Motor Authority
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Bugatti Mistral claims land speed record for a production open-top car Record car is a one-off example costing $14.7 million Mistral production capped at 99 units Bugatti's Mistral roadster has been taken to a top speed of 282 mph, and in the process has claimed the world land speed record for a production open-top car. The run took place on Nov.
Best Selling Cars Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Fiat reaches 15.7% in Uruguay in October. The Uruguayan new car market shoots up 17.9% to 6,410 units in October. This is a particularly good performance given October 2023 was already up 15.6% on the year prior. In fact, it’s the highest monthly volume reached in Uruguay in almost 7 years: since December 2017 (6,523). The year-to-date is up 8.8% to 50,551 as a result.
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Motor Authority
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Lucid Air police car being evaluted by California Highway Patrol Production plans haven't been announced Police version of rival Tesla Model S already available Lucid took to social media this week to show off the first photos of an Air police car prototype that recently took part in an evaluation program run by the California Highway Patrol. The.
Best Selling Cars Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The BYD Seagull is the best-selling vehicle in China for the 2nd time in the past 3 months. In October, trade-in incentives have started to really be felt in the Chinese market with a noticeable effect on wholesales as manufacturers stock up in anticipation of improved demand. Promotional activity across regions and an ever so dynamic market with many new launches have kept the market active.
Motor Authority
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Jaguar working on three ultra-luxury EVs to replace current lineup First will be four-door grand tourer debuting in 2025 Concept expected at 2024 Miami Art Week in early December Jaguar has finally given us a glimpse of its plans, first announced in 2021, to transform into an ultra-luxury brand exclusively selling electric vehicles by as early as.
Best Selling Cars Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Xpeng is in the Singapore Top 10 after three months in market. 3,407 new cars hit Singaporean roads in October, a splendid 44.9% year-on-year improvement. The year-to-date tally is now up 48.3% to 33,974. Toyota (+8.6%) vastly trails the market but lodges an impressive share nonetheless at 20.3%. BYD (+224.1%) returns to the 2nd place it holds year-to-date with 15% share vs. 13.4% so far in 2024.
Motor Authority
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Redesigned BMW 3-Series currently testing with gas and electric powertrains Electric variant will use Neue Klasse dedicated EV platform Gas variant will use updated version of current 3-Series' CLAR platform BMW has been spotted testing a prototype for the next 3-Series sedan for the first time. The current 3-Series, the seventh generation of the.
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Motor Authority
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
2025 Dodge Durango available with 5.7-liter and supercharged 6.2-liter V-8s, plus 3.6-liter V-6 New special editions celebrate V-8's approaching demise in the Durango Order books for 2025 Durango already open The Durango is the last Dodge still available with a Hemi V-8, but the engine's days in the popular three-row SUV are coming to an end.
Autocar
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Prototype for Jaguar's £100k Taycan rival gives a long-awaited first look at the firm's new design language The first car of Jaguar ’s new era has finally broken cover as it begins road testing for a 2026 launch, just two weeks before the firm unveils a concept that will set the tone for the design of all its upcoming models. The first all-new Jaguar since the I-Pace was launched in early 2018, this striking four-door GT is the first of three upcoming electric cars due to arrive by the end of t
Motor Authority
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
2025 Acura ADX revealed as brand's new entry-level crossover ADX shares a platform with the Integra and is close in size to the RDX Pricing targeted to start near mid-$30,000 mark The Acrua RDX compact crossover has grown bigger and more expensive over the years, with the current 2025 model's starting price approaching the $50,000 mark. This has.
Autocar
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Lexus's line of V8 hotrods ends with a fiery-sounding feast of carbonfibre The Lexus F-brand performance car as we’ve come to know it – that superbly left-field, one-fingered salute to German performance car hegemony – might now finally be a spent force. With both the IS F and GS F super-saloons fading in the memory, the subject of this road test – the Lexus RC F Ultimate Edition – is a V8-engined full stop of a sort.For the past 20 years, these cars have been like some wonderfully strange exper
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Four people have been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly committing insurance fraud by claiming a bear had attacked their vehicles, though it actually turned out to be a person in a bear costume. The suspects claimed that on January 28, 2024, a bear entered their 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost and damaged the vehicle’s interior. They provided video footage of the incident, which showed the alleged bear inside the car.
