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2025 Volvo EX30 review: Fun-sized hatch heats up EV waters

Motor Authority

The 2025 Volvo EX30 is several things all at once. The small electric crossover represents a new entry point to the brand; it’s one of the few affordable electric cars starting at $35,000; it makes an eco-conscious statement in a luxury leather world; and its dual-motor performance model fuels rallycross dreams. The last bit might be the.

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The tug of war that is the 2024 New York International Auto Show

Machines with Souls

Let’s have a chat about the current car landscape. The public has yet to warm up to electric cars, despite massive discounts. The government is starting to force the situation. Caught in the middle: car brands. They can’t make cars no one wants, but there is that good ol’ government and their mandates. No where… The post The tug of war that is the 2024 New York International Auto Show appeared first on Machines With Souls.

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Refresh of our Exclusive Chinese Brands Guide

Best Selling Cars Blog

Our eagle-eyed readers will have noticed the number of brands included in our Exclusive Chinese Brands Guide steadily decline over the past month or so. We have indeed refreshed our Guide to reflect the constant streamlining of the Chinese market. We removed over 20 brands from our guide, including Dorcen, Green Wheel, Hanergy, Hanteng, Hunkt, Lifan, Long River, Maple, Qiantu, QYEV, Rox, Singulato, Sitech, Suda, Weltmeister (WM), Yema, Zedriv and Zinoro.

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Volkswagen celebrates Golf's 50th birthday

Autocar

Mk1 Golf arrived in 1974 and the GTI (pictured) in 1976 The first example of the seminal hatchback rolled off the production line on 29 March 1974 The Volkswagen Golf turns 50 years old today, the Mk1 having entered production on 29 March 1974. Since then, the company has made more than 37 million examples of the Golf, which means it's the third best-selling car of all time.

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Bugatti Bolide enters final testing phase

Motor Authority

Before the Bugatti Bolide track car starts production, the development team is getting input from a very experienced driver. Andy Wallace has won the triple crown of endurance racing, with victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Daytona, and 12 Hours of Sebring. He's also been a Bugatti test driver and brand ambassador since 2011.

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Six-pack of identical Ford Pinto Wagons for sale, in case you were looking

Auto Blog

Filed under: Weird Car News , Ford , Car Buying , Wagon , Classics Continue reading Six-pack of identical Ford Pinto Wagons for sale, in case you were looking Six-pack of identical Ford Pinto Wagons for sale, in case you were looking originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Indonesia February 2024: Daihatsu Sigra repeats at #1 in struggling market

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Daihatsu Sigra is the best-selling model in Indonesia for the 2nd month running. The new vehicle wholesales market in Indonesia dives -18.7% year-on-year in February to just 70,657 units, leading to a year-to-date volume off -22.5% to 140,274. Retail sales are down -16.3% to 70,291 and -15% year-to-date to 148,649. Wholesales-wise, brand leader Toyota (-13.9%) falls slower than the market to an improved 33.3% share, followed by Daihatsu also in good shape in context at -7.2% to 21.4% share.

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Ferrari teams up with SK On on battery tech

Motor Authority

Ferrari and battery supplier SK On will partner on advanced battery cell technology, the two companies announced Tuesday. SK On has been supplying batteries to Ferrari since 2019, initially for the SF90 Stradale plug-in hybrid and its open-top SF90 Spider variant, and then for the 296 GTB and 296 GTS plug-in hybrids. The two companies have now.

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The New Mercedes G-Class Has More Power and a 'Transparent' Hood

Motor 1

The 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class has a new inline-six engine with mild-hybrid assist and some fancy new technology.

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Slovakia February 2024: Skoda Fabia snaps first win in over a year

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Skoda Fabia is the best-selling vehicle in Slovakia in February. It’s another very satisfying month for the Slovak new car market at +16.3% year-on-year in February to 7,702 units. This way, the year-to-date tally is up 17.5% to 15,637. Atop the brands ranking, both Skoda (+37.1%) and Hyundai (+23.5%) vasty outpace the market, with the latter reaching 10.8% share.

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BMW X6 M Competition

Autocar

Munich’s fastest full-size SUV-coupé gets mid-life powertrain and chassis tweaks Super-SUVs such as the BMW X6 M have always been a puzzling concept: big, heavy and tall, yet supposedly also fast, sharp in the corners and fun to drive. For the traditional car enthusiast, they have never really worked.But it seems modern suspension technology is allowing the super-SUV to come of age.

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Lola Cars makes return as Formula E team

Motor Authority

One of the most iconic names in racing is set to make a return this year, by establishing a team in the Formula E Championship. The U.K.'s Lola Cars announced on Thursday that it will partner with Yamaha to form the new team Lola Yamaha in time for Season 11 of Formula E, which is expected to start later this year. The provisional calendar won't.

