What Happened To Scion? Scion was supposed to bring younger buyers to Toyota. Instead, the brand faded away after just 13 years. Motor1 · Sep 4
Automakers Tell Congress To Ban Chinese Connected Cars, Permanently The Alliance for Automotive Innovation urges Congress to turn temporary Commerce rules and steep tariffs into permanent law restricting Chinese connected vehicles. Motor1 · Sep 4
Man Goes To Discount Tire For Rotation. Then, A Snap. The Manager Is Speechless: ‘I’ve Never Seen That Before’ "Keep receipts and sue like 1000%." Motor1 · Sep 4
Two Popular SUVs Just Nabbed IIHS Top Safety Pick+: One Has A Catch IIHS now reserves its toughest Top Safety Pick+ rating for the latest Kia Telluride and Tesla Model Y builds that ace crash and avoidance tests. Motor1 · Sep 4
Bugatti Says No To Fake Engine Sounds, Yes To 'Dirty And Raw' V16 Notes The company knows its new 8.3-liter engine doesn't have the cleanest sound, but that's part of its character. Motor1 · Sep 4
BMW Recalls 189,130 3, 5 And 7 Series Over Starter Relay Fire Risk German regulators flagged a faulty starter relay on BMW 3, 5 and 7 Series sedans, prompting a free recall fix through the dealer network. Motor1 · Sep 4
Jensen's Reborn Sports Car Debuts With Nearly 1,000 Horsepower And A Manual For now, it's just a prototype, but the 960-horsepower Interceptor GTX previews Jensen's future road cars. Motor1 · Sep 4
Was It Fate? Hamilton Drove His Ferrari F40 To Monza With 44 Stamped On The Engine Hamilton’s Ferrari F40 arrived at Monza with a restored engine block stamped 44, a coincidence tying his race number to the car’s backstory. Motor1 · Sep 4
Americans Give A Shift: Half Of BMW M2s Are Manuals BMW's smallest M car with a third pedal has a 50 percent take rate in the United States. Motor1 · Sep 4
GMC Canyon Flunks IIHS Tests, Earns No Top Safety Pick Awards Rear passengers and front crash prevention hold the 2026 GMC Canyon crew cab back from IIHS Top Safety Pick honors. Motor1 · Sep 4
Honda Wants ‘Extremely Large’ Cost Cuts, More Chinese Parts The Japanese company is looking to slash more than $9 billion in supplier costs by 2030. Motor1 · Sep 4
Volkswagen Will Cut 50,000 Jobs And Slash Half Its Models By 2035 Future Plan 2030 slashes 50,000 additional jobs and half the lineup by 2035, reshaping Volkswagen Group plants and model choices for drivers. Motor1 · Sep 4
Mechanic Needs To Replace The Starter On This Car. Then He Realizes What It’ll Require: ‘Talk About Junk’ 'Don’t want the owners to do basic maintenance.' Motor1 · Sep 4
Man Offers To Buy Ford Mustang. What Happens Next Is Why It’s Hard To Buy Cars Out-Of-State "Ask for their flight info." Motor1 · Sep 4
Motor1 · Sep 3 Woman Gets Into Uber. Then She Notices Her Driver Is Messing With Nylon Zip Ties: ‘Why Waymo Is Superior’ 'My heart was RACINGGGGGGGG.'
Motor1 · Sep 3 Was The DeLorean Actually A Terrible Sports Car? Yes And No The DeLorean looked like it came from the future. Unfortunately, its performance was mostly stuck in the past.
Motor1 · Sep 3 Volkswagen's Seat Brand Might Be On The Chopping Block: Report Volkswagen Group wants to pour its resources into Cupra, which is selling quite well.
Motor1 · Sep 3 This Powerful Plug-In-Hybrid Setup Could Make Off-Roading Easier Horse Powertrain's new PHEV setup makes a whopping 3,164 pound-feet of torque at the wheels and promises improved off-road capability.
Motor1 · Sep 3 The Mazda CX-90 PHEV Gets Electrification Just Right: Driven The CX-90 PHEV offers useful electric range, an upscale cabin, and the driving dynamics Mazda is known for.
Motor1 · Sep 3 Winners And Losers From August Auto Sales Affordable models and hybrids continue to return record sales for several automakers while EV sales cratered.
Motor1 · Sep 3 This Lotus Elise Costs $472,500 And Puts The Driver In The Center Analogue Automotive reworks the Lotus Elise S1 with a 250-horsepower K-Series, sub-600-kilogram weight, and a radical single central bucket seat.
Motor1 · Sep 3 Mechanic Pops Customer’s Hood. Then He Sees What The Last Mechanic Left Behind: ‘I Audibly Gasped’ “You know he accused every other mechanic in his shop."
Motor1 · Sep 3 Why Some Cars Have Different Colored Brake Calipers They're not just there to look pretty. Here's why automakers paint brake calipers different colors.
Motor1 · Sep 3 GM’s New In-Car Cameras Now Record Passengers After OTA Update New Cabin Glance, Surround Vision Recorder, and Security Recording tools reshape how General Motors cars film passengers and store footage locally.
Motor1 · Sep 3 Volkswagen Rumored To Close Four German Plants, 140,000 Jobs At Risk EVs like the Volkswagen ID.4, ID.7 and Audi Q4 E-Tron could shift to lower-cost plants abroad, reshaping availability and pricing.