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Lotus Says 200 of Its Employees' Jobs Are 'at Risk'

Things weren’t looking great for Lotus earlier this year when it announced a net loss of $202 million in the second quarter of 2024. The company’s sales are up this year, but that’s not translating into tangible profits at home. Now, the company is preparing to lay off up to…

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Jaguar Won't Start Selling New Cars Until 2026

Jaguar will soon be an automaker that doesn't make any cars. I-Pace and E-Pace end production next month. The F-Type, XE, and XF are already dead. The F-Pace factory will go silent in early 2025, just in time for Jaguar's new EVs to enter the scene. There's just one problem.…

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Ferrari Might Bring Back the F40: Report

Ferrari's "Icona" series pays tribute to the brand's illustrious past. The Monza SP1 and SP2 are a modern reinterpretation of the open-top V-12 barchettas Ferrari established its legend with, while the Daytona SP3 is an homage to its glorious sports prototype race cars of the 1960s. Now, it sounds like…

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2025 Acura Models: The ADX, Integra, and More

Acura doesn't have the most robust vehicle lineup compared to competitors like BMW or Mercedes-Benz. But Honda's luxury brand does offer a cohesive range of stylish cars, sharp SUVs, and an EV, with a smattering of performance options to boot.

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Dead: Cadillac XT4

Pour one out for the XT4. Well, maybe don’t. Cadillac’s nearly forgotten small crossover is going away. General Motors has announced production will end at the Fairfax Assembly plant in January 2025. GM had said it would idle output of the subcompact luxury SUV to get the factory in Kansas…

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Have a Porsche With Center-Lock Wheels? You Might Want to Stop Driving It

Porsche Cars North America has identified a potential problem with bolts used on some vehicles with center lock wheels. As a result, the company recalled 1,851 vehicles and issued a stop-use advisory to dealers and vehicle owners, lest a wheel should come off while in use.

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Mazda's Designed its Gorgeous Sports Car Concept For Production

Mazda stunned with the Iconic SP concept at last year's Japan Mobility Show. Not merely a preview for the next Miata, the Iconic SP shows a new direction forward for Mazda sports cars, while paying homage to the era-defining FD RX-7. In a recent Mazda-published story, the car's designer, Masashi…

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The 2024 Ford Ranger Is All the Truck You Need: Review

Ford sold almost 200,000 F-Series pickups (F-150, F-250, and F-350) from July through September, compared to just 15,500 Rangers during the same period. Frankly, I have no idea why. Next to a typical full-size, half-ton truck, the Ranger sits just as high, has similar truck looks, truck tires, and a…

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Audi's Most Interesting EV Is Only for China

Audi partnered with SAIC Motor on a new sub-brand to build cars exclusively for the Chinese market. The fledgling company is called AUDI—all caps—and is "shaped 100-percent by the Audi DNA" with one notable exception. You won't see four-rings badging anywhere on its cars.

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Bentley's First EV Will Be an SUV

The first electric Bentley will arrive in 2026. We wrote about its delay in March. Initially, the plan was to launch the car in 2025, and today, the British automaker confirmed the new debut date in an online presentation in which the new president and CEO, Frank-Steffen Walliser, and Bentley board…

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Cutaway: You've Never Seen Toyota's Awesome V-12 Engine Like This

Remember when Toyota built a V-12? It wasn't so long ago. Production of the 1GZ-FE engine wrapped in 2017 after 20 continuous years, coinciding with the end of the second-generation Toyota Century. The 1GZ was conceived in the 1990s, the same decade Toyota launched its first mass-produced hybrid electric vehicle,…

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Things Are So Bad at Nissan It's Turning to Mitsubishi for Help

Nissan is cutting back as it struggles to profit amid falling demand. The automaker plans to cut 9,000 jobs, reduce its global production capacity by 20 percent, and sell a third of its stake in Mitsubishi to cut costs. The company believes it could save itself $3 billion as it…

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Audi Is Launching a New Car Company Called… AUDI

