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DECEMBER 19, 2024
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What do automakers have in store for the year ahead? Tougher Defenders, a comeback story for Cadillac and deliciously retro pickups, for starters. Plus:

  • Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: They were once interested in innovation and high-minded ideals, but that pretense has been shed in favor of a new goal: power.
  • From Hoops HQ: Former Duke All-American and NBA veteran Mike Gminski is a recovering alcoholic who is using his story to help others.
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The 12 Cars, Trucks and SUVs We’re Most Excited to Drive in 2025

In the last decade or so, there’s been a growing concern about the homogeneity of car design. Not only was the proliferation of SUVs, which have been subjected to increasingly strict safety standards in the U.S. along with all other passenger vehicles, seen as a detriment to automotive aesthetics, transforming daily drivers into rolling bricks, but the subsequent rise of electric vehicles threatened to turn the other half of the vehicular landscape into rolling eggs, with all the edges smoothed out to decrease drag and increase range.

All that handwringing, at least according to our list of the cars, trucks and SUVs we’re most excited to drive in the coming year, was for naught. Sure, maybe the majority of new vehicles on the road are more banal than we’d like, but Benjamin Hunting and Basem Wasef, two of our automotive correspondents, have assembled a list that proves you don’t need to succumb to the daily drudgery of nondescript motoring. Whether you’re looking for a newfangled muscle car, family-friendly van or go-anywhere SUV, they’ve got one to watch out for in 2025 — one that would certainly set you apart in the commuter lanes.

It’s not just about good looks, either. There’s boundary-pushing EV technology coming down the pike. There’s a truck that packs both a 92-kWh battery pack and a V6 engine. There’s even a Cadillac comeback on the horizon. Maybe.

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The Year the Tech Nerds Became the Bullies

In an early video interview with Jeff Bezos just three years after he founded Amazon, the then-33-year-old e-commerce pioneer, squinting into the sun and cocking his head on his long neck like a confused emu, overflowed with excitement about the possibilities offered by the growing internet. “The late 20th century is just a great time to be” — here he paused, awkwardly pursing his lips and nodding his head, like his brain was moving faster than his pale flesh could follow — “alive!”

“I think a millennium from now,” he continued, doubling down, “people are going to look back and say, ‘Wow, the late 20th century was really a great time to be alive on this planet.’”

He’s certainly right there. The 1990s were a great time for American prosperity, for culture, for technology and for the nerds who made the latter possible. I’m not using “nerd” as a pejorative here; Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994 as an online book retailer, proudly told 60 Minutes in 1999 that he was a “nerdy” kid. Then he added, laughing, “That hasn’t changed!”

A quarter century after that interview, Bezos, who is now the second wealthiest person on the planet, seems to have flipped his outlook completely. No longer is he the balding string-bean billionaire in a frugal Honda Accord; instead, he’s the yoked tech titan in a $500 million yacht. Instead of focusing on long-view regret minimization, he’s seizing each rose-colored day as it comes. Instead of owning the title of nerd, this year he became the archetypal opposite: a bully.

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