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• The Fan Car Shatters Top Gear Track Record

  11-04-2025 17:03 via motor1.com
  
  It beat a Renault F1 car by over three seconds.
  
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• AMG Has a New Super Sedan. Here's What It'll Look Like

  09-05-2025 00:00 via motor1.com
  
  Teaser images provide a clearer look at the AMG's GT 4-Door Coupe replacement.
  
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• Volvo Recalls Nearly 500,000 Cars Over a Simple Software Glitch

  08-05-2025 23:00 via motor1.com
  
  The backup camera on several models could blink out unexpectedly.
  
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• The US Secret Service Can't Drive Stick. GM Is Helping Fix That

  08-05-2025 22:00 via motor1.com
  
  General Motors sent 10 cars to the feds for special training, including some manual-equipped Cadillac Blackwings.
  
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• Tesla Fails Cybertruck Owners Again, Cancels Key Upgrade

  08-05-2025 21:00 via motor1.com
  
  The $16,000 range extender battery pack is officially dead.
  
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• UK Auto Tariffs Slashed in First Trade Deal With US

  08-05-2025 19:00 via motor1.com
  
  It's the first deal of its kind with another nation.
  
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• The Technology That Got Robert Wickens Back In Top-Level Racing

  08-05-2025 18:30 via motor1.com
  
  After a 2018 IndyCar crash rendered him with paraplegia, Robert Wickens has been racing with hand controls. Now, he's stepping up to IMSA GT3 competition.
  
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• Here's Your First Look at the 2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee

  08-05-2025 17:13 via motor1.com
  
  The new Grand Cherokee is nearly here. Jeep's released a couple of teaser photos to get us in the mood.
  
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• Breaking: Trump slashes import tariff for UK-made vehicles to 10%

  08-05-2025 17:07 via autocar.co.uk
  
  President previously announced a blanket 25% levy on all non-US-built vehiclesUK-made vehicles imported into the US will be hit with a reduced tariff of 10%, president Donald Trump has announced.
  It follows more than a month of negotiations between UK ministers and US officials after president Trump revealed sweeping levies on foreign-made products. This included a 25% tariff on new cars imported into the US. All levies were due to start on 1 April, but a 90-day reprieve
  
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• 2026 Toyota Corolla Cross Gets a New Face and More Screen

  08-05-2025 16:45 via motor1.com
  
  The 2026 Corolla has two new grilles and a revamped interior with a larger infotainment screen.
  
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• Mercedes CLA: game-changing 484-mile EV priced from £45k

  08-05-2025 15:10 via autocar.co.uk
  
  CLA is 29mm taller, 35mm longer and 25mm wider than before, with 61mm more wheelbase
  Hyper-efficient CLA becomes UK's longest-range electric car, while hybrid promises diesel-style MPGThe new Mercedes-Benz CLA, Europe’s longest-range and most efficient electric car, has gone on sale priced from £45,615.
  With deliveries to start this summer, the entry-level CLA 250+ with EQ Technology will be capable of driving up to 484 miles between charges, Mercedes claims, and will still mana
  
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• The new car brands coming to the UK

  08-05-2025 12:09 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Confused by all the new cars coming to the UK? Let Autocar guide you through the who, what, where and whenIf you’re a regular Autocar reader, you’ve probably clocked the growing parade of new car brands eyeing up the UK.
  Two big forces are behind this surge: the meteoric rise of China’s car industry and a shift in what buyers care about.
  In 2024 alone, China sold 23.5 million new cars - making it the largest car market on the planet. It was only a matter of time before Chinese
  
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• Porsche Is Still Testing the Electric Cayman and Boxster

  08-05-2025 11:12 via motor1.com
  
  A spy video shot at the Nürburgring shows the performance EVs in action.
  
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• How bad software can ruin an otherwise decent car

  08-05-2025 11:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  The Jaecoo 7 will need the mother of all software updates to make the gradeAutocar is fast filling up with mentions of ‘software-defined vehicles’ – cars whose performance and functionality is primarily defined electronically rather than physically.
  The computing power of the car becomes its ruling characteristic and the software for it can be improved and updated time and again, so that it’s never finished, rather in a constant state of flux.
  The car industry is pre
  
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• Volkswagen Could Launch an Electric GTI Next Year

  08-05-2025 10:02 via motor1.com
  
  It's not the one we were expecting.
  
