Natalie Neff

A look at and inside the first electric Lotus that will make it stateside.

Check out Hyundai’s dirt-friendly EV, the latest addition to the Ioniq 5 trim line.

A mid-cycle refresh of the 11th-generation Honda Civic sees the addition of a hybrid version, available as the top two of four Civic trims, in Sport Hybrid and Sport Touring Hybrid forms. Hybrids can be had as either a sedan or hatchback and will turn out a combined 200 hp and 232 lb-ft of torque from its two-motor, 2.0-liter inline-four setup. All 2025 Honda Civics get restyled front fascias and grilles, and revised taillights, with top-line Sport Touring Hybrid models also gett…

Ford adds a few cool touches to the refreshed 2024 F-Series, including an optional tailgate that opens two ways.For the first time, the F-Series gets a heads up display, and will be the first in North America to offer an available stolen vehicle service.Buying is made easier, too, with an ordering complexity reduced by 90%.The F-Series has laid claim to the title of best-selling truck in America for 46 years running, so when it comes time to tinker with the formula that keeps it king of the pick…

On this episode of In the Car With, we get the inside scoop on how, after decades of rumors, spy shots, hope—and, let’s be honest, plenty of grumbling—Chevy finally moved the engine behind the seats of the Corvette as Autoweek Executive Editor Natalie Neff sits down with chief engineer Tadge Juechter.Juechter shares how even as the C7 was in development, the Corvette team was already looking ahead: “As we were revealing the seventh-generation, we were also having meetings on the eighth-generatio…

This is part of a feature we call Autoweek Breaks Down, where we bring you a smattering of stories tied to a weekly theme. The aim is to deliver automotive content that entertains and enlightens but that doesn’t necessarily follow the news cycle. This week Autoweek Breaks Down Horses.You’ve got to give it to Uriah Smith. In the lead-up to Autoweek Breaks Down Horses, I figured we’d be offering up different angles on the Ford Mustang and even a deep dive into horsepower. Fitting, right? Even Jay…

Welcome to a weekly feature we call Autoweek Breaks Down, where we bring you a smattering of stories tied to a theme—a theme explored often very, shall we say, interpretively. The aim is to deliver automotive content that entertains and enlightens but that doesn’t necessarily follow the news cycle. This week Autoweek Breaks Down Mysteries. It’s said there’s a Lancia Stratos abandoned somewhere in a northern Michigan wood, supposedly wrecked during a rally back in the mid-1970s, the whereabouts l…

This week Autoweek Talks: Communication, and as always, the directions we take our thematic explorations are manifold. Obviously we take on car phones, and from a couple fascinating angles, but we also remember how desert race teams talked before such devices were widespread, get an inside look a NASCAR spotter’s long career, get a tutorial on how by-wire systems work, and Robin Warner crafts a primer on how to effectively communicate with an engineer (as opposed to, uh, regular people). More re…

When posed with thinking about time and how the theme resonates, I have to admit, the staff’s responses surprised me. I couldn’t predict the directions everyone took in telling their automotive and racing stories—but maybe more surprising is which songs folks chose. Yes, a few were expected—you’re not going to find Mike Pryson ever pushing for a yacht rock tune—but we had more than a little fun trying to play match the song to the editor. Here are our picks for Autoweek Breaks Down Time, and mak…

“You guys at Autoweek get to do all the fun stuff.” Shifting the teetering stack of boxes from one hip to the other, I instinctively responded, “Well, there are tradeoffs.” Thoughts long-festering swam into my head, of our skeleton crew of a staff, every member of which is required to wear three or four hats; of largely flying under the wider corporate radar, the system optimized for a trade-magazine culture—very inside baseball stuff, to be sure, but still, the kinds of things that invoke “feel…