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For just the second time in its modern history under the umbrella of the Volkswagen Group, Bugatti has created a one-off hypercar, and this one is already an instant icon. Last year's Brouillard reflected one owner's immense passion for the Bugatti name and its history in the worlds of furniture design and bronze sculpture, as well as an understanding of founder Ettore Bugatti's love of horses, but this year's Bugatti F.K.P. Hommage is even more significant, paying tribute to the engineering tal

New cars are more expensive than ever, with the average price of one sitting above $50,000. More often than not, safety tech is blamed for it. A recent piece from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) makes a strong case that this narrative misses the mark. Modern crash protection and driver assistance systems are not the main reason prices have spiralled. In fact, some of the safest cars on the road remain among the most affordable. The real issue is what gets prioritised when affor

Déjà Vu, Toyota Toyota has joined Nissan and Ford on the 2026 recall list after pulling back 162,000 vehicles over a rearview camera display issue. The Japanese marque said on Friday that the display may become stuck on the camera view or show a black image, a condition that violates a federal safety standard requiring all new vehicles to be equipped with a backup camera since 2018. The vehicles affected include the 2024–2025 model-year Tundra and its hybrid variant. Given the full-size truck’s

The Hybrid Era Is Here Hybrids have become so prevalent that Toyota is now offering more of its models exclusively with additional electric motors. While some buyers have expressed disapproval of this strategy due to lingering reliability concerns, a mechanic YouTuber – who claims to have worked on Toyotas for many years – shared his perspective based on extensive hands-on experience. The Car Care Nut, who has roughly 1.67 million followers on YouTube, said that modern hybrids have “simply becom

If you've bought a new Nissan in the last year or so, it could be putting you and any passengers you carry at risk. A new recall published with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration names four Nissan sedan, crossover, and pickup models from the 2025 and 2026 model years, warning that they may have been delivered with improperly welded door strikers, which could cause the doors to open while the vehicles are in motion or in a crash. While the recall only impacts 26,432 Nissan vehicle

Volkswagen's subsidiary, Scout Motors, hasn’t delivered a single production vehicle yet, but the Volkswagen-backed startup is in legal trouble. A new lawsuit in Colorado is challenging the state’s decision to allow Scout to sell vehicles directly to customers, a privilege reserved for EV-only automakers. This isn't the first time that Scout has had legal battles tied to its direct-to-consumer ambitions, either. Dealers Call Out The State of Colorado

Tesla Updates Its Driver-Assist Offerings Following the announcement that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system would be offered exclusively via a monthly subscription, the EV maker discontinued Autopilot in the U.S., leaving Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) as the sole standard advanced driver assistance feature. Autopilot previously bundled TACC and Autosteer. It is a separate system from the suite of active safety features, which include Automatic Emergency Braking, Blind Spot Monitoring,

We love sharing videos from Goodwood, because whether it is action from the Festival of Speed, Member’s Meet, or the Goodwood Revival, you know it is going to be good. There are so many awesome rides that you’ll see racing at their events, and of course every year there are different classes and cars that are featured at their events, but they also have so much historical footage that you wouldn’t believe. That historic footage, and an insane number of events, means that they have some cool stuf

We’re so thrilled that our pal Steve Magnante is back out there crawling junkyards and sharing his automotive knowledge with the world. After a life threatening case of encephalitis, that nearly took him from the hot rodding world, he has made a remarkable recovery. He’s still got more to go, but he’s back sharing that amazing hot rod and automotive history brain with all of us again. Check out a couple of his features from Barrett-Jackson and we’ll share more as they come through, all below. C

The real critical stuff has happened. We’re talking about fitting and welding this original roof back in place, just a few inches lower. But now is the time for the most delicate welding and fitting, the A Pillars. This isn’t unique to this 1932 Ford Tudor, as this is the next step in the process regardless of the car. This is where the grinding and welding begins. There’s no turning back now! The last couple of videos showed you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all o

Barrett-Jackson is one of the premier automotive auction companies, and while they have big auctions all over the country there is something truly special about Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale. This event is huge, it’s fun, and is full of amazing rides. If you want to see all these machines go across the block, watch the livestream below. And if you want to see some of these cars in more detail, click the link below and watch our boy Steve Magnante back in action at Barrett-Jackson. CLICK HERE TO SE

Barn finds are awesome, and I love seeing videos of them being saved, but sometimes they don’t really cover what it is like to pull something out of a barn after a jillion years. After sitting for decades it is often hard to get a car to even move. But even if they do move, there are often some big messes from animals and pests. Hell, even this Toyota Land Cruiser, that has only been sitting for 8 years in this barn, is covered in bird crap. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to have to clean it, but

It’s time for a couple of weeks of off-road racing across Johnson Valley California at King of the Hammers 2026. We’ve got the livestream rocking right here the whole time, so make sure you tune in and keep up. We’re starting off with the motorcycle racing and will continue with all the four wheel classes as well. What was once called King of the Hammers week is now an event that is officially lasts January 24th through February 8th, for a total of 15 days. That of course doesn’t take into acco

