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2025 Porsche 911 Carrera T arrives with standard manual, available convertible top

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Updated 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera T revealed Convertible body style available for first time Pricing starts at $135,995, including destination The current 992-generation Porsche 911 receives a mid-cycle refresh for the 2025 model year, but not every model in the diverse 911 lineup has been launched in updated form. The latest is the 2025 911.

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The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser gives your SUV the middle finger

Machines with Souls

The Toyota Land Cruiser returns with a hybrid powertrain and tons of off-roading chops, but is it as capable as its reputation suggests? The post The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser gives your SUV the middle finger appeared first on Machines With Souls.

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Ram readies 1500 RHO, 2500 Power Wagon concepts for SEMA show

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Ram has two concept trucks bound for the 2024 SEMA show Concept trucks have accessories that may be offered in showrooms 2500 Power Wagon concept based on yet-to-be-launched 2025 Heavy Duty Ram will show two concepts at the 2024 SEMA show next week in Las Vegas. The trucks may hint at features to be made available in showrooms at some point, on.

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Ian Callum reinvents Jaguar C-X75 with new tech and plush interior

Autocar

This C-X75 was originally Car 001 built by Williams Advanced Engineering for use in James Bond New commission based on James Bond stunt car is intended to be the ultimate climax for the ill-fated supercar Ian Callum’s self-named design and engineering consultancy has built a second road-legal Jaguar C-X75 , described as the “satisfying conclusion” for “the one that got away”.

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SEMA-bound Plymouth GTX Electromod teases EV conversion potential

Motor Authority

Plymouth GTX Electromod concept to debut at 2024 SEMA show Concept features electric crate motor rated at 335 hp Electric motor borrowed from 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona EV The crate engines offered via Stellantis' Mopar division are some of the best in the business, but in the near future buyers will likely have the additional option of an.

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Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is 1527bhp super-saloon with Prodrive engineering

Autocar

Chinese EV is claimed to accelerate from 0-62 mph in 1.98sec and 0-124mph in 5.86sec, top out at 207mph Chinese car maker Xiaomi has revealed the SU7 Ultra, a Porsche Taycan Turbo GT rival with with Prodrive engineering and 1527bhp on tap. Utilising a tri-motor powertrain, the four-wheel-drive super-EV can hit 62mph in 1.98sec and go all the way to 207mph.

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2026 Cadillac Lyriq-V confirmed as first electric V-Series

Motor Authority

Cadillac continues to add electric vehicles to its lineup, but that doesn't mean the brand has any intention of giving up on performance vehicles like those found in its V-Series sub-brand. Cadillac on Tuesday confirmed the first electric V-Series will be a Lyriq-V, which the brand plans to launch next year as a 2026 model. Cadillac has released a.

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2025 Lucid Gravity SUV priced at $94,900, promises over 440 miles

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2025 Lucid Gravity available to order from Nov. 7 Electric three-row SUV launches with Grand Touring model, with Touring to follow for 2026 Pricing starts at $94,900, excluding destination Lucid is getting ready to shift focus to a larger segment of the market: luxury SUVs. The EV brand on Tuesday announced that its 2025 Gravity SUV three-row.

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Lucid Gravity Offers 800 HP And 440 Mile Range For $95,000

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Lucid has revealed Gravity pricing will start at $79,900, although the model will initially be launched in Grand Touring guise for $94,900. Production is slated to begin late this year and the range-topping model will have more than 800 hp as well as a range in excess of 440 miles. The company will begin accepting orders on November 7 and current owners will be given priority.

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Prototype Xiaomi SU7 Ultra is fastest 4-door car around the 'Ring

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Xiaomi SU7 Ultra packs 1,527 hp Prototype example has lapped the Nürburgring in 6:46.874 Xiaomi SU7 Ultra available in China priced from about $114,000 A prototype version of Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi's upcoming SU7 Ultra electric super sedan managed to lap the full 12.9 miles of Germany's Nürburgring racetrack in a time of only.