Autocar
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Hyundai hails Muñoz's contribution to profitability as he steps up to lead its global operations Hyundai has named chief operating officer Jose Muñoz as its new global CEO, taking the reins on 1 January from Jaehoon Chang, who has been promoted to vice chair of the company's automotive division. Born in Spain, Muñoz will be the first non-Korean to lead Hyundai Motor Company since it was founded in 1967.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The 2026 Acura ADX is an all-new, lower-priced entry-level competitor in the compact luxury crossover SUV space. The Acura ADX is built on the same platform as the Acura Integra and will share the Integra’s 1.5-liter engine, too. Pricing of the new ADX will start in the mid-$30,000 range, with cars arriving in dealerships early next year. Acura is wading into the crowded entry-level crossover pool with the all-new ADX.
Autocar
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Chinese giant aims straight at the Tesla Model Y with its new electric family SUV What do you call a bigger, taller Seal? A Sealion 7, apparently.Taxonomies of the animal kingdom be damned, the BYD Sealion 7 starts a new naming strategy for this Chinese car brand.In future, new SUVs will all be called Sealion, saloons Seal and hatchbacks Dolphin, each with a number to indicate its relative positioning in the range.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A Dodge Charger Sixpack has been spied sporting a dual exhaust system. The model will have a twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-six offered in 420-hp and 550-hp versions. The Hurricane engine is more powerful than its HEMI V8 predecessors. It won’t be long before the Dodge Charger Daytona begins landing in dealerships across the US, but not everyone is ready to embrace electrification just yet.
Autocar
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Japanese firm puts its new-age petrol engine into its fourth-generation family hatchback, and adds 2.5-litre option alongside Driving the Mazda 3, like most of the brand’s cars, can feel like stepping back in time, but in a good, rose-tinted glasses kind of way.It’s like driving an older car; one that preserves much of the mechanical tactility and simple shapes, and doesn’t hit you over the head with nannying safety systems.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A prototype of BMW’s next-generation 3-Series was caught testing in Germany. The ICE-powered sedan adopts the Neue Klasse design, looking sportier than before. The different dash-to-axle ratio is what sets it apart from the fully electric BMW i3. BMW has officially kicked off testing its next generation of compact-luxury sedan, which will be offered in both pure electric and internal combustion engines under the i3 and 3-Series nameplates respectively.
Autocar
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The business case is tough for affordable cars, but we're glad some car makers still serious about them For the past few years, I’ve compiled a feature looking at the year’s road test stats in one of the Christmas double issues of our magazine. It was quite striking in 2023 how the average star rating had gone down from four to 3.5, and there were no five-star verdicts.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Jaguar has released images of the first of three super-luxurious EVs it will launch before 2030. We’ll see a concept on December 2 before the production car is revealed next year. Reports suggest the $130k luxury electric sedan has no back window, like the Polestar 4. Jaguar is about to undergo a radical reinvention as an ultra-luxurious, EV-only brand and these images give us our first look at what’s in store when the rebirth reaches the showroom next year.
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
If the BYD Sealion 6 is a bit too normal for your liking, and you’d prefer a mid-sized SUV that’s a little sportier and has an all-electric powertrain rather than a plug-in hybrid, then the Sealion 7 should be on your wish list. As the name suggests, there’s more than a passing family resemblance between the new BYD Sealion 7 and the Sealion 6 that’s already on sale in Australia.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Chinese billionaire Lei Jun was photographed sleeping on the factory floor, referencing Elon Musk. The founder and CEO of Xiaomi celebrated the 100,000 unit production milestone of the SU7 sedan. Still, Xiaomi has long way to go in order to break even, as it needs to sell 300-400k vehicles per year. Lei Jun, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi , took a page straight out of Elon Musk’s playbook—quite literally—then added his own twist.
AutoDealer Today
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
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Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Chery unveiled a new concept designed to preview the future of their Fulwin series. Called the Hunting Wild, it features cutting-edge solid-state battery technology. The concept is set to make its debut at the 2024 Guangzhou Auto Show in China. While many Western carmakers have eased off on concept cars since the pandemic, Chinese brands are showing no signs of slowing down.
