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No brand has made a bigger bet on battery power than Toyota. Of the products it offers in the U.S. today, 16 are offered in gas-electric form. With a growing number of models, like the latest Camry, they’re only available as hybrid. On the flip side, the Japanese automaker has been among the slowest to adopt pure battery-electric technology. Until now, anyway. Entering the new yea

American startup Slate is still on track to disrupt the pickup truck segment with the most affordable model in the market. The promised mid-$20,000 price point would make the Slate EV the cheapest pickup truck in the country, and by far the cheapest fully electric pickup. But we’ve seen how pricing promises in the development stage can crumble by the time vehicles roll off the production line—just look at the TeslaCybertruck, which never came close to its promised sub-$30,000 price—but an update

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more awesome finds and more awesome parts. His collector car wrecking yard is one of the finest in the country, and we’ve been there several times and taken home multiple parts and cars. This place is great and Chad is always on the lookout for more cars and parts to stock the yard. The Chevy II Nova convertible in the video below is one of his farm finds and we dig it. This one has neat history and is a real find. We dig it, and we know you will too, so check it

It’s on! How cool is it to take three drivers from completely different motorsports and put them head to head in a variety of off-road vehicles, on a variety of off-road terrain, to see who’s the best overall? Really f’ing cool. In this video, from a remote and awesome facility in New Zealand, you are going to see some off-road action that is going to have you cheering, some that will have you jearing, and some that will have you laughing. This one has it all. Video Description: Three of New Z

I’m not sure there has every been a Dodge Caravan that was cleaner and cooler than this one right here, and the engine swap hasn’t even happened yet! Okay, knowing about the engine swap makes it cooler than it would be otherwise, but I think that’s okay. Don’t you? Watch, this is going to be something special. Video Description: This week on Stay Tuned, Tony Angelo and the Stay Tuned crew get back on their turbo sleeper Dodge Caravan to add BIG POWER! With the killer help of AGP Turbo, the dud

Jeep’s Super Wagoneer from the 1960s was among the earliest luxury SUVs the world ever saw. Much like the Range Rover that came after it, it combined serious off-road ability with an opulent cabin and ride. Today, the Super Wagoneer name itself is no longer part of the lineup, with the brand focusing on models like the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, as well as the tried-and-tested Wrangler instead. However, restomod specialist Vigilante 4x4 has resurrected a 1966 Super Wagoneer and transformed it

Why the Used EV Market Is Rising The used EV surge isn’t accidental; it’s the direct consequence of a massive leasing boom that started around 2022. A classification loophole in the Inflation Reduction Act allowed leased EVs to qualify for commercial tax credits, which allowed manufacturers to put their cost savings directly into very low lease rates. EV leasing soared between 2022 and mid 2025, and now those 24- to 36-month leases are maturing. Around 215,000 EVs are projected to come off lease

Volvo's Road to Electrification Like many automakers, Volvo dabbled with a few electrification experiments back in the day. There was the 1976 Elbil prototype, a boxy, smaller-than-subcompact city car that served more as a test bed than an actual consumer product. Ten years after that, the company built the 480 Electric Prototype, which was a far more usable vehicle than the Elbil. In 1992, Volvo rolled out the ECC Concept, which featured a gas turbine and an electric motor, effectively making i

Back in 2007, in a moment of because-we-can silliness that mass market car companies could only justify in those heady pre-financial crash days, Volkswagen decided to stuff one of its almighty W12 engines into the middle of a fifth-generation Golf GTI for a one-off show car. Why? Partly, it was a treat for GTI fans attending the now-dead GTI Treffen fan gathering in Wörthersee, Austria that year, but mainly, we suspect it was because some VW engineers had some free time and a spare W12 sitting a

Driverless cab operator Waymo already has fully-fledged services in several cities across the US, and has plans to drastically increase that service in multiple new locations throughout 2026. In a U-turn on legislation proposed last month, though, one of those places won’t be New York State, as Governor Kathy Hochul has hit the brakes on an initiative that would have allowed Waymo and other companies like it to operate autonomous ride-hailing services outside of New York City. Related: Waymo's Z

The Land of Enchantment isn’t exactly enchanting drivers lately. While New Mexico often enjoys some of the lower fuel costs in the western mountains region, a mix of refinery maintenance and legislative drama surrounding the Clear Horizons Act has prevented prices from dipping as much as many expected. Despite a slight week-over-week drop, the looming shift to more expensive summer-blend gasoline is already casting a shadow over New Mexico. Geopolitical tensions and price peaks in some areas of

Chevrolet has ruffled a few feathers with its latest halo car, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. While traditional supercars are often scarce and wildly expensive, the ZR1 flips that script. With 1,064 hp from its twin-turbo V8 and a 0 to 60 mph time of 2.2 seconds, plus a starting price around $185,000 in the US, it delivers performance that rivals far pricier machines. Then there's the even quicker all-wheel-drive ZR1X variant, which zooms from 0 to 60 mph in just 1.68 seconds, making it America's q

