Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A second-generation Tesla Roadster was originally planned for production in 2020 but that deadline came and went, and since then Elon Musk has managed to announce a new date almost every year. In his most recent update, the Tesla CEO said the production model will be ready to reveal in late 2024 for a targeted start of delivery in 2025. He.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The Saipa Shahin is up to #7 in Iran in 2023. Discover over 55 years of Iranian Historical Data here. Today we can share with you production data for Iran over the Full Year 2023. Note prediction figures are very close to sales data as exports are minimal. It amounts to 1,151,586 units, up 2% year-on-year. The Top 3 biggest see their production drop compared to 2022.
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Auto Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Filed under: Green , Toyota , Electric , Hydrogen Cars Continue reading Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Autocar
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
French firm's first hybrid will be the first car in decades to use a V16 engine - listen to it here Bugatti's next hypercar will use a mammoth V16 engine, the company has confirmed. Confirming the new hypercar will be revealed in full in June, Bugatti has revealed that it will swap from the W16 engine used by the Chiron and its Veyron predecessor for an all-new unit of a different shape.
Motor Authority
MARCH 1, 2024
Mitsuoka will put its M55 concept into production, the Japanese car customizer and coachbuilder announced on Thursday. The concept made its debut last fall and Mitsuoka, most widely known for its Orochi supercar from the early 2000s, said overwhelming demand persuaded it to give the production go ahead. Mitsuoka aims to have the production version.
Best Selling Cars Blog
MARCH 1, 2024
The VW Lavida is the best-selling vehicle in China for the first time in 3 years. Chinese retail sales of the selection of vehicles included in this update rally back up 68% year-on-year in January to 2,081,138 units. January 2023 sales, at 1,238,434, were down -43.2% on the year prior ( 2,180,867 in January 2022 ) as volumes were plagued by a Covid surge, no more tax breaks and EV incentives and fewer working days due to an earlier Lunar New Year.
CarExpert
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
A souped-up electric Ford Transit van has produced a shock lap time, becoming one of the fastest vehicles to ever go around the iconic Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst. In demonstration sessions during the past weekend’s Bathurst 500 Supercars race, the Ford E-Transit Custom SuperVan 4.2 set a blistering time of one minute and 56.325 seconds – becoming the fastest vehicle with a roof to lap the famous 6.213-kilometre race track.
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Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Mercedes-Benz AMG, long known for its tire-shredding V-8 and V-12 engines, is well on its way toward offering a diverse electric portfolio. The Affalterbach tuner already offers its own versions of Mercedes' EQE sedan, EQE SUV, and EQS hatchback, and currently it is working on its first dedicated EV, a prototype for which has just been spotted.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The Kia Picanto is the most popular vehicle in Colombia in January. The Colombian new vehicle market sinks another -16.4% year-on-year in January to just 11,594 units, the weakest January figure since 1998 (11,295). Toyota (+10.2%) goes against the negative environment to land at #1 for the 4th month in a row with 14.7% share. It distances Chevrolet (-33.9%) and Renault (-35.6%) both freefalling.
AutoSuccessOnline
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Widewail recently released the 2024 Widewail Brand Scorecard , a study of the reputations and sentiments of 32 automotive manufacturers across the United States. Lexus earned the highest reputation ranking among all automotive brands. Toyota and BMW ranked second and third, respectively. The study analyzed 4 million Google customer reviews across 14 luxury and 18 non-luxury automotive brands. 1.1 million reviews were used for topic analysis.
Autocar
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
Renault 5 remains true to striking concept New pictures show retro electric supermini in full - and it looks just like the concept The new Renault 5 has leaked ahead of its official unveiling on Monday, with new images showing the retro electric supermini in full - inside and out. The 5 will be the headline reveal at this year's downsized Geneva motor show , which gets under way on Monday, but pictures posted to social media give an early look at the final car.
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The Jaguar C-X75 has finally been made street-legal, 14 years after the stunning supercar concept was first shown to the world at the 2010 Paris auto show. Jaguar itself wasn't involved with the endeavor, however. Instead the honor goes to Callum, the design and engineering company founded by the C-X75's own designer, Ian Callum. The C-X75.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling vehicle in Hungary in January. 8,040 new passenger cars hit Hungarian roads in January, a -3.3% year-on-year decrease. This month the Skoda Octavia (+178.5%) takes the lead of the models ranking, toppling the Suzuki S-Cross (+15.6%) and Vitara (+49.3%). The Toyota Corolla (+30.7%) is faithful to the 4th place it held over the Full Year 2023, it distances the Kia Ceed (-29.9%) and Toyota Hilux.
