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The Bugatti Chiron swims in molten torque. There's so much pure, concentrated grunt that even at idle, the quad-turbo 16-cylinder feels like it's trying to break free. It would rather [...]

IT'S A DILEMMA. THE TRULY DESIRABLE McLAREN IS THE M8B THAT BRUCE McLAREN HIMSELF USED IN 1969 TO SLAUGHTER THAT YEAR'S CAN-AM SEASON. OR IT'S THE MP4/4 IN WHICH AYRTON [...]

Anticipation can be the best thing about a new toy. Handling that shiny object still in its blister pack. Goosebumps ripple across your skin, your pupils dilate. The toy comes [...]

CALIFORNIA'S FOLSOM STATE PRISON inmates stamp between 45,000 and 50,000 painted aluminum license plates a day, four days a week. That's 10 million or so plates each year. And while [...]

Big grand-touring coupes are anachronisms, conceived for a time when sophisticated men wore Sansabelt slacks and carefully coordinated their sport coats and turtlenecks. When sideburns mattered, and every adult smoked [...]

TOYOTA'S FOURTH-GENERATION (chassis code A80) Supra Turbo, sold here from 1993 to 1998, has fronted movie franchises, shredded drag strips in as little as six seconds, and--if we recall correctly--conducted [...]

Light rain is to Southern California what a hurricane is to Florida or a blizzard is to upstate New York. Highways close, semis jackknife, mountains slide away as mud, and [...]

The difference between human minds and lizard brains is that humans think symbolically. Not just in our use of language to represent concepts and reality, but in our instinctive embrace [...]

Let's talk about sex. About lust and passion and desires we cannot control. About taut lines and provocative shapes that make our brains burn. About things so freakishly gorgeous that [...]

Astonish. It has always been what a Lamborghini does best. Lambos drop jaws, dilate pupils, inspire goosebumps, and knock frontal lobes back into the parietal lobes. They are impractical, intemperate, [...]

Disasters are always fascinating. From fender benders to war, humans will stop and stare at the tragic, the grotesque, the hideous. In early December, I watched a massive plume of [...]

In this cuckoo-crazy, mixed-up world, nothing is certain and the set order is up for renegotiation. For decades, the four-door sedan was the sensible choice, the vehicle that sober, serious [...]

Let the Battles Begin. Nobody cares about your best-in-class sun visors. In fact, nobody here cares about classes, categories, segments, or market share at all. And that 10Best award in [...]

'God, that thing is awful,' said senior editor Tony Quiroga as he exited the 1993 Nissan Skyline GTS-25 he had just parked along Mulholland Highway above Malibu. 'The exhaust just [...]

Forbidden love is every hack playwright's go-to theme for a reason. Distant and unobtainable are more intriguing than nearby and easily accessed. So naturally, the best cars must be those [...]

Mobility scooters are ubiquitous. At hot-rod shows, they fly in squadron formation with each pilot trailing a gray ponytail. Take your dog out for a constitutional and one will whiz [...]

When we heard that Domino's Pizza was claiming its new DXP is 'the ultimate pizza delivery vehicle,' we took it as a call to action. Those pizza suits in their [...]

* ASTON MARTIN'S PAST, PRESENT, and future hit the Blendtec with the 2019 DBS Superleggera. Both the DBS and Superleggera names hark back to what Aston was. But the new [...]

During a recent stop at the Shell station in Mojave, we spotted two shiny, new California Highway Patrol Dodge Chargers gleaming in the sun. Inside the well-worn mini-mart, the two [...]

There was a Ghostbusters movie in 1984, and there's one this year. Game of Thrones is really just Falcon Crest with more dragons and beheadings. The Libertarians didn't stand a [...]

THE RIPE, GOLDEN APRTCOT fit perfectly in my palm. 'That's the future of the automobile in your hand,' says Nygard Lund. 'Didn't think it would feel fuzzy, did you?' Not [...]

It has 21 windows but is still tough to see out of. The driving position is an enforced slouch, and the front crush zone is two stamped headlight buckets reinforced [...]

IT'S AN ON-THE-NOSE, OBVIOUS, LITERAL, AND, OKAY, SHALLOW IDEA: Pit the transmogrified Toyota Tacoma against the fresh-enough Chevrolet Colorado during a journey from Tacoma to Colorado. Get it? 'It's pointless,' [...]

