Rallying

Extreme E announced this week that the opening season of the electric race series will include a course in a recently burned area of the Amazon.

The Extreme E race series chose the Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal the Odyssey 21 rally racer. With a 550-hp electric powertrain and 37-in tires, this thing is ready to bite, grab and slide its way across every type of earthly surface toward the ultimate in pure-electric bragging rights.

At the SMMT off-road test day at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, UK, Team Dynamics Motorsport and Ralph Hosier Engineering each debuted a Honda Civic Type R concept. These Civics are meant to show what is possible with the car as a basis for a rally machine.

There's just something mesmerizing about a Porsche sports car going full off-road, whether it's a Safari 911 or Cayman rally car. Emory Motorsports proves that true all the way back to the 356. The Porsche customizer combines a 911 all-wheel drive with a 356 to create the one-off 356 C4S "AllRad."

Celebrating 70 years of sports car heritage, Jaguar has developed two F-Type Convertible rally cars built for attacking road and dirt. The cars boast a competition-ready suspension, braking system, off-road lighting and more.

Porsche has rolled out a very interesting course car for the upcoming ADAC Rallye Deutschland –​ a rallified version of its Cayman GT4 Clubsport, complete with whopping great rally lights and underbody protection. If the interest is there, Porsche might even start selling the thing.

Once a dominant force​ on the world rally stage, the iconic wedge-shaped Stratos is making a return half a century after the production of the original.

This year, we saw the redesign of one of the world's 4x4 icons, the spread of electric powertrain tech to the trail, all-new racing machines, and a few toys that could lure even the most stubborn homebody into the backcountry. Here we look back at our favorite fun, capable off-roaders of 2017.

Once the Dakar force to beat, Mini has had to sit by and watch Peugeot's beastly 2WD overshadow it the past two years. Now it's experimenting with a rugged 2WD buggy of its own, preparing to run both 2WD and 4WD cars at next year's Dakar. Are Peugeot's days at the top numbered?

Group B saw drivers wrestling boxy tearaways along narrow tracks inches from fans desperate to get a close-up view of their heroes. It was enthralling, but deadly. This immaculate Mazda RX-7 Evo Group B Works managed to survive the chaos, though, and now it's up for auction in London.

The Silk Way Rally is entering its final stages, having rolled through Russia and Kazakhstan. Sebastien Loeb is still leading the way in his Peugeot 3008DKR Maxi, but the pack hasn't given up the fight yet. Here are some of the best pictures from the middle legs of the 2017 Silk Way Rally.

Zarooq Motors previewed its SandRacer off-road supercar back in late 2015. It was awesome. Or it seemed like it could be awesome. Well, we're seeing it again. Zarooq says that it's ready for production and will launch with a special edition 500 GT model.