Drive.com
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Ford ‘SuperVan’ knocks off a lap record – set just days earlier by a V8-powered Mercedes-AMG racer. An electric van reaching speeds above 300km/h has broken the unofficial lap record at Mount Panorama, Bathurst. The Ford SuperVan 4.2 lapped the circuit faster than the V8-powered Mercedes-AMG coupe which had set a new record only eight days earlier. With two-time Le Mans winner Romain Dumas at the wheel, the electric Ford set a 1:56.28 to beat the fastest lap set by Jules Gounon in the Mercedes-A
Autocar
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
First deliveries of the delayed hypercar are planned for 2025, following a production debut this year The production version of the Tesla Roadster will be unveiled later this year, company CEO Elon Musk has said, claiming the electric model will arrive with bombastic performance statistics – including a sub-1.0sec 0-60mph time. Posting to X (formerly Twitter), Musk said the brief for the car had been “radically increased” and promised “there will never be another car like this”.
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Honda wants to build extra storage space into EV bumpers for deliveries. A patent application submitted by the automaker to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 13, 2023, and published on Feb. 1, 2024, details a slide-out drawer for packages, turning cars into mailboxes on wheels. This hidden storage compartment is.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Dacia Duster continues its run as the best-seller in Moldova. CE Auto data shows a Moldovan new car market up 4.3% year-on-year to 507 sales. The Dacia Duster (-7.4%) is faithful to the pole position it has held for the past two consecutive years with a strong 9.9% share. The Toyota RAV4 repeats at #2 with 7.5% of the market with the Kia Sportage (-32.7%) rounding out the podium like last month.
Auto Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Filed under: Green , Electric Continue reading Apple pulls the plug on its electric car project Apple pulls the plug on its electric car project originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Autocar
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Estate version of MG's award-winning hatchback is set to go on sale in the UK this year An estate version of the MG 4 EV hatchback is set to go on sale later this year as a replacement for the ageing MG 5 SW EV. The 5 was launched in the UK in 2020, but it's based on the Chinese-market Roewe i5, which dates back to 2017, so is now at a natural retirement age.
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has indicated that the planned specifications for the second-generation Tesla Roadster have been upgraded significantly since the reveal of a concept version back in 2017. Among the new specs will be a 0-60 mph time of less than one second, according to Musk. Aston Martin will delay the launch of its first electric vehicle by a.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Toyota Yaris Cross is the best-selling model in Bosnia & Herzegovina in January. According to data shared with us by our local partner CE Auto , new car sales in Bosnia & Herzegovina climb up 13.9% year-on-year in January to 768 units. The Toyota Yaris Cross secures its first ever win in the country with a dominant 5.1% share vs. 2.3% over the Full Year 2023 (#8).
Drive.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
The new Toyota Prado is closing in on Australian showrooms. Here’s how the Drive team would build theirs. Customisation is in vogue at the moment, but too much choice can be confusing. In our configurator challenge, Drive team members scroll through a manufacturer’s website to create their ideal combination for a certain model. This week it’s the new-generation Toyota LandCruiser Prado in the limelight, using the configurator now live in the US – where the 4WD is simply called the &#
Autocar
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
TT replacement will be “different but emotional” Audi Sport says EV replacement for its long-running coupé will be a total clean-sheet design Audi is in an “intense concept phase” for the electric successor to the TT , experimenting with different silhouettes and soundtracks as it plots a replacement for the popular sports coupé, which retired last year.
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Chinese auto giant SAIC used this week's 2024 Geneva auto show for the world debut of the L6 compact sedan, the latest model from its newly established brand IM. IM, whose initials stand for Intelligent Mobility, is SAIC's brand for premium electric vehicles. It's also intended to have a global reach, just like MG, the historic British brand.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Skoda Kamiq is the 2nd best-selling vehicle in Serbia in January. Data shared with us by our central European partner CE Auto shows a Serbian market up an impressive 28.2% year-on-year in January to 1,993 sales. The Skoda Octavia (+450%) firmly holds onto the pole position with 8.3% share vs. 4.5% over the Full Year 2023. It is followed by the Skoda Kamiq repeating at #2 and the Citroen C3 (+47.4%) up one spot on last month to #3.
