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Although we love the current Jaguar XF‘s sharp looks and excellent handling, it’s underwhelming infotainment system and interior quality leave us wanting. Luckily, Jag’s midsize sedan gets a major overhaul for 2021 that should help give the aging cat another life. Sadly, the XF Sportbrake is not mentioned in the 2021 update, which leads us to believe it’s likely gone for good in the United States. A moment of silence, please.

We’ll start with the 2021 XF’s new face, which adopts a number of styling measures that also appear on the recently refreshed 2021 Jaguar F-Pace crossover. This includes new blade-like LED running lights LED daytime running, grille, front and rear bumpers, and taillights. Keen eyes will note the sedan‘s reworked fender vents and C-pillar, which is rounded off for a more elegant look. Jaguar notes the XF’s new nose makes the car look bolder. We, [...]

Ford is working on an electric F-150 pickup truck. We know this, and you’re expecting it. But the electric pickup world is a new one, and Ford is probably aware that it’ll take some tricks to win over F-Series buyers used to powerful gas or diesel engines—and the plentiful, easy-to-find fuel that powers them—and get them overcome the range anxiety and charging challenges of the EV world. Which is what makes a Ford patent that recently came to light so interesting. The patent is for a range-extender unit that can be fitted to an electric pickup truck’s cargo bed—where it’d resemble a toolbox or some other innocuous component but provide for extra driving range per charge.

Automakers keen on lending their electric vehicles additional driving range without investing in huge battery packs (expensive!) or Tesla-style charging infrastructure to make up for lower-capacity batteries (doubly expensive!) have pretty much one choice: Range extenders. Think of these [...]

There were never many 1990s-era Toyota Supra Turbos roaming the streets, expensive as it was new, and two decades later there are even fewer. Then, winnow out the abused, wrecked, modified…you get the idea. A clean A80 is rare. One in an unusual color combination, and an anniversary model no less, is rarer. That’s why drawing your attention to this one-owner 1997 Toyota Supra Turbo, unmolested and unmodified, is worthwhile.

The deep green paint and light tan interior are a classic color combination, and the fat chrome five-spoke wheels are original and correct. Under the long, shapely hood sits a twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-six—the legendary 2JZ-GTE—good for 320 hp and 315 lb-ft of torque.

The engine’s two turbos are not in any conventional configuration, either. Twin sequential turbochargers were a complex, expensive, and state-of-the-art solution to the problems of turbo lag at the time. Exhaust gasses spool the first turbocharger to provide boost (and torque) around [...]

Honda officially announced it will no longer supply power units to Formula 1 teams after the 2021 season. If you’re unfamiliar with the sport, a power unit is the car’s internal combustion engine, MGU-K unit (motor generator unit-kinetic), MGU-H (motor generator unit-heat), and other control systems. The announcement comes as a surprise, but the practical reasons behind it aren’t at all that shocking. Indeed, sharp observers of F1 might have suspected something was afoot when Honda, after its initial 5-year commitment to F1 expired last year, only committed at the time to signing up for another single year.

Formula 1 is incredibly expensive, and all the money Honda dumps into F1 research and development can no doubt be funneled into research and development for its passenger-car business. In its announcement, Honda said “the automobile industry undergoes a once-in-one-hundred-years period of great transformation,” and notes the company’s commitment to going carbon-neutral by 2050 was the main [...]

The Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 is a hellacious beast, a flat-plane-cranked track and backroad warrior that certainly ranks among the best-driving factory cars ever conceived. Yet despite the GT350’s fearsome abilities, it’s also a shockingly capable daily driver thanks to a well-sorted ride, familiar interior ergonomics, and a feel that’s visceral and fun even around town.

Unfortunately, Ford is discontinuing the GT350 and its harder-core GT350R sibling after this model year, so the Heritage Edition tested here serves as something of a send-off. Introduced for 2020 and available for both versions of the car, the $1,965 bundle brings no mechanical changes, adding only the legendary Wimbledon White/Guardsman Blue livery, some blue badges, and a dash plaque. (The price and look are nods to the original GT350’s victory in its debut race, with Ken Miles behind the wheel, in 1965.)

Underneath the iconic visuals, an update last year brought [...]