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Australian Government announces watered-down emissions regulations

CarExpert

The Australian Government has made key concessions to its proposed New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) to try and assure its passage through Parliament. Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Transport Minister Catherine King announced the changes today, joined by representatives of Toyota, Tesla, Hyundai, the Motor Traders Association of Australia, the Electric Vehicle Council, and the Australian Automotive Dealers Association.

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China imports February 2024: Lexus back to #1, Lotus Eletre lands

Best Selling Cars Blog

Chinese sales data for the Lotus Eletre is now available. The Lunar New Year holidays falling in February this year instead of January in 2023, sales of new imported cars in China drop -40.6% year-on-year this month to just 32,951. However the two month total, reflecting the real evolution of the market, is down just -2% to 108,382, a solid performance for imports which usually are on a steeper downward trend.

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New Toyota GR Yaris priced from £44,250 in the UK

Autocar

Prices for the Volkswagen Golf GTI rival start from £44,250 in the UK Highly esteemed hot hatch gets a performance boost, adjusted suspension and two special editions Pricing and specification details for the updated Toyota GR Yaris have been revealed, with the high-performance hot hatch increasing in cost by more than £12,000. Prices for the Volkswagen Golf GTI rival start at £44,250 in the UK, with the Sébastien Ogier Edition and Kalle Rovanperä Edition specials coming in at £60,000.

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Nissan boss: Next-gen GT-R and Z confirmed

Motor Authority

Nissan’s iconic sports cars will live to see another generation. At the 2024 New York auto show, Senior Vice President and Chief Planning Officer for Nissan North America, Ponz Pandikuthira, told Motor Authority the GT-R and Z nameplates won’t die, though they might take time to be reinvented. Senior Vice President of Nissan Alfonso.

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2025 Mini Cooper price and specs: Petrol version dearer, electric car up to $10,000 cheaper

Drive.com

The new three-door Mini will bring a big price cut for the electric version – built in China – but price rises for the UK-made petrol version heavily related to its predecessor. 2025 Mini Cooper pricing and specifications Petrol version is a heavy facelift of 10-year-old car Electric model all-new on part-Chinese platform, built in China Priced from $41,990 plus on-road costs Electric Cooper E.

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Colombia February 2024: Toyota Corolla Cross best-seller in market off just -1.3%

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Toyota Corolla Cross is the most popular vehicle in Colombia in February. The Colombian new vehicle market significantly slows down its fall in February at -1.3% to 15,612. The year-to-date tally is down -8.4% to 27,206. Toyota (+38.5%) goes completely against the market to post a splendid year-on-year gain and easily stay in first place with 17.2% share.

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Extreme Land Rover Defender Octa due this year with snarling V8

Autocar

JLR confirmed the Octa, here imagined by Autocar, will use a twin-turbo V8 New brand for flagship Defenders kicks off with a hardcore super-4x4 that’s tipped to nudge £200,000 A hardcore V8-powered version of the Land Rover Defender is inbound as the first in a line of top-flight flagships dubbed 'Octa'. Previously thought to carry the long-dormant SVX branding , the radical new off-roader has been spotted testing several times, but only now – a few months before its debut – has the firm given t

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Ferrari patents supercharged engine

Motor Authority

A new Ferrari patent filing has surfaced, hinting that the automaker is considering superchargers for future cars. Aside from some early race cars, Ferrari has generally preferred turbocharging as a method of forced induction. But a patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Feb. 29 (and originally.

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Tesla’s Quality Control Issues Has Buyers Resorting To DIY Inspections

Carscoops

Persistent Quality Issues: Tesla EVs continue to suffer from a variety of quality problems, including misaligned panels, unpainted parts, and faulty interior components. New Owner Concerns: The prevalence of these problems has led to anxiety among new Tesla buyers, prompting the creation and sale of pre-delivery inspection checklists. Profiting from Problems: One Tesla owner capitalizes on these concerns by selling printable checklists to help buyers identify potential defects before taking deli

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Ferrari Wants to Build an Upside-Down, Hydrogen, Twin-Supercharged Inline-Six

Motor 1

The Italian automaker's patent is so full of radical ideas that it's hard to believe it's only one document.

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McLaren previews big changes with future design language

Autocar

McLaren exterior design signature New design signature draws inspiration from heritage and gives more freedom for future range expansion McLaren Automotive has previewed a new design language that will be used on all future vehicles – and it has been conceived to enable the brand to expand into new segments. The new design trends will be represented by three exterior design signatures and a wraparound interior.

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Maserati MCXtrema enters final tests ahead of summer launch

Motor Authority

Maserati is developing a hardcore, track-only version of its MC20 supercar. It's known as the MCXtrema, and just 62 examples will be built, with all build slots likely already claimed. The car was shown for the first time last summer during 2023 Monterey Car Week. The final track testing is now taking place ahead of the start of deliveries in late.

