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National Corvette Museum opens sinkhole exhibit 10 years later

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Exhibit showcases five Corvettes rescued from a sinkhole that opened 10 years ago National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, sits on top of a vast cave system 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 on display remains in its mangled condition On a quiet morning well before the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, opened for business, the.

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Moldova May 2024: Dacia Duster dominant again, market up 7.6%

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Dacia Duster lodges a 7th consecutive win. Next generation pictured. Data by our Central European market data partner CE Auto shows a Moldovan new car market up 7.6% year-on-year in May to 881 sales. This bring the year-to-date tally up 13.6% to 3,592 units. The Dacia Duster (-14.3%) manages a 7th consecutive monthly win with 8.2% share vs. 9.5% so far this year.

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SUVs Get Top Safety Ratings

AutoDealer Today

Mazda hybrid wins the highest honor while a redesigned BMW gets the second-highest. A BMW SUV got the next-highest award.

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Ford Recalls Mustang Because 'Steering Wheel May Turn Unintentionally'

Motor 1

This is the 32nd recall issued by Ford since the beginning of the year.

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Koenigsegg determines cause of Jesko fire in Greece

Motor Authority

Following a thorough investigation, Koenigsegg has determined the cause of a fire that resulted in one of the company's $3 million Jesko hypercars burning to the ground in Greece in mid-June. In an Instagram post made on June 20, Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg said a leak of hydraulic fluid on the road surface near the.

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Italy June 2024: Market up 15%, Dacia and Tesla at all-time highs

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Dacia Sandero ranks #2 in Italy in May. It’s a great month for new car sales in Italy, up 15% year-on-year to 160,046 units. The year-to-date tally is now up 5.3% or 45,000 units to 886,386. The event of the month is the record share of BEVs at 8.3% of the market vs. 4.4% a year ago thanks to incentives finally available. However these incentives were spent in just 9 hours so many potential buyers didn’t benefit from them.

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Land Rover Defender Octa: 626bhp 4x4 has supercar pace

Autocar

The Octa was, according to its makers, "a white-sheet vehicle" 626bhp 4x4 brute is a "Defender on steroids" for £158k; has AMG-baiting pace and is limited to 1070 examples The Defender Octa is the most extreme, powerful and capable variant of the 4x4 that Land Rover has yet produced, complete with a spec sheet that reflects its top-end £158,000 price.

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Review: 2025 Polestar 4 simmers an SUV-coupe-sedan stew

Motor Authority

Polestar follows up the 3 SUV with a coupe-like 4 with seats for five It’s fast but flappable: the 4 has scalding electric power, but the ride needs fine-tuning With Android firmware and wireless Apple CarPlay—and ambient lighting themed on the solar system—it’s a tech-forward statement Will a small sales network and.

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UK June 2024: Kia Sportage and Nissan Juke top market up 1.1%

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Kia Sportage repeats at #1 in the UK. It’s a 23rd consecutive month of year-on-year gains for the UK market in June at a meagre +1.1% to 179,263 units, according to SMMT. This way, the H1 tally passes the million mark for the first time since 2019 at 1,006.763 (+6%). Once again, the market is pulled up by robust fleet sales at +14.2% to 105,8686 and 59.1% share vs. 52.3% a year ago whereas private sales sink -15.3% to 67,625 and 37.7% share vs. 45% a year ago.

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Audi Q6 E-tron

Autocar

New electric equivalent of Q5 makes the most out of its transformative luxury EV platform Ingolstadt may well want to tap up Guinness for its famous advertising slogan, because its new Audi Q6 E-tron is very good. But we have had to wait. I’m speaking comparatively here. The Q6 E-tron is the first car on sale to use the fancy PPE platform that Audi has developed with Porsche.

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You Can Buy a New Toyota Mirai for Half the Price

Motor 1

Not convinced yet? You can even get it with zero percent financing for 72 months.

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Review: 2025 SQ6 E-Tron lights the road ahead for Audi

Motor Authority

2025 Audi SQ6 E-Tron goes on sale in November for about $15,000 less than the Porsche Macan EV Audi's PPE architecture has more efficient and powerful motors than other SUV E-Trons SQ6 E-Tron benefits from an available air suspension with adaptive dampers An underground parking garage below the cobblestone streets of San Sebastian, Spain’s.

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Croatia June 2024: Opel (+219.2%), Citroen (+128.7%), Toyota (+128.6%) stand out

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Opel Corsa is now #2 year-to-date in Croatia. New car sales in Croatia gain 14% year-on-year in June to 8,225 units, an excellent score given June 2023 was already up 41% on the year prior. The year-to-date volume is now up 14.8% to 38,794. Skoda (+79.8%) scores a stellar month and reclaims its usual top spot in the brands ranking, dislodging Volkswagen (-12.7%) in difficulty year-on-year but up to 12.3% share vs. 11.1% year-to-date.