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Mini Aceman

Autocar

The Mini Aceman is for you if you like the fun and premium finish of the electric Cooper hatch, but want five doors and a touch more practicality. The Mini Aceman is the filler in Mini’s electric car sandwich.It's the one you go for if you rather like the electric Mini Cooper hatchback, but you can’t live with its slightly restrictive three-door layout.

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Ram Heads To SEMA With Mopar-ized 1500 RHO And 2500 Power Wagon Concept 

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Ram is looking to make a splash at SEMA with a new 2500 Power Wagon concept, which is based on the facelifted truck that was previewed last month. The brand will also show a 1500 RHO decked out in Mopar accessories. They’ll be joined by a new e-bike as well as a color matching Ram 1500 Rev and a Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Banshee concept. Ram previewed their facelifted Heavy Duty lineup last month and now we’re getting a better look at the new 2500 Power Wagon as the brand will introd

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Audi A6 E-tron gets £7k price cut with new entry-level model

Autocar

Saloon now starts from £62,500 while the Avant estate is £64,300 Electric saloon line-up bolstered with more affordable variant plus new four-wheel-drive model Audi has introduced a new variant of the A6 E-tron that cuts the executive EV's starting price by £7400. It swaps the 362bhp motor and 94.9kWh battery featured in the previous entry-level A6, the Performance, for units with 322bhp and 75.8kWh of capacity.

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Stellantis Sues Fifth Supplier This Year Over Price Increases

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Stellantis just sued Brose, a major automotive parts supplier for the group. It cites a pricing dispute with the German parts maker as the cause of the lawsuit. This marks the fifth supplier Stellantis has taken to court this year in a wave of legal battles. Stellantis is pointing fingers at its supplier, Brose, for bringing production to a halt at its Windsor facility.

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Ford Capri

Autocar

The Capri is back but this time as an electric crossover. Can it live up to the legend? Capri or not Capri? That really is the question that has dominated Ford’s new electric crossover since it was revealed back in July.Sacrilege or not, it's ultimately just a badge on a tailgate. If Ford’s decision to bring the Ford Capri name back was a genuine belief that the new car is true to the original’s lineage (its design team did an exercise in creating a range of mythical Capri models over subsequent

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2025 BYD Shark 6: PHEV ute pricing confirmed for Australia

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Pricing for the BYD Shark 6 has been announced at $57,900 before on-road costs and, as promised, the sub-$60k price tag applies to the single, high-spec version of the ground-breaking plug-in hybrid ute launched so far. At this price point, which is being called an ‘introductory offer’, the electrified Chinese-built dual-cab 4×4 ute undercuts the likes of the Ford Ranger XLT Bi-Turbo dual-cab ($63,640 before on-roads), and the Toyota HiLux SR5 with V-Active Technology ($63,260 b

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Fast Fords will survive into the electric era

Autocar

RS models arrive once in a blue moon; hottest Focus bowed out six years ago Firm's design boss says it will stick with making road-focused performance cars in the EV age Ford is committed to making performance models in the future despite the slimming down of the Ford Performance range for ST and RS models in recent years. With the Focus ST soon to follow the Fiesta ST into retirement, only the Puma ST and the Mustang will remain on sale.

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Honda Just Made The World’s Silveriest Civic And It’s 64% Real Silver

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Honda created a one-off Civic e:HEV to celebrate 25 years of hybrids since the Insight. The special Civic features the “Silveriest Silver” paint, with real silver flakes and pigments. British artist Stuart Semple is the creator of the paint, through his studio Culture Hustle. We’ve all heard of Vantablack, the darkest paint ever created , a color so black it makes other blacks feel a little insecure.

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Top 10 best supercars for 2024: driven and ranked

Autocar

Where do our road testers rate the latest mid-engined Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens relative to one other? Very few cars inspire the kind of instant, childish, gleeful excitement that the best supercars do. The term 'supercar' has become a little fluid over the last few years, but essentially they aim to combine exotic and singularly purposeful looks, with kidney-crushing performance and physics-testing handling, at a slightly more attainable price.

