Image: Toyota Enthusiasts have been hesitant to embrace EVs in the past, and who could blame them? You just can’t reproduce the thrill of a naturally aspirated engine or the whine of a turbocharged eager oxygen breather. It seem’s Toyota feels the same way. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type Speaking to Australia’s … Read more
From layoffs at Tesla, Rivian and others to big price cuts on the Ford F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E, Hertz selling off its fleet of electric vehicles, Tesla’s deliveries being down and even Volkswagen delaying the ID7’s U.S. launch, it could be easy to get the impression that the EV industry is dying. As Bloomberg … Read more
Even when you get a deal on something at a dealer, they’ll still find a way to try and get some more money out of you to make up for the fact that you got said deal. Take how Hyundai covered an engine replacement for my car, but the dealer still said I needed to … Read more
Image: Built For Backroads Auto enthusiasts in North America lost their minds when Toyota introduced the GR Yaris in 2020. It was hot hatch incarnate: 268 horsepower turbocharged engine, all-wheel drive, light hatchback body style. Sadly it was not for us as it was initially a homologation special just for Europe. Thankfully, Toyota did us a … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, May 24, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Production Is Waning At Tesla Tesla is having a right … Read more
Ask most people nowadays what a minivan looks like and they’d likely be able to provide an accurate description, but in the early days of the minivan things weren’t so clear. Many automakers’ early designs were varied, with some minivans utilizing truck chassis and a rear-wheel-drive configuration. It didn’t take automakers long to reach a … Read more
Photo: Toyota Ask 100 people, and we’d be surprised if more than one of them had any idea what Gazoo Racing was or how it is related to Toyota. And yet, from the GR 86 to the GR Corolla, Toyota’s GR division has been turning out some incredible performance cars lately. We’re big fans even … Read more
Now more than ever before, automakers are catering to customers that genuinely want to go overlanding or off-roading (or at least look like they do), introducing trim levels of everything from hatchbacks and minivans to pickups and large SUVs that are designed to be better in the rough stuff. Reintroduced as a trim level with … Read more
Typically, the news that an automaker has just announced a new hybrid version of a compact sedan isn’t all that exciting. For example, when Honda announced the new Insight, we did write about it, but we didn’t exactly have much to say. With the Insight dead again, though, Honda needed something to replace it — … Read more
Image: Cadillac GM is rethinking its EV investment and finally coming around to what Toyota seems to be selling a ton of: hybrids. The first of these hybrids were needed yesterday, but we won’t be seeing them until 2027. That’s when every GM division will roll out a hybrid or plug-in hybrid model. Just don’t … Read more
