Category: Reviews

BMW is set to unveil the new M5 Touring next month during 2024 Monterey Car Week. The debut will take place on Aug. 15 in Pebble Beach, and BMW has already confirmed sales of the super wagon are planned for the U.S. The new M5 sedan made its debut in June and is due to start deliveries late this year. It arrives as a 2025 model and has been priced…

The world’s most famous automotive seat manufacturer is out of money. On Monday, Automobilwoche reported Recaro Automotive filed bankruptcy through Germany’s Esslingen District Court. Recaro Automotive GmbH reportedly has 215 employees at its factory in Kirchheim under Teck, Germany. Autocar reported employees were caught off guard and not made…

The 2025 Ram 1500 Tungsten is the S-Class of pickup trucks The V-8 is dead, and a high-output turbo-6 is exceedingly powerful The 2025 Ram 1500 Tungsten carries a luxury price at $89,070 Anyone looking for the nicest full-size pickup truck money can buy should just head to their local Ram showroom. The 2025 Ram 1500 sports a redesign that sees the…

The 2025 Chevrolet Corvette costs $69,995 The Corvette E-Ray and Z06 both received $2,000 price increases The Corvette lineup carries over for 2025 outside the addition of the ZR1 The Chevrolet Corvette enters the 2025 model year with few changes, though for fans of extreme performance there’s a new generation of the ZR1 on offer. It joins the…

Lamborghini’s next-generation mid-engine supercar has a date with destiny. On Monday, during the automaker’s latest sales report Lamborghini announced the Huracán successor will debut on Aug. 16 at the 2024 Monterey Car Week. The debut will mark the full hybridization of the Lamborghini lineup. The new model carries the code-name 634 and…

Rivian revealed what at first looked like a very lightly updated R1 model line that appeared almost identical to the vehicle it’s been selling since 2021. However, the exterior changes do not indicate how much work has been done to these trucks under the skin. Once you discover all the changes, you understand why Rivian bills these revised trucks as a new generation.

Jordan Schiefer of Out of Spec Reviews lined up pre- and post-refresh R1S SUVs to see what’s different and whether the new truck is more than just a facelift. In this lengthy video, Jordan, with a voiceless Kyle Conner behind the camera, goes over all of the visible changes and the ones you can’t see.

The biggest change under the skin is using drive units that Rivian now makes in-house. All pre-refresh R1 trucks with more than two motors had Bosch drive units, but now Rivian makes its own. It’s currently only building dual-motor vehicles, but it plans to launch tri-motor and quad-motor R1s with much more power than before.

The quad-motor will get a power boost from 835 horsepower to 1,025 hp, while torque will go up from 908 pound-feet to 1,198 lb-ft. Rivian says this will give its trucks an acceleration time from a standstill to 60 mph of under 2.5 seconds. The new tri-motor will have more power than the outgoing quad-motor, 850 hp, and can complete the benchmark sprint in a claimed 2.9 seconds.

Another significant under-the-skin change is the switch to an LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) battery pack for the base dual-motor R1 and adding a heat pump. It gives the R1T and R1S an EPA range of 270 miles on one charge. Out of Spec put a second-gen R1S dual-motor through the 70 mph range test, and the real-world highway result was 241 miles.

In this video, they go through more minor changes, like how the front and rear light bars are different. In revised R1s, you now get an emergency function that uses the rear light bar to direct traffic around the vehicle if it’s stopped in a dangerous, low-visibility area—it lights up segments on the light bar to indicate the direction to go around the stopped truck.

They also point out that the front light bar is more different than you might be able to spot at first glance. Whereas the pre-refresh truck had a diffuse effect on the whole light bar, the new one has more depth to it and looks quite different in person—let us know in the comments which style light bar you prefer. You can easily tell the difference if you have the older truck parked next to it like they have in the video.

Pre-refresh trucks seem to have better-quality door handles and door-opening mechanisms. The R1S they had in the video had squeaky handles, which was not a problem for the older version, even after a few years. They also point out that the door itself feels lighter and that there are subtle differences in the plastic used for the door card—this could be evidence of cost-cutting.

Other differences they found were the number of cameras on the side mirrors, the charging port, the interior, and the driving modes. If you want a complete breakdown of everything different between the two generations, this video should answer most of your questions.

Carlos Sainz has a ride for the 2025 Formula 1 season and beyond. On Monday, the Spaniard announced via Instagram he signed with Wiliams Racing for 2025 and 2026 on a two-year contract. Williams said the contract has the option to be extended. The move will see Sainz join Alex Albon and replace Logan Sargeant. Sainz will continue to race the…

Mercedes-Benz AMG’s Lewis Hamilton claimed victory on Sunday at the 2024 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix after teammate George Russell, who was the first to cross the finish line, was disqualified for an underweight car. A post-race weigh in resulted in Russell’s car weighing 796.5 kilograms (approximately 1,756 pounds), or 1.5 less (3.3 pounds) than…

When you buy new or used from a car dealer, you could drive home with more than a new set of wheels. A number of options, accessories and dealer add-ons could come along for the ride, bundled into the monthly payment. They can add up, so consider them carefully. This guide should help you decide what’s right for you, and show you how to…

North Carolina Toyota Land Cruiser specialist TLC 4×4 has released a new restomod that fuses different Land Cruiser generations into one capable off-roader. The 1989 FJ142 Land Cruiser maintains the style of a 1980s Land Cruiser with the body from the FJ62 model sold during that decade. But that body sits on the frame from a later FZJ80 Land…