As we expected, following its introduction on the GR Yaris earlier this year, Toyota is adding the option of an 8-speed automatic transmission to the GR Corolla hot hatch. The new auto comes along with an overall facelift for the 2025 model year GR Corolla that brings more torque, tweaked styling and other new features. … Read more
On paper, plug-in hybrids offer the best of both worlds — electric power for daily driving and gas power for longer trips — but to get the most out of a PHEV, you have to charge it. Take the Toyota RAV4 Prime, for example. It has a 42-mile electric-only range, is rated at 94 MPGe … Read more
Surveillance camera footage captured a truly wild scene as the lives of two people were saved from a car that was about to roll over them in Milwaukee over the weekend. The hero in all of this? A disused payphone pedestal. This is why it’s important to embrace tradition. The incident starts with a two-car … Read more
Photo: Honda When Honda revealed the Si variant of the 11th-generation Civic, people were up in arms about features missing from the U.S. model. Canadian-spec cars got heated seats, they got an all-digital dash, but American buyers had to shell out for the Integra to get the same level of amenities. Now, with the 2025 … Read more
Image: Bring A Trailer Bring A Trailer is starting to get a bit wild again. This time around, it’s not flippers trying to make some dough on recently purchased, new cars. It’s low mileage basic cars coming out of nowhere and going for big money. Take this 2002 Toyota Camry that just sold for over … Read more
Screenshot: Hillclimb Monsters We love it when the little car goes “nyoaaaawww”, don’t we, folks? If you take a piece of Soviet history and jam a modern-ish capitalist German engine between the fenders, do you get a car of, by, and for the people? By gosh, I think you might. Built in Hungary to run … Read more
Gif: Goodwood Road and Racing / YouTube Travis Pastrana put on a show with the Hoonigan Huckster on the storied hillclimb at last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but his run ended with the extensively modified 1983 Subaru GL Wagon in a haybale. The event’s traditional climax is the timed shootout. While victory carries some … Read more
Image: Bring A Trailer Sometimes it seems as if Bring A Trailer is slowly turning into a crooked used car lot where low-mileage, basic cars go for big prices. It keeps happening and it’s happening yet again, this time with a Ford Escort from 1991 with just 358 miles on the clock. Cedric The Entertainer … Read more
The Nissan Versa isn’t necessarily the best car you can buy, but it is a car, and with a base price of $16,680 it’s the least-expensive new car that you can buy in the United States. It’s also seen a massive increase in sales through the first half of this year, selling 61 percent more … Read more
Screenshot: Hagerty The Lucid Air Sapphire is the quickest car you can buy for a quarter-million dollars, and it’ll outrun cars in the quarter mile that cost orders of magnitude more. It’s even quicker than the dragstrip-oriented Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. In a recent test by Hagerty’s Jason Cammisa, the Lucid turned an impressive … Read more