What's the deal with midsize sedans? Whether or not you have seen an episode or two of the iconic 90's sitcom that bears his last name, or have been a fan of his stand-up comedy, you probably know comedian and TV icon Jerry Seinfeld as a well-versed car enthusiast. One of the most public showcases of his affinity for cars was through the popular web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, where he took notable figures like former President Barack Obama and fellow comedians such as Jimmy Fallon

Canada has agreed to sharply roll back its 100 percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, striking a trade-off that signals a broader reset in its relationship with Beijing and a notable divergence from Washington. But its impact will be felt well beyond Canada’s borders. After two days of high-level meetings in China, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Ottawa would allow a limited, but steadily growing, number of Chinese-made electric vehicles into the Canadian market in exchange for substa

From a new Hyundai recall covering blank radio screens, to Chevy's not-so-long-term plans for the latest Bolt, to the pseudo-return of BMW icons, things aren’t the way they were yesterday. Here, we’ll round up the biggest news stories of the last 24 hours on AutoBlog and divvy them up into bite-sized chunks that get right to the heart of the story, allowing you to go deeper if you want. Chevy reiterates that the Bolt's time is limited

The Seatbelt Legacy Continues In 1959, Volvo introduced the three-point safety belt, which would go on to save an estimated one million lives and counting. The Swedish manufacturer’s history of making the safest cars on the road was based on a simple promise: its passengers would walk away in the event of a crash. Volvo's so committed to that promise that it comes up with its own crash tests that go above and beyond standardized test procedures around the world. The newly revealed EX60 electric

Zeekr’s Largest and Most Ambitious SUV Yet The Zeekr 8X has officially debuted in China, giving the brand a new flagship plug-in hybrid SUV focused on size, presence, and electric capability. Measuring more than 16 feet long, 6 feet wide, and about 6 feet tall, the 8X firmly lands in the full-size luxury SUV category. It is only a few inches shorter than a BMW X7 and nearly identical in width, placing it squarely among established large luxury rivals. A 10-foot wheelbase allows Zeekr to offer bo

Geely is setting an unusually bold marker for the rest of the decade, with a stated goal of exceeding 6.5 million vehicle sales a year by 2030 and pushing into the top five automakers worldwide, as per Reuters. The plan also calls for revenue above RMB 1 trillion (143,614,000,000 USD) annually and a lineup that tilts heavily toward electrification, a clear signal that Geely sees scale and new energy vehicles as the only way to compete in a market where Chinese brands are expanding fast.

The advent of digital displays has brought with it several benefits, including the ability to show drivers more information, from power usage to navigation, but a new recall from the Hyundai Motor Group proves that digitalization can have drawbacks. The automaker is recalling numerous Genesis luxury vehicles from the 2025 and 2026 model years, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, because their instrument cluster displays can intermittently reboot and go blank, potentially for

Toyota Gazoo Racing is adding another collectors-only twist to the GR Yaris story, unveiling the GR Yaris Sébastien Ogier 9x World Champion Edition and confirming that buyers will not be able to simply walk into a dealer and order one. For Japan, Toyota says the car will be offered only through a purchase lottery, turning the special edition into a chance-based prize rather than a traditional limited run allocation.

One of the claims automakers continually made as they began launching electric vehicles and hybrids was that, as these vehicles aged, they would be capable of adopting the latest technologies through over-the-air (OTA) updates, and one of the brands making the most noise in this department was Volvo. As it turns out, the Swedes are sticking to their promise, reports Autocar, with the company preparing to give cars from 2020 and later "one of the biggest over-the-air updates in the history of the

BMW’s largest vehicle in the United States is the X7, a three-row crossover that competes with the likes of the Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class. But, despite the X7’s substantial footprint, it’s not as monumentally massive as American full-size SUVs like the Cadillac Escalade and Lincoln Navigator. Kirk Cordill, chairman of the BMW National Dealer Forum, wants BMW to launch a competitor in this space. If it happens, it’ll be the largest BMW production model ever—and it will likely come with a price tag

A Long Time Coming for the Envision The Buick Envision has been coming to the US from China since 2017, quietly carrying a 25 percent import tariff the whole time. Built under the SAIC-GM partnership, it’s the only Buick in America that gets hit with these extra duties. Most buyers probably never noticed, but that tariff has been baked into the price for years. That’s about to change. GM has confirmed it will start building the Envision’s successor in the US starting in 2028. When that happens,

In the mid-2000s, before turbocharged BMW engines became commonplace, BMW crafted the S85 engine, a 5.0-liter naturally aspirated V10 that found a home in the E60 M5 sedan and the E63 and E64 M6 coupe and cabriolet, respectively. Its 8,250-rpm redline produced a sonorous wail, the likes of which have never been repeated in any M car — but that's about to change. The first-ever all-electric BMW M car is fast approaching, and while this, as a concept, is bound to infuriate some purists, the magici