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Your Next Car Ships Unfinished, and the Automaker Keeps the Keys

BMW once tried to charge owners a fee to use heated seats already bolted into their cars. Buyers rejected it, but the architecture that made it possible stayed. That architecture has a name: the software-defined vehicle. IBM’s definition is blunt.…

Automotive News Nov 08, 2026

BMW Is Shrinking. MINI Is the One Brand Still Growing

MINI delivered 70,712 cars between July and September. That is 1,702 fewer than the same quarter a year ago, a 2.4% slip that would normally draw a shrug. This year, it draws attention. The smallest brand in Munich’s portfolio is…

Automotive News Nov 08, 2026

Rolls-Royce Sinks 18% as MINI Keeps Growing

Rolls-Royce delivered 1,069 cars between July and September. A year earlier, Goodwood shipped 1,304 over the same three months. That is 235 fewer cars in a single quarter, an 18% fall, according to BMW Group’s latest quarterly statement. For a…

Automotive News Nov 08, 2026

MBRP Gives the Telluride’s Dying V6 a Louder Voice

MBRP has built an axle-back exhaust for the Kia Telluride. The timing is odd, because the engine it amplifies is already gone from the current lineup. The system fits 2020 through 2025 Tellurides with the 3.8-liter V6. For 2027, after…

Blog Nov 08, 2026

Schuppan’s $1.6M Road-Legal 962: A Le Mans Car With Plates

The price was $1,620,000, and only seventeen buyers in America would get the chance to pay it. In the summer of 1991, Vern Schuppan was offering something the factories kept talking about and never delivering: a Porsche 962, twice a…

Blog Nov 08, 2026

This 65-Ton Tank Sat on a Firing Range for 58 Years

A British Conqueror tank spent decades on a Ministry of Defence gunnery range as a target. Now it’s a parts donor. Getting it out of the ground took two ex-Army recovery trucks, an American tank hauler, and a fresh set…

Blog Nov 08, 2026

Hot Wheels Fires a $4.99 Shot at Lego

Twenty-nine pieces. That’s all it takes to build a 1991 Acura NSX in Mattel’s new Brick Shop Racer Series, and the price on the box starts at $4.99. Mattel is taking its fight with Lego down to the scale that…

Blog Nov 08, 2026

Subaru’s Boxer Habit Comes With a Bill

The first boxer engine ran in 1896, built by Benz & Cie. Subaru didn’t invent the layout. It just refused to let it go. Lift the hood on nearly any new Subaru and you’ll find two banks of cylinders lying…

Blog Nov 08, 2026

Your Raptor Is Fast. Physics Still Sends the Bill.

The lesson comes from an older Toyota Tacoma, not a Raptor. Team O’Neil, the New Hampshire rally school whose instructors will happily throw anything with wheels down a gravel road, picked a modest pickup to teach a problem the industry…

Blog Nov 08, 2026