Auto Express
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The DfT is currently investigating as many as 47 models across several brands that are suspected to use diesel defeat devices
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Ford and the NHTSA have agreed to a consent order that will see the automaker slapped with a $165 million civil penalty. That’s the second largest penalty in NHTSA history and is only beaten by fees related to the Takata air bag disaster. The government went after the automaker for a rearview camera recall that spanned years and included over 600,000 vehicles.
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Toyota won’t been able to retain its large SUV sales title this year, but the company has confirmed it has plentiful supplies of the new-generation LandCruiser Prado 250 Series available as first customer deliveries commence. Toyota Australia says it has close to 27,000 examples of the all-new Prado landing Down Under over the first 12 months, which should result in a new sales record for the popular nameplate in 2025.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Kia will use the Los Angeles Auto Show to introduce five new vehicles. The company isn’t saying much at this point, but dropped an apparent teaser image of the US-spec Sportage. We can also expect to see the facelifted EV6 as well as a surprise or two. Kia is planning to storm the Los Angeles Auto Show with five different debuts. The company is playing coy on specifics, but said we can expect models with internal combustion engines, hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains, and electric power
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Cupra Australia is gearing up for a comprehensive product onslaught in 2025, with the star of the show likely to be the all-new Terramar SUV. Due to launch around mid-way through next year, the 2025 Cupra Terramar will serve as the brand’s first proper entry into the burgeoning mid-size SUV segment, which currently accounts for around 22 per cent of all new vehicles sold in Australia.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Hertz’s third-quarter financial figures contained bigger losses than expected and sent its stock tumbling. The rental company is still feeling the ill effects of a disastrous EV program that has limited its earnings this year. As a result, it’s planning to sell off another 30,000 EVs, which will hit the used car market by year’s end.
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Toyota hasn’t closed the door on offering more derivatives of the new LandCruiser Prado throughout its lifecycle. At this stage, the company hasn’t actually confirmed anything beyond the five variants available from launch, the Prado GX, GXL, VX, Altitude, and Kakadu. One variant missing in the initial Prado 250 Series lineup is a tougher GR Sport variant, as seen in a number of other Toyota model ranges.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
VW of America will introduce the redesigned Tiguan on November 20, ahead of its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The company released a single teaser image, showing a taillight that is virtually identical to the one found on the Tayron. The two models will have a lot in common, but VW has previously said the Tiguan will have unique styling and powertrains.
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The new-generation MG ZS is arriving in showrooms this month, but it will initially be available only with hybrid power. The ZS Hybrid+ will be offered in two variants, with the Excite initially available at $33,990 drive-away and the Essence priced at $36,990 drive-away. MG hasn’t confirmed when this offer pricing will end. The before on-roads price for the Excite is $33,990, while the Essence is $36,990, which means MG is effectively waiving on-road costs. 100s of new car deals are avail
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Bugatti set another top speed record for open-top cars despite withdrawing from the hunt in 2019. The Bugatti W16 Mistral reached 453.91 km/h (282 mph) with Andy Wallace behind the wheel. The €14m Mistral with the special livery joined Bugatti’s other record cars in a special collection. Bugatti has announced a new speed record , this time set by the W16 Mistral.
CarExpert
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Alfa Romeo is launching a very limited run of Edizione Carbonio special-edition models based on the Giulia sedan and Stelvio SUV, adding carbon-fibre enhancements and other performance-inspired extras taken from the flagship Quadrifoglio. Just 33 examples of the Giulia Edizione Carbonio and 17 examples of the Stelvio Edizione Carbonio will be offered to Australian customers, priced from $79,150 and $87,150 before on-road costs , respectively.
Carscoops
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Police arrested four people charged with insurance fraud. They allege that the suspects used a bear costume to commit said fraud. Their evidence is, in part, video sent to the insurance companies by the suspects themselves. It might not be bear hunting season in California right now, but authorities just nabbed a big one. In fact, they caught four people involved in a bear costume scheme.
Automotive Addicts
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Ford Motor Company has found itself at the center of a significant regulatory penalty: a $165 million fine issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The fine, levied due to Ford’s delay in issuing a recall for defective rearview cameras, marks the second-largest recall penalty in NHTSA history, second only to the $200 million Takata fine.
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