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

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From: The Car That Forced Porsche to Redesign the Fastest 911.

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The Alf Romeo Gulia Quadrifoglio at Lime Rock Park

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From: If Ferrari Made a BMW M3, It Would Be the Giulia Quadrifoglio

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Top Gear Imports Garage in Saddle Brook, New Jersey

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From: Inside the New Jersey Warehouse Where Rare Porsche Dreams Come True

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The 2017 Shelby GT350R

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From: It Only Takes 18 Miles to Truly Love the “All-Time Great” 2017 GT350R

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The Volvo V90 Cross Country, Outside Stockholm, Sweden

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From: The Best Off-Road Wagon Is Now On Sale in America

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Hill City Keystone Road

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From: 8 of the Country’s Best Riding Roads Are All Hiding in One Place

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The 2017 Alpina B7

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From: The Fastest BMW You Can Buy Isn’t Actually a BMW

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The 2017 Ford Raptor

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From: The Raptor Provides Mad Max–Style Desert Racing, Straight From the Factory

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The Cirrus Vision

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From: The $2 Million Cirrus Vision Private Jet Is Unlike Any Other in the Sky

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Early Morning at Le Mans

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From: The Bucket List–Worthy 24-Hour Festival You Didn’t Know Existed

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Precious Metal at the Petersen Automotive Museum

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From: What Makes a Hundred-Million-Dollar Car?

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Late Night Action in Daytona

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From: Sun, Rain, Crashes, Passes, Tears, Victory

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Beach Day at the Jersey Shore

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From: You’ve Been Doing the Beach All Wrong

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The Greatest Spectacle in Motorsport

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From: All the Action at This Year’s Indy 500, in Photos

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The Keen Project Safari

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From: Four Resto-Mod Classic Cars that Will Make Your Summer Unreal

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Sportsmobile Sprinter Field Test

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From: Taking the Backroads With the New Sportsmobile Sprinter 4×4

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A Quick Hawaiian Getaway

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From: This New Lexus Coupe Pisses Off Honda Drivers, Is a Unicorn.

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The 2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro

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From: The Tacoma TRD PRO Almost Makes Up for the Prius

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Rock Crawling in a Power Wagon

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From: RAM’s Off-Road Power Wagon Will Scoff at the Apocalypse

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A Large Gathering of Porsches

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From: Luftgekühlt, the Annual Gathering of Porsches, is Heaven

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