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Stellantis Pauses Jeep Grand Cherokee And Dodge Durango Production In Detroit

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Employees at the site will be canvassed for work and notified by management. Stellantis says production has been halted to better align it with current sales. Last month, the carmaker fired over 200 workers at Detroit Assembly Complex Jefferson. The Stellantis factory in Detroit responsible for churning out Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Durangos will sit idle this week, as the automaker grapples (among other things) with tepid sales and bloated inventories that refuse to budge.

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Gandini-penned 1969 Bertone Runabout revived as 493bhp supercar

Autocar

New Runabout gets pop-up headlights Striking roofless racer is the first in a series of models drawing on the famous Italian design house’s heritage Bertone is putting the Marcello Gandini-designed Runabout into production as a retro-futuristic supercar, 55 years after revealing the concept. The new Runabout remains faithful to the taut, wedge-like proportions of the 1969 original but features several tweaks both to modernise it and to ensure that it's usable on the open road.

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AC Cars Comes To America With New Ace Classic Electric

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AC Cars has unveiled the Ace Classic Electric, ahead of its debut at SEMA. The model will be launched next year with a 302 hp electric motor and a 72 kWh battery pack that provides more than 200 miles of range. U.S. pricing starts at $275,000 and production will be limited to an undisclosed amount. AC Cars is headed stateside to unveil a fully electric Ace Classic at the SEMA Show.

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Cadillac unveils its first Australian experience centre

CarExpert

American premium carmaker Cadillac has lifted the covers off its first direct-to-consumer ‘Experience Centre’ in Australia, and the General Motors luxury brand believes it will deliver superior customer service than traditional dealerships. Days after confirming the location of its first New Zealand store in Auckland , GM officials this week confirmed that Cadillac’s new boutique 841 square-metre Sydney site will go live on November 7.

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2025 Kia Tasman: 5 Things You Need To Know About The Practical And Tech-Filled Workhorse

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Kia took the wraps of the all-new Tasman, its first entry in the midsize pickup segment against well-established rivals like the Toyota Hilux and the Ford Ranger. The new Kia is focused on practicality and all-terrain capability, combining a purposeful and highly customizable exterior design with a tech-filled cabin. The much anticipated pickup will launch in global markets in 2025, offering a choice between gasoline and diesel powertrains.

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2025 Kia Tasman revealed: Everything you need to know about the new HiLux, Ranger rival

CarExpert

The Kia Tasman has made its world debut – simultaneously at the Jeddah motor show in Saudi Arabia and in Hobart, Tasmania – giving us our first full look at the Korean brand’s first rival for the top-selling Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger. Kia says it’ll launch the Tasman in its domestic market during the first half of 2025, before subsequently introducing it in regions like Australia, Africa and the Middle East.

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Ford Ranger EV Promises To Be An “Exciting” Gamechanger

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Ford CEO Jim Farley has said the company’s upcoming mid-size electric pickup is one of the “most exciting” game-changing products he’s ever seen. The truck is slated to be launched in 2027 and will be the first model to ride on an all-new electric vehicle platform. Farley criticized rival automakers for “very aggressive” EV leases that risk damaging their brands.

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Chinese EV blitzes Rimac Nevera’s Nürburgring time, but doesn’t set a new record

CarExpert

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has impressed on its first visit to the famed Nürburgring circuit with its Porsche Taycan-rivalling SU7 Ultra sedan, setting a blistering lap around the course. However, the brand isn’t yet claiming to have set a production electric vehicle (EV) record at the 20.8km Nordschleife course. In a video uploaded to YouTube, a pre-production version of the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra lapped the circuit in six minutes and 46.87 seconds – 20 seconds clear of the Porsche Taycan Turbo

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Skoda Kylaq Gets Last-Minute Shakedown Before Nov 6 Debut

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Skoda’s tiny 4 m (157.5 inches) Kylaq has been snapped testing only days before the SUV’s global reveal on Nov 6. This prototype was spied in Germany but the Kylaq is aimed at the Indian market and won’t be sold in Europe. Power comes from a 1.0 TSI engine mated to a choice of six-speed manual or six-speed auto transmissions. Skoda has proved it’s more than capable of holding it own on the European stage, but now its about to enter an even more competitive arena.

