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Interview McLaren, founded in 1963, was a motorsport company until 2011, when it launched its first mass-produced car, the MP4-12C. (We’ll refer to the F1 supercar of the ’90s as more of a bespoke vanity project.) Under CEO Mike Flewitt—who spent muc

IMPULSE CONTROL OF THE MONTH “It’s like my 6-year-old grandson, who just can’t help himself.” The April issue is the best I’ve ever read. For a (somewhat) redneck in Missouri, I’d say you have provided more content that I am interested in than any ot

Photographs Robin Trajano In the past decade, there’s been a wrinkle in the luxury continuum, and the Accord and A4 are closer mechanically than you’d think. COVER STORY: IS LUXURY WORTH IT? Luxury, like pornography, can be hard to define. In the cas

COVER STORY: IS LUXURY WORTH IT? When we were assembling the field for this four-test shootout, a representative of a luxury automaker expressed concern that we were creating a straw man scenario—in other words, we were making a testing paradigm that

Photograph William Walker It’s human nature to place things into neat little categories. This has been true when it comes to cars. Mainstream brands knew their value-oriented price point, and luxury brands lorded their social standing, burled walnut,

STAY FOCUSED Subaru’s optional DriverFocus system uses facial recognition to identify signs of driver fatigue or distraction. It works with the standard EyeSight system and can recognize up to five drivers. The fourth-gen Forester decisively won our

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After the I-Pace, then what? Jaguar hasn’t invested all that money on a brand-new BEV platform for just one car, and the whisper around Coventry is the next all-electric Jag will be a replacement for the XJ sedan. It’s a radical move, but in truth Ja

You can read the market research data or just ask your friends who drive big trucks. Unless you hang out exclusively with people who work in construction or farming, they’ll admit most of the time the bed is empty. Some folks will take issue with tha

Photographs Jade Nelson With X1, X3, X4, X5, and X6 in showrooms, that conspicuous blank space in BMW’s X Series lineup has now been filled (rather obviously) with the X2, a vehicle BMW describes as a Sport Activity Coupe. We regret to inform the aut

If you’ve visited MotorTrend.com lately, I hope you’ve noticed that we’ve redesigned the home page to focus on the things we do best: exciting automotive entertainment, informative new car reviews, and the latest car-shopping tools and research. This

Photographs William Walker COVER STORY: IS LUXURY WORTH IT? The genesis of Motor Trend’s $40,000 challenge lies with the 2018 Mazda CX-5. We were impressed with the compact crossover from the moment we laid eyes on it. When the fully refined model tu

We used to call them the Big Three because, well, they were the three biggest automakers in the world. For much of the 20th century, GM, Ford, and Chrysler each made more cars—and more money—than anyone else in the auto biz. They made Detroit the aut

Automotive futurists and savvy engineers expect battery EVs to eventually handle all our light-duty personal transportation and most of our urban/short-distance hauling needs. But they also disagree with Elon Musk that BEVs can swing long-distance he

Sunny Spain, with its winding roads up the serrated Montserrat mountains surrounding Barcelona, was a perfect place to gauge the latest Mercedes-Benz CLS. It’s a chance to sample the four-door coupe’s performance and handling, appreciate the exhaust

A carbon-fiber pickup bed, a slick tailgate that does all but make you breakfast, apps to monitor your trailer—welcome to the 2019 GMC Sierra. It’s way more than a Silverado with better seats. The Sierra shares the Chevy's updated 5.3-liter and 6.2-l

The first redesigned Ram full-sized trucks out the gate will be equipped with the tried-and-true 5.7-liter V-8, but it’ll have friends soon. In addition to the return of the EcoDiesel later this year, Ram 1500s will also be available with new “eTorqu

Meet the new smallest crossover from Lexus, the UX. At 5.3 inches shorter than an NX, the UX is the first Lexus on the new Global Architecture-Compact, the luxury version of the Toyota Next Generation Architecture. The base UX 200 will feature a 2.0-

Photographs Jade Nelson COVER STORY: IS LUXURY WORTH IT? Details matter, especially when it comes to luxury. When you can get leather in a Ford Fiesta, those hoping to compete in the luxury space need to sweat the small stuff to succeed. Volvo and VW

Photographs Robin Trajano COVER STORY: IS LUXURY WORTH IT? We ask our vehicles to be good for multiple uses, but few are asked to do such disparate duties as luxury sports cars. They need to ride nicely but handle well. They need to have quiet interi

CENTER STACK Although the infotainment system is sourced from Mercedes, more of the Vantage’s functions are controlled by an array of buttons. It’s been dry in Portugal for months. The farmers have been complaining about drought conditions threatenin

The Toyota RAV4 is what the industry calls a category killer. Which means Toyota sells a ton of them, and the competition (even if it feels it has a better vehicle) can’t seem to topple the king. The outgoing fourth-generation RAV4 lacked the pizzazz