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BMW’s Chennai Plant Now Builds Its Priciest EV
BMW’s Chennai plant just became the only factory outside Germany trusted to assemble the i7, the company’s most expensive and technically complex electric sedan. Production of the facelifted i7 50 xDrive M Sport is already…
Tesla’s FSD Safety Claims Hit a Wall Before v15
Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s AI lead, responded to a near-miss video this week by promising that Full Self-Driving version 15 will deliver “even earlier prediction of hazards, even faster reaction time and overall significantly better safety…
Toyota Wants Your Car to Photograph What You Stare At
A patent application published last week describes a Toyota system that uses interior cameras to track a driver’s eye movements, then commands exterior cameras to photograph whatever has caught their attention. It is exactly as…
Porsche 718 EV Drops Its Camo at the Nürburgring
A prototype of the electric Porsche 718 Boxster was photographed lapping the Nürburgring this week wearing almost nothing. No body cladding. No vinyl wrap distorting the lines. Just a small cover around the headlights and…
Ram’s $40K Euro Van Is a Lifeline, Not a Strategy
Ram is bringing back the ProMaster City for 2027 at $39,995 including destination, making it the cheapest new work van you can buy in America. That price gets you the Tradesman Cargo, the most basic…
Mini’s 1998 GT Has JCW Bones but Can’t Justify Its Price
Mini just revealed the 1998 GT, the latest in its “Icon drop” series of limited-edition cars, and on paper it sounds like exactly the kind of enthusiast-focused trim that earns a cult following. Borrow the…
LA’s Highway 101 Is Now a Playable Instrument
A music producer in Los Angeles has turned a Caltrans traffic camera into a playable instrument, and the five lanes of U.S. Highway 101 are its keys. Jay Judah’s project, called “The 101 Plays Itself,”…
Ford’s Super Duty Tariff Play Is Smarter Than You Think
Ford is leaning hard into a message it knows will resonate in a trade-war climate: every single Super Duty truck it sells is assembled in America. The company published a pointed blog post this month…
Horse Powertrain Bets Detroit Will Outsource Its Engines
Horse Powertrain, the joint venture born from Renault Group and Geely in May 2024, has planted its flag in Detroit with a brand new U.S. office and 32 hires across multiple business functions. The timing…
Stellantis CEO Says U.S. Auto Policy Is Splitting the World
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa stood before analysts Thursday and said out loud what every global automaker has been thinking for months. “We see clearly the world divided into two things,” he told the conference. “One…
BMW’s M350 xDrive Hits 62 MPH in Just 4.1 Seconds
BMW let journalists loose with the still-camouflaged 2027 M350 xDrive at its proving ground near Miramas, France, and the numbers tell a clear story. The new M Performance 3 Series sedan, internally coded G50, sprints…
BMW’s Facelifted M5 Cooks Its Brakes at the ‘Ring
A prototype of the 2028 BMW M5 was spotted lapping the Nürburgring with its brake rotors glowing cherry red, a visceral sign of just how hard Munich is flogging its updated super sedan before next…
Your Car Is Being Watched by Cameras You Never Agreed To
Nine billion. That’s how many license plate images sit inside the database of Digital Recognition Network, a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions, as of May 2024. A California appeals court put that number on the record.…
Volvo Kills Its Smallest EV as Gas Twin Outsells It
Volvo has pulled the plug on the EX40, its compact electric SUV, confirming to Car and Driver that the 2026 model year was the last. The decision lands just as Volvo freshens up the gas-powered…
Costco Rations Motor Oil as Prices Nearly Double
Ten quarts of Kirkland Signature full-synthetic motor oil now costs $58 at Costco. Not long ago, that same jug went for $30. And you can only buy two per week. The wholesale giant, famous for…