Performance

The 2022 Honda Civic Si will be the first of the sportier Civics to arrive later this year with updates to its powertrain, suspension, multimedia and safety tech.

Ford’s being stingy with details of its Raptor version of the new Bronco, so we went to our staff to speculate what we’d like to see (or avoid) in the upcoming SUV.

A teaser video of the SUV showed a portion of the headlights and grille, with the grille appearing to replace the Bronco’s all-caps “Bronco” emblem with an all-caps “Ford.”

The 2021 Honda Civic Type R Limited Edition, an entertaining, raucous and unhinged beast, has slightly better steering feel and is a bit louder inside than other versions of the CTR.

The 2022 WRX switches to Subaru’s global platform, gets a larger-displacement turbocharged engine, adds a new GT trim level with extra performance goodies and reprises the prior generation’s continuously variable automatic transmission.

The long-awaited Tesla Roadster reboot is going to be a little longer-awaited and is now expected to ship in 2023, according to Elon Musk.

If you for some reason need a super-quick, tech-laden, very expensive small crossover that sits high and doesn’t feel terribly sporty (aside from rapid acceleration), the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLA45 is the one for you.

The new ST-Line for the 2022 Ford Explorer is mostly an appearance package, but it also adds some technology upgrades.

The 2022 Elantra N will hit the streets with a 276-horsepower, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine paired to a standard six-speed manual transmission.

Longer, slightly wider and taller than their predecessors, the high-performance variants of the 3 and 4 Series get a power boost in both standard and Competition variants for 2021.