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Average weight of new cars rises by nearly 400kg in seven years

Autocar

Rapid rise in mass is driven by electrification, popularity of SUVs and disappearance of lightweight small cars The average weight of a new car has increased by nearly 400kg over the past seven years, according to Autocar data. Analysis of weight figures from Autocar road tests shows that between 2016 and 2023 – approximately one model cycle – the mean average kerb weight of new cars rose from 1553kg to 1947kg.

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Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven

Auto Blog

Filed under: Weird Car News , Toyota , Hydrogen Cars Continue reading Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 4 Jul 2024 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nyobolt’s electric sports car shows 5-minute fast-charging in action

Motor Authority

When it comes to sports cars, small and light is the ideal. Heavy battery packs make that hard to achieve with EVs, but U.K.-based Nyobolt claims to have the solution. Nyobolt has developed battery tech that allows for ultra-fast charging, which the startup believes will obviate the need for big battery packs. If drivers can charge quick enough.

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Serbia May 2024: Toyota Yaris Cross overall best-seller

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Toyota Yaris Cross is the best-selling vehicle in Serbia in May. According to data shared by our Central European partner CE Auto , 3,118 new cars found a buyer in Serbia, a 9.3% year-on-year improvement. The year-to-date tally is now up 25.5% to 14,862. Big event this month: after first appearing in the Top 10 last November, the Toyota Yaris Cross leads the charts for its first monthly win in Serbia.

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Aston Martin Valour

Autocar

Gaydon plays to it wealthiest traditionalists with a throwback, front-engined-V12-manual bruiser collector's special This point, I feel, needs making from the outset. There is only one car in the history of the, er, car to mate a turbo V12 engine to a manual gearbox. And you’re looking at it. Or one of them, for there will be just 110, making the Aston Martin Valour so rare that you’re more likely to see a rocking horse manuring an adjacent field than chance across one on the road.So don’t spend

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Japan Wants To Build A 311-Mile Cargo Conveyor Belt Because It’s Running Out Of Delivery Drivers

Carscoops

Japan is proposing to build a 310+ mile conveyor belt to deliver cargo between Tokyo and Osaka. The belt would run in tunnels and above ground, and could deliver as much cargo as 25,000 truck drivers daily. Japan’s declining population is one reason the country is predicting a 36 percent shortfall in truck drivers by 2030. Many logistics companies around the world have high hopes for fully driverless trucks that will be able to operate around the clock without needing to sleep or take toil

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Russell takes surprise win at 2024 F1 Austrian Grand Prix

Motor Authority

Mercedes-Benz AMG's George Russell drove to victory on Sunday at the Austrian Grand Prix, which served as round 11 of the 2024 Formula 1 season. Russell started the race in third and looked to finish there, until a clash between leaders Lando Norris of McLaren and Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing in the closing stages opened up the path for.

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Australia June 2024: First market drop in 20 months, Mitsubishi (+48.9%) places Outlander at #4

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Mitsubishi Outlander reaches a record ranking in Australia in June. After 20 consecutive months of year-on-year gains and 5 straight monthly record, the Australian new car market marks a pause in June at -4.2% to 119,659 units. Now that customers have received vehicles that were ordered months or even years ago, we are witnessing a cooling down of the market as expected given the challenging economic conditions.

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Lotus Emeya S

Autocar

Spiritual successor to the iconic Carlton, or just another hugely powerful electric wannabe? Before we get stuck into the new Lotus Emeya, ask yourself: has any car maker changed its tune so abruptly as the historically Norfolk-based outfit?It seems only months ago that we were haring around the track at Hethel, goading an Exige 390 Sport Final Edition – all 1138kg of it – into misbehaving.

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BMW Neue Klasse EV Coupe Spied With Radical Tech And Futuristic Design

Carscoops

The front half of the tester resembles a traditional sports car, while the rear looks a bit like an X6. Our spy sources suggest this model could be a smaller series production model like the i8. The dramatic coupe lacks traditional door handles and likely uses an 800-volt electrical architecture. BMW is in the midst of transforming its battery-electric lineup with its Neue Klasse series of models, set to spawn six models by 2027, and the latest addition to this family has just been spotted.

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Koenigsegg resets 0-249-0 mph record again with the Jesko Absolut

Motor Authority

Koenigsegg once again breaks the speed and braking record of 0-400-0 kph The Jesko Absolut beat the Koenigsegg Regera and Rimac Nevera The records were set using the same Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires as customer cars, of which Koenigsegg will make 125 Koenigsegg has broken its own 0-400-0 kph (0-249-0 mph) record for production cars, posting.

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Bosnia & Herzegovina May 2024: Skoda monopolises podium with Octavia, Scala and Fabia

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Skoda Scala ranks #2 in Bosnia in May. Our Central European partner CE Auto has new car sales in Bosnia & Herzegovina up 5.2% year-on-year in May to 1,202 units. The year-to-date volume is now up 8.9% to 5,192. The Skoda Octavia (-12.4%) reclaims the top spot it holds year-to-date with 8.8% share vs. 7.3% so far this year. In fact Skoda monopolises the podium with the Scala (+17.9%) up three spots on last month to #2 and the Fabia (-21.4%) up five to #3.

