CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. When it first arrived in the US in 2017, the Honda Civic ...

Here's the dream scenario: I arrive at a frozen lake in Sweden, I'm given the keys to a brand-new 2025 Volkswagen Golf R, ...

In recent years, the Volkswagen Golf R has become somewhat of an odd proposition. It’s deservedly renowned for its versatility—a comfortable super tourer among hot hatches one minute, and an apex ...

Most aftermarket splash guards fail because they treat vehicles as interchangeable. They do not account for trim-level ...

If you ask us—and you did—the last-gen Civic Type R was the undisputed king of sport compact cars. Nothing it competed with drove as well as that car did. That is, understandably, a tough act to ...

Since picking up his first set of MicroMachine toy cars as a toddler, Chris knew he had a passion for automobiles embedded in his soul. It wasn't until he started flipping through car magazines a ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. "I think the engineer is trying to lose us." I'm in the ...

As we are constantly reminded by the McRib, the allure of something is in no small part tied into its exclusivity. The more we're told we can't have it, the more we want it. Such is the case with ...

Only one can stand atop the podium, and in the race for top billing in the sport side-by-side class, that competition just steepened with the 2024 Can-Am Maverick R's arrival. Packing massive amounts ...

At the 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R launch I asked Ford Performance boss Carl Widdman why the team left one metric on the table: Horsepower. Why not tune it for just three, or even five, more horsepower ...

Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last four decades, you’ll know how special the “R” tag is when associated with Honda. Its Type R variants have been an almost seminal touchstone when it comes ...

The Ford Raptor has earned the right to be called an icon. Every version’s been a bad-ass Baja truck you can hit the desert with right out of the dealership; a cool idea with excellent execution. The ...