Cadillac just updated the Escalade for 2025, giving it an updated front-end design and all of the screens. However, despite it gaining those features for the new model year, it also lost something—its diesel engine. The current Escalade’s turbo 3.0-liter Duramax inline-six is undoubtedly one of its coolest features, and spotting one in the wild...

There’s no doubting the pomp and circumstance that comes with driving a Cadillac Escalade, even 25 years after the debut of America’s most famous full-size luxury SUV. In the midst of Cadillac’s EV push, the Escalade took a backseat to models like the Lyriq and moonshot Celestiq. But GM is correcting that with the 2025 Cadillac Escalade, which brings...

An enormous fire in a California car scrapyard near Los Angeles forced evacuations on Thursday. The blaze has now been extinguished, but it left the scrapyard and possibly some surrounding businesses devastated. The Los Angeles County Fire Department said in a Facebook post that it received initial reports of the fire at 3:12 p.m. on Thursday,...

The saga of TVR is often sad, sometimes funny, and seemingly never-ending. Just when you thought you’d never hear from the plucky, nearly extinct British sports car brand again, its name pops up in the news. This time, though, TVR didn’t just disappoint hopeful would-be customers with flashy concepts that never came to be. According to Autocar, it actually...

When the 2025 Audi S5 was revealed this week, one of the automaker’s technical cutaways seemed to hint at a departure for the sport sedan: That it would forgo the traditional Torsen-type Quattro system for a “Quattro Ultra” setup, more like Audi’s non-enthusiast offerings, that only sends power to the rear wheels when slip is detected. This understandably...

If I had my way, I’m not sure I’d have chosen Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 as one of my last memories of innocence. Even though it was juxtaposed against a fearful early-2000s America, there’s something that feels carefree about the atmosphere surrounding extreme sports at that time. But those days are over; let’s drop a Chevy Trailblazer into those memories,...