Rallying

Audi has developed the range-extended electric rally car it will run in Dakar 2022. The 671-hp RS Q e-tron launches forward on dual electric axles and uses a turbo engine-generator to maintain drive power through gruelling off-road competition

Alpha Motor Corporation seems determined to make a name for itself in small, unique electric cars. After launching just last November, the company is already previewing its fourth planned vehicle, the JAX electric rally car.

Known for giving classic Porsche cars second lives as modern-day beauties, Singer is sharpening its competitive edge. It has teamed with masterminds behind Porsche's most successful rally cars of the 80s in building up a modern 911 off-roader.

Our road test of the 2021 Infiniti QX80 SUV coincided with its entry into the 2020 Rebelle Rally, so we thought it fitting to talk to the women who drove it in that competition to find out just how capable it is.

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.