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Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The automotive world nearly lost one of its most prolific designers late last month when Giorgetto Giugiaro crashed and rolled his Land Rover Defender down a cliff off the side of a hairpin turn in Sardinia. The 87-year-old creator of such greats as the original Volkswagen Golf and BMW M1 says he was already out of the SUV and on his feet by the time emergency responders arrived, despite plunging 50 feet onto a road below. Now, safely back at home in Turin, he’s reflected on his incredible…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The United States Environmental Protection Agency will be effectively canceling its legal authority to limit carbon emissions from the automotive industry, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Tuesday. Zeldin said that he is officially planning to a key 2009 declaration that asserted that greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health and legally authorized the agency to regulate them. If finalized, this would erase the set limits on emissions from passenger cars and trucks, potentially alter the entire new car industry, and mark a huge shift for the…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Escort Radar, one of the big brands in the radar detection biz, has been under some scrutiny this year as customers and reviewers reported suboptimal performance on the $800 Redline 360c—Escort’s flagship. Today, it’s dropping a big firmware update to address those complaints. I’ve now had the chance to test this new firmware and speak with somebody at Escort, and came away with some insights you might find interesting, even if you don’t run one of these on your dashboard. All radar detectors can be affected by the…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Typically, forged wheels exist in the realm of high-performance vehicles that see track abuse. They’re stronger than the cast wheels that comprise most OEM and aftermarket equipment, at the penalty of a much higher cost. One Tesla aftermarket specialist is marketing their latest set of forged rims to a different sort of clientele, though: hard-driving Uber drivers and future robotaxi operators who put their vehicles through constant abuse on pothole-strewn roads. They’ve even gone so far as to call their product “indestructible.” That’s a tall claim, especially considering…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. One point of frustration for us and many folks who have test-driven GM’s latest EVs is that they lack Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, by design. GM has historically argued that the user experience for its EVs is better when drivers remain in its own software ecosystem, where features like navigation, range projections, and routing to chargers are all tied together, working off the same pool of information and vehicle data. The company also stands to make more money off owners forking over cash for monthly data subscriptions…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. A British outfit called Bo makes a sleek little electric scooter called the Model-M. The best variant claims a 22 mph top speed and a 40-mile range for $2,500. Sounds pricey but practical. The prototype Turbo model is another story—it’s gunning for triple-digit speeds at the Bonneville salt flats next month. Bo has been around since 2022, but seems to be on a bit of a marketing blitz—last week, it released a teaser video of somebody clad in full Moto GP-looking garb absolutely ripping through a tunnel on…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Automakers continue to go all-in on advanced driver assistance systems. The question is: Do people actually want them? A recent study from research firm AutoPacific confirms that, yup, features like hands-off highway driving aids are the most desired among surveyed folks who intend to buy a new vehicle soon. Those systems, which include GM’s Super Cruise and Ford’s BlueCruise, are on the “want” list for 43% of people who plan to buy a vehicle in the next three years. In 2024, automated driving features ranked far lower, with…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Tesla’s robotaxis may be coming to San Francisco sooner than we thought—much sooner, as it turns out. According to Business Insider, Tesla is already mobilizing local employees with the intention of bringing service online Friday—as in, today—despite not having yet sought approval for its vehicles to operate autonomously with passengers in the state of California. If the report proves accurate, it’s most likely that Tesla’s new service will not be entirely autonomous. Without a permit to operate robotaxis in California, ride-hailing services are required to provide human chaperones…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. The recent news cycle hasn’t been kind to Tesla. Sales are down. Its CEO is locked in a pissing match with the most powerful office on Earth, and its investors are starting to wonder whether its leadership can rise to the moment. And yet, somehow, in the shadow of all that, it seems Tesla actually launched something new for once. Too bad it’s not a car. Tesla’s newest venture is billed as a “diner and drive-in,” and its location on Santa Monica Boulevard (where a Shakey’s previously stood)…
Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Is it a crossover? Is it a hatchback? Whatever it is, Kia’s EV3 electric is a fun and practical little car, and there’s a hotter GT variant on the way. Our spies caught this prototype in public wearing some pretty extensive camouflage, but there’s no hiding the lime green brake calipers that have become the signature of Kia’s hotted-up electric variants, currently represented by the the EV6 and EV9 GTs. We’ve known the EV3 GT was coming for a while, but this is our first glimpse of a…