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2024 Nissan GT-R limited editions mark end of R35 Godzilla after 17 years

Motor Authority

2024 will be the final year for the R35 Nissan GT-R The R35 Nissan GT-R lived for 17 years Nissan's already confirmed a next-generation GT-R Nissan on Friday announced pricing for two limited edition models that mark the end of the current-generation GT-R's decade-plus production run. The T-spec Takumi and Skyline special editions were announced.

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Some Mustang Owners Told to Park Them

AutoDealer Today

Issue in thousands of vehicles could result in fire, company says in 'urgent' recall notice.

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Watch Cadillac racing's "No Perfect Formula" Le Mans documentary

Motor Authority

The documentary "No Perfect Formula" can now be streamed on YouTube The film documents Cadillac's road back to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023 Cadillac competed at Le Mans for the first time since the early 2000s As it heads back to the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, Cadillac is looking back on last year's breakout effort with a documentary.

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SEO, SEM, & Display Advertising is Crucial for Car Dealership Marketing Strategy

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Why Incorporating SEO, SEM, and Display Advertising is Crucial for a Successful Car Dealership Marketing Strategy In today’s digital age, the success of an auto dealership heavily relies on its online presence. To stay competitive and reach potential customers effectively, […] The post SEO, SEM, & Display Advertising is Crucial for Car Dealership Marketing Strategy appeared first on Get My Auto.

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2025 Genesis GV80 Coupe costs $81,300, or more than a BMW X6 or Audi Q8

Motor Authority

The 2025 Genesis GV80 Coupe costs $81,300 Buyers will find the Genesis GV80 Coupe in showrooms this summer Shoppers will find the Genesis GV80 Coupe costs more than a BMW X6 or Audi Q8 The Genesis GV80 midsize SUV has been updated for the 2025 model year, and among the updates is the addition of a new coupe-like body style targeting vehicles like.

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Radical new Fiat Panda revealed with EV and petrol power

Autocar

The new Grande Panda will rival Dacia Sandero and Jeep Avenger New Grande Panda is a retro, rugged supermini that's tipped for a £15k start price The all-new, fourth-generation Fiat Panda has been revealed as a retro, rugged urban family car with a totally new look and the option of electric power. Called the Grande Panda to reflect a footprint that is larger than that of its predecessor (see separate story), the new hatchback is closely related to the recently launched Citroën C3 , with which i

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Aston Martin plans twin-Valkyrie assault at 2025 Le Mans

Motor Authority

Aston Martin on the eve of this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans has confirmed it will enter a pair of Valkyrie race cars in next year's running, subject to being approved entry by the race's organizers. The automaker first confirmed a year ago its intention to take the V-12-powered Valkyrie hypercar to Le Mans, originally with a single car only.

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2025 Genesis GV80 Coupe, Hispano Suiza Carmen Sagrera: Car News Headlines

Motor Authority

Genesis has updated its handsome GV80 and added a coupe-like body style in the process. The GV80 Coupe starts at more than $20,000 higher than the regular GV80, and is also priced higher than the rival Audi Q8 and BMW X6. However, it comes loaded with standard features, which helps justify the steep sticker price. Spain's Hispano Suiza has come.

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Jaguar F-Type production ends after 87,731 examples built

Autocar

Green-on-tan scheme references the last E-Type ever built Final petrol sports car leaves Castle Bromwich factory as brand gears up for electric reinvention The final Jaguar F-Type has rolled off the firm’s Castle Bromwich production line, ahead of the brand's transition into a maker of low-volume electric luxury cars. The last F-Type was assembled exactly 50 years after the final E-Type, with its specification referencing its ancestor – a Giola Green convertible with a tan leather interior and

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Hispano Suiza Carmen Sagrera debuts with new 103-kwh battery

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The Carmen Sagrera debuted as the latest latest iteration of Hispano Suiza's electric hypercar The Carmen Sagrera marks the automaker's 120th anniversary A new 103-kwh battery that was developed in-house powers the Carmen Sagrera Historic Spanish marque Hispano Suiza on Friday launched the next evolution of its Carmen electric hypercar. The new.

