When an EV startup is founded by sports car fans who can also read a financial sheet, you get the all-electric, all-wheel-drive Rivian R1T pickup truck. Rivian was founded in 2008 to produce a performance coupe, as it is what CEO RJ Scaringe and director of vehicle dynamics Max Koff desired. Consumers, on the other…
General Motors is the automotive industry’s granddaddy. The Detroit-based company is credited with creating America’s first muscle vehicle in 1949, and it has been producing hits for over 70 years. Although today’s muscle vehicles may differ from their predecessors in appearance, the concept remains the same: cram a massive V8 engine under the hood and…
It’s uncommon to be able to drive off-roading completely silently, but the 2021 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara 4xe provides exactly that: an unexpectedly peaceful trip through the woods. That’s because the Wrangler 4xe (pronounced “four by e”) has a 400-volt, 17-kilowatt-hour, 96-cell battery pack mounted in the middle of the vehicle, providing enough power for…
We’re here to help if you’ve ever felt out of your depth when someone mentioned a supercar, a pony car, or even just a sports car. Words change their meaning with time, and the same is true of the definitions of high-performance specialized cars, whose names are evolving and whose upper limit continues to rise…
Electric cars have developed a reputation for being very bland over time. The lack of throttle or steering response in prior generation electric cars was regarded as a sacrifice for the sake of fuel efficiency, but it was primarily the result of early EV development’s technological restrictions. That is no longer the case, especially now…