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Nissan's recent struggles are no secret, but the company still does one thing well: cheap, small cars. The 2025 Kicks is no exception. For the new year, the brand’s smallest SUV gets some big changes to the design, interior, and powertrain, which makes the already-excellent SUV even better. Plus, customers…

Ford has the Ranger. General Motors has the Chevrolet Colorado and the GMC Canyon. Toyota has the Tacoma. Even Nissan has a mid-size truck with the Frontier. That leaves Ram as the only major player in the full-size truck segment without a mid-size companion. Tim Kuniskis wants to change that.

Soon, the Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman will go all electric (though perhaps not as soon as Porsche once hoped). In the US, Porsche customers are buying gas-powered 718s while they still can, with sales ticking up significantly in 2024. That's unusual for what is a very old product in…

According to Toyota's Chief Technology Officer Hiroki Nakajima, its new four-cylinder engine lineup is a "game changer." The upcoming powertrains have 1.5- and 2.0-liter displacements, and while they're being optimized primarily for electrification, the fun element isn't being ignored. At least, that's the case for the 2.0-liter turbo engine the engineers mounted…

Porsche's global sales results for 2024 are officially out, and they're a mixed bag. Total deliveries dropped by 3 percent to 310,718 units, but the fun cars powered by combustion engines were up. In addition, the Cayenne flourished last year, so much so that it ended the year in first…

Skoda may not be a familiar brand to most Americans, but it's a popular automaker across the pond, sitting just below Volkswagen in terms of price. Its flagship model, the Skoda Superb, has been around for two decades now. The company has seen fit to celebrate the occasion not with…

Oh to have worked at Japanese TV show Best Motoring in the 1990s. Regularly, it put together track battles featuring the coolest cars of the era driven by the most talented racers in the country at Tsukuba Circuit. It never missed. This test is particularly interesting, with Japan's best performance cars of…

Who abandons an E30 in a barn for 30 years? This particular 325i has BMW's inline-six with a five-speed manual transmission. Next to an E30 M3, this classic 3 Series is a BMW enthusiast's dream. And it was dumped in a filthy barn for three decades. 

The Saleen S7 is one of the coolest American cars ever made. Released in the mid aughts, the mid-engine supercar quickly developed a reputation as a true competitor to European rivals. Powered by a twin-turbo V-8, it can travel well over 200 miles per hour, and looks amazing. One of…

Toyota is well-known for building some of the most reliable engines on the planet. Perhaps its most stout powertrain is the automaker's VZ line of V-6s, first introduced in the late 1980s and used all the way up into the mid aughts. Over the years it's developed a reputation not…

Muscle car, pony car, sports car–Any of these terms are functionally meaningless when it comes to the Ford Mustang Dark Horse. When I found out that the Dark Horse Performance Pack had not only the most powerful Coyote 5.0-liter V-8 Ford has made to date, but also one of the…