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Global Auto Sales Jumped Last Year

AutoDealer Today

China sales surpassed U.S. brands for first time as Europe sees most growth and SUVs gain biggest market share to date.

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MissionH24 Evo hydrogen race car concept debuts at Le Mans

Motor Authority

The organizer of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will use the backdrop of this weekend's race to preview a potential future for carbon-free racing. The ACO has set up what it calls the Hydrogen Village at Le Mans' Circuit de la Sarthe, where a number of organizations plan to showcase concepts of hydrogen-fueled race cars that could potentially hit the.

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Tesla Teased 3 Mystery Models, Let’s Break Them Down

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Tesla teased a trio of new models at its 2024 stockholder meeting. One appears to be a van and the other two are likely the Robotaxi and the Roadster. Details are sparse but we expect to see production versions of two more models before 2025. At Tesla’s annual Cyber Roundup shareholder meeting this week, Elon Musk and the team teased three new models.

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An electric Jeep Renegade priced below $25,000 is coming

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A $25,000 electric Jeep Renegade is in the works A timeline for the pint-sized electric Jeep wasn't given outside of "very soon" Stellantis is taking a mixed approach to future propulsion including BEVs and PHEVs Stellantis held an investor presentation on Thursday where the automaker revealed key product details for its Jeep brand running through.

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Ford Explorer

Autocar

The concept of a mainstream Ford is about to change forever. So is the crucial new Explorer EV any good? The Ford Explorer is a new Ford like no other. The fact that it’s based on a Volkswagen architecture is remarkable enough, that it takes the place of the Fiesta on its production lines in Cologne perhaps more so. Oh, and it resets the notion of a mainstream, mass-market family-sized Ford as a car that is now electric and starts at £40,000.

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2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI bringing AI to your hot hatch with ChatGPT

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The updated 2025 VW Golf GTI features ChatGPT The AI will be integrated into the upsized 10.2-inch touchscreen, a 12.9-inch touchscreen will be available This updated Golf GTI might be the last iteration with a gas engine Volkswagen's iconic Golf hatchback celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2024, and the automaker has marked the occasion with the.

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New Cadillac CT4-V And CT5-V Blackwing Special Editions Pay Homage To Le Mans

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Cadillac is celebrating the 24 Hours of Le Mans with two new special editions, based on the CT4-V and CT5-V Blackwings. Both have an eye-catching exterior with a Magnus Matte paint job and blue carbon fiber accents. Production will be limited and the special editions offer up to 668 hp. The 24 Hours of Le Mans kicks off this weekend and Cadillac will be back in action, looking to improve on last year’s third place finish.

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Cybertruck cop car, ChatGPT, next-gen Apple CarPlay: The Week in Reverse

Motor Authority

A Cybertruck police cruiser debuted, ChatGPT infiltrated the automotive scene, and Apple provided a closer look at its next-generation of CarPlay. It's the Week in Reverse, right here at Motor Authority. UP.FIT, a division of Tesla tuner Unplugged Performance, revealed a Tesla Cybertruck cop car. The electric pickup truck isn't just a concept.

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82% Of You Would Buy The Inline-Six Dodge Charger Over The Daytona EV

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While the EV promises to be quicker, muscle car fans still want combustion engines. Dodge has yet to announce pricing details for the latest-generation Charger. Customer deliveries of the new model will start before the end of this year. In a CarScoops poll we published a few weeks ago, we asked if you’d rather buy the new-age Dodge Charger with its inline-six or the all-electric Daytona version.

