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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. Affalterbach’s newest creation, the 2027 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, packs a hefty 1,153 horsepower in its tri-motor setup. The concept-looking performance EV features Formula 1-derived battery technology, and it pushes the boundaries of what a street-legal luxury car can do. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the person in charge of AMG believes that, regardless of propulsion method, performance and emotion are at the core of the brand, and that the horsepower war is far from over. During…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Researchers have spilled tons of ink about connected cars and the dangers associated with them. Still, many people don’t know that their daily drivers are sending personal information to insurers and advertisers alike. Even those who do know often choose to take their chances—but not security professional Arkadiy Tetelman. He recently took all the data senders out of his 2024 Toyota RAV4, and he published the process so others know how to unplug, too. Tetelman prefaced his…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. High-speed rail is a lightning rod for controversy, but that hasn’t stopped California from pushing to expand its next-generation transit network. And if you thought fast trains were a tough sell, just imagine how well the notion of 140-mile-per-hour bus service will go down. Nevertheless, such an idea is now being pitched. Though it doesn’t sound like high-speed buses would be sharing lanes with daily drivers. Quick Download on California’s High-Speed Bus Plan Here are the main…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. As automakers push for more powerful EV charging to deliver faster charging speeds, battery packs could be exposed as a weak point. Frequent DC fast charging isn’t great for the long-term health of EV batteries, and older batteries are less able to sustain aggressive charging. As with so many other things in today’s world, researchers wanted to see if AI could be a solution. In a new paper published by IEEE, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. The United States Department of Justice has subpoenaed Apple and Google to provide information on at least 100,000 users who downloaded the EZ Lynk Auto Agent app. It’s only the latest measure the federal government has taken against EZ Lynk, as the DOJ sued the company in 2021 while claiming it refused to cooperate with an Environmental Protection Agency investigation. At the heart of the fight are accusations that EZ Lynk purposely assisted customers in modifying their…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. How would you like to own a weird piece of automotive history? In a little over a week, the final 7 Saabs still remaining in the company’s former Trollhättan, Sweden, production facility are headed to auction. It’s a hodgepodge of pre-production cars hailing from as far back as 2014, and despite the brand’s recent semi-revival under the National Electrical Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) banner, some of them even run on old-fashioned gasoline. There are actually eight cars up…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Every few years, Google overhauls Android Auto to be more capable and, hopefully, even easier to use. The infotainment experience for Galaxy- and Pixel-havers is about to get a big upgrade, one that Google says represents perhaps its largest leap yet. The next generation of Android Auto coming this year is built to scale properly across non-standard display sizes and shapes, from a rhombus (like in BMWs) to a circle (like in Minis). It also sports a…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. General Motors is still getting its butt kicked by the 2024 New York Times exposé that called out the company for sneakily selling driver data. In January, an FTC ruling banned the automaker from selling location data at all for the next five years. The latest shockwave ripple: the California Attorney General just secured a $12.75 million settlement over GM’s “illegal sale of hundreds of thousands of Californians’ location and driving data.” This GM data saga has…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Japan has produced many famous wheel designs over the years, but few are as coveted as those produced by Racing Service Watanabe. RS Watanbes and a Hakosuka Skyline GT-R go together like sushi and wasabi, and the fact that these wheels are still hand-made keeps supplies limited. There’s currently a two-year waiting list for them. Thankfully, there’s now a detailed video on how these iconic wheels are made. Produced by the straightforwardly named Japanese Industry Process YouTube…
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. APR, a longstanding Volkswagen and Audi tuner based in Alabama, has released new software that optimizes the behavior of Haldex AWD systems for speed and performance. While APR has released many engine and transmission tunes, this is the first time we’ve seen APR release a dedicated AWD system calibration. The simply named APR AWD Upgrade for Haldex is “a performance software recalibration with optional supporting hardware designed to optimize torque transfer, improve traction, and deliver faster all-wheel-drive…