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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. Built-in navigation systems were some of the earliest examples of what we now call “tech” in cars, but they’ve fallen behind the times. Compared to the other voice-control systems that are now part of everyday life, most navigation systems are rigid and robotic. But one of the biggest names in GPS hopes to change that. TomTom is a major auto industry supplier, and at CES 2026 it announced a partnership with SoundHound AI to integrate the latter’s…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. A job like this one offers no shortage of memorable encounters. A few years back, on an Easter Jeep Safari junket in Moab, I managed to scam some time behind the wheel of Jeep’s all-electric Magneto concept with then-boss Jim Morrison riding shotgun. The Magneto was essentially a Wrangler body sitting on top of a battery pack, a pair of motors, a Hellcat’s six-speed manual gearbox and 40″ tires. Reaching a clearing, I turned to him and…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. If all you care about is big power, the Shelby Super Snake R is a relative bargain. Yes, it starts at $224,995, but that’s almost exactly $100,000 less than a Ford Mustang GTD which, while stunningly capable on a road course, only has 815 horsepower to the Shelby’s 850 hp. If that math works for you, we’ve got good news. Shelby American just took the wraps off the 2026 Shelby Super Snake—minus the “R.” This version starts…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Italdesign is a particularly interesting entity in the car biz. It’s primarily a behind-the-scenes player, creating white-label designs and aesthetic elements for other consumer-facing brands to sell. However, uniquely, it’s also done public collabs with automakers. This week, the brand dropped another such thing: A “new” Acura (Honda) NSX. It’s basically a heavy refresh of the second-gen car, but it looks awesome, and the brand’s created a very cool animated video of the thing ripping through a…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Have you heard? EVs are dead. But apparently nobody bothered to tell the Ford Mustang Mach-E. Despite a rather precipitous drop after electrification incentives expired in Q3, the all-electric crossover managed to outsell its gasoline-powered by a healthy margin—nearly 14 percent—again in 2025. In fact, if you just look at the year-end numbers, 2024 and 2025 were virtually identical. Ford moved just over 51,000 of its electric Mach-Es in 2025 (just 125 fewer than in 2024), compared…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Most cars use engine coolant heat to blast up from dashboard vents and melt windshield ice in winter. Some have small electrified lines running across the glass. But today I learned about a Canadian company with a neat solution for windshield de-icing that requires no engine heat at all, making it particularly effective for EVs, but can also work almost anywhere that ice needs melting. Ontario-based Betterfrost has been out in the public since 2020, and won…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Nobody really knows what Chrysler is or is supposed to be, and that’s pretty much been the story of the brand over the past decade. We reckon we know what it should be, though. The Pacifica is the brand’s only product, and, as it just so happens, Stellantis is tied up with an automaker in China that just introduced a new minivan. It’s called the Leapmotor D99, and surveying its specs and design, we can’t think of…
Get Spyglass: The insider hookup, in your inbox Your exclusive look at future cars and secret prototypes, straight from our spy photographer. In this business, we see a ton of camouflaged prototypes. In fact, a day rarely goes by when we don’t see at least one set of new spy shots, if not multiples. The bulk of them are predictable at best, downright boring at worst. And then sometimes we get something like, well, this. This prototype comes from Ceer, and if you haven’t heard of it, welcome to the club. After doing a lap of what felt like the…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. I believe it’s safe to say that pop-up headlights are done for, at least when it comes to new car design. Since Lamborghini brought back the Countach and Ferrari remade the Testarossa without the famous flippers, I’m not sure there’s much hope for any other retro revival. But just because automakers are over the fad doesn’t mean we are, and neither is Result Japan, a tuning shop that’s debuting a modern Toyota 86 with pop-ups at 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 during Covid (the longest five years ago), Hyundai spent a pretty penny to purchase Boston Dynamics—the company that has been teasing us with increasingly life-like (life-adjacent might be more accurate) robots for more than three decades now. Remember the robot dogs? Of course you do. They have humanoid models too. When the deal was first announced, it was on the heels of Hyundai floating some rather strange concept vehicles, but in the shorter term, the…