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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. Turns out sometimes Elon Musk’s grandiose promises and timelines might come later than promised due to, not surprisingly, technical realities. That just might be the case with the promise from nearly a decade ago that a Tesla would drive itself from Los Angeles to New York. In January, The Drive exclusively reported that a Tesla Model S drove itself 3,081 miles from LA to NYC with zero accidents, zero human interventions, and zero (meaningful, though some hilarious)…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. The launch of VW Group’s new Scout Motors brand in the United States has been delayed by at least a year. According to German newspaper Der Spiegel (Paywalled and requires translation), the company will hold off on production until at least 2028, citing a combination of “technical issues” (per an automated translation) and existing financial obligations. Scout was originally branded as an all-electric revival of the SUV of the same name produced by International Harvester from the…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. We’re not normally in the business of throwing shade at random, fly-by-night parts shops, but then again, we’re not normally in the business of having our content stolen and repurposed by AI-using “outlets” who are trying to sell aftermarket schlock to unsuspecting Mopar enthusiasts. Lookin’ at you, there, Vicrez. Vicrez maintains an online parts store (skinned to look suspiciously like Amazon; we’re not going to link to that) and a blog that’s curiously devoid of any human…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Ford is engineering its upcoming portfolio of inexpensive EVs with a new, focused strategy. I can’t think of a better way to illustrate it than this new “shifter” patent our own Joel Feder discovered earlier this week. At first blush, this looks like (and even sounds like) a manual gearbox for an EV, but after a closer look at the patent, it’s far more than that—and a perfect example of the mantra Ford has embraced in the…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Colin Chapman made a name for himself with the philosophy of “simplifying and adding lightness.” When in doubt, in other words, do less—decrease complexity, remove anything you don’t absolutely need, and maybe convince your driver that water intake is for quitters. It was a winning strategy (and a legacy-defining approach to building race cars), but, at least judging by the general state of the auto industry, one with only limited applicability in the modern consumer market. After…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Back in 2023, I stood at a briefing about the upcoming Mazda CX-90. The new three-row crossover SUV was meant to lead the automaker’s lineup and serve as the flagship. Its infotainment system? Another touchless screen. Why? Because they are distracting and unsafe, I was told. The CX-90, and then the CX-50 that followed, featured the automaker’s latest iteration of a scroll-wheel-controlled interface, which at best looks and operates like Audi’s MMI system, which moved to a…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. It came for that PC you’re building and, if you’re planning on buying a car in the near future, it’s arrived to ruin that, too. The global memory chip shortage has already impacted wide swaths of consumer tech from smartphones to gaming consoles. Modern cars, with their sophisticated ADAS tech and self-driving capabilities, are anything but safe, as a Ford executive recently acknowledged during a global conference. Ford Chief Financial Officer Sherry House was asked about the…
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 sold on everything about EV ownership except the cost of entry, you’re in luck. We’re about to see a massive flood of off-lease electric cars hit the U.S. market—and pretty much all at once. Why? The short version is that a combination of both pro- and anti-EV policies in the U.S. drove a rapid expansion of insanely good lease deals in certain pockets of the country. As those deals expire, the sheer volume of available…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia produce some of today’s best-selling EVs and have been doing so for years. However, independent testing publication Consumer Reports has repeatedly ranked them lower than some of their rivals due to reliability issues. Specifically, repeated issues with charging failure and loss of power while driving. In a recent report, Consumer Reports attributed these problems to a faulty ICCU, or Integrated Charging Control Unit. The ICCU converts high voltage to low and is responsible…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. For the first time in 10 years, registrations of electric vehicles in the U.S. decreased in 2025, per new data from S&P Global Mobility via Automotive News. It was just a 0.4% slide, but a noticeable one nevertheless, considering that figure only went in the other direction since the research firm began recording this info back in 2016. Meanwhile, EVs’ share of the overall vehicle sales mix dropped from 8% to 7.8%, even though total registrations across…