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Bowman is taking over the driving duties of the Ally-sponsored Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 Chevrolet in the Cup series in 2021, following the retirement of seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson from fulltime competition. Ally announced Thursday it is donating $75,000 to the Humane Society of Charlotte, which expects to transfer more than 600 animals into their shelter in the next two months. The ...Keep reading View the full article

Pickup Truck and SUV of the Year 2021 continued on Day 2 as we gathered data on each vehicle’s articulation and then began into the dirt. Pickup trucks included the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX, the 2021 Jeep Gladiator Mojave, the 2021 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon EcoDiesel, the 2021 Nissan Titan Pro4X, and the 2021 GMC Canyon View the full article

Letarte, a former crew chief for Cup Series stars Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr., is now serving as a consultant for Spire Motorsports, an up-and-coming Cup Series organization that will field at least two fulltime rides in the 2021 season. Letarte has served as a consultant on some projects for the group in the past but has taken on a more formal role with the organization in recent weeks ...Keep reading View the full article

Stick your head in the sand all you want, classic truck fanatics—there’s a reckoning on the distant horizon. As much as we like to think the rising swell of both EV legislation and the sporadic bans on new vehicles powered by fossil fuels will not extend to our beloved classics, something’s gotta give. Now, we View the full article

Set the date on the calendar, kids! Top Gear America is (finally!) coming exclusively to the MotorTrend App, starting January 29, 2021! This isn’t some rip-off of that hokey motoring show from across the pond, either—this is die-hard car enthusiasts who live and breathe everything cars. Related: Stream Top Gear America January 29! Sign up View the full article

Sordo, who won at this year's WRC Rally Italy at Sardinia, will alternate with Breen in the car that the duo shared with Sebastian Loeb in 2020, although Hyundai confirmed earlier this year that the nine-time champion will not continue for a third season with the team. In a season cut down to just seven rounds by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sordo took part in three rounds - Mexico, Italy and the ...Keep reading View the full article

Ekstrom, who made his return to World RX this year and finished runner-up in the championship, will venture into cross-country style competition by racing in the inaugural campaign of the Extreme E series next season with the ABT CUPRA squad. But before that, he will join X-Raid for the German outfit’s first project outside the Dakar’s headline T1 category, to drive a YXZ1000R ...Keep reading View the full article

Pickup Truck and SUV of the Year 2021 kicked off with nine vehicles. Pickup trucks included the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX, the 2021 Jeep Gladiator Mojave, the 2021 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon EcoDiesel, the 2021 Nissan Titan Pro4X, and the 2021 GMC Canyon AT4. Among the ranks of the SUVs for this year were the 2021 View the full article

GMC announced on Tuesday that its widely anticipated electric vehicle, the Hummer EV, has arrived at General Motors’ Milford (Michigan) proving grounds for continued validation tests.. Related Articles Would You Reserve This Supertruck for $100? GMC Drops More Details About Its 2022 Hummer EV Pickup and SUV 2022 GMC Hummer EV: An All-Electric Truck With View the full article

The 27-28 February race weekend planned for Auto Club Speedway in Fontana has been cancelled, and instead NASCAR will host Truck, Xfinity and Cup series races the weekend after the Daytona 500 at the venue's road course - which was used as a replacement venue during the pandemic-altered 2020 schedule. The Xfinity and Cup series will then move to Homestead-Miami Speedway, which was originally ...Keep reading View the full article

NASCAR's 2021 Cup Series schedule has already undergone minor changes due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, which will include the return to the Daytona road course View the full article

Nissan announced a midcycle refresh of the capable Nissan Armada fullsize SUV with a focus on four main areas that elevate the Armada as true contender in the fullsize SUV segment and position it as a flagship of the Nissan brand. Based on the highly capable global Nissan Patrol, the Armada for 2021 features updated View the full article

Due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, especially in California, the Feb. 27-28 race weekend planned for Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., has been canceled, Motorsport.com has learned. Instead, NASCAR will host Xfinity and Cup series races the weekend after the Feb. 14 Daytona 500 on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course, which it used as a replacement venue during the ...Keep reading View the full article

The Frenchman won the Italian event by 13.9 seconds from outgoing champion Ott Tanak to become only the second person in history (after Juha Kankkunen) to win the series with three different manufacturers. Evans carried a 14-point buffer going to Monza, a late addition to this year's schedule, and appeared to be on course to end the UK's 19 year wait for a WRC champion. But an off on the ...Keep reading View the full article

