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Drifting takes serious car control skills. Sure, anyone can mash the throttle in a rear-wheel-drive vehicle and induce momentary oversteer, but to actually maintain that drift means you've graduated to a new level of car control entirely.

The Volkswagen ID.4 is dead—long live the Volkswagen ID. Tiguan. Rumor has it that the facelifted ID.4 will now carry the Tiguan name, bringing a familiar nameplate to the brand’s popular electric SUV.

The Autostadt museum next to Volkswagen’s factory in Wolfsburg is the gift that keeps on giving. With so many wild experiments secretly developed during the Ferdinand Piëch era, this VW Group–owned destination is well worth a visit. We recently talked about a Lamborghini Diablo SV with a W16, but there’s…

Since 2020, Suzuki has had the Across SUV in its lineup—essentially a rebadged Toyota RAV4 with a plug-in-hybrid powertrain. With the arrival of the new RAV4 just recently, Suzuki’s sibling SUV has also been updated as the latest-generation Across. And here it is.

Customers are getting fed up with touchscreens in their cars—and automakers are finally starting to take notice. After years of piling more and more functions into giant central displays, car companies are beginning to reverse course, reintroducing physical buttons and knobs in greater numbers than we’ve seen in years.

Carmakers have been trying to predict the future since the beginning of time. Buick is considered a pioneer, introducing the Y-Job in 1938, widely regarded as the first concept car ever built. In the decades that followed, all brands peered into their crystal balls to imagine the cars of tomorrow,…

Ferrari is unveiling its first electric vehicle in three phases. Today, we know its name: Luce, which means "light" or "illumination" in Italian. The automaker previously detailed the vehicle's technical specs, and now it’s showing us the interior ahead of the full reveal later this year.  

Rumors of the Nissan Altima’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Despite the waning popularity of mainstream sedans in general over the last decade, Nissan’s mid-sizer is sticking around for another year. Where the Altima’s road ultimately leads is still uncertain, but one thing’s undeniable: the early-2020s meme ecosystem wouldn’t have…

There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Mazda’s rotary engine aspirations. Although the MX-30 crossover with a rotary range-extending engine failed to catch on, the RX dream is still alive. A new sports car positioned above the Miata has been an on-again, off-again affair ever since the…