March 2022

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Domestic and Foreign Car Reviews with an Emphasis on Performance and Style

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Digital Director Erik Johnson Executive Editor Mac Morrison @Mac_Morrison Deputy Editor, Daily Content Alex Stoklosa Daily Content Team Justin Banner, Greg Fink, Monica Gonderman, Alex Kierstein, Matt Rodriguez International Bureau Chief Angus MacKen
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Welcome To The Inevitable
Can you feel it? We certainly can. What has been a low static hiss with occasional pops and crackles is now building, like the feedback from a wall of Marshall amps. This hum of potential energy, of something big coming, is the sound of everyone goin
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EPA RANGE: The Great Equalizer and the Latest MT Metric
MotorTrend is adding a new line for EPA Range to all our specification panels. Why now? Beginning with this issue, we’re stepping up our coverage of vehicular progress’ inevitable march toward electrification and autonomy, and range still meaningfull
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2022 Kia EV6
Kia is far from the first mainstream brand to the EV party, but after our drive of the EV6, we can confirm this SUV ought to make the teams behind the Ford Mustang Mach-E and VW ID4 quite nervous. The EV6 offers 58.0-kWh and 77.4-kWh battery packs, a
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Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX
The Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX is what happens when a leading legacy carmaker turns its focus entirely to designing and engineering a better electric vehicle. In fact, the road-legal EQXX—it meets all crash regulations—may be one of the most consequen
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Your Say
Congratulations on documenting the “Pioneer Movement” Rivian R1T adventure in your January issue. It was an excellent way to highlight/evaluate a product and document a journey. It was the best MT article I have read; more such articles that incorpor
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2023 Mercedes-EQ EQB
Let’s be honest: No one who buys a compact SUV cares that much about what’s under the hood. A compact SUV is practical, sensible transportation that will get you and your stuff from A to B in all weather, with little thought or effort. The Mercedes-E
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Rear View
Think automaker scandals are new? In ’72 we delved into Chevrolet’s faulty motor mounts, which had a nasty tendency to break and allow engines to shift, pinning the accelerator linkage and opening the throttle wide. We also showed a cutaway drawing o
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Hyundai RM20e EV Prototype
The RM20e is essentially a Hyundai Veloster turned RWD mid-engine racer with 810 horsepower. That’s a crazy amount of muscle for your average race car, and especially one with a wheelbase this short. Oh, and did we mention it’s purely electric? Yet w
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The Inevitable Future, As Foretold by Nostratechnologus.
This issue is devoted to exploring the increasingly electrified and automated “inEVitable” future of mobility, looking 15 years or so down the road. Because that’s kind of what this page always sets out to do, I’ll spend this month’s word budget on a
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Welcome to THE INEVITABLE
THIS IS OUR FUTURE. Our new way of telling stories about mobility’s destiny. Turn the page to begin the journey, to experience our vision of what’s ahead for you, your car, and the way you’ll get around in the next 15 to 20 years. And stay tuned for
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Motortrend Apple Car 2.0: how We Did It
Speculation can be simple, a few folks gathered at a bar and wondering about the future. Bringing a physical manifestation of that future to life is much more complicated. Our process began with Garrett DeBry, an ArtCenter College of Design grad, con
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Hello Again
You laughed at us when we first imagined the Apple Car in 2016. “It’s too podlike and not exciting enough to wear the Apple logo,” you complained. But look who’s laughing now. Because the pod, for better or worse, is the future of automotive design.
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Day In The Life 2037
We asked scientists, auto executives, and forecasters what they thought a typical day in the life of a middle-class American would look like 15 years from now. How will they get around and go about their day? How much of what we read about today coul
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Mcity Exists To Make Autonomous Vehicles Less Scary
In 2037 when we hop into an autonomous shuttle, our biggest concern is whether our favorite seat is open. The notion this isn’t a safe way to travel never enters our mind. After generations of integrating ever more artificial intelligence into their
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The Holy Driver when Virtual Meets Reality
“The Holy Driver,” chapter six from the book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan, tells the story of Chamal, a talented and cocky young gamer from Sri Lanka who is recruited to take part in a mysterious Chinese project.
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How China’s Automotive Future Will Drive The World
Michael Dunne can pinpoint the moment when the Chinese auto industry’s electric vehicle revolution began in earnest, and credit is due the same company that spurred a similar EV awakening in America. “Ever since Tesla got there in January 2020, we’ve
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An Electrifyingly Good Time
A week before Porsche let us behind the wheel of its Mission R race car concept, it mandated we partake in “high-voltage” training via video conference with the company’s engineering team in Germany. The gist of the call: green lights good, red light
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The Ev And Carbon-neutral Accountability Index
Gas- and diesel-swilling internal combustion engines are dirty things, which is why automakers are introducing electric vehicles as emission-free alternatives. Admittedly, “emission-free” is a relative term, as the complexity of manufacturing a vehic
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Gas Who
COMPARISON TEST 2022 Lucid Air Grand Touring vs. 2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS 580 4Matic HEY, GASOLINE NUTS! The conspiracy theories are true: Cars like the 2022 Mercedes-EQ EQS and 2022 Lucid Air are coming to take your V-8s away. We’re here to confirm the
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New School
In 2040, multidisciplinary collaboration will give us car designs that serve us better. The Lincoln concept you see here, created by a group of students from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, is the result of an experiment, one tha
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Mt Garage
EPA City/Hwy/Comb Fuel Econ 25/32/28 mpg Base Price $30,090 As Tested $33,530 Many of Nissan’s SUVs rank midpack or lower in our buyer’s guide segments, but that’s not the case with the Rogue, one of our favorite compact SUVs. Fresh off a full redesi
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Has The Ultimate Driving Machine Run Out Of Road?
BMW began making cars in 1928, but it wasn’t until 1966 that the marque figured out what it stood for. That was the year it launched the first of its 02 Series models: compact, rear-drive cars that were light, agile, and enjoyable to drive. The 02s,
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2021 Citroën Ami: Tiny, Electric, and Not Quite a Car
Depending on your point of view, the 2021 Citroën Ami is either a deeply pragmatic take on personal mobility or an idea for a car that should be thrown into the sixth circle of Hell. Whatever your take, this much is clear: The Ami is one of the quirk

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