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Miguel Cortina’s Biography

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Miguel Cortina is Mexico Editor at MotorTrend magazine, the No. 1 automotive authority, delivering premium content and trending news to enthusiasts in the U.S. and the world.

As part of the MotorTrend team, Cortina has experience reviewing the latest vehicles in the market, interviewing automotive engineers, designers, and product planners, and putting together Of the Year programs. Cortina won a 2024 Telly Award for his work on the documentary MotorTrend Investigates: China’s EV Takeover of Me…

Miguel Cortina’s Journalist Portfolio

Will Your Next (or First) EV Come From China? MotorTrend Investigates

Will Your Next (or First) EV Come From China? MotorTrend Investigates

Chinese car companies are betting big on Mexico-so, we headed south of the border to find out what it means f…

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Chinese EVs Face New Tariffs in Europe, But Will It Do Anything?

Chinese EVs Face New Tariffs in Europe, But Will It Do Anything?

Some Chinese-based automakers could see tariffs of up to 38.1 percent in Europe, but it differs by brand.

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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe First Drive: This Will Change Perceptions

2024 Hyundai Santa Fe First Drive: This Will Change Perceptions

The 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe gets a complete makeover, with a boxy design, more passenger space, and standard th…

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Amazon partners with Hyundai to sell cars for the first time

Amazon partners with Hyundai to sell cars for the first time

This partnership should ease the car-buying experience for the Amazon-obsessed.

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The Future In-Cabin Experience: Personalized, Digitized, Immersive

The Future In-Cabin Experience: Personalized, Digitized, Immersive

The car is becoming the next mobile infotainment platform, and a seamless extension of our connected lives. E…

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Articles

2026 Jeep Recon First Drive: Quick on Pavement, Happier Off It Original

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It's fast, capable, and cool. Will that be enough to convince the EV-skeptical off-road crowd? Miguel CortinaWriterManufacturerPhotographerSep 09, 2026 It’s a strange time in the automotive industry. Just a few short years ago, automakers were tripping over themselves to bring more EVs to the U.S. market. But then the incentives to buy them dried up, and regulations and attitudes swung back in favor of vehicles vehicles equipped with more familiar powertrains.
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The Tesla Cybercab—Which ‘Doesn’t Need Manual Controls’— Has Secret Manual Controls

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The Tesla Cybercab that launched this past weekend in Austin, Texas, has no steering wheel or pedals. Instead, the vehicle uses cameras and sensors to navigate and drive itself, similar to the technology behind Full Self-Driving (Supervised), which owners of more conventional Teslas can subscribe to for $99 per month.
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Ford’s Mustang Family Could Get Even Wilder With a Reported Off-Road Baja Model Original

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An off-road Mustang would potentially blend pony-car performance with Raptor know-how. Ford CEO Jim Farley has said he wants the company to become the “Porsche of off-road,” and if a new report is accurate, Ford could be preparing one of its wildest interpretations of that idea yet. Automotive News (subscription required) reports that the Blue Oval is working on an off-road-ready Mustang Baja, taking the Mustang name into territory we’ve never seen it roam before.
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Awards

Telly Award

2024 - Video Journalism

The documentary that I led, hosted, and produced on Chinese EVs coming to the U.S. via Mexico won a 2024 Telly Award for the Video Journalism category.

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