Once upon a time, it seemed as if Sweden and Volvo were destined to rule the world. In 1975, Bjorn Borg was emerging as the world's dominant tennis player, ABBA [...]

The HR-V draws deeply on past and present. In many ways, it's a throwback to the best things 20th-century Honda ever did, such as elegant interiors, sweet suspension tuning, and [...]

OVERWHELM THE SENSES or starve them. Connect the driver so completely with the car that he has to duck to avoid the crankshaft throws, or isolate the cabin so absolutely [...]

As any dime-store undergrad psych major can tell you, it's a tough climb to the top of the hierarchy of needs pyramid, the point at which we supposedly have everything [...]

The Ferrari Roma's start button isn't a button. It's an iPad-like touch-sensitive switch at the bottom of the steering wheel. And it's but one of many functions crammed onto the [...]

THE ROLLS-ROYCE DAWN is most at home cruising the glittering boulevards of Palm Springs or Palm Beach, the Siriusly Sinatra channel permanently playing, and the driver wearing $2600 Gucci crocodile [...]

Minivans have reached their 21st-century cultural inflection point. If vans are going to remain relevant, they must find new customers by fighting off their procreative stigma. Or, conversely, their makers [...]

Great racers start young. Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher won his first kart championship at age 6. Four-time Nascar Sprint Cup champ Jeff Gordon's parents moved from California [...]

The Toyota Land Cruiser didn't earn its go-anywhere reputation in the United States. 'One nice thing about a Land Cruiser is that it has 4-wheel drive and nine-inch clearance and [...]

Hyundai's confidence in its styling department is on display in the new Tucson compact crossover. In a segment dominated by play-it-safe, forgettable shapes, the Tucson's bulging fenders, hard creases, and [...]

Fashion is fickle. Back in 1976, opera windows were all the rage. Too small to improve visibility, the tiny windows also did nothing for ventilation because they didn't open, and [...]

Maserati is affixing the Trofeo name to the Ghibli for the first time. Until it wound up on the Levante SUV, Trofeo (Italian for 'trophy') meant your Maserati was built [...]

it's just another unexceptional small industrial park along the edge of the town of Apple Valley in Southern California's high desert. One cinder-block building is divided into nine 2000-or-so-square-foot work [...]

It seems like hybrids and electric vehicles have been hogging the efficiency spotlight lately. But while trend watchers have been focused on exotic technologies, carmakers have been quietly boosting the [...]

'It's one of those places that you can't get to from here,' explains Danny Burrow as he throws my luggage into the bed of his Nissan Frontier parked at Memphis [...]

THERE WERE NO HOSPITALITY SUITES or luxury motor coaches in the infield, and cocktails weren't served. The food came wrapped in plastic and was eaten standing up. Glamour was in [...]

It's no longer a surprise when a new Hyundai is fully competitive with other vehicles in its class. Hyundai certainly builds solid vehicles, and the all-new Tucson rolls in the [...]

There's never a good time to have a crappy job. Why pursue a career in catering if what you'd rather be doing is cooking up engines? Why work as a [...]

Big-time drag racing is still hot Brodding. Yeah, the NHRA seems obsessed with marketing: Every driver sucks up to Full Throttle energy drinks after every run, and the cars are [...]

Steve Stanford speaks in a way that his enthusiasm is a half-beat ahead of his words. And his ideas are another half-beat ahead of that. He takes a gulp of [...]

IN THE EIGHT YEARS since it was announced, the Chevrolet Volt has been a few different things. First, it was a concept at Detroit's 2007 North American International Auto Show, [...]

BIG MACHINES RULE THE EARTH. There are about 6.7 billion people on our planet, and they all need to be fed, housed, moved and supplied with power. These herculean tasks [...]

Wedged hard in-between Interstate 5 and an ever-expanding behemoth shopping mall called The Burbank Town Center is a modest, white-stucco-and-red-brick garage that looks like it was thrown up over a […]

Southern California's thickly populated San Fernando Valley seems awful lonely at 5:30 on an August Sunday morning. The streets are empty, the only place open is Circle K, and the […]