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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Holley has been a big brand in the go-fast car parts business since the days of carburetors. Callaway is well-known for modifying GM vehicles and creating unique reimaginings of Corvettes like the AeroWagen and C12. Those outfits are now teaming up to “develop and launch a line of performance packages for GM trucks and SUVs.” Sounds like Callaway will be tasked with engineering and developing the parts, while Holley handles logistics and marketing. Ultimately, it looks like the goal is for consumers to be able to get Callaway-engineered upgrade packages…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The way things are going, it’s very reasonable to expect that the next time you rent a car, a human won’t be reviewing its condition when you bring it back. Hertz and Sixt are bringing AI-powered vehicle inspection scanners to more of their lots, with competitors taking notice. And, if you decide to contest one of their accusations of damage, you may be using AI for that, too. Since publishing our initial stories on this trend, a few digital inspection startups have reached out to share how they’re…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. We’re about 15 years into an era of practical electric cars. For much of that time, we’ve been hearing about the potential of the “skateboard” chassis—an EV can be anything, just drop it on top of a structural battery deck. But so far, no automaker has really run with this to efficiently crank out dramatically different cars on one platform. Ford, however, might finally deliver. This week, Ford shared plans to radically change the way it assembles cars. Not only is the Blue Oval brand planning to expand…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Ford made big waves Monday morning with news that it intends to bring a new $30,000 battery-electric pickup to market as soon as 2027. It was more of a strategic announcement than a formal introduction of a new pickup truck; that bit will have to wait for a while. In the meantime, we’re naturally inclined to speculate as to what exactly Ford intends to build at that price point. Perhaps this patent application gives us a clue. The application itself is for a deployable roof tent, but as…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Today, Ford introduced three interesting new concepts. An inexpensive new crew cab EV pickup for 2027, the Ford Universal EV Platform, and the Ford Universal EV Production System. They all relate together and, conceptually, are pretty cool ideas. The new truck’s specs and capability, including range, are TBA. While the truck’s officially described as “mid-sized” in a press release, the company’s representatives described it as having “the footprint of a Maverick,” but with more interior room and volume, at a virtual press conference. For context, the Mav is…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. We got a lot of news from the Mopar world this week about the 2026 Dodge Charger. A twin-turbo inline six powers the new Scat Pack; a V8 Hemi is expected soon after all, and inexpensive gas models are gone. But what about the base-model Daytona Charger EV? Dodge’s CEO blames its absence on tariffs, which makes sense, but I think a bigger problem is that nobody wants one. Dodge launched the new electric Charger at two trim levels: A base R/T starting at about $62,000 and the…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Hyundai and Kia thefts have been in the news more than once over the last few years because of how easy some models are to steal. The problem has led to social media trends, class action lawsuits, insurance blacklisting, and dramatic countermeasures by owners. New analysis from the IIHS indicates that immobilizer software updates are working, but not every car is eligible, and not every owner is doing updates. An epidemic of Hyundai and Kia thefts went crazy in 2021 and 2022. The “Kia Boys” were posting about…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Our colleagues at The War Zone dug up some intel that the United States Air Force wants to buy a couple of Tesla Cybertrucks to shoot missiles at. It’s the only make/model called out specifically on a recently discovered wants-list of 33 target practice vehicles to get blown up at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) in New Mexico. Obviously, the image and idea are pretty funny, but the reasoning seems odd. The military acquires cars and trucks to destroy for training purposes all the time. Typically, targets…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The screaming deal that was the Chevrolet Bolt may be missing in action for the time being, but in its place, people finally seem to be noticing that the Equinox EV is a pretty solid value, too. I drove the most basic of base models earlier this year and came away very impressed. It appears I’m far from the only one, as GM has just reported that the all-electric Equinox didn’t just have its best month of sales in July—it had the best month ever for a non-Tesla…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Electric cars and trucks may never fully escape the stigma of range anxiety, but a team of GM engineers just proved that EVs are really no different from any other cars. At least, in the sense that much of how they perform comes down to how you drive them. In this case, some employees engaged in a team-building exercise managed to eek 1,059 miles from a single charge in a truck rated by the EPA to travel just 493. Currently, Lucid holds the Guinness World Record for miles…