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New world order: Lotus Eletre vs Audi SQ8 E-tron

Autocar

More than 1000bhp and £200k between them, but which should you choose? Audi is a master of electric SUVs, but Lotus is a rookie. Can the Eletre hold its own against the SQ8? For years – for decades, even – there’s nothing. You can trawl for as long as you like through Autocar’s rather wonderful digital archive: incidences of the Lotus and Audi brands – so distant from each other for so long, operating within market niches entirely discrete from one another – finding their way into competition in

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Don’t Get Duped, You Can Snag A Nissan Z For Less Than MSRP

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As recently as last year, the flagship Z Nismo was seen with markups of almost $60,000. Hundreds of Zs are looking for new homes across the U.S. Nissan has started to reward dealers with $500 for each Z they sell. In late 2022 and throughout much of 2023, Nissan dealerships across the United States were selling the 2024 Z with extreme markups. We even came across one dealership in Georgia that slapped an absurd $60,000 ‘market adjustment’ fee on the sports car.

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The large American pickups/utes with the best fuel economy in Australia

CarExpert

American haulers aren’t built to be economical daily drivers, but the price of fuel means their economy can’t be ignored. They all have petrol or diesel engines with big torque figures (and bigger fuel tanks), but which is the most frugal American pickup truck money can buy? To find out, we’ve taken the vehicles in the pickups for more than $100,000 category on the VFACTS sales charts and compared them on their fuel consumption.

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Nissan Note Aura Facelift Debuts In Japan With Sharper Looks

Carscoops

The Nissan Note Aura received a mid-lifecycle update focused on style. Visually, the highlight is the redesigned front end with a larger grille. The interior gains new trim options while the underpinnings are carried over from the outgoing model. Nissan unveiled the updated version of the Note Aura in Japan. The model gains a redesigned face, new wheels, and revised interior trim.

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BYD electric hot hatch concept comes to life as Seal 06GT

CarExpert

BYD’s upcoming hot hatch has been spied in China, and it has a new name. First unveiled as the Ocean-M concept at the Beijing Motor Show earlier this year , the semi-compact performance car will officially be known as the Seal 06GT. Positioned between the Dolphin hatch and the Seal sedan in BYD’s Ocean lineup, the Seal 06GT measures 4630mm long and has a wheelbase of 2820mm – making it 343mm longer between the bumpers but only 115mm more from axle to axle than the MG 4 XPower.

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Tesla Model Y Was World’s Best-Selling Car In 2023 With 1.22 Million Units

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Tesla’s Model Y SUV was the world’s best-selling car in 2023. Sales grew 64 percent to 1.22 million units, taking Model Y past the second-place Toyota RAV4. Honda’s CR-V bagged third spot, while the Toyota Corolla and Corolla Cross came home fourth and fifth. Tesla is already hurting from a first-quarter sales downturn and this week, just to rub salt in the wound, comes a reminder of how much better things were last year.

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Jeep Renegade to be reinvented as £20k EV crossover by 2027

Autocar

The current Jeep Renegade is available with plug-in hybrid power Nissan Juke rival is tipped to move onto Stellantis's Smart Car platform and use cheaper LFP battery tech Jeep will launch an all-new electric version of its Renegade small SUV globally by 2027, with a starting price of less than £20,000. Jeep will use a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery to bring the cost of the small SUV down, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares told journalists on a call.

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Jeep Confirms New Sub-$25,000 Renegade EV Coming In 2027

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The new model is expected to share technology with Europe’s Citroen e-C3. Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares first teased the Jeep in late May. Jeep wants to sell 50% more vehicles in 2027 than it did in 2023. Electric vehicles are proliferating across the United States and Jeep has just announced plans for a new EV that’ll be priced below $25,000 and launch around 2027.

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2024 Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series V8 off-road review

CarExpert

Is this a facelifted 1990s Prado or does the 2024 Toyota LandCruiser 76 Wagon actually have something to offer? Introduced in 2007, the 76 Series has proven to be a popular seller for Toyota despite its many drawbacks, including the spartan and utilitarian fit-out – you basically get very little for your money in terms of tech, comfort and modernisation, although I was surprised to see electric windows, a cup holder and a digital centre screen in the current model.

