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The Toyota Tacoma remains one of the most popular pickup trucks in America, posting huge sales figures year after year. This past year was no exception. The mid-size pickup just wrapped up its best 12 months ever, more than 30 years after debuting in the US.

General Motors released its annual sales reports, and it's good news all around. GM sold more vehicles in 2025 than it did in 2024, with sales across the automaker’s four brands in the United States increasing by 5.5 percent last year, with the company moving a whopping 2,853,299 vehicles.  

Europeans, yours truly included, once looked down on Americans because we preferred smaller cars to gas-guzzling SUVs. However, the past few years have shown we’re not any better. Oversized, high-riding models have also taken over the Old Continent. SUVs held a 41.3 percent market share in 2020, but that figure…

As with many other automakers, Volkswagen has taken plenty of flak for cramming most functions into touchscreens. However, Wolfsburg appears to be listening to customer feedback by bringing back dedicated controls for frequently used features. The ID. Polo leads the company’s push for an intuitive dashboard layout that doesn’t require…

Not all Formula 1 innovations end up in supercars. Some of them end up in some of the most ordinary places imaginable. In this case, it's the chilled aisle of your local supermarket. The open-fronted cabinets that make it easy to reach in and grab a bottle of soda have…

Sometimes it's tough to get a valuable, accurate read on long-term reliability and quality when it comes to new cars. But how often a certain manufacturer issues recalls is, at the very least, a good place to start.

We got an early glimpse of Red Bull’s first road-going hypercar back in July of 2024. Today, though, the company has locked in the final design of its RB17 hypercar before it goes on sale this year—and it looks wicked.

It’s been 20 years since Bugatti began building new cars, launching the 1,000-horsepower Veyron 16.4 in 2005. Capable of reaching 253 miles per hour with its quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W-16 engine, the Veyron redefined what was possible in a production vehicle. Now a special one-off from Bugatti will allegedly honor the…

As of January 1, 2026, Alpina is officially part of the BMW Group. With the acquisition announced back in 2022 now complete, BMW has given its newly absorbed luxury marque a unique name: BMW Alpina.