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The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. When it comes to reducing emissions, regulators need to look beyond passenger cars. Commercial trucks cover a lot more mileage than the average privately owned car, often with much higher tailpipe emissions. Once again, it’s California—the state with the highest levels of EV sales—that’s leading the way in incentivizing electric semi trucks and other commercial vehicles. And it’s using a familiar tool that’s helped boost electric-car sales. On May 13, the California Air Resources Board (CARB)—which oversees…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. The Ferrari Luce is finally here, and the Internet is not taking it well. While there were some hints, nobody seems to have been prepared for the unorthodox design of Ferrari’s first EV. The Luce has drawn the ire of ordinary commenters and industry bigwigs alike, a backlash that can best be described as a godsend to Jaguar’s PR department. But could the Luce have looked any different? Yes, if Ferrari had the imagination of Honda. The…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Way back in the ’90s, the Tommykaira ZZ was almost like Japan’s Lotus Elise: featherweight, simple, cute, and relentlessly agile. The boutique Japanese automaker and tuner attempted to evolve the concept over the years, and ultimately revived it with an electric second generation that aimed to retain its predecessor’s spirit with a new kind of propulsion. That car reportedly ended its production run in 2021, but a new redesign, called the Number Nine Works Sweep 9 (say…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Last year, I published a story about owning a robot lawnmower—A Mammotion Luba 2, to be precise. The genesis of that idea was a piece Andrew did on a riding lawnmower with self-driving tech. An autonomous zero-turn is an objectively interesting contraption, but my argument was that a lawn robot is far more practical and just as sophisticated—all for less than 10% of the Honda’s (admittedly astronomical) asking price. I quite like the little mowbot, and while…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. If you’re a stickler for high-quality smartphone integration in your new cars, your world is about to be upended. According to Rivian’s Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid, dedicated app integration is about to become a thing of the past thanks to everybody’s favorite tech buzzword: AI. Bensaid’s argument is pretty simple: Screen mirroring may be great, but it’s very invasive, often taking over the entire screen (though that has become less of a thing with the current…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. The Honda Ridgeline is going on sabbatical. The midsize pickup is taking an approximately 18-month break so that Honda can tinker with its powertrain to meet the next phase of emissions standards. Like the Pilot and Passport with which it shares its architecture, the Ridgeline utilizes an old-fashioned V6. Pretty soon, all of them will be getting an upgrade, and it sounds like the Ridgeline will be getting a pretty significant facelift to go with it. According…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Whether it’s reproducing parts that are no longer available, or creating one-off performance parts, 3D printing has opened up a lot of possibilities. But those parts are only as good as the templates they’re based off, and getting all of the correct measurements can be a time-consuming process. One hot rod shop found the solution by doubling down on tech. Based in the town of Marcy, in Upstate New York, Tucci Hot Rods is perhaps best known…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. It has been a busy week for Stellantis news, but one more Ram item has come to our attention. In yet another sign of how rapidly the company’s product development has accelerated, the 2027 Rumble Bee appears to be the first model built for MY2027 that will jettison auto-stop/start entirely since the federal government stopped incentivizing its inclusion earlier this year. And more than that, it’s poised to be the only Ram sold with the old-school, non-electrified…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. For a country that loves pickup trucks so much, our choices aren’t actually all that diverse. Full-size trucks are pretty much all alike, the midsize field is somewhat sparsely populated, and the compact segment is essentially just the Ford Maverick (RIP Hyundai Santa Cruz). Once upon a time, there were enough small pickups for sale in the U.S. for an entire enthusiast scene to form around them. What happened? After all, America loves miniature things almost as…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. For every Audi enthusiast asking themselves when the advanced lighting systems available in Europe will finally come to America the answer has arrived: later this year. On Thursday, Audi announced its next-generation adaptive Matrix LED headlights will come to the U.S. on the upcoming Q9 three-row crossover SUV. It will mark the first time the tech is available in the U.S. on an Audi and actually be enabled from the factory. Let me explain. Some Audi models…