Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc drove to victory on Sunday at the 2024 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, which served as round eight of the current season. A native of Monaco, it was Leclerc’s first win at his home event in six attempts. The Ferrari driver also clinched pole position, which is crucial in a race run…
Aston Martin’s DBS successor will feature a new V-12 engine because it’s what its customers want, Alex Long, the automaker’s head of product and marketing strategy, said in a recent interview with CarThrottle. The engine was recently confirmed by Aston Martin to be a newly developed version of the existing twin-turbocharged 5.2-liter V-12, and carry…
Ford is working on position-sensitive dampers to make off-roaders like the Bronco Raptor even better, a new patent filing shows. The patent filing in question was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on May 16, after being filed by Ford earlier in the year. And it describes updated position-sensitive dampers suited…
Jean Bugatti was a designer who showed off his talents with several cars launched by his father Ettore Bugatti’s company, and the latest customized Chiron from Bugatti’s Sur Mesure personalization department honors one of them. Dubbed the 55 1 of 1, this Chiron wears the distinctive black-and-yellow livery of Jean Bugatti’s personal Type 55 Super…
Lamborghini this week revealed a newly developed twin-turbocharged V-8 engine that will form part of a plug-in hybrid powertrain for the successor to the Huracán. The new supercar is due out this year, and its V-8 alone will deliver 791 hp. 2024 Jeep Wagoneer S Jeep’s been selling an electric vehicle overseas since 2022, but…
Power running boards and built-in bumper steps are common features on new pickup trucks, but a new Ford patent filing effectively combines them. The filing, which was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on May 21, and submitted by Ford in 2021, is for a deployable step for the rear bumper…
BMW will use the 2024 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este running this weekend on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como to present the Concept Skytop, an open-top two-seater packing a powerful V-8 engine. New model launches are dominated today by electric vehicles, typically in an SUV form factor, but the Concept Skytop reminds us of a…
Volkswagen is readying a new generation of its Golf GTI Clubsport, and we’ll see the covers come off on May 31. The debut will take place on the sidelines of the 2024 24 Hours of Nürburgring which kicks off the next day, and where a modified version built for racing, known as the Golf GTI…
Porsche on Thursday became the third automaker to commit to the Gen4 era of the Formula E World Championship, which starts with Season 13 (2026/2027) of the electric racing series. It joins Nissan and Jaguar which previously committed to the Gen4 era, in which a new and much faster race car will be introduced. Porsche…
Imagine a desolate desert path of loose rock and sun-scorched earth rising from a dried out lake bed into the sun, creosote bushes turning into themselves, the once happy and hopeful prickly pear drooping its pads from the heat. Now imagine a truck ripping past at near triple-digit speeds, dust clouds filling the rearview mirror…