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Turns out Tesla isn’t alone in its push for cars without steering wheels

CarExpert

It’s no secret Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have been pushing for fully autonomous vehicles for some time, most recently evident through this month’s unveiling of the long-awaited and long-delayed Cybercab robotaxi. However, Tesla isn’t the only carmaker to be involved in the development of such vehicles, and it isn’t even that far ahead of the curve.

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Bertone Revives Iconic Runabout Concept As An Exclusive $378K Supercar

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A new Bertone Runabout has been previewed in Barchetta and Targa bodystyles. The modern take on the 1969 concept will enter limited production in mid-2026. The lightweight supercar will be powered by a mid-mounted V6 with 493 hp. Bertone has unveiled a modern reincarnation of the 1969 Autobianchi A112 Runabout concept, a car that laid the groundwork for the Fiat X1/9 and the Lancia Stratos.

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Gandini-penned 1969 Bertone Runabout revived as 489bhp supercar

Autocar

New Runabout gets pop-up headlights Striking roofless racer is the first in a series of models drawing on the famous Italian design house’s heritage Bertone is putting the Marcello Gandini-designed Runabout into production as a retro-futuristic supercar, 55 years after revealing the concept. The new Runabout remains faithful to the taut, wedge-like proportions of the 1969 original but features several tweaks both to modernise it and to ensure that it's usable on the open road.

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2025 Porsche 911 Carrera T Is A 6sp Manual-Only ‘Lightweight’ That’s Gained Some Weight

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The new Porsche 911 Carrera T offers a lighter, stripped-down design and now comes exclusively with a manual transmission. For the first time, the the ‘T’ variant is available as a cabriolet, adding more versatility to the lineup. Although lighter than the others in the 992.2 range, it’s gained 62 lbs (28 kg) over the previous 992.1 Carrera T Yes, it may seem like we’re getting a new Porsche 911 variant on an almost weekly basis, but Porsche says that this one really does

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Vertu strengthens Kia, Mazda and Toyota partnerships with Burrows acquisition

Motor Trader

Vertu Motors has acquired Burrows Motors for £12.5m, strengthening its relationship with Toyota, Mazda and Kia. Vertu’s partnership with Toyota grows from six to 11 outlets, Mazda from two to four and Kia from three to four. Burrows Motor Company turned in pre-tax profits of £106,000 in 2023 compared to £3m the prior year on turnover of £168.9m (2022: £171.9m).

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Scout Says 60% Of Buyers Reserve SUV, Forum Data Suggests 80% Choose Range-Extender

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Scout Motors has not provided details about how many reservations it’s received. Extended-range variants of the Traveler and Terra will have over 500 miles (805 km) of range. A survey of several hundred buyers reveals that over 50% are new to the world of EVs. It’s been less than a week since the revived Scout brand officially introduced itself and opened reservations, but the company is already touting “extremely positive” feedback for its new Traveler SUV and Terra pick

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Porsche Really Wants You To Know the New 911 Carrera T Is Manual Only

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It’s only available with a six-speed manual, and Porsche is offering a Cabriolet version for the first time.

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Xiaomi Snatches ‘Ring Glory And Unveils Road-Going 1,526 HP SU7 Ultra

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A prototype of the SU7 Ultra Prototype lapped Green Hell in just 6:46.874. The road-going model can hit 62 mph in just 1.98 seconds and brake from 62 mph in just 101 feet (30.8 meters). Xiaomi received over 3,600 reservations for the SU7 Ultra in the first 10 minutes after its launch. Xiaomi has shattered the Nurburgring record for a four-door car with the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Prototype and, at an event in Beijing, has also unveiled the production version of the flagship SU7.

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Very Original: Mopar EV-Swapped a Plymouth GTX

Motor 1

The GTX Electromod showcases a potential EV conversion kit, so you too can remove the one thing that defines a classic muscle car.

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