Though the year isn’t completely over, it is drawing closer to the season where opportunities for a drive or a ride become increasingly scarce. The colder, shorter days generally mean less time spent on the road and more time spent thinking about getting on the road. Gear Patrol writers, editors and photographers have spent a lot of time pounding the pavement in 2017, and we’ve got a massive cache of images built up. It was hard to choose, but these are the best of the crop.
The 2017 Ford GT at Utah Motorsports Campus
From: The Car That Forced Porsche to Redesign the Fastest 911.
The Alf Romeo Gulia Quadrifoglio at Lime Rock Park
From: If Ferrari Made a BMW M3, It Would Be the Giulia Quadrifoglio
Top Gear Imports Garage in Saddle Brook, New Jersey
From: Inside the New Jersey Warehouse Where Rare Porsche Dreams Come True
The 2017 Shelby GT350R
From: It Only Takes 18 Miles to Truly Love the “All-Time Great” 2017 GT350R
The Volvo V90 Cross Country, Outside Stockholm, Sweden
From: The Best Off-Road Wagon Is Now On Sale in America
Hill City Keystone Road
From: 8 of the Country’s Best Riding Roads Are All Hiding in One Place
The 2017 Alpina B7
From: The Fastest BMW You Can Buy Isn’t Actually a BMW
The 2017 Ford Raptor
From: The Raptor Provides Mad Max–Style Desert Racing, Straight From the Factory
The Cirrus Vision
From: The $2 Million Cirrus Vision Private Jet Is Unlike Any Other in the Sky
Early Morning at Le Mans
From: The Bucket List–Worthy 24-Hour Festival You Didn’t Know Existed
Precious Metal at the Petersen Automotive Museum
From: What Makes a Hundred-Million-Dollar Car?
Late Night Action in Daytona
From: Sun, Rain, Crashes, Passes, Tears, Victory
Beach Day at the Jersey Shore
From: You’ve Been Doing the Beach All Wrong
The Greatest Spectacle in Motorsport
From: All the Action at This Year’s Indy 500, in Photos
The Keen Project Safari
From: Four Resto-Mod Classic Cars that Will Make Your Summer Unreal
Sportsmobile Sprinter Field Test
From: Taking the Backroads With the New Sportsmobile Sprinter 4×4
A Quick Hawaiian Getaway
From: This New Lexus Coupe Pisses Off Honda Drivers, Is a Unicorn.
The 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro
From: The Tacoma TRD PRO Almost Makes Up for the Prius
Rock Crawling in a Power Wagon
From: RAM’s Off-Road Power Wagon Will Scoff at the Apocalypse
A Large Gathering of Porsches
From: Luftgekühlt, the Annual Gathering of Porsches, is Heaven