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Amplify Orange C8 Corvette Z06 Looks Just As Exotic As An Italian

Carscoops

When Chevrolet launched the C8 Corvette Stingray back in 2019, it put the sports car world on notice and showed that V8-powered, mid-engined cars could be affordable and look just as exotic as any traditional supercar. Chevy followed it up with the Corvette Z06, a legitimate supercar that eschews the forced induction adopted by most of its rivals in favor of a screaming 5.5-liter naturally-aspirated V8.

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Road tax set to rise in April: here’s how much more you’ll pay

Auto Express

Drivers with newer cars can expect to be paying roughly £10 more per year, a although the biggest gas guzzlers will fare the worst

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Audi RS3

Autocar

Audi's mega-hatch is outlandish and offers stonking performance for the price There’s an admirable belligerence about the Audi RS3. It hasn’t been made a crime just yet, after all, to put a big engine into something relatively small and create an amusingly alternative driver’s car in the process, much as a great many of Europe’s CO2-based taxation regimes would already suggest it ought to be.It really would be an aberration, though, if Audi’s excellent EA855 five-cylinder performance engine, mot

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2025 Audi Q7 receives fresh face

Motor Authority

Audi on Tuesday confirmed that the restyled Q7 three-row SUV previously shown for the European market is coming to the U.S. for the 2025 model year. A new front fascia and other smaller styling changes help freshen the Q7, which has been on sale in its current form since the 2017 model year (with an update for 2020). Up front, the grille gets.

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Nissan Sentra T-bones Tesla Cybertruck, EV Claims The Win

Carscoops

The Tesla Cybertruck is unlikely ever to be sold in Europe or China due to its lack of concessions to pedestrian safety, but as these crash pictures prove, it can make a real mess of cars, too. Images and video footage captured in Tampa, Florida, and widely shared on social media, show the aftermath of a collision between a Cybertruck and a much smaller Nissan Sentra on S Himes Avenue.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrates 100-kW wireless charging from a parking space

Auto Blog

Filed under: Green , Technology , Emerging Technologies Continue reading Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrates 100-kW wireless charging from a parking space Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrates 100-kW wireless charging from a parking space originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mercedes-AMG G63 gets hybrid boost and Active Ride Control

Autocar

Roaring 4.0-litre V8 receives mild hybrid upgrade to 577bhp while active suspension improves handling The hot Mercedes-AMG G63 has been revamped with extra power and an advanced new active suspension system that is designed to improve both its on- and off-road performance. Affalterbach’s take on the off-roader retains its potent 4.0-litre biturbo V8 powerplant, although the addition of a 48V integrated starter generator unit lifts its output by 20bhp to 577bhp.

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McLaren now fully owned by Bahrain

Motor Authority

Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund, Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, last week became the sole owner of McLaren after buying out all other shareholders in a recapitalization process. Bahrain Mumtalakat was already the main shareholder of McLaren which is responsible for the McLaren Automotive supercar business and also owns a majority stake in.

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Australian new-vehicle emissions rules weakened after car-maker backlash

Drive.com

The Federal Government has watered down proposed emissions regulations for new cars, following pressure from the automotive industry in recent weeks. Concessions will be made for heavy-duty four-wheel-drives under weakened plans for tailpipe emissions rules for new vehicles announced by the Australian Government today. The government has conceded to calls from Australia’s top car makers warning the original proposal for vehicle emissions targets announced in February would see utes and 4WD

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Auto Dealerships

Get My Auto

In today’s fast-paced digital age, car dealerships face increasing competition and evolving customer expectations. To stay ahead in this dynamic landscape, auto dealers must leverage innovative technologies to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and optimize marketing strategies. One such groundbreaking […] The post The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Auto Dealerships appeared first on Get My Auto.

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Lamborghini reveals new logo for all future cars

Autocar

New logo is subtler but 'braver', Lamborghini said Subtle restyle for the raging bull and a bespoke Lamborghini font to reflect the firm's 'brave and authentic' values Lamborghini has refreshed its logo for the first time in more than 20 years, giving its trademark raging bull badge a new look that aims to promote the firm's attributes. The new logo, which will be applied to all new cars going forwards, is said to "better reflect the "brave", "unexpected" and "authentic" values" of Lamborghini '

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Sainz leads Ferrari one-two at 2024 F1 Australian Grand Prix

Motor Authority

Ferrari took home a one-two finish after an eventful Australian Grand Prix held on Sunday at Melbourne's Albert Park Circuit. Carlos Sainz, in his first race since his recent surgery for appendicitis, was the first to cross the finish line, with Charles Leclerc finishing just over two seconds behind. Rounding out the top three was McLaren's Lando.

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Tesla surpasses 100,000 cars in Australia

Drive.com

Elon Musk’s electric-car company has fitted licence plates to its 100,000th vehicle in Australia. There are now 100,000 Tesla electric cars on Australian roads – nearly half of which were delivered last year alone. The US electric-car giant announced the milestone of “100k Tesla vehicles on the road in Australia” on social media on Thursday afternoon, nine years and four months after its first local vehicle delivery in July 2010.

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