Carscoops

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The number of mainstream buyers paying over sticker has dropped 7% in the past year. More: Study Finds 25% Of Car Buyers Won’t Return To Dealership That Charged Above MSRP So what’s behind the improvement? Power says 15% of mass market buyers paid over sticker last year, but that number dropped to 8% in 2024.

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Motor Authority

AUGUST 1, 2024

The car has been developed using lessons learned from Maserati's MC20-based GT2 race car, but will remain civil enough to drive on the street. Maserati also said buyers will have a wide range of customization options, though didn't.

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Carscoops

OCTOBER 30, 2024

” The Group’s EV push has also stalled as the automaker confirmed “industry-wide buyer reluctance” to electric vehicles. Despite these positive developments, things won’t get better overnight and deep cuts are coming. This highlights the urgent need for significant cost reductions and efficiency gains.”

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Carscoops

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Tesla has said that its highly anticipated entry-level EV remains in development and continues to evolve. The prospect of a more affordable Tesla EV has been floating around for longer than many care to admit, with reports about its development oscillating between hopeful and contradictory. Is the Tesla Model 2 still in the works?

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Carscoops

OCTOBER 31, 2024

” Anstead maintains that the company remains committed to developing, building, and delivering the Type 62-2 to customers. . “The debt restructuring allows us to move forward with changes in ownership in a way that allows us to continue operating our day-to-day business.”

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Autocar

MARCH 6, 2024

The revolution starts here, with the Torres, a 4700mm five-seat crossover that's slightly larger than the Korando and slightly smaller than the Rexton (Mahindra-developed models due boldly styled replacements in the next year or so).On

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Autocar

JUNE 7, 2024

sounds like an obvious idea, but it’s one that very few manufacturers have ever put into practice, and fewer still have been able to make a commercial success of.Only Mini has really been able to convince sufficient numbers of buyers to pay more for a small car. full hybrid.

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Autocar

JULY 30, 2024

was effectively the first ground-up performance car Toyota has developed on its tod for some 20 years, built using know-how distilled from a heavily revitalised interest in motorsport. Since the original’s launch in 2020, few cars have generated quite the same level of collective salivation as this Japanese pocket rocket.It

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CarExpert

AUGUST 21, 2024

A dedicated ‘skunkworks’ team in California is currently developing a new EV platform which aims to be cheaper to produce – and more affordable for buyers – than its current electric models. However, it also provided the launch date of what could be an electric Ranger – even if it’s not yet calling it just that.

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Autocar

JULY 7, 2024

In top spec, it has a tri-motor powertrain, with one motor up front and two at the rear, developing a combined 952bhp and 1018lb ft of torque. Sun said BYD’s increasing focus on Europe has led to it bolstering its local R&D to better equip new cars with characteristics sought by European buyers.

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Drive.com

APRIL 9, 2024

They’re also said to be cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, too, improving affordability to remove another key barrier-to-purchase for potential electric car buyers. Yet the promises provide false hope after years of research and development failed to deliver a viable solid-state battery, according to the CATL chief. “We

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Carscoops

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The automaker is looking into incorporating more ICE and hybrid options into lineups that were developed as EV-only. For a brand that up until now seemed all-in on electric, the pivot speaks volumes about Porsche’s read on its buyers’ preferences—and their reluctance to abandon traditional powertrains. billion ($5.95

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Carscoops

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Chinese buyers are increasingly turning their back on famous Western brands’ EVs in favor of rapidly improving domestic alternatives. But the gravy train is running out of puff and storied Western brands are scrambling to keep buyers interested while wrestling with shrinking market share and grim sales forecasts. Why the shift?

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Autocar

MARCH 28, 2024

British buyers will instead be offered the G6 crossover in right-hand-drive form. Gu said other models on the SEPA platform would be developed with right-hand-drive to enable Xpeng to target the UK and other RHD markets. The 4753mm-long G6 sits on Xpeng’s new SEPA 2.0

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Women Automotive Network

JUNE 13, 2024

The Panel Jennifer Brace , Chief Futurist, Ford Motor Company Brandon Faurote , VP Advanced Design, Stellantis North America Marian Maroki , Buyer, Exhaust Systems, General Motors Stephanie May, Commercial Director, Women Automotive Network Meet the Panelists Jennifer Brace : Jen is the Chief Futurist at Ford Motor Company.

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Autocar

JULY 25, 2024

The brand today confirmed it will develop and “further upgrade” the current third generation, which received an extensive mid-life upgrade last year, selling it alongside the electric, and technically unrelated, fourth-generation – arriving next year – well into the next decade. “At

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Autocar

JANUARY 11, 2024

Toyota has sold more than 32,000 GR Yarises Sales success means hot hatch will be developed and sold for as long as emissions regulations allow Toyota says that the unexpected success of the GR Yaris has led it to make the hot hatchback a permanent fixture in its line-up. litre hybrid powertrain and none of the GR’s specialist hardware.

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Autocar

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Renault Group boss sees the future as “going back to the fundamentals of the industry, mass development of small cars for urban travel and last-mile deliveries, adding benefits such as reserved parking spaces, cheaper parking and reserved charging points”. Platform Creating a new platform from scratch is an expensive business.

