The 1977 Ford Thunderbird arrived with a remarkably confident sales pitch: “The benefits of a brand-new flight plan.” That sounds less like a car advertisement than a briefing from an airline executive who has just discovered vinyl upholstery, but the phrase captured...
BMW and Mercedes-AMG are doing what they have been doing for decades: placing two performance-minded machines next to each other and daring everyone to decide which one feels more convincing. This time, the contestants are the 2026 BMW X3 M50 and the 2027 Mercedes-AMG...
The 2026 Subaru Crosstrek has finally received the mechanical upgrade owners have been asking for: a 2.5-liter flat-four engine is now standard across the lineup, producing 180 horsepower. That figure is not particularly outrageous in a world where compact SUVs...
The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport has always occupied the useful bit of the performance-car spectrum: serious enough to make lesser sports cars nervous, but not so extreme that every trip becomes an expedition into unnecessary punishment. For 2027, that Goldilocks...
Before the Honda Odyssey became the familiar big family shuttle with sliding doors, ample chrome, and enough cupholders to host a small conference, it was something rather stranger: a tall, front-wheel-drive Honda built on passenger-car hardware and determined not to...
The third-generation Mazda RX-7 was never interested in being sensible. It had a tiny rotary engine, a low nose, rear-wheel drive, two seats in spirit if not always in the brochure, and the sort of proportions that made ordinary coupes look as though they had been...
