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Off-road cosplay is big business in the automotive world right now. Chunkier fenders, pseudo underbody protection, mediocre all-terrain tires—and voila! You've got yourself a soft-roader. Any automaker can cook up a new trim name and tout its capability, but Hyundai appears to be taking this game more seriously. 

Last week, Toyota announced its plan to invest an additional $10 billion in the United States over the next five years. This will bring the automaker’s total investment in the country to $60 billion over the 70 years it has operated here. Now, Toyota has announced where the first $912 million will go.  

It’s safe to say business is booming at Toyota. In 2024, it remained the world’s largest carmaker for the fifth consecutive year. Earlier this month, Chief Financial Officer Kenta Kon highlighted “strong demand for our products. We can barely cover the demand.” Looking ahead, the Japanese automotive giant is confident…

Porsche has come to grips with the reality that EV uptake isn’t progressing as rapidly as anticipated a few years ago. In early 2022, outgoing CEO Oliver Blume projected that as many as 80 percent of new car sales would be fully electric. That ambitious target is no longer in…

If you work at Wendy’s, you might be able to sling more than just fries or a delicious Frosty. Wendy’s employees qualify for a discount on select Stellantis vehicles. One of the more notable inclusions in this program is the 2026 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat; 710 horsepower has never tasted…

Ford Motor Company has a new home. The automaker held the grand opening for its new world headquarters this past weekend. The building is more centrally located to the automaker's day-to-day operations, with more than 14,000 employees working within a 15-minute walk of the new HQ.  

It was two years ago this month when Hyundai announced it would sell new cars on Amazon, with the first listings appearing on the retailer’s website last December. Today, Ford is following suit. The company announced that it will allow its dealers to sell their certified pre-owned vehicles through Amazon.  

Enthusiasm and demand for electric cars may have cooled recently, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a strong lineup of new EVs arriving next year. Crossovers still dominate the market, of course, yet 2026 will also see the debut—and in one Chevy’s case, the return—of some genuinely affordable options.

There’s a perfectly logical explanation why the "new" Rogue Plug-In Hybrid doesn’t look like any other version of the compact crossover. It’s not really a Nissan. Instead, it’s a straightforward case of badge engineering. The model is essentially a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV with different logos and a revised front grille,…