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Carscoops

AUGUST 20, 2024

liter engine developing 168 hp. Buyers will also find automatic headlights with LED daytime running lights. Buyers will also find a 10.25-inch liter engine developing 168 hp (125 kW / 170 PS) and, presumably, 199 lb-ft (270 Nm) of torque. Dodge has revealed the redesigned Attitude for Mexico. inch infotainment system.

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Autocar

MARCH 18, 2024

The Onvo brand is an extension to the Nio portfolio, targeted at more price-conscious family car buyers. Up to now, Nio has referenced its new brand as Alps – an internal working title used during its inception and the development of its debut car, the L60. The Onvo name – Ledao in Chinese – was trademarked by Nio in 2022.

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Autocar

MAY 1, 2024

The new hybrid will sit between the smaller Captur – alongside which it was developed – and larger Austral in the French firm’s combustion-engined car line-up, making it a direct rival to the Nissan Qashqai. It was developed alongside the Captur, but is intended to fill a different market gap.

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Autocar

APRIL 24, 2024

Sporting a sleek new design language conceived exclusively for Chinese-market cars, the SUV-coupé concept previews a new range of electric models being developed in partnership with Volkswagen's various joint venture partners in China, says Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schäfer.

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Carscoops

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

” The decision effectively narrows protections for used car buyers, leaving many to shoulder the financial burden if their vehicle turns out to be problematic. ” For used car buyers like these plaintiffs, that’s a hard pill to swallow, and an expensive one.

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Autocar

APRIL 25, 2024

EV Electra has revealed a family of Emily GT variant concepts Radical 621-mile electric saloon, developed by former Saab engineers, moves another step closer to production The Nevs Emily GT, a 621-mile electric saloon developed by former Saab engineers in Sweden, could enter production within the next few years.

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Autocar

JUNE 18, 2024

We believe that working together to develop new models of collaboration for the world’s largest and fastest-growing electric vehicle market, combined with the appeal of the Freelander brand, promises a very exciting future for CJLR.” One, they say, will be the M3X platform developed in partnership with Magna International.

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Autocar

MAY 10, 2024

Traditional AMG buyers didn't take to the PHEV drivetrain AMG lines up twin-turbo V8 power for upcoming super-coupé amid slow sales for four-cylinder hybrid C63 The upcoming Mercedes-AMG CLE 63 will receive a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre litre four-cylinder petrol engine and a rear-axle mounted electric motor.

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Autocar

MAY 16, 2024

Speaking exclusively to Autocar at the recent Goodwood Members’ Meeting – where he raced an Alan Mann-prepared Mustang V8 Notchback – Ford CEO Jim Farley claimed the Mustang is now “by far” the world’s best-selling coupé and has developed a huge body of followers worldwide. We want to give them a good, American-style run for their money.”

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Autocar

JULY 16, 2024

A recent report by Reuters suggested that the new EV will be priced from $500,000 (£395,000) and claimed that a second electric model is already under development. They drive a lot of cars, and they can easily make a comparison between one and another, so for us this is an important metric that we are making a reference to.”

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Autocar

MARCH 6, 2024

Car makers argue that private buyers should get the same incentives as fleet buyers. It’s hugely disappointing that the chancellor has failed to reinstate financial incentives for electric vehicle buyers in today’s budget,” Dally said. billion in autumn’s Advanced Manufacturing Plan, but there is little to help consumer demand.

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Carscoops

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Lightning sales are up 86 percent this year, but Tesla’s Cybertruck has proved more popular with buyers. It will concentrate on developing smaller models and hybrids instead. Fortunately for Ford, it hasn’t thrown all its eggs in the electric basket and can still offer buyers combustion-engined trucks.

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Carscoops

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, for those who want to make a statement—or rather, a proclamation— 1016 Industries has developed a dramatic carbon fiber body kit for the all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre. The kit offers a choice of three materials: Black Badge carbon, forged carbon, and twill carbon.

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Carscoops

APRIL 16, 2024

The boutique carmaker announced plans to produce 50 examples for customers, confirming last year that development had concluded and deliveries were imminent. While the exact number of deliveries remains unclear, prospective buyers placing orders now face a minimum one-year wait for delivery.

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Autocar

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It has been developed with a focus on the Chinese market, although it will be sold worldwide. Volvo currently has three further EVs in development. Rowan noted that Chinese premium buyers prefer saloons with “really long leg room” in the back and said the ES90 will be developed with that market as a core focus.

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Carscoops

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This will lower the cost of borrowing, which will save car buyers money. Car buyers are about to get some much-needed relief as the Federal Reserve has announced plans to cut rates by 50 basis points. The Federal Reserve has cut the federal funds rate for the first time in more than four years. Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Autocar

MARCH 13, 2024

Aimed at family car buyers, the new five-seater is one of a quintet of models that three-year-old Zeekr is set to launch in the UK as part of a broader push into right-hand-drive markets by Geely. Insiders told Autocar it was too early to announce UK launch timing but suggested a 2026 introduction was possible.

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Autocar

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Heritage Hall was opened 25 years ago and, to mark the anniversary, was given a major refresh this year, to ensure it will stay relevant for whichever innovations Honda develops inthe future. As a result,the firm focused on developing a basic car. To mark the occasion, Autocar hada poke around to pick out some highlights.

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CarExpert

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In August , Ford announced a dedicated ‘skunkworks’ team in California is currently developing a new electric vehicle (EV) platform which aims to be cheaper to produce – and more affordable for buyers – than its current electric models.

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