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Rivian's commercial van has been coasting on a single trick for years: it's the EV that Amazon bought by the tens of thousands, which, according to Cox Automotive, was enough to make it America's best-selling electric van. Now the company has handed it some actual range and power, and the reasoning is refreshingly blunt.
In just a few weeks the production of Audi’s flagship sedan will draw to a close. After 32 years in production it will be replaced by a new flagship of an expected shape, but Audi is hesitant to draw the direct connection between the models itself. Let’s take a look at three decades and five generations of Audi’s most prestigious four-door as we say goodbye to the A8.
The call is coming from inside the house. For years, auto lenders built their defenses around the idea that fraud meant a criminal stealing some innocent person's identity to buy a car. That threat has not vanished, but it has become a sideshow. The real money, and the real growth, now comes from the person sitting across the desk at the dealership, filling out a loan application in their own name and lying through their teeth.
The Montego had done well for Mercury during its first generation selling roughly 100,000 units per year. This was roughly a third of Mercury’s total sales. The question was could the redesigned Montego do as well or better? We’ll address that question at the end of the video for now let’s take a look at the 2nd generation Mercury Montego.
Audi decided it wants a $4 billion plant in the United States. Porsche, which shares a corporate parent, a platform or two, and even a factory with its sister brand, wants no part of it.
So now that Mary Barra and the rest of the executive leadership has figured out that hybrids are more than a passing fad, they’ve elected to commit $750 million to renovate its plant in Lansing, Michigan to start building some.
This week I check out the Honda CR-V Trailsport. I have been in two of its top competitors, the CX-5 and RAV4 hybrid recently so go check those out as well!
The CX-70 is finally confirmed by Mazda to be done. It lasted exactly two model years in the U.S. before Mazda pulled the plug. For 2027, it's gone, its two-row mission absorbed into a refreshed CX-90 that picks up new paint, added tech, and a suspension tune meant to quiet down the complaints.
Dead nameplates don't usually leave the door cracked open. The Ford Escape, whose production wrapped at the Louisville Assembly plant last December, has done exactly that.
Georgia appears to be the current hotspot for new automotive plants with the announcement confirming Audi’s new $4 billion plant should be up and running in the Peach State by 2030.
Bentley has finally plugged in. The Torcal, the brand's first electric vehicle, arrives as an ultra-luxury compact crossover, and the launch spec is the Torcal First Edition packing 876 horsepower and 996 lb-ft of torque. Bentley says it's the brand's fastest and quietest vehicle yet, which is a loaded claim for a compact crossover.
Audi confirmed plans to spend roughly $4 billion to build its very first U.S. manufacturing plant. The facility will be based in Georgia, with vehicle production anticipated to start “in the early 2030s.”
The passenger side door on my Toyota MR2 Spyder was dented in multiple places and had a broken exterior door handle. We were lucky to find a door in the same color at a salvage yard nearby that was in much better condition, so we pulled the old one off and swapped it out.
Tesla still builds cars, but Elon Musk has stopped pretending that is the point. He has turned the company's attention away from selling vehicles and toward a driverless Robotaxi service, a humanoid robot he insists will dwarf everything the company has ever made, and now the floated idea of merging with SpaceX. The automaker that by 2020 held the richest market cap of any carmaker is spending like a firm that would rather be an AI company, and the earnings tell the story.
Affordability. It’s a word used so often in automotive circles it almost conjures up the anger we all feel about this time about political ads.