Where are the rings, Audi? It’s a valid question for the company's newest concept shown today in Shanghai. But this isn’t an Audi. It’s an AUDI. The luxury brand in the Volkswagen Group empire is teaming up with SAIC to launch a new car company in China. Of all the…

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Mazda Is Making a New Gas Engine: Skyactiv-Z

Financial news always tends to be dull. But every now and then, a car company sneaks in a nugget. Such is the case with Mazda’s latest document on how it fared in the most recent quarter. In an amalgam of boring numbers, there’s news about a gasoline engine we haven’t…

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The Base Bronco Is Back for 2025—It Starts at $39,890

Update: Added 2025 Ford Bronco pricing.

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Oh Good, AMG Is Making an Electric SUV

AMG already offers a souped-up version of the Mercedes EQE SUV, but now the performance brand is prepping its own electric high-riding vehicle. Rather than upgrading an existing Benz, the peeps from Affalterbach are developing a separate high-performance SUV. It’ll sit on the dedicated AMG.EA platform and will be a…

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The Ram Rampage Is Even Better for 2025, Just Not in America

Although America is the undisputed trucklandia, there are still a few forbidden fruits. The indestructible Toyota Hilux springs to mind, along with the Isuzu D-Max (and its Mazda BT-50 twin), Nissan Navara, Volkswagen Amarok, and Mitsubishi Triton. Lest we forget the Rampage name was resurrected last year, but not by…

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The Electric Mercedes CLA Broke a Porsche Taycan Record

The new CLA isn’t even out yet, but Mercedes is happy to report that its smallest sedan has already set a record. The first fully electric version managed to cover 2,309 miles in a 24-hour interval, besting a record established by Porsche in 2019. The Taycan did 2,128 miles at…

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This Custom Land Cruiser Looks Like a Cyberpunk Fever Dream

Modellista, Toyota's in-house customization brand in Japan, is at this year's SEMA Show in Las Vegas to test out possible new products for the American market. And boy does it have something... special. The company dressed up a new Toyota Land Cruiser in an assortment of futuristic off-road goodies, turning…

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GM's Electric Future Looks Bright. Ford On the Other Hand…

Update: The original version of this story noted that Ford is no longer the second-largest EV manufacturer in the US. Ford, as a brand, remains the second-largest EV producer in the US. Only the larger General Motors company (which includes brands like Cadilac, Chevrolet, and Hummer) produces more EVs. The…

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Some Ford F-150 Models Are Getting Big Price Cuts for 2025

Ford quietly added 2025 F-150 pricing to its online configurator, and the news is mostly good. The popular mid-level trims of America's best-selling vehicle will be quite a bit cheaper for the new year. On the flip side, luxury buyers and fleet purchasers will have to spend more.

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California Forced Automakers To Build EVs in the '90s. They Were Doomed From the Start

When we think of iconic Japanese cars, the influential models from the motherland spring to mind—the 1JZ A70 Supra, the R34 Skyline, the 2000GT. But after Japanese marques established a foothold in the States, some of their most interesting projects were built just for us. Take, for example, the earliest…

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The Brabus Big Boy RV Is Exactly as Ridiculous as It Sounds

Brabus makes truly outrageous vehicles. Recently the German tuner introduced a carbon-bodied SL shooting brake, and prior to that, the shop shoved 930 horsepower under the hood of a Mercedes-Benz S-Class. But this might be the wildest Brabus build we've ever seen.

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Google's Wild New Patent Would Take Control Away From Bad Drivers

Modern cars are already packed with technology that monitors your driving. Driver-assist systems keep track of speed, acceleration, braking, turning, and a plethora of other data points to offer assistance. What ultimately happens to all that data? That's a controversial subject that we won't delve into right now. Let's just…

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The Skoda Kylaq Is a $9,300 Car With Ventilated Seats

At $18,330 with destination charges included, the Nissan Versa is the cheapest car money can buy in the United States. Over in India, you can pay half that for a new Skoda. Say hello to the Kylaq, a tiny crossover with a refreshingly low asking price. It starts at INR 789,000,…

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