The Geneva International Motor Show is always crammed full of the newest and most glamorous supercars and hypercars—some of which even make it from show-stand to reality. The Czinger 21C—all 1,233 horsepower and $1.6 million of it—looks to be the real deal and, hallelujah, it’s wholly designed and built in the U.S. In fact, Czinger’s base is just a stone’s throw from the MotorTrend offices in California.
This new hypercar—which Czinger will show in Geneva on March 3—boasts unique in-line seating, a hybrid drivetrain developed entirely in-house (not a smal-lblock V-8 in sight), and an innovative production technique based around “Additive Manufacturing,” or 3-D printing as it’s more often described. The accompanying video is shot in various California locations and shows an unusually slim hypercar (great for canyon roads) but still plenty of presence, especially at the rear with its distinctive upswept light bar and fixed wing.
Although the Additive Manufacturing process is what really [...]
Supreme, Mac Tools, and alcohol. What do these three things have in common? Absolutely nothing. Or maybe they do? Supreme recently slapped its logo on Mac’s T5025P Tech Series Workstation, which takes care of two of those three things—and we have an idea how to tie in the third.
Of course, this is only the most recent example of Supreme collaborating with a more industrial brand on a product launch; the Supreme X SOG hand axe and the Supreme-labeled Victorinox Alox Knife are among other examples. Indeed, the famous (or infamous) New York–based skateboard and clothing company has a history of decontextualizing goods from their traditional use cases or, at minimum, exposing the trendy consumers of Supreme-branded items to brands they might not otherwise see.
This workstation is the perfect example of the Supreme mantra at work, as it was never intended to be used by, say, an [...]
Bugatti only built 450 of its earth-shattering Veyron over a decade by the time production ended in 2015. Now, just four or so years into its production run, Bugatti has already built the 250th example of the Veyron’s successor, the Chiron. The 250th Chiron rolled out of the Bugatti atelier in Molsheim, France, earlier today, completing the first half of the multimillion dollar hypercar’s planned production run. Dubbed the “Edition Noire Sportive,” it’s a blacked-out, matte carbon-fiber example with “Noire” script on the door sills and underside of the massive active rear spoiler.
The 250 cars built so far include the Chiron Sport variants—the ones with the carbon-fiber windshield wipers—that promise better, more precise handling. (The Edition Noire Sportive is a Sport.) The atelier, or “artist’s workshop” in English, is the same location where Veyron production occurred. Today, it takes about 20 people to build a Chiron, and roughly 1,800 parts are all assembled by [...]
Kia’s new Telluride three-row SUV is insanely popular right now. We knew it would be—it’s so good, and we named it our SUV of the Year—and based on reader interest and the fact that it’s flying off dealer lots like cows in tornadoes, that’s unlikely to change in the near term. In fact, Kia is so excited about its sales performance that internally its employees refer to the Telluride as the “Sell-u-ride.” At least, according to James Bell, Kia’s director of corporate communications, who shared the amusing nickname at the recent launch of the two-sizes-smaller Seltos.
Yes, it is pronounced “sell-you-ride,” in a riff on the Tell-you-ride’s name. But Telluride sales are no joke. After launching in 2019, the SUV has burst into 2020 like the Kool-Aid man through a wall, with 4,919 of the handsome people movers sold in January. The Telluride sold 5,080 in March 2019, its first full month of sales, meaning [...]
Spoiler alert: We like the new Cayman GTS 4.0 . A lot. Which means Porsche would have to have done something monumentally stupid for us not to also like the 2021 Boxster GTS 4.0. A lot.
Fortunately, Porsche rarely does monumentally stupid things. (Hey, you! In the back row! Quit muttering about the regular Boxster’s turbocharged flat-four.) The six-cylinder 2021 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS 4.0 is every bit as beguiling as its coupe cousin. It’s just you have to pay more for less; no roof means a higher sticker price. And that’s where things get tricky.
Porsche Cars North America has yet to announce official pricing for the Boxster GTS. But our best guess math—based on the fact that the previous Boxster GTS cost about $12,100 more than a Boxster S and factoring in a premium for the 4.0-liter engine—suggests it will sticker for about $90,000. And here’s the tricky bit: For just over $6,000 [...]