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Electric Shocker: Used EVs Are Now Cheaper Than Used ICE Cars

Carscoops

A new study involving 2.2 million cars indicates that used EVs are cheaper than used gas cars. It also appears as though used EV values will continue to fall in the near future. On the other hand, gas-burning vehicles are losing value at a slower and more consistent rate. Electric vehicles were all the rage over the last few years, but the current appears to be flowing in the opposite direction now.

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Tesla shareholders approve £35bn pay deal for CEO Elon Musk

Motor Trader

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was celebrating yesterday as shareholders gave the go ahead for him to pocket a £35.3bn pay deal. If it goes ahead – and that is not a certainty as there are further legal disputes ahead – it will be the largest salary paid to a US-listed company CEO. An upbeat Musk addressed shareholders from a stage. “Welcome to the Tesla shareholder meeting.

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Poll: Should Elon Musk Get His Multi-Billion Dollar Payday?

Carscoops

Tesla shareholders recently voted to approve a massive performance award for Elon Musk. The payout was originally approved in 2018, but struck down by a judge earlier this year. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal, despite recent problems at the automaker. Tesla is facing a reckoning as sales are slowing in a number of markets and inventories are piling up.

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Nitrous boosted KTM X-Bow vs McLaren Elva vs Hyundai Ioniq 5 N drag race

CarExpert

Who needs windows anyway? That was the theory when McLaren decided to lop the roof and windscreen off the Elva – a car inspired by Bruce McLaren’s open-top race cars from the 1960s. Same story over at KTM. It wanted a car to match the experience of riding a motorbike… with a seat. It too features minimal roofing and windows in lieu of a ridiculously fast vehicle that delivers that ‘wind in the hair’ experience.

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Stellantis Declares War On Chrome: The Bling Is Dead

Carscoops

Stellantis is reportedly planning to phase out chrome on future vehicles. The new Jeep Wagoneer S is one of the first models to eschew chrome. The push to stamp out chrome is due to environmental and health concerns. The 2025 Ram 1500 Tungsten brings the bling, but that might not be the case much longer. Quite the opposite as Stellantis appears to be fighting a war on chrome.

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Porsche 718 Cayman and Boxster allegedly end production in October 2025

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Filed under: Green , Plants/Manufacturing , Porsche , Convertible , Coupe , Electric , Future Vehicles , Luxury , Performance Continue reading Porsche 718 Cayman and Boxster allegedly end production in October 2025 Porsche 718 Cayman and Boxster allegedly end production in October 2025 originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:35:00 EDT.

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Tesla Reveals Air Mattress For The Model Y, But It’s Already Sold Out

Carscoops

The air mattress sits neatly in the rear of the electric SUV and includes a pump and repair patches. When not in use, the mattress can be stowed in the rear storage area. It’s unclear when Tesla will restock the mattress or if it’ll be sold outside of North America. There probably aren’t all that many Tesla Model Y owners who plan to go camping in their EVs, but if they did, then Tesla would gladly sell them a bespoke air mattress to fit inside.

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The Autoblog 20: The most significant new cars of the past two decades

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Filed under: Automotive History , Economy Cars , Electric , Hybrid , Luxury , Off-Road Vehicles , Special and Limited Editions , Performance , Supercars , Classics Continue reading The Autoblog 20: The most significant new cars of the past two decades The Autoblog 20: The most significant new cars of the past two decades originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:01:00 EDT.

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Honda And Mitsubishi Join Forces For EV Leasing And Battery Recycling In Japan

Carscoops

The newly-formed company will retain ownership of the N-Van e: battery when leased. When a car reaches the end of its life, ALTNA will repurpose the battery and use it in grid storage. Extending a battery’s useable life can cut lease prices for new EVs. Honda and Mitsubishi will form a 50/50 joint venture to support the growth of EVs and it’ll start with an intriguing lease plan for the new Honda N-VAN e: The new company, dubbed ALTNA, will work with leasing companies at Honda and Mi