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Toyota, A Company With Almost No EVs, Says California’s EV Mandates Are ‘Impossible’ To Meet

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Toyota, A Company With Almost No EVs, Says California’s EV Mandates Are ‘Impossible’ To Meet Toyota is pushing back against California stringent EV mandates, some of which start to kick in in less than two years. The Japanese automaker thinks that some of the mandates can’t be met, so it wants for California officials to change them. Read more…

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2025 Porsche Taycan GTS Sport Turismo Wagon Is Back With 100 More Horsepower

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2025 Porsche Taycan GTS Sport Turismo Wagon Is Back With 100 More Horsepower Earlier this year Porsche unveiled the facelifted 2025 Taycan, first showing the bread and butter of the lineup and then following up with the bonkers Turbo GT. Now it’s time for the final three variants, bringing the total to twelve (or thirteen if you count the Turbo GT with Weissach package differently.) Joining… Read more…

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Traffic Jams: The Maccabees – ‘Grew Up At Midnight’

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Traffic Jams: The Maccabees – ‘Grew Up At Midnight’ Happy Tuesday, how is your day looking today? Not too bad, I hope. Mine should be alright, I’ve got a roast red pepper soup to look forward to for lunch and band practice this evening, so not a bad weekday truth be told. Read more…

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Self-Driving Cars Will Ruin Cities, Not Fix Them

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Self-Driving Cars Will Ruin Cities, Not Fix Them If you’re delusional enough to believe Tesla CEO and Unelected Co-President Elon Musk, cheap robotaxis are just around the corner, ready to revolutionize transportation as we know it. They aren’t, but even if they were, the idea that they would actually make society better is just as ridiculous as Musk’s claim that he… Read more…

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Dodge Fast Tracks Gas-Powered Charger Production Because Of Demand

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Dodge Fast Tracks Gas-Powered Charger Production Because Of Demand Dodge apparently knows not many folks are terribly excited about its upcoming electric Charger coupe and sedan, so it’s reportedly pushing up the release date of the gas-powered Charger Sixpack by five months. It was originally slated to debut in late 2025, but it’s now looking like they’ll be hitting the dealers in… Read more…

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Consumer Reports Trashes VinFast VF8 In First Review

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Consumer Reports Trashes VinFast VF8 In First Review When we first drove the VinFast VF8, we weren’t impressed. Our headline said it was “simply not ready for America,” and the criticism only got worse from there. VinFast clearly rushed the development process and didn’t have a remotely competitive product to offer. Supposedly, the Vietnamese automaker planned to… Read more…

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Hyundai Research Proves The People Demand Real Buttons And Knobs

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Hyundai Research Proves The People Demand Real Buttons And Knobs Back in the 1900s, automakers realized they could save a lot of money if they used the same buttons and knobs across various brands. Then Tesla changed the game again, sticking essentially all of the vehicle controls on a cheap touchscreen. Many other automakers soon followed suit and largely abandoned physical… Read more…

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Next-Generation Mazda Miata Will Be Electric With A Rotary Range Extender

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Next-Generation Mazda Miata Will Be Electric With A Rotary Range Extender Every day the automotive industry brings us closer to a world without sports cars, or coupes of any kind for that matter. Mazda is working diligently to prevent such an eventuality from coming to pass. Since its 1989 introduction the MX-5 has become one of the most successful sports cars in history, and while the… Read more…

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Wild ‘Conveyor Belt Road’ Coming To Japan

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Wild ‘Conveyor Belt Road’ Coming To Japan Japan is looking to up its world-leading mass transit game with a “conveyor belt road” meant to be a 320-mile automated cargo transport corridor that will link Tokyo and Osaka. This “autoflow road” is being built in an effort to make up for Japan’s delivery capacity shortage. Read more…

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Honda Made A Small EV With 81 Miles Of Range Nearly 30 Years Ago

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Honda Made A Small EV With 81 Miles Of Range Nearly 30 Years Ago Honda has been doing big things with alternative fuels for decades now. While models like the game changing first-gen Insight and theAccord and Civic Hybrids from the early 2000s put Honda’s electrification efforts into the mainstream public’s awareness, few may realize that Honda started down this path right before… Read more…

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You Can Get A Brand New Tesla Cybertruck In A Week If You Order It Now, And That’s Probably Bad For Tesla

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You Can Get A Brand New Tesla Cybertruck In A Week If You Order It Now, And That’s Probably Bad For Tesla Do you want a Tesla Cybertruck, but you don’t want to wait for it? I’ve got good news for you, Trump voter: If you order a Cybertruck right now, you can get it in as little as a week. If you go on Tesla’s website, it’ll show that both the Cybertruck All-Wheel Drive and Cybertruck Cyberbeast can be delivered to you… Read more…

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Become Your Raddest Self When You Buy This 1980s Mercedes-Benz S-Class With Gullwing Doors

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Become Your Raddest Self When You Buy This 1980s Mercedes-Benz S-Class With Gullwing Doors There are few cars more of-an-era than a C126 Mercedes-Benz equipped with a tuner body kit, BBS mesh wheels, and Styling Garage’s one-of-57 ‘Gullwing’ conversion. This white-over-grey machine, which Styling Garage dubbed a “Marbella” after the coastal city in Southern Spain, is the epitome of 1980s style excess. It… Read more…

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Breaking: Elon Musk Has No Idea How The Speed Of Light Or Satellite Communication Works

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Breaking: Elon Musk Has No Idea How The Speed Of Light Or Satellite Communication Works During a meeting with the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, an internal NASA working crew dedicated to supporting missions to Marsincluded a pitch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to deploy Starlink satellites around the red planet to create “Marslink.” Having a thick layer of satellites around Mars would certainly… Read more…

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Cool Badges, Irrelevant Automakers And The Worst Things You’ve Ever Done To Your Car In This Week’s QOTD Roundup

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Cool Badges, Irrelevant Automakers And The Worst Things You’ve Ever Done To Your Car In This Week’s QOTD Roundup It can be challenging to gauge the relevance of any automaker, but you can generally feel it. For example, how many recent Jaguars do you see on the road? When was the last time you’ve seen anyone get excited for a Chrysler that wasn’t a 300? You know, the Chrysler 300, the vehicle famous for resembling a car… Read more…

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‘Carrot Kissing’ Llamas At The Airport! It’s This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup

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‘Carrot Kissing’ Llamas At The Airport! It’s This Week’s Beyond Cars Roundup Since The Boring Company began operating in 2017 it has announced massive car tunnel projects all over the world, including Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Jose, Chicago, San Bernardino and even Sydney, Australia. There have been discussions about hundreds more, but the Texas-based tunnel company has, so far, only… Read more…

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A Free Fiat, A Fancy Ultima GTR And A Manual Plymouth Colt Vista In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup

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A Free Fiat, A Fancy Ultima GTR And A Manual Plymouth Colt Vista In This Week’s Car Buying Roundup The Fiat 500e is small, electric and starts a little under $35,000. It’s also more spacious than the old 500e and comes with significantly more range. Unfortunately for Fiat, there aren’t a lot of places in the U.S. where its small size is an advantage, so it’s a little surprising that Fiat decided to offer it… Read more…

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Rudy Giuliani’s Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week’s News Roundup

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Rudy Giuliani’s Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week’s News Roundup Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000 miles per business day.… Read more…

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