2021 Ford Ranger Tremor

The new 2021 Tremor was an earth-shaking addition to the Ford Ranger lineup, instantly establishing itself as the best-driving, best-riding, and best-wheeling version of the aging midsize pickup.

2022 Honda Civic Si HPT

"Still a true driver’s car despite the numbers."

RIDING DRAGONS SHOULDN'T BE SO EASY

DRACARYS! ONE MAN'S ATTEMPT TO TAME THE MOST FEROCIOUS PAGANI YET

PORSCHE 911 GT3

DOMINATION IS IN ITS BLOOD

Contenders

MOTORTREND PERFORMANCE VEHICLE OF THE YEAR 2022

Lamborghini Essenza SCV12

A $2.5 MILLION SCREAMING GOOD TIME.

2022 GMC Hummer EV

Few production vehicles have ever had this much presence, this much drama.

2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT

Can an EV channel the Mustang GT spirit?

2022 Toyota Corolla Cross

Earning the famous nameplate.

Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX

The establishment strikes back.

EPA RANGE : The Great Equalizer and the Latest MT Metric

Whether a vehicle runs on fossil or electric energy, it’ll only run so far.

MCITY EXISTS TO MAKE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES LESS SCARY

THE RESEARCH BODY IS DEVELOPING TESTING PROTOCOLS IN ORDER TO WIN PUBLIC TRUST AND REDUCE CONCERNS ABOUT RIDING IN AVS

HOW CHINA'S AUTOMOTIVE FUTURE WILL DRIVE THE WORLD

THE INEVITABLE

2022 Ford Maverick

Redefining the (small) truck.

CARLOS GHOSN

SPEAKS ON HIS TIME IN A JAPANESE PRISON AND LIFE AS A WANTED FUGITIVE

2022 GMO Hummer EV

Our kind of monster.

2022 TOYOTA TUNDRA

THE ALL-NEW TRUCK AIMS AT THE HEART OF THE MARKET.

Powertrain Tech Deep Dive

CAR OF THE YEAR WINNER

LUCID AIR

THIS GAME-CHANGING ELECTRIC SEDAN POINTS THE WAY FORWARD

Lithium-sulfur battery promises 3x energy density, pricing that undercuts combustion.

Might lithium-sulfur batteries push solid-state aside as The Next Big Thing in battery technology? Silicon Valley battery tech company Lyten just came out of stealth mode at September's Motor Bella car show/mobility conference in metro Detroit after several years of federally funded research, and it made a very promising pitch: Triple the energy per weight!

The one new car I most want to drive.

The Big Picture

2021 Ford F-150

No, no—relax. There is no V-8 under the hood of the 2021 F-150 Raptor. At least, not yet—Ford says the eight-cylinder Raptor R super truck is rumbling its way toward the horizon break and should arrive sometime next year. For now, the standard Raptor is the top-of-the-line off-road baddie from the F-150 family.

2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz

MotorTrend’s Truck of the Year competition isn’t a comparison test, but when it came to the new Hyundai Santa Cruz, judges found it difficult to avoid comparisons with the Ford Maverick, the other new compact pickup that dropped this year.

2022 Ford Maverick

It’s been a long time since Americans have been able to buy a new compact pickup truck, but as the 2022 Ford Maverick proves, it’s not the size of your truck that matters, but rather how you use it.

2021 Honda Ridgeline

The 2021 Honda Ridgeline came back for 2021 with mostly small updates that made the unibody truck more distinctive without losing its metropolitan vibe.

2022 Mazda MX-30 EV

100-mile range makes this one a tough sell.

2022 Nissan Frontier

We waited nearly two decades for a new Nissan Frontier, so perhaps we let our expectations for the all-new 2022 model creep a bit too high.

2022 MOTORTREND SUV OF THE YEAR

THE BEST GENESIS VEHICLE EVER PUTS AN ENTIRE LUXURY SUV SEGMENT ON NOTICE GENESIS GV70

2022 Hyundai Kona N

An impressively great and practical time.

2022 Rimac Nevera

We had to make it quick, for now.