Automotive

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – What’s great about a hybrid is that we can drive it like a normal car, and it will magically provide us with lower fuel bills.

The more an SUV costs, the less likely you’ll see one crawling over rocks, fording streams and rolling off the beaten path—even if it could.

What happens when you combine sports-car performance with the added practicality of an SUV? You get the BMW X4 M40i, that’s what. Unveiled at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, the M40i gives a shot in the arm to the compact, coupe-shaped X4 SUV.

When The Car Guide test-drove the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, we also got the chance to chat with one of the engineers behind the vehicle’s powertrain. Here are seven surprising facts we gleaned during our meet-up and at the media presentation.

The Car Guide is heading to Palm Springs in California this week in order to get our hands on this latest version of the 7 Series. We’ll be driving it on The Thermal Club circuit as well as on the roads of this fantastic region.

At the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, Chevrolet unveiled the Volt, an electric car equipped with a gasoline engine and a driving range of approximately 60 km. While it wasn't necessarily a commercial success, the Volt can be considered a technical success.

The midsize, seven-passenger SUV segment is chock full of choices and we all know that bigger and trendy vehicles are most profitable for automakers.

We shouldn’t be too surprised about Ford’s latest news regarding their new 2017 GT supercar. It boasts the highest top speed of any production Ford vehicle in history, and the fastest around a track. Thanks to its twin-turbo, 3.

As expected, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is spoon-feeding us information regarding the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, which will officially be revealed next April at the New York Auto Show.

There is no shortage of family-hauling SUVs and crossovers to choose from these days, which means competition is fierce and if you want to play with the big boys, you need to bring your A game.