Smith, 18, will compete for the 2021 series title driving KBM’s No. 18 Toyota. Christian Eckes drove the truck during the 2020 season. Next season will mark Smith’s third driving for KBM, but first as a fulltime competitor. He has made 16 starts over the last two seasons with KBM with a career best finish of second at Bristol, Tenn., in 2019. Safelite Auto Glass will serve as Smith’s ...Keep reading View the full article

It was a relatively low-key run around the Villa Reale for the surviving crews, following the drama on Saturday’s closed road stages in the mountains. Ogier won the first stage of the day with his Toyota teammate Kalle Rovanpera second, which helped to open up the gap to the pursuing Hyundais of Dani Sordo and Ott Tanak. Early leader Sordo slipped to third behind Tanak, then reasserted ...Keep reading View the full article

The opening loop of three stages began with a stage win for Ogier by 8.3 seconds, pushing his Toyota Yaris past Hyundai's overnight pacesetter Dani Sordo to the top of the leaderboard. Sordo's priority is to defend Hyundai's slender seven-point lead in the manufacturers' championship, and he dug deep to take back five seconds on the next stage but could offer little resistance to Evans, who won ...Keep reading View the full article

As snow continued to fall on the closed road stages on the final full day of the rally, Evans slid wide near the end of the 11 km Gerosa stage and dropped off the road into the woods. Toyota teammate and title contender Sebastien Ogier was the next car through, and it was only a warning from his teammate that prevented him from going off at the same point. “My first reaction was ‘don’t ...Keep reading View the full article

Rally Monza’s first stage of the afternoon, the second pass through Selvino, has been abandoned following two significant accidents on the same corner. Both the M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC of Gus Greensmith/Elliott Edmondson and the Hyundai i20 WRC of Ole Christian Veiby/Jonas Andersson came to grief on the same bend 22 km into the 25 km stage. Increasing snowfall since the morning loop had ...Keep reading View the full article

With veteran Chad Knaus’ move to a management position at Hendrick Motorsports, Byron will be on his third crew chief when he starts his fourth fulltime Cup season in 2021. Byron, however, has a successful history with Rudy Fugle, having won seven races in 23 starts in the Truck Series in 2016 while both worked at Kyle Busch Motorsports. “I’ve kind of been put with a lot of different ...Keep reading View the full article

At first glance, the 1980 AMC Eagle might’ve just been a passenger car, maybe resembling the Concord DL. Looking at it once more, your eyes could have focused on the ride height and how the vehicle sat just a bit higher off the ground than usual. Maybe you noticed the “4×4” emblems. If you were View the full article

The routes laid out around the home of the Italian Grand Prix offered a combination of wet, muddy asphalt and waterlogged gravel beneath persistent driving rain, which challenged even the most experienced crews in the field. Sordo won the opening stage of the morning but then M-Sport’s Esapekka Lappi gambled and put one of the two sets of snow tyres which were allocated to each car for this ...Keep reading View the full article

Here are a few reasons to drool over Ken Smith’s 1971 K20 overland build: the mustard-yellow patina. Falken Wildpeak M/T tires in the 35-inch variety. The heavy-duty 2001 Ram 2500 chassis underneath the patina’d body. And the 24-valve 5.9L Cummins 6BT that turns diesel fuel into overland fun. Ken joined us on the 2019 Overland View the full article

ARB has released its Pressure Control Module, a hands-free device that eliminates the need to squat and squint at your manual tire pressure gauge while adjusting the air pressure in your vehicle’s tires. ARB Pressure Control Module Fast Facts: Bluetooth unit is compatible with CKSA12, CKMA12, and CKMTA12 ARB Air Compressors Set target inflate/deflate pressures View the full article

The WRC's final event of 2020 is underway after an initial 4.3km blast round the Villa Reale at Monza, with six-time champion Ogier taking his Toyota Yaris to an early lead over Hyundai's Neuville. Both Ogier and Neuville have a mountain to climb if they are to overhaul Toyota's championship leader Elfyn Evans to claim this year's WRC drivers' title, but the Welshman gave himself a couple of ...Keep reading View the full article