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The Toyota Grand Highlander starts at $42,310 for 2025. If you have an encyclopedic memory of Toyota’s pricing structure, you might notice that the 2025 Grand Highlander is actually cheaper than the model it replaces. The 2024 Grand Highlander started at $44,715.

$13,600–that’s how much Toyota is charging for the Hilux Champ in Thailand. Depending on the market, the barebones pickup also goes by the name of Hilux Rangga, Hilux Tamaraw, and Hilux Stout. It was previewed in late 2022 by the IMV 0 concept before going into production last year as…

To say Volkswagen is going through a rough patch would be an understatement. The Group’s latest numbers look terrible: Earnings after tax collapsed by 63.7% in the third quarter when sales dropped by 8.3%. Through this year's first nine months, profits are down 30.7% and sales are 4.4% lower. CEO…

Toyota knows how to keep enthusiasts happy: By selling fun cars like the 86, Supra, and GR Corolla. Outside the United States, the feisty GR Yaris hot hatch also exists. The Japanese brand even recently suggested the Supra would live on after the BMW Z4’s demise, likely in 2026. Better yet,…

Remember the Nissan GT-R50? First introduced as a concept in 2018, it went into production in late 2020, with a total of 19 units built. Based on the GT-R Nismo, the GT-R50 uses unique body panels by coach builder Italdesign, giving it the sense the car just hopped out of Gran…

If you want to touch history, book a trip to Italy. Here, past and present are neighbors. Ancient relics and modern marvels dance cheek-to-cheek, reminding us that so much of what we cherish today was first discovered, cultivated and enshrined by societies that walked this earth ages ago. In a…

Well, they did it. The Garage 54 crew has installed its V-16 chainsaw engine in a Lada. The team built the engine, comprised of 16 58-cc, two-stroke Hüter BS-62 chainsaws, in a previous video, and the channel’s latest upload shows them putting it through a proper road test after fitting…

You've seen the tiny engine videos on YouTube. We've covered a few of them here, and after every post, we're tempted to buy one. They're cool on pretty much every level, but they aren't cheap. The V-12 featured here is made by Chuanqi and costs $3,000. That's a lot for…

I’m sure the Toyota 2000GT needs no introduction, so I’ll just point out a very unfortunate fact of life for us mere mortals. If you want one today, plan on spending at least $1 million. Here's another downer: Only 351 of them were built, so the odds of even seeing…

If you work on cars, you probably own a torque wrench. Responsible for tightening nuts and bolts down to precise measurements, they're used mostly for assembling things like engines, where fasteners have to be tightened with a specific amount of force to function properly. How a torque wrench works is…

Even before the eighth-generation Corvette debuted, there were rumors of a bonkers new model named after Zora Arkus-Duntov—the father of the Corvette. The famed Chevrolet engineer envisioned a powerful, mid-engine sports car decades before the C8 arrived. Concept cars through the 1980s and 1990s teased the future, but sadly, Zora…