitability to the Jaguar E-Pace. With its midsize F-Pace, Jaguar's first ever SUV, powering an 80-plus percent increase in global sales for the storied British [...]

It takes Patek Philippe nine months to make a basic watch and more than two years to finish one of its more complicated timepieces. Pedrazzini builds just six of its [...]

Whether it's a car, truck, or SUV, the winners of Motor Trend's Golden Calipers tend to fall into two categories. There are the dashing, dazzling disrupters such as Nissan's GT-R [...]

More significant, Zetsche, like product planners at Ford and GM, whose Lincoln Navigator and Cadillac Escalade would prove the most profitable vehicles either automaker would build during the decade, also spotted where the two trends intersected. GM CERV III Ford Taurus Plymouth Prowler THE MIATA SPAWNED COPYCATS FROM EUROPEAN ELITES LIKE BMW AND MERCEDES-BENZ. Late in the decade, BMW even snatched Rolls-Royce, the crown jewel of what remained of the British auto industry, right from under the nose of Volkswagen boss Ferdinand Piëch. The 1990s Saw the American Family Sedan's Death, the SUV's Rise, the Luxury Car's Democratization - and Much More As the 20th century's final decade began, Tom Cruise felt the need for speed in a Chevy Lumina, the coolest new music came from Seattle, and NikeTown was the next big thing in retail therapy. [Extracted from the article]

By 1999, Saturn - the division that was going to radically reinvent not just GM but also automaking worldwide - was manufacturing a midsize car based on a 5-year-old Opel design in a factory constructed in 1947. I can't emphasize enough that Saturn represents new manufacturing techniques, and whatever GM learns from this small car will be applied throughout the organization in all its cars, big and small." Our first impression - barring the mind-bender of sitting in what felt like a brand-new 27-year-old car - is an overwhelming sense of Saturn's mission: to turn its back on the rest of GM and build a car as good as the Japanese brands. As Alex Taylor III wrote in Sixty to Zero: An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors - and the Detroit Auto Industry, Smith knew GM was "too inward looking, too provincial, and too leaden.". [Extracted from the article]

Lights flicker across the top of the steering wheel as the exhaust note builds to a full-throated bellow. Green, red, blue... shift now! Fingertips snick the right-hand paddle, a delicate, [...]

They might be the two most impressive supercar debuts in recent memory: the Ford GT and McLaren 720S. Pavement-rippling acceleration, obscene levels of confidence-inspiring grip, and the apocalyptic racket they [...]

* We're loafing along at 100 mph or so in fourth gear when I nail the gas. There's a hiss of air as the mighty 8.0-liter 16-cylinder engine behind my [...]

* Picture a rowdy, rambunctious teenager tious who's grown up to become a pleasant young adult. That's the 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman. The redesigned Countryman is bigger and better mannered [...]

* Porsche's all-new Panamera looks like the dictionary illustration of a four-door sports car. Drives like one, too, once you twirl the steering wheel--mounted Sport Chrono controller, which sharpens the [...]

We at Motor Trend believe wagons are the optimal vehicle design--the best combination of ride quality, handling, fuel economy, performance, passenger space, and cargo capacity. Despite the logic, wagons have [...]

* That sound? It's almost imperceptible, but it's there. The soft rustle of air over steel and glass, the muted hum of rubber on tarmac, the faint whirr of spinning [...]

A low, leaden sky shrouds distant office blocks, and wintry rain threatens to escalate into snow. We're standing outside a nondescript building in a nondescript industrial park in East London, [...]

That's how the screaming madness of a 1,600-hp twin-turbo flat-plane-crank V-8, the brain-melting complexity of a nine-speed transmission with seven tiny clutches, and the space/time warp of hand-built 310-mph hypercars all began. "The Gemera is a car to be shared", says von Koenigsegg, who as a child helped convince a friend's father to buy a Lotus Excel rather than a Ferrari or a Porsche because he and his friend wanted to come along for the ride. Today's lineup includes the Jesko - named after von Koenigsegg's father - and the CC850, both of which are powered by the 5.0-liter twin-turbo dry-sumped, flat-plane-crank V-8 designed in-house at Koenigsegg. [Extracted from the article]

The name tells you a lot about Ferrari's muscular new front-engine coupe. It has 800 horsepower--well, 800 European horses, at least, which translates to 789 American ponies. It has 12 [...]

* When Ferdinand Piech decreed the Bugatti Veyron would be built, his brief to the engineers was simple: The car had to have more than 1,000 hp; it had to [...]

