Andrew Collins

1 week ago | thedrive.com | Andrew Collins

The new Land Rover Defender 110 Trophy Edition will come in Deep Sandglow Yellow or Keswick Green, which is reason enough to celebrate its existence. But the cooler news that the British brand dropped is the Defender Trophy itself. Rover is getting back into epic adventure contests. From 1980 through the end of the ’90s, Land Rover famously ran a long series of epic international endurance challenges known as the Camel Trophy.

1 week ago | thedrive.com | Andrew Collins

Brembo, popular purveyor of high-performance brakes for cars and motorcycles, is jumping into a new market and arena of sport: downhill mountain biking. The Formula 1 and MotoGP brake supplier will now be making cute little brake calipers for Specialized’s 2025 UCI MTB World Series race bike. And yes, they are red. There have been some one-off custom bicycles with Brembo brakes in the past, but this is the first proper OE application on something with pedal power.

1 week ago | thedrive.com | Andrew Collins

BMW‘s carbon fiber roof parts will soon be replaced with plant fiber. When the BMW M4 GT4 hits the Nürburgring for its next 24-hour race, it’ll be race-testing the same flax-based natural fiber composites. I don’t think that means you’ll be able to eat your Bimmer (yet), but it should make their construction more environmentally friendly. Visible trim pieces on M cars that have been carbon in the past will start to be replaced with this similar-looking plant stuff.

1 week ago | thedrive.com | Andrew Collins

In Japan, Honda’s been running an “NSX Refresh Plan” for customers to get early NSXs fixed by factory specialists since 1993. That program’s being sunsetted this year, and replaced with a new strategy to maintain support for the first-gen NSX and other high-tier Hondas. There might not be many OEM ’90s NSX parts left on shelves, but Honda is not going to give up on its aging classics.

1 week ago | thedrive.com | Andrew Collins

This morning, a new survey proclaimed that 55% of “in-market car shoppers” would be willing to pay more for a car if it created American jobs. If new taxes keep discouraging imported vehicles and materials from our market, we’re not going to have a choice. Vehicles assembled in American factories carry the highest average price—$53,000—compared to the overall average of about $50,000.