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• Volkswagen Tiguan 2025 long-term test

  08-05-2025 09:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  We wanted to know why this SUV is so popular. Now we have our answerDo you believe in real-life NPCs? Sorry, to explain: there’s an only semijoking theory online that ‘non-player characters’, which simply and unconsciously follow a coded set pattern, have escaped the confines of video games.
  And I do reckon that a lot of evidence can be gathered to back up the theory – not least from British roads.
  The Volkswagen Tiguan has been the bestselling Volkswagen model globally s
  
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• Mitsubishi Is Getting Another Car Developed by Someone Else

  08-05-2025 08:52 via motor1.com
  
  An automaker founded in 2020 is engineering an EV for Mitsu.
  
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• New Range Rover Velar EV to embrace ethos of axed 'Road Rover'

  08-05-2025 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Next-gen model will be a bigger, lower-slung EV with emphasis on upmarket appealThe Range Rover Velar will undergo a radical makeover next year, becoming an electric car with a genre-bending new body shape that will depart from its traditional SUV roots.
  It is slated to be launched just a few months after the electric versions of the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. But while those models will be virtually identical to their combustion siblings, the Velar will adopt a rakish new profile t
  
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• The 2026 Kia Sportage Is Surprisingly Cheap

  07-05-2025 23:00 via motor1.com
  
  Kia's best-selling vehicle is still affordable, tariffs be dammed.
  
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• Another State Joins the 80-MPH Speed Limit Club

  07-05-2025 21:00 via motor1.com
  
  All the surrounding states went to an 80-mph speed limit years ago, save for Minnesota, which still holds drivers to 70 mph.
  
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• The Koenigsegg Jesko Just Broke Even More World Records

  07-05-2025 18:30 via motor1.com
  
  A Jesko Absolut has broken the record forfastest speed in the standing half-mile. It's also the quickest gas car in the quarter-mile.
  
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• Nissan's Bold New Strategy: Sell More Cars

  07-05-2025 17:30 via motor1.com
  
  Nissan has introduced a new dealer incentive program aimed at getting vehicles out the door.
  
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• Rétromobile Partners With Gooding Christie's Auction House

  07-05-2025 17:12 via motor1.com
  
  Rétromobile is signing a multi-year partnership with Gooding Christie's auction house.
  
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• 2026 Corvette ZR1 Gets Optional 10-Piston Brake Calipers

  07-05-2025 16:30 via motor1.com
  
  Option the ZTK package, and Chevy will add 10-piston front and six-piston calipers, complete with carbon-ceramic rotors.
  
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• No More Button Wall: 2026 Corvette Gets Revamped Interior

  07-05-2025 16:00 via motor1.com
  
  The new cabin is definitely an improvement for the C8. And that's not all that's been changed for the 2026 model year.
  
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• BMW X7 luxury SUV lives on for second generation

  07-05-2025 15:59 via autocar.co.uk
  Brand’s largest and most opulent mainstream model is set for replacement in two years’ timeBMW has for the first time confirmed that it is developing a second generation of its X7 luxury SUV.
  Releasing its financial results for the first quarter of its 2025 financial year, the BMW Group said it had incurred research and development costs for the Neue Klasse models such as the new iX3, as well as for successors to the X5 and X7.
  It gave no further indication of when the new models wil
  
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• BMW confirms X7 luxury SUV lives on for second generation

  07-05-2025 15:59 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Brand’s largest and most opulent mainstream model is set for replacement in two years’ timeBMW has for the first time confirmed that it is developing a second generation of its X7 luxury SUV.
  Releasing its financial results for the first quarter of its 2025 financial year, the BMW Group said it had incurred research and development costs for the Neue Klasse models such as the new iX3, as well as for successors to the X5 and X7.
  It gave no further indication of when the new models wil
  
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• The Tesla Model Y Just Got Even Cheaper

  07-05-2025 15:43 via motor1.com
  
  The Long Range Rear-Wheel Drive model starts at $46,630 before the $7,500 federal tax credit.
  
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• KGM Musso

  07-05-2025 13:48 via autocar.co.uk
  
  The artist formerly known as Ssangyong brings toughness, capability and value together in one flatbed packageFor the companies now aiming to carve out a foothold at the value end of the UK’s boom-and-bust pickup truck market, a brand name that people will recognise would seem to be a rather large asset.This is no longer the niche that is occupied by the Toyota Hilux; nor really the Ford Ranger, or VW Amarok - with neither a Mitsubishi or Nissan to be seen, ei
  
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• The New Nissan Leaf Will Also Be a Mitsubishi

  07-05-2025 13:37 via motor1.com
  
  In exchange, Nissan will put its badge on a plug-in hybrid Mitsubishi.
  
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