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The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t listened to AM radio in a car in a long time. Nonetheless, it’s become a hot-button issue that’s reached the highest levels of government. As some automakers have looked to drop it, bills to mandate AM radio in new cars have been circulating in Congress for the past few years. One of them just cleared a major hurdle. The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act passed…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. Today, iOS 27 goes live for iPhones, and while Apple is mostly focused on loads of AI features of dubious practical use, here at The Drive we’re mostly interested in what the big update will bring to CarPlay. Last year’s software added the love-or-hate Liquid Glass aesthetic, along with widgets and new options to tailor CarPlay’s UI scaling to your vehicle’s display size. But the 2027 update is arguably even more helpful—just in specific,…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. Gas prices remain painfully high across the country thanks to the ongoing war with Iran, and diesel prices hit record highs of over $6 a gallon this week. While there are a variety of alternative fuels available for the dedicated, the most practical option for most people remains switching to an EV. And according to a new study from Here Technologies and SBD Automotive, more Americans are thinking about doing exactly that. The two…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. One of many persistent electric vehicle gripes is that batteries don’t last long enough. Still, as reported by Ars Technica, a recent study found that a majority of EVs maintained 90% of their original battery capacity after roughly 93,000 miles (or 150,000 kilometers). And as this real-world example shows, they’re capable of going a lot further than that. Out of Spec Renew recently did a video on a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning that needed…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. Have you noticed that Google Maps (or your navigation app of choice) doesn’t work as well as it used to? Maybe the quickest possible route still isn’t that quick, or those quiet backstreets that used to serve as a clever shortcut are now choked with traffic as well. It’s not your imagination. GPS-based routing apps have gotten worse, and while there is a solution, it might be more trouble than it’s worth. It’s estimated…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. Here in 2026, everything is getting more expensive. So it probably won’t come as any great surprise that even Costco, the wholesale retailer renowned for low prices and letting you return practically anything, in any state of use, at any time, for any reason, has tightened its purse strings with regard to its own motor oil. Not only does 10 quarts of Kirkland Signature full-synthetic now cost $58 when it used to go for…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. If you’ve been skeptical of the huge screens and software taking over the automotive experience, here’s some hot, juicy validation. JD Power has released a new Component Quality Report, “a complete benchmark of component-level vehicle quality,” highlighting which parts of new cars are giving owners the most trouble. As it stands, “infotainment accounts for 25% of all vehicle problems and is the only category to worsen year over year.” One important concession: JD Power’s…

Get Spyglass: Spy photos straight to your inbox Your exclusive peek at future cars and secret prototypes, fresh from our globetrotting spy photographer. The Porsche 718 EV lives! For the first time in a hot minute, we have fresh photos of Porsche’s all-electric Boxster replacement, and we can see a bit more of the car to boot. If it seems like the 718 EV has been in development hell forever, well, that’s because it has. For a while, it seemed like the project might be killed off entirely. Earlier this year, Audi indirectly confirmed that the project was still in…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. What’s 16 seconds? In racing terms, it’s an eternity. So when Porsche took its Carrera GT back to the Nürburgring in 2024 and went 16 seconds faster than it did in 2004 with no changes except for the tires, it was a big enough bump to make headlines—or, at least we thought so—and Porsche gave all of the credit to the car’s reengineered rubber. The ‘ring is a massive track, to be sure. At nearly 13 miles…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. The new Horse B20 is a 2.0-liter gas-powered turbo—one of the most common types of car engines these days—with a twist: It’s waterproof. The engine can run fully submerged in almost four feet of water. Horse Powertrain supplies various types of engines to OEMs and is mainly known for making motors that support hybrid powertrains (the gas part of the equation in PHEVs and EREVs). That’s what the B20 is—a direct-injection turbo four-cylinder designed to support hybrid…