Month: July 2023

22-Year-Old Learner Arrested In Florida After Police Chase, Says It Felt Like Grand Theft Auto | Carscoops The 22-year-old has been hit with a felony charge of fleeing with eluding https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ by Brad Anderson 4 hours ago A young learner driver in Naples, Florida has been arrested and charged for leading police on a high-speed
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I’m a Barbie girl in a GM world. A collection of dozens of Barbies and two Kens were some of the most-loved toys on my shelf. A doctor Barbie, rock star Barbie and even Cleopatra Barbie encouraged me to dream big. And if you were lucky, your Barbies would cruise around in a toy Chevrolet
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Robust second-quarter earnings from the Detroit 3 were tempered last week by the growing realization that their pivot to electric vehicles will be slower and costlier than anticipated. Ford Motor Co., which said its quarterly net income tripled from a year earlier, delayed its EV production goals and cautioned that its EV business would lose
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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Access to personal cars remains important to Americans despite the growing monthly cost of ownership.  The average monthly auto payment reached $733, a new record, in the second quarter of the year, according to a report by auto site Edmunds. Seventy-eight percent of middle-income households earning between $47,000 to
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Review: 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70 Is Brilliant But Is It Worth The Premium? | Carscoops The 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70 is among the finest electric SUVs currently on the market, but is significantly pricier than the twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6 ICE model https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ by Brad Anderson 1 hour ago When we drove the 2022 Genesis GV70
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Aston Martin has appointed Geely CEO Daniel Li to its board. The Chinese automaker is its third largest shareholder. Geely in May made a 234-million-pound ($299.4 million) investment in the British automaker, giving it the right to one board seat. As part of the transaction, Geely acquired a 17 percent stake in Aston Martin, purchasing
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Alain Prost has launched an scathing attack on Alpine’s faltering Formula One team, labelling recently departed CEO Laurent Rossi “incompetent” and an example of the corporate influence which has taken hold of the team. On Friday, Alpine confirmed the departure of team boss Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane after this weekend’s Belgian Grand
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We test the all-new 2012 Audi A7 and find the supercharged 3.0-liter engine to be more motivating than expected… Read full story here: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/1105_2012_audi_a7_test/index.html Also find Motor Trend on: Tweets by MotorTrend http://facebook.com/MotorTrendMag
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ARCADIA, Calif. — If you want a traditional gasoline-powered pony car, you’ll soon be down to just one option: the 2024 Ford Mustang. Still, engineers and designers at Ford gave the seventh-generation stallion a number of unique features that they hope attract new buyers and help it stand out, even as the Chevrolet Camaro and
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Waymo, Alphebet Inc.’s self-driving unit, is slowing development of autonomous trucking being done by its Via subsidiary. “With our decision to focus on ride-hailing, we’ll push back the timeline on our commercial and operational efforts on trucking, as well as most of our technical development on that business unit,” the company said in a statement
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Motor Trend editor-in-chief Angus MacKenzie takes a first look at Horatio Pagani’s 730 horsepower, hand-built masterpiece – the Pagani Huayra. Read the full story here: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/exotic/1111_pagani_huayra_first_ride/ Shot by: Michael Shaffer Edited by: Corey Denomy
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Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley said Thursday the company will unveil an “all-new” F-150 pickup, as well as a new hybrid variant, this September at the Detroit auto show. Automotive News has previously reported the F-150 is due for a mid-cycle freshen this year before a next-generation model launches in 2026. The F-150 is
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Volkswagen and Xpeng’s jointly developed electric vehicles will use Xpeng’s G9 ‘Edward’ platform, in a boost for the Chinese startup that analysts said could lift its sales and profitability. Xpeng will also receive so-called technology service revenue from Volkswagen from next year onwards, overturning a four-decade-old model of foreign automakers charging their Chinese partners for
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