Motor Trend magazine just announced that the 2011 Porsche Cayenne has won its 2011 Sport/Utility of the Year Award. “It’s that breadth of performance capability, combined with the Cayenne’s roomy and comfortable interior and reasonably capacious cargo hold, that helped it nail our performance of intended function criteria,” Motor Trend said. “With strong showings in [...]
The 2010 Ford Fusion sedan was chosen as MOTOR TREND’s 2010 Car of the Year. “Ford has proven its resilience in these tough times by delivering to market a car with broad appeal to a broad range of consumers,” said Angus MacKenzie, MOTOR TREND editor-in-chief. “The Fusion range has matured into a competitive roster of [...]
Subaru of America announced today that its 2010 Subaru Outback has won the Motor Trend’s 2010 SUV of Year award. That’s two consecutive wins for Subaru, which also won the Motor Trend’s 2009 SUV of Year with its Forester model. “The 2010 Subaru Outback offers a unique combination of comfort, efficiency, versatility and value,” said Motor [...]
It’s that time of the year again – when Motor Trend picks the “Motor Trend SUV of the Year” for the year 2010. Last year’s award went to the 2009 Subaru Forester. It seems as though this year, Motor Trend has focused most of its attention on luxury SUVs. Either way, stay tuned for the winner who [...]
Remember Motor Trend’s Best-Handling Car multipage feature? Well, the publication announced today that from here on out, the feature will now be known as Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car. “Motor Trend is not looking for the quickest car over the quarter mile, the car that pulls the highest lateral g through a turn, or even [...]
We love our Top Gear – a lot. We’ll do anything to watch the most recent episodes whether it means jumping on YouTube and sorting our search results by “Relevance” or doing the whole bit torrent thing. One of our all time favorite segments was when Hammond raced a Bugatti Veyron against a fighter jet. [...]
No big surprise here (well at least to us) - Motor Trend has awarded the 2009 Ford F-150 the 2009 Motor Trend Truck of the Year. While rivals Dodge Ram and Toyota Tundra are really strong pickups, the rules have been changed this time around. “Fuel prices skyrocketed, the economy tanked, consumer confidence evaporated, and folks [...]
The other day during Thanksgiving dinner a couple of us were arguing about the 0 to 60 time of the new 332-hp 2009 Nissan 370Z as reported by CARandDRIVER. The automotive enthusiast magazine said that the new Z goes from rest to 60 in 5 seconds which seemed a bit awkward to us since the [...]
Here it is – your 2009 Motor Trend Car of the Year. The Nissan GT-R, aka Godzilla, has claimed the number one spot from other impressive contenders. “The GT-R puts Nissan on a map that thus far only designated Maranello, Sant’ Agata, Munich, and Stuttgart as points of interest,” said Motor Trend editor Ron Kiino. ”Well, [...]
While Motor Trend was hanging out at Chrysler’s Arizona Proving Grounds in over half a million dollars worth of the world’s hottest cars, they decided it was the perfect opportunity to take each vehicle to its top speed. Check out these videos of the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Porsche 911 GT2, Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and the [...]
