Month: July 2023

Almost four years after Elon Musk first unveiled Tesla Inc.’s debut pickup, the automaker has built its first Cybertruck at its plant in Austin, Texas. Tesla shared the development Saturday on Musk-owned Twitter, posting a photo of workers in safety vests and helmets obscuring much of the vehicle. When Musk first showed a prototype of
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Ford has trademarked the name “F-150 Flash,” hinting that yet another version of the best-selling pickup truck might be on the way. A trademark application first spotted by CarBuzz was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on June 16. It was filed under International Class 12, which covers “automobiles, pickup trucks,
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ENSTONE, England — The centerpiece of Alpine’s future sports car strategy is its own APP platform, a bonded-aluminum chassis that can accept a variety of battery and electric motor configurations — as well as an internal combustion engine. Alpine, Renault Group’s sports and racing brand, recently revealed that APP (short for Alpine Performance Platform) would
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Associated Press Jul 15, 2023, 04:38 PM ET NEWRY, Maine — A competitor was killed in a crash on the first day of a rally race through a forest in western Maine, leading organizers to cancel the event’s second day. Erin Kelly, a 48-year-old woman from Marshall, Virginia, was killed Friday when her team’s car
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Associated Press Jul 15, 2023, 05:58 PM ET TORONTO — Christian Lundgaard mastered driving in the rain when he was growing up in Denmark. He’ll have to put that to the test at the Honda Indy Toronto. Lundgaard took the pole on a wet street course at Toronto’s Exhibition Place on Saturday, finishing 0.3223 seconds
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Alabama Police Arrest 8-Year-Old Who Stole A Car At Gunpoint | Carscoops The 8-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with first-degree robbery, attempting to elude, and firearm possession https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ by Brad Anderson 2 hours ago When I was eight years old, I would often play with toy cars around the imaginary city I constructed
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DETROIT — One of the few certainties about this year’s contract talks between the UAW and the Detroit 3 is that they will be far from routine. With two months to go before the pacts expire, union leaders are bucking tradition and employing new tactics to win meaningful gains for members in what President Shawn
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VanMoof’s current financial woes can ironically be traced back to the company’s forward thinking and innovative designs. But now that future for these costly and complicated e-bikes is uncertain while the brand teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, other e-bike companies are coming up with equally innovative solutions for them. We reported earlier this week
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Walser Automotive Group instituted an antifraud training regimen for sales and finance personnel in 2021 after recognizing the opportunity remote deals offered scammers and finding itself fooled by fraudsters as well. The training has led to the group spotting multiple scammers, according to Walser Senior Director of Finance Jennifer Parsons, who spearheaded the antifraud effort.
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Ford took the wraps off the Mustang Mach-E Rally, the automaker’s first production-intent off-road electric vehicle at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Ford said it will open order books for the Mach-E Rally this autumn and offer the vehicle initially in the U.S. and Europe. Ford did not say when deliveries of the Mach-E Rally
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Auto retail industry stalwart JM Family Enterprises is the lead investor in a new venture capital financing for Skaivision, a developer of computer vision artificial intelligence for automotive dealerships. JM Family declined to disclose the size of its investment, other than to note that it is in the “single-digit millions” range. The Deerfield Beach, Fla.,
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Tesla will participate in this year’s IAA Mobility show in Munich,  Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe reported. Tesla will present its electric vehicles in the open air at Munich’s Königsplatz, AMW said. For the show, which moved from Frankfurt to Munich in 2021, in a bid to attract more visitors, the decision
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Jul 14, 2023, 06:52 AM ET Mercedes will be taking a good look at McLaren’s latest upgrade for clues about how their Formula One rivals have made such a leap in lap time, technical director James Allison says. McLaren finished second and fourth in last Sunday’s British Grand Prix with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri
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