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2025 MOTOR TREND BEST TECH AWARDS
Motor Trend
|Summer 2025
AMIDST RAPID CHANGE AND RAMPANT HYPE, THESE AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES PROMISE A BETTER TOMORROW TODAY
Welcome to the era of downloadable horsepower and steering wheels with no mechanical connection to the front tires. Whether this intrigues you or infuriates you, don't get hung up on the state of technology today, because one thing's for sure in this reality: Tomorrow's cars will be different.
Change, of course, is constant. Humans have dreamed of faster, more capable, more efficient, more comfortable, or more reliable vehicles from the moment Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot hung a boiler on a three-wheeled horse cart in 1770. The only difference today is how furiously the pace of progress accelerates.
This story is from the Summer 2025 edition of Motor Trend.
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