Rival engineers couldn't figure out how VW was doing it. On September 18, 2015, they found out. VW cheated. It began with data points that didn't add up. Since 2008 [...]

* Earnest engineers inside BMW's giant FIZ engineering center in Munich will be dismayed by this: Most people are going to talk less about the 2016 BMW 750i xDrive than [...]

There's a gap in the trees on the right-hand side of the trail, beyond it a sheet of rock falling steeply away from us, stepped and creased and made slick [...]

Let's address the $68,785 elephant out the room right now: No one is going to cross-shop these cars. Most of the folks who'll fork over $145,785 for a 2015 Porsche [...]

The Urus Performante's 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 develops just 16 more horsepower than the regular Urus powerplant and the same torque. The massive 17.3-inch front, 14.6- inch rear carbon-ceramic brakes are unchanged, but the Urus Performante's standard 22-inch wheels can be fitted with a new, grippier high-performance Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tire - 285/40 up front and 325/35 at the rear - that's been specially developed for the car and is available as an option. Support technologies will help you out when needed, but the fundamental chassis setup allows drivers of all abilities to explore their own limits - and the car's - with confidence. [Extracted from the article]

Finally, Fisker says the company has 60,000 Ocean preorders, including 5,000 prepaid deposits of $5,250 for the limited-edition Ocean One, and early off-tool cars are already rolling off the Magna Steyr assembly line. We drove a pre-production prototype Ocean Extreme, which meant it had the 550-hp dual-motor powertrain, optional 22-inch Air Glider wheels, and 255/45 Bridgestone performance tires. Revised software means the top-of-the-range $68,999 Ocean Extreme's Hyper Range battery will take it 10 miles farther between charges than the Ocean Ultra, and it will get there quicker courtesy of its performance-focused 550-hp powertrain. [Extracted from the article]

Under the skin, the FL5 features 3.8 times the structural adhesive of the FK8 to improve body rigidity, particularly at the rear of the car. Could the expensive new Type R, a better car in every respect, be just a little too suave and sophisticated for fans of the demented FK8 model, which ended its life as the best-selling Civic Type R in history? The FK8's six-speed manual was already one of the best in the business in terms of shift feel and precision, but Honda engineers thought there was still room for improvement. [Extracted from the article]

The RN22e electric car is another Rolling Labs project, learnings from which will be applied to the Ioniq 6 EV racer Hyundai plans to run in the 2023 eTouring Car World Cup - and to the roadgoing Ioniq 5 N performance EV scheduled for launch next year. The output split between the two motors is asymmetrical; the rear motor alone produces 362 hp, more than the total output of the regular dual-motor Ioniq 5, while the front motor makes 214 hp. Tests & Drives Hyundai N Vision 74 Concept I FIRST DRIVE The Hyundai N Vision 74 is the hottest concept car of the decade, and not just because its Tokyo Drift - meets-1980s-box-fenders visuals blew up everyone's phones when the first images appeared a few months ago. The corner-carving e-LSD and eight-speed dual-clutch transmission fitted to the Hyundai Kona N production model are products of the Rolling Labs program. [Extracted from the article]

The N Vision 74 combines hydrogen fuel-celltechnology with battery electric vehicle technologyin what Hyundai calls a hydrogen electric hybridpowertrain that produces 500kW and 900Nm. The battery electric part of the powertrain uses thesame 800V architecture as found in Hyundai's Ioniq 5and allows fast charging of the N Vision 74's T-shaped62.4kWh battery pack. FEATURE/ HYUNDAI VISION 74 WE DRIVE THE HYDROGEN-ELECTRIC SUPERCARTHAT HYUNDAI INSISTS IS MUCH MORE THAT JUSTA SHOW OF ITS TECHNICAL MIGHT AT FIRST GLANCE, the Hyundai N Vision74 is pure motorshow whimsy; a designexercise that celebrates a Hyundai thatwas never built, the 1974 Hyundai PonyCoupe concept designed by the legendaryGiorgetto Giugiaro. [Extracted from the article]

* 'Volvo is not a luxury car company.' That was exactly what the horrified Volvo PR guy, his professional smile now a frozen rictus, did not want to hear. But [...]

* The 2017 Jaguar F-Pace is the emphatic resolution of an existential crisis that has been gnawing at the soul of the storied British brand for more than two decades [...]

* 'The most beautiful DB car in the history of Aston Martin.' That's a bold call in the context of Aston Gran Turismos designed by Zagato and Callum, but design [...]