YORK, England — What the world needs is more Pininfarina-styled two-seat convertibles, right? On the other side of the Atlantic, Ford believed this to be the case and created a very small yet very cool Pininfarina-designed convertible based on the Ford Ka, itself based on the Ford Fiesta Mk3. During my recent trip to the
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Dave Chappelle has been working on a 1991 Ford F350 he calls Mom’s Spaghetti, and he’s running out of time to finish it before Ultimate Adventure, so Fred Williams has arrived to lend a hand. Stream Dirt Every Day NOW on MotorTrend+ ➡️ https://motortrend.app.link/coN8QcYbsob MotorTrend is the ultimate streaming destination for gearheads coupled with the
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Millions of people have driven their Toyota to a shopping mall, but few have actually driven right through the middle of one. Toyota Gazoo Racing organized a drift race through a dead mall for a video to promote the 2022 GR86. Three frigid days of filming at the Charlestowne Mall in St. Charles, Ill., left
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BERLIN — Germany’s Sono Motors has signed up a new partner for its partly solar-powered cars and is sticking to its goal of commercial production in 2023, after abandoning talks with the electric carmaking arm of indebted Chinese property developer Evergrande. Sono said on Tuesday it will produce its first vehicles in Finland with supplier
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Did Elon Musk break securities laws again? Former securities officials and professors said Tesla CEO Musk might have missed a key disclosure deadline when he bought 9 percent of Twitter. And Securities and Exchange Commission regulators could use any shortfall to try to punish Musk more for other lapses, some believe. Musk on Monday disclosed
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A teenage driver’s twister trouble has resulted in a new Chevrolet Silverado. When Riley Leon, 16, drove through a powerful tornado on his way home from a job interview last month, his red Silverado flipped multiple times before landing upright on the road and he drove to safety, according to media reports. Leon was not
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Swedish electric-car maker Polestar has inked a deal with rental giant Hertz to supply up to 65,000 battery-powered vehicles. The five-year global deal should represent more than $3 billion of potential revenue for the EV startup, a source told Automotive News. While car rental companies typically demand significant discounts from automakers, Hertz is said to
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The Geneva auto show will return in 2023, show organizers announced Monday. Dates for the revived auto show will be Tuesday, February 14, to Sunday, February 19, 2023, according to a Facebook post. The Geneva show was the first to be cancelled with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, shutting down in 2020 just days
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Qualcomm Inc. said Monday it completed its acquisition of Swedish tech supplier Veoneer’s Arriver software stack, giving the semiconductor giant a larger foothold in advanced driver-assistance technology. “Something like this positions us extremely well,” said Nakul Duggal, general manager of Qualcomm’s automotive business. “Traditionally, we’ve been a provider of silicon and software. But now, with
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At 2014’s FR Shootout, we saw everything from the FR-S to the 370z to wickedly fast S2000’s all competing for the same thing – the fastest lap time of the day… period. From boosted to normally aspirated cars, key components like braking, suspension, and vehicle set up played a crucial role in getting a fast
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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has built a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter Inc., a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site’s shares soaring 24 percent in premarket trading as of 7 a.m. EDT. In late March the silicon valley billionaire said he was giving “serious thought” to building a new social media
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KYMCO Chairman Allan Ko recently shared new plans from the company’s electric vehicle developments, including the debut of the KYMCO Ionex Smart Streetlights system. Once employed, the system would see connected streetlights and traffic lights in smart cities tied into the brand’s swappable EV battery stations. The Ionex brand is the Taiwan-based motorcycle maker KYMCO’s
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Toyota reaffirmed its commitment to the UK after a newspaper reported it may halt making cars in the country because of government plans to shift more rapidly to fully electric vehicles. The Japanese automaker said it’s ready to sell only zero-emission cars and reiterated its view that hybrids have a role to play in the
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A very early Ferrari LaFerrari test mule is headed to auction with RM Sotheby’s on May 14. Code-named M6, the test mule is based on a Ferrari 458 Italia that still looks largely stock on the outside. However, it features an early version of the LaFerrari’s hybrid powertrain, including a V-12 engine. This engine is
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As automakers build more electric vehicles, a lack of charging infrastructure continues to be a barrier for some shoppers. That concern has sparked some companies to offer EV charging solutions that sidestep complex hard-wired infrastructure challenges. Two of them, Renewable Innovations and SparkCharge, have different approaches in technology, but their missions are the same: Break
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