PHEVs: The Best Compromise? It's easy to understand the appeal of a plug-in hybrid vehicle. You get a decent amount of battery-only range, and you don't get the typical range anxiety one might get from a pure-electric vehicle. If it's out of juice, it acts like a normal hybrid, so it's still relatively efficient — at least that's the promise these PHEVs deliver. On paper, it sounds like the best of both worlds. However, a recent study in Germany has revealed that some PHEVs consume up to three t

Genesis’ Flagship of Flagships Genesis is about to do something that would have seemed unlikely just a few years back: build a mid-engine supercar to top its luxury range. The Magma GT, as it’s called, isn’t just another concept or a one-off showpiece. It’s set to go into production before the decade is out, and Genesis is treating it as a real cornerstone for the brand, not just a headline grabber. The real twist is how long Genesis plans to keep the Magma GT around. Rather than a one-generatio

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock and Super Stock Eliminator, plus Competition Eliminator and all your favorite Super categories. This is points racing and while it isn’t for big money, it is still a big deal as these points might end up being what gives someone the Divisional or National Championship in 2026. Watch all the racing act

Posh Looks, Bargain Price After more than a decade in production, Mitsuoka is closing the order books on one of its most eccentric creations. The Ryugi Final Edition marks the end of new sedan sales, with the company beginning to accept orders on February 20 for a strictly limited run of just 20 units in Japan. Pricing starts at ¥3,305,500 (approximately $21,247 USD) for the gasoline model and rises to ¥3,855,500 (about $24,785 USD) for the hybrid, positioning it as a hand-finished niche offerin

We’re only a couple of months in 2026, but Toyota vehicles have already been in the news a couple of times for recalls. First there were the starter motor issues thought to affect around 800 GR Supras that could cause the motor to fail and, in rare cases, start a fire; and then there was the Prius being hit with a second recall for rear doors that could unexpectedly open when the car was in motion. Now, there’s another Toyota model being called back for a preventative fix, although this time it

Not Just Another Fast Civic German tuning company Dragy demonstrates just how much headroom exists in the Civic Type R FL5's factory platform. The so-called “Stage 3” build that retains a completely stock engine internally, yet delivers supercar-level acceleration figures. Rather than opening the motor, the build focuses on airflow, turbocharging, and fueling upgrades to extract maximum output from the factory K20C1 architecture. The hardware list is serious: Hondata cams, an Eventuri carbon int

A Quiet Goodbye for the Executive Sedan The Lexus ES was never the flashiest sedan in the luxury segment, but it’s been a substantial seller for the luxury marque in America. Since 2015, it’s been a mainstay for Lexus in North America, consistently delivering what buyers wanted. With the last US-built ES, that chapter comes to a close. Toyota North America confirmed on LinkedIn that the last US-built Lexus ES has left the Georgetown, Kentucky plant. In total, 438,133 units were produced there, b

In recent times, North Carolina-based Signature Autosports has been rebuilding modern sports cars with bodies that look vintage, like a Porsche Boxster that mimics a Porsche 356 and a Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing replica built on Mercedes SLK bones, but now it's gone in a different direction by shoving a supercharged Hellcat engine under the hood of a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. The company's one-off combines the off-road capability of the iconic SUV with hardcore supercharged power, and it's for sale, b

Apple Car Key, Now With a Toyota Badge Apple’s digital car key first appeared in 2020, and, really, it just made sense. If your car already unlocked itself when you got close, swapping the fob for your phone was the next logical step. Since then, Apple Car Key has quietly spread to more brands – Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo are all on board. Toyota is finally joining the party, but there’s a catch: right now, only the 2026 RAV4 (and only certain trims) in the US get

Our spy photographers have finally brought us some winter testing pics of an upcoming car without snow covering everything, and what they've spotted is the refreshed Mercedes-AMG CLE Convertible, a direct rival to the BMW M4 Convertible, and it may have V8 power. This is a fight that Audi won't be joining, as the new RS 5 is only available as a sedan or wagon, with no coupes or cabriolets on the way. For the record, the current CLE top dog is the straight-six-powered AMG 53, and it has four roun

Things are going from bad to worse for Nissan's innovative VC-Turbo engine. Last year, a recall over manufacturing defects in the engine bearings affected almost 444,000 Nissan and Infiniti products, and now the automaker has issued two recalls for 2023-2025 Nissan Rogue vehicles with three-cylinder 1.5-liter variable compression engines. The first recall on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's portal states that gears in the electronic throttle body assembly may break, potential

Tesla has introduced a new Dual-Motor All-Wheel-Drive trim for the Cybertruck. Slotting in below the Premium AWD model, the new trim has a much lower starting price of $59,990. After cheaper versions of the Model 3 and Model Y were introduced last year, the Cybertruck is now following suit with a more affordable trim of its own. But, as with those smaller Teslas, a few key features have been removed from the new Dual-Motor AWD trim to make the price cut possible. Let’s take a deeper dive into wh

If you are going to go quicker than 11.50 seconds in the quarter mile, and you are doing that in a classic car, then you are going to need a roll bar in that car. If you have one, you can then go as quick as 10.00 in the quarter mile under normal circumstances. 9.99 and quicker will require a roll cage, but undoubtedly someone reading this will ignore the fact that I said “classic” car and will yell at me that you can run as quick as 9.00 without a roll bar in late model cars newer than 2014, th