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GMC’s full-size SUV gains a new flagship off-road trim All Yukon models get a new dash with a massive central screen Air suspension convincingly hides the Yukon’s trucky platform In its new AT4 Ultimate trim, the 2025 GMC Yukon tries hard to do a lot of things, many of which seem to cancel out one another. Meaty all-terrain tires wrap 20-inch alloy wheels that are awfully big for real-world off-road use. The distinctive red tow hooks projecting from a bumper carved inward to improve the approach angle contrast with underbody lighting that illuminates when you approach the vehicle. Even the…
About 30,000 2022 and 2023 Ford Mustangs were recalled last year for shaky steering. The electric power-assisted system was “providing unintended steering assist” which translated to a vibration in the driver’s hands. Not great! Free repairs were rendered by dealers, but unfortunately, it looks like 300 or so owners got unlucky and will have to go back to get the repair re-done. The original recall, NHTSA number 24V-493 and internally referenced at Ford with number 24S44, was issued on June 28, 2024. As the automaker explained the issue: “The secondary digital torque sensor in the steering gear was calibrated with…
I don’t know about you, but I’m over the whole robot thing. Sure, it’s neat when they climb stairs, play soccer, or shoot basketballs, but have none of these scientists and engineers seen Terminator? Don’t they know they’re actively building our inevitable doom? I wish these people would stop, but you know they never will. So if society must keep cranking out robots, they should at least be like this rad bunny-hopping BMX stunt machine. Personnel at the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) created a robot that can bunny hop higher than I ever could on a bike as a…
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are backing a nationwide right-to-repair bill that would guarantee independent shops the same access to data and tools as dealerships. If it becomes a law, the bill could make repairing a car cheaper and more convenient. Known as the Right to Equitable and Professional Auto Industry Repair (REPAIR) Act, the proposal was written by the Automotive Service Association (ASA), the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS), and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation (AAI). The three groups jointly outlined their idea in a letter sent to Congress on February 18, 2025, which…
There was a time not that long ago when people thought the electric car takeover was imminent. I’m not talking about any time in the last five, 10, or even 20 years—I’m talking about the 1990s. General Motors made quite a few believers with the EV-1, an almost revolutionary vehicle that met an untimely end when the company suddenly pulled the plug on the program. While that’s the car that history remembers, there was a lesser-known GM EV from the same period with a radically different shape: the S10 Electric. We’ve written about these a few times before, but without…
Free car software updates are commonplace in today’s auto industry, especially for electric vehicles. Hardware updates are a different story, though. Car companies don’t usually issue a physical part upgrade unless it’s part of a recall. But now, Volvo and Polestar are doing something a little unprecedented by offering a supercomputer chip upgrade for the EX90 and Polestar 3 EVs free to customers. Volvo is swapping out its old chipset for two of Nvidia’s brand new Nvidia Drive AGX Orin processors, each of which is capable of around 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS). That’s eight times more powerful than the…
Big win for lawyers today, and a much smaller win for Mazda owners who were involved in a class-action lawsuit regarding faulty infotainment systems. According to CarComplaints, it was a rather small case, with just four plaintiffs whose infotainment systems would lag, reboot, and completely shut down while driving. Now that Mazda has settled the matter, those four plaintiffs have received a combined $11,500, while the lawyers representing them got a whopping $1.9 million. Apparently, I picked the wrong line of work. The issues customers were facing came from Mazda’s Connect infotainment system, which began in the Mazda 3 in…
Ford is back with another killer lease deal on the all-electric F-150 Lightning. Thanks to a whopping $10,500 customer incentive bundle, you can currently lease an F-150 Lightning for just $249 a month for 36 months—and you’ll get a home charging setup installed to boot. The new incentives were spotted by CarsDirect, who noted that the price matches a current promotion for the Tesla Model 3, albeit with a caveat. Well, 6,809 caveats—and by caveats, we mean the dollars you’ll have to put down if you want the advertised lease rate. That’s nearly twice the up-front spend to get Tesla’s…
Stellantis has shut down all activity at the Brampton, Ontario assembly facility where it was slated to begin production of the next-generation Jeep Compass sometime next year. Automotive News says it was told by a company source that Stellantis halted operations while it re-evaluates whether a battery-electric Jeep Compass makes sense for the North American market. The Stellantis website contains a list of company facilities indicating that Brampton Assembly Plant is “currently undergoing retooling until 2025.” It’s effectively been idle since Stellantis spun down production of the Dodge Charger and Challenger and the Chrysler 300 more than a year ago.…
Renault is pulling a Volvo and licensing safety tech to the rest of the industry for free. Ages ago, the Swedes famously created the three-point seatbelt and, rather than licensing it out to every other automaker for a big fat fee, they gave it away for free in the name of safety. Renault is taking a similarly noble path with its electric vehicle “Fireman Access” system, which helps firefighters put out battery fires much, much quicker. EV battery fires are devastating. Studies show that EVs don’t catch fire as often as internal combustion cars, as some EV detractors might say,…