Remember last year at WWDC, when Apple previewed the next generation of CarPlay, with support for screens that span the entire dashboard? Here’s a MotorTrend report on the 2024 Porsche Cayenne SUV. Slide 2 shows a CarPlay interface that spans the entire dashboard. ★ | Continue reading
Long-Term Reviews Broken chargers, full charging stations, single-digit temperatures, and optimistic range estimates have tested our patience. While winter has seen many travelers stranded at airport check-in counters this year, MotorTrend editors have been braving the open road … | Continue reading
Broken electric chargers, single-digit temperatures, optimistic range estimates, and more have tested our patience. | Continue reading
This EV isn't so much a car, truck, or van as a rolling amalgamation of convention-defying unique selling propositions—most of which we pretty much dig. | Continue reading
Only a relatively small fraction of gas actually, you know, moves your car around. The rest is wasted. | Continue reading
This battery-powered, polished metal piece of art is from Bowlus, and it'll cost you over $310,000. | Continue reading
We towed 3100-, 5300-, and 7200-pound travel trailers with Ford’s electric truck and didn’t get very far from home. | Continue reading
It allows the front wheels to turn up to 80 degrees, making parallel parking a snap. | Continue reading
People can do nearly everything online, but the process to buy a new car, truck, or SUV remains behind the times. | Continue reading
Forget that LS swap and go for a Tesla drive unit that bolts up to a small-block V-8's mounts from EV West and Revolt Systems. | Continue reading
We've finally driven the Ford F-150 Lightning—and it's one of the most important vehicles in history. | Continue reading
Electric cars’ range continue to climb, and the prices are starting to come down as more become available, so check out MotorTrend’s guide to the cheapest electric vehicles to look for in 2022. | Continue reading
NASA and Orbis deliver lightweight carbon-ceramic brakes with aftermarket steel rotors the company thinks are good enough for the Tesla Model S Plaid. | Continue reading
The new battery fits in the same space used by the stock battery. | Continue reading
A New York Times investigation alleges several crucial details were withheld. | Continue reading
CEO Elon Musk shared the details about the rear-steering and quad-motor options, which may help explain the truck’s delay, on Twitter. | Continue reading
Mercedes-Benz’s big new EV isn’t intended to be a driver’s car, but it delivers solid performance. | Continue reading
Your move, Tesla. And, well, everyone else. | Continue reading
Once again, a high-performing, long-range, game-changing electric sedan from a California startup earns our Golden Calipers. | Continue reading
Yep, we drove it. Are you ready for the electric truck revolution? | Continue reading
Lucid Motors’ excellent electric luxury sedan—its first-ever car, by the way—is absolutely a serious threat to Tesla and other luxury carmakers. | Continue reading
The DryCycle isn't cheap, but it appears to work as advertised. | Continue reading
*Under very specific conditions dictated by Tesla, that is. | Continue reading
Developing EVs is expensive, so Ford had to get creative in certain areas to deliver the all-important wow factor to its Mustang Mach-E electric car. | Continue reading
Volkswagen of America will make this vintage electric bus drivable. | Continue reading
Watch this silly shifting method in action. | Continue reading
Ford’s new electric Mustang SUV lives up to its name while seriously challenging Elon Musk’s Tesla Model Y. | Continue reading
We put the 2020 Tesla Model Y Long Range electric SUV on our test track to find out what it can do—and it turns out, well, quite a lot. | Continue reading
See what progress has been made on the Rivian-Amazon electric delivery van that soon will be everywhere packages are delivered to. | Continue reading
We talk with Ford CEO Jim Hackett about the company's upcoming vehicle with Rivian, plus its EV collaboration with Volkswagen. Read more here! | Continue reading
Find out why it’s difficult to overestimate the significance of the fully electric Porsche Taycan right here! | Continue reading
America’s current infatuation with SUVs was either a perfect storm of circumstance or a return to a familiar form. To some, it was a savvy marketing construct to embrace our disused frontier spirit, play off our post-9/11 survivalist crisis, and excuse our migration from un … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, I drove a prototype electric Jeep Wrangler Unlimited around the Rose Bowl parking lot as wide-eyed Chrysler (they were still just Chrysler then) engineers talked excitedly about a future where individual electric motors would drive each wheel independently, allowin … | Continue reading
The Tesla Model S was cool: fast, stylish, and fun to drive. But Elon Musk’s masterstroke was to create an eco-system that enabled intrigued consumers to consider it a realistic alternative to a conventional car. Tesla’s network of 120kW fast-charging stations, Superchargers, cou … | Continue reading