CarExpert
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Underwhelming sales of hydrogen-powered vehicles in the USA has led Toyota to hand down an eye-watering price cut to its Mirai sedan, making it less expensive than the popular Camry Hybrid. As reported by US publication Cars Direct , Toyota dealers in California – the only state where the Mirai is sold – are now offering a rebate worth up to US$40,000 (A$61,600) for 2023 model year examples of the hydrogen fuel-cell (FCEV) sedan.
Autocar
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The C-X75 was axed in 2012 but went on to feature in 2015 James Bond film Spectre Designer Ian Callum's firm has heavily re-engineered one of the stunt cars from film Spectre The Jaguar C-X75 has finally been made road-legal, some 14 years after it was revealed, after designer Ian Callum heavily re-engineered one of the original James Bond stunt cars.
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
After some delay, Polestar's 3 midsize SUV is finally in production, the Swedesh performance EV brand said on Tuesday. Production got underway at a Volvo plant in Chengdu, China, earlier this month. Production is also planned for a Volvo plant in Charleston, South Carolina. Pre-production examples are already being built at the Charleston plant.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The Skoda Octavia holds 7.4% of the Slovak market in January. The Slovak new car market soars 18.8% year-on-year in January to 7,935 sales. Behemoth Skoda (+61.7%) vastly outpaces the market to reach 25.4% share vs. 19.8% over the Full Year 2023. The Top 6 brands are unchanged on December and FY2023, however only Dacia (+21.9%) manages to grow faster than the overall rate.
Drive.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Buyers of Toyota utes and 4WDs may be stung for choosing an inefficient vehicle next year – and pay most or all of the fines the car giant could receive for not meeting proposed Australian new-car emissions targets. Toyota Australia says customers – not head office – will pay the bill for hefty emissions fines set to hit the company’s highest-polluting utes and four-wheel-drive models if it does not meet proposed emissions targets due next year.
Autocar
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Every Droptail is powered by Rolls-Royce's 6.75-litre V12, fettled to put out 593bhp Unique new Arcadia coupé takes inspiration from Asian architecture, hot rods and interiors of classic cars Rolls-Royce has revealed the third example of its £20 million coachbuilt roadster, the Droptail , hailing it as an example of “daring in minimalism and subtlety”.
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Pininfarina is toiling away on its own range of electric vehicles, but the company's design arm is still exploring vehicles with alternative powertrains. On Monday, the company revealed the Pininfarina Enigma GT concept, a striking coupe packing a V-6 designed to run on pure hydrogen. The turbocharged 2.5-liter V-6 generates 435 hp when burning.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Dacia Duster is by far the best-selling vehicle in North Macedonia in January. According to data by our Central European partner CE Auto , the North Macedonian new car market is stable in January at +0.5% to 420 units. This month the Dacia Duster is the clear leader with 10.5% share and sales up 144.4% year-on-year. It didn’t even rank inside the Full Year 2023 Top 10.
Carscoops
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Nearly a decade before we got the retro-modern revival of the Ford GT in 2004, the Blue Oval explored a completely different direction for a potential mid-engine sports car. This exploration led to the creation of the GT90 Concept, a futuristic and dramatic-looking proposal unveiled at the 1995 Detroit Motor Show. The concept marked the debut of Ford’s “New Edge” design philosophy, which came to define the brand’s cars in the late nineties and early noughties.
Autocar
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
A concept for the city car already exists and could be productionised within two years Chinese firm targets Dacia Spring EV with new MG 2 supermini, already well into development MG plans to launch a £20,000 electric city car in the UK by the end of next year, Autocar can reveal. Speaking on the sidelines of the new MG 3's unveiling at the Geneva motor show , product and planning boss David Allison outlined plans to expand the Chinese firm’s electric car line-up downwards below the 4 , hinting a
Motor Authority
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Apple is canceling its decade-long electric car project, Bloomberg reports. The company has reportedly invested millions of dollars into the project, but has now determined that it isn't viable. COO Jeff Williams today told the approximately 2,000 Apple employees working on the EV project that it is canceled, which came as a surprise to the team.
Best Selling Cars Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Mercedes is the most popular importer in China in January. For once sales of new imported cars in China surge year-on-year at +36.9% to 75,587, even if this has a lot to do with the Lunar New Year falling in February this year vs. January in 2023. Brand-wise, Mercedes (+29.7%) outsells traditional leader Lexus (+83.7%) for the first time since last May, with BMW (+19.9%) rounding out the podium as usual.
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