The automotive industry has been beset by supply shortages, and the latest production snag tripping Ford up is at once un- and extremely important. The Blue Oval can’t find enough blue ovals for its vehicles. Ford had to delay the delivery of certain vehicles because it didn’t have enough of its distinctive badges to put […]
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The Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is set to go out of production in January and it appears the diesel-powered Jeep Wrangler is also living on borrowed time. According to a post on the JLWranglerForums, dealers were recently informed about a new Farout Edition that will serve as the “final edition of [the] Rubicon Diesel.” The limited […]
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Flying cars are being touted as the next big thing, but one company hoping to cash in on the urban air mobility boom has been permanently grounded. Kittyhawk, which takes its name from Kitty Hawk, NC, the location of the Wright brothers’ pioneering early flights, set up in the eVOTL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) […]
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The former head of Hyundai’s N division, Albert Biermann, has revealed that the car manufacturer was developing a mid-engined supercar to sit atop its line-up. Hot on the heels of unveiling the Hyundai N Vision 74 and letting Top Gear jump behind its wheel, Biermann revealed that the planned supercar could have been quite special. […]
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There’s no doubt that Ford believes in EV technology. It has launched the Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning, and has committed to spending $50 billion in the coming years to invest in new electric vehicles factories and to update old plants to handle the shift away from combustion technology. But that shift is only a […]
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Volkswagen is considering moving car production away from Germany if current problems with natural gas supplies extend into 2023. The drastic plan is one of several being discussed at Wolfsburg and could potentially result in Volkswagen switching production for several model lines from its German and Eastern European plants to other VW Group factories in […]
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The Octavia is Skoda’s best-selling nameplate, breaking the 7 million sales barrier back in 2020 thanks to its practicality and value-for-money approach in the compact segment. Thus, it is logical that Skoda is considering an EV-only variant of the popular model set to be unveiled later in the decade, following an imminent facelift of the […]
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Lotus Technology has just completed a round of fundraising that values the technology arm of the sports car manufacturer at almost $4.5 billion. While the company has not revealed just how much money it raised nor has it named the investors that participated, Reuters reported last year that Lotus Technology was aiming to raise between […]
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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was supposed to help spur electric vehicle adoption, but it’s confusing buyers, angering other countries, and leaving some automakers unsure if upcoming models will qualify for incentives. In a sense, it’s been a mess and that’s before factoring in the countless electric vehicles that are no longer eligible for incentives […]
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Thieves broke into a Philadelphia Dodge dealership and escaped with three muscle cars worth a combined $228,000 last weekend, local police say. The Northern Lancaster County Regional Police Department was called to Zartman Dodge in Warwick County at 3.30 am on Sunday to find a crew had forced entry to the lot and taken a […]
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