The year 1968 changed America and the world, with unforgettable events both entertaining, awe-inspiring, and devastating. There was the “Game of the Century,” an NCAA basketball matchup between the UCLA Bruins and Houston Cougars. The unstoppable Bruins—led by Lew Alcindor, who would become future Los Angeles Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—had a 47-game winning streak that came to an end with a two-point loss to Houston, 71-69. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. Apollo 8 orbited the moon and returned safely to Earth. Future pop-culture superstars were born: actors Will Smith, Josh Brolin, and Molly Ringwald, along with skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. In the middle of it all, the cute and fabulously awkward Winnebago F17 RV/motorhome was traversing American roads.
The company in a 1969 brochure promoted the F17 Winnebago model as follows: “For the young family on the go, Winnebago’s F17 is an economical motorhome [...]
A recent report from Reuters might make you want to take a nap. Not because it’s boring, but because it reveals a tantalizing bit of information we didn’t know before about the 2021 Ford F-150: You can sleep in it.
Not uncomfortably hunched over the wheel, or awkwardly curled up in the back seat, as you might imagine. A “person familiar with the plans,” who decided to remain anonymous, told Reuters that the front passenger seat will fold back to lay flat, creating a bed described a bit like those found on the first-class cabin of passenger planes. Sounds comfy!
Now, Ford’s not the first company to offer an interior that converts into a bed—there have been a lot of stuffy interiors and foggy windows over the years. When Nash was still around, many of their cars famously featured front benches that folded down to create a whole-interior bed. The perfect feature for penny-pinching families [...]
Two. That’s how many Volkswagens have leaked out onto the internet today. Earlier this morning we got a good look at the Volkswagen ID.4, VW’s electric crossover that’s earmarked for multiple markets, including the United States. The second is a car we are most certainly not getting: The 2021 Volkswagen Arteon wagon.
The leak first appeared on CarNewsChina’s Facebook page, and it makes it quite clear this is essentially Volkswagen’s take on the Audi A4 Allroad. However, we aren’t so sure Volkswagen’s executed the off-road wagon concept quite as well as Audi. Those of you with good memories might recall the recent teaser Volkswagen sent out for the refreshed Arteon, which we called “über-hot” at the time. Well, we were wrong, because what we have here is basically a lifted wagon version of the more attractive Arteon sedan.
Updates to the Arteon sedan, which the U.S. will get, are still on the way, and the [...]
It’s part trivia, part hijinks, and all fun. It’s Shift Talkers, an all-new show that’s just launched on the MotorTrend App featuring personalities from across the automotive spectrum battling it out to see who can impress host Jeff Glucker and outwit each other—all for nothing at all.
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OK, that’s not totally true. There are some bragging rights involved as Glucker, a veteran automotive journalist and founder of the Hooniverse.com, hands out “laps” to each editor who best brings the noise and the knowledge on a wide swath of automotive topics.
The debut panel features hot rodding hero and the superstar of the Roadkill franchise, David Freiburger; MotorTrend Group senior editor and diesel truck and Mustang expert, KJ Jones; senior editor at Jalopnik, lover of slow cars and author of “Robot, Take the [...]
“C’était un Rendez-vous” (which translates to “It Was a Date”) is probably one of the most famous least-well-known car films: An eight-or-so minute high-speed run through the nearly empty streets of Paris, the whole thing shot from a camera fitted to the bumper of what sounds like a Ferrari (it was actually a Mercedes 450SEL 6.9 with the engine noises from filmmaker Claude Lelouch’s 275GTB dubbed in). At the end of the run, a woman waits. You could question why any self-respecting Frenchman would schedule a date that begins at dawn, but still. (If you’re interested in watching it, some scoundrel posted the full movie to YouTube.) Today, Lelouch, who made the 1976 original and drove the camera car, released his pseudo remake, “Le Grand Rendez-Vous.” (So, “The Big Date”—French loses all its magic when you translate it, doesn’t it?)
“Le Grand Rendez-Vous” was shot in Monaco on Sunday, May 24, the day the canceled [...]