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Volkswagen ID Buzz

Autocar

New long-wheelbase variant, with a larger battery, more powerful motor and versatile configurations, shows the ID Buzz at its best In 2022, Volkswagen’s effort to electrify its model range resulted in the launch of a new, different and vaguely recognisable kind of electric family car, and unlike the brand's other ID cars so far (which have spawned Audi, Cupra and Skoda siblings), this one is VW-only.Its electric cars are proving popular thanks to their diversity, but none is more unique than thi

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Phoenix Cop Hilariously Pulls Over Driverless Waymo Going Wrong Way, Who Pays The Ticket?

Carscoops

Police in Phoenix pulled over a Waymo robotaxi after it temporarily drove into an oncoming lane of traffic. Bodycam footage from the scene shows the officer approaching the Jag and finding nobody at the wheel. The cop was unable to write a ticket because there was no human driver present. The threat of us receiving a fine or having our license taken away is one of the main reasons public roads aren’t just one huge destruction derby free-for-all.

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2025 Toyota Supra loses turbo-4, now priced from $57,345

Motor Authority

The Toyota Supra enters the 2025 model year without the base 2.0-liter turbo-4 offered in previous years, and as a result has a much steeper starting price. Due at dealerships in the fall, the 2025 Supra comes standard with a turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 and carries a starting price of $57,345, including a $1,095 destination charge. That price.

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Spain June 2024: Cupra breaks all records, rental sales pull market up 2.2%

Best Selling Cars Blog

Cupra is up to a record #13 this month. The Spanish new car market edges up 2.2% year-on-year in June to 103,357 sales, leading to a year-to-date volume up 5.9% to 535,243. Like last month, sales to rental companies single-handedly pull the market in positive territory as they progress +15.4% year-on-year to 28,504 units and 27.6% share vs. 24.4% a year ago.

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Volkswagen ID Buzz GTX

Autocar

Sporty version of big electric MPV gets four-wheel drive and 335bhp - but is it more style than substance? When Volkswagen first introduced its sporty GTX moniker, you would never have guessed that it would have been slapped onto the side of the Volkswagen ID Buzz GTX.But that’s exactly what the brand has done with the .The MPV is the fourth model in the brand’s electric armoury to receive the GTX treatment, following the ID 4 and ID 5 SUVs and ID 7 saloon/estate.

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Stellantis Sales Are Tanking, Folks

Motor 1

Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and Chrysler are way down but the Italian brands are actually up.

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Cyber-Hummer EV aims for 300 miles of range with 1,000 hp for $98,900

Motor Authority

A conversion morphs the Hummer H1 into an electric SUV dubbed the Cyber-Hummer The Cyber-Hummer uses Tesla powertrain components for 1,000 hp Cyber-Hummers cost $98,900 and are said to have about 300 miles of range A Canadian EV conversion shop announced plans this week to build an electric Hummer using Tesla components. North American Electric.

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North Macedonia May 2024: Opel Corsa #1, Citroen C4 X #6

Best Selling Cars Blog

First North Macedonian Top 10 finish for the Citroen C4 X. According to data shared with us by our European partner CE Auto , new car sales in North Macedonia continue on their great run with May volumes up another 12.3% year-on-year to 619, leading to a year-to-date tally up 33.7% to 3,029. The Opel Corsa is the surprise leader this month with a dominant 7.4% share, earning a spot in the year-to-date Top 10 at #6 as a result.

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Mini JCW E electric hot hatch to be shown at Goodwood

Autocar

New hot hatch packs “advanced electric powertrain” and has been engineered for "go-kart feeling" Mini will showcase the EV future of its John Cooper Works programme at next week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed with the new Mini Cooper JCW E. A camouflaged version of the electric hot hatch will run up Goodwood's famed hillclimb. The JCW E is said to feature an “advanced electric powertrain”, suggesting it will pack more power than the 215bhp Mini Cooper SE.

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A Mexico City neighborhood keeps the iconic Volkswagen Beetle alive

Auto Blog

Filed under: Volkswagen , Classics Continue reading A Mexico City neighborhood keeps the iconic Volkswagen Beetle alive A Mexico City neighborhood keeps the iconic Volkswagen Beetle alive originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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2026 Genesis GV60 spied with updates

Motor Authority

Genesis engineers have been spotted testing a prototype for an updated version of the GV60, the Korean luxury brand's debut electric vehicle. The prototype is heavily camouflaged but a few subtle tweaks stand out. The front fascia design is new, and the headlights adopt new internals with smaller element LEDs. The aerodynamic pattern used for the.

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France June 2024: Renault Group outsells Stellantis, Megane E-Tech #1 EV, hits record ranking

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Renault Megane E-Tech is the best-selling EV in France in June. The French new car market endures a second consecutive month of year-on-year losses in June at a worsening -4.8% to 181,712 sales. This is to be compared with the 230,965 units of pre-pandemic June 2019. The year-to-date volume is now up a meagre 2.8% to 914,830. In June, petrol sales are down a harsh -20.4% to 54,360, diesel is off -8.5% to 16,198, HEVs soar 35.3% to 62,357 including 28,020 mild hybrids.

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