HISTORICAL FACTS: 17 - The Untold Story

So You Want a Sportbike-Powered Trike for the Snow? Sure, Why Not?

The guys at the YouTube channel BUM are known lunatics. Emerging from the YouTube channel Grind Hard Plumbing Co, they've taken the platform by storm with increasingly chaotic videos full of custom insanity and wanton abandon toward their own health and well-being. I mean, these are the folks who took…

RideApart · Jan 17, 2025

2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid: This Is It

Subaru first revealed its new hybrid powertrain last summer, ushering in a new age for the company's iconic boxer engine, now supplemented with an electric motor. Now, there's finally a car to go alongside the powertrain: the 2026 Crosstrek Hybrid. It's set to go on sale this fall.

Motor1 · Jan 16, 2025

The Honda Civic Was the Best-Selling Manual Car of 2024

We spent the first couple weeks of 2025 getting sales data on manual-transmission cars in America. That led us to some interesting findings, which you've seen published on this fine website. We don't have take-rate figures for every single manual car sold here last year, but we have enough to…

Motor1 · Jan 15, 2025

The Hyundai Santa Cruz Isn't a Truck, But That's Okay: Review

It took me five minutes to decide that the Santa Cruz wasn’t a pickup truck. Yes, there’s a four-foot bed in the back that could haul a refrigerator. And the 2025 facelift adds a squared-off grille, exuding a more truck-like vibe. But the Santa Cruz doesn’t feel like a truck.…

Motor1 · Jan 9, 2025

Toyota Has a Three-Hour Video With Lexus LFA V-10 Engine Sounds

Much like Toyota used a V-12 only for the Century, its premium division Lexus reserved the V-10 for the LFA. Some 12 years after production ended, the supercar is back in an unusually long official video focusing on the engine soundtrack and exhaust note. It's not the first video of…

Motor1 · Jan 8, 2025

Toyota Exec: 'We Are Aware' Of Negative bZ4X Feedback

Toyota has spent nearly 30 years positioning itself as a leader in "green" cars on the strengths of its fuel-sipping hybrid technology, which has now spread across almost its entire family of vehicles. The same cannot be said of its approach to fully electric cars, however. Its small family of…

InsideEVs · Jan 7, 2025

Every Manual Car You Can Still Buy in 2025

Remember when nearly every car had a stick? Sadly, manual transmissions aren't as popular as they once were, as more buyers flock to automatics instead. Many automakers have phased out their six-speeds over the years as fewer customers crave the ol' do-it-yourself shifter.

Motor1 · Jan 7, 2025

Hyundai fun machine quick-shifts to a whole new level

Long admired by rev-heads and red-heads, Hyundai has given its feisty i30N hot hatch a sensible makeover.

AAP · Jan 3, 2025

Joshua ‘Nassaru’ Ward, Voraath drummer, dead at 37 following New Year’s Eve drunk driving tragedy

Nicholas Shane Meeks, 32, was arrested Wednesday and charged with four counts of felony DUI involving death, and another for driving with a suspended license said officials

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2025

Our writers' favourite cars from the 1990s

The last Formula 1 race of the 20th Century occurred 9190 days ago. That means we are now closer to the start of the 2050 season, assuming the world championship is still around to commemorate its centenary anniversary, than we are from the 1990s.

Motorsport · Dec 28, 2024