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Cadillac Just Killed Its Two Cheapest Vehicles in the Same Year. Welcome to $49,200 and Up.
Everyone reading about the layoffs at Lansing Grand River is asking what happens to the Cadillac CT5. Almost nobody is asking about the car parked on the same line right now: the CT4. That is the more interesting question, because the CT5 is getting retooled. The CT4 is just disappearing. We’ve already covered why GM…
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GM Says Its 2027 EVs Won’t Need a Tesla Adapter. Your Trunk Will Disagree.
General Motors wants you to believe its 2027 electric vehicles are finally free of the adapter problem. Every Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC EV built for that model year will come standard with a native NACS port, the same connector shape Tesla popularized and still operates the busiest version of. Pull up to a compatible Supercharger…
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Toyota Just Patented A Fix For The Paddle-Shift Lag Its Own Engineers Invented Back In 2006
Pull the downshift paddle in a Toyota-built automatic and sometimes the car just waits. Not forever. Just long enough to notice. Long enough to wonder if the transmission heard you at all. That pause isn’t cheap engineering or a tired valve body. It’s a decision, written into software, and Toyota has been making that decision…
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Dinoco Blue Lightning McQueen Crocs: What Cars Fans Should Know
Twenty years on, the deepest cut in the Cars catalog isn’t a character. It’s a paint scheme that only exists inside a daydream, and Crocs has now molded it in polymer resin and bolted a wing to the back of it. Crocs has quietly pushed a live product page for the Lightning McQueen Dinoco Crocband,…
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Belvidere Is Getting Its Cherokee Back. It’s Also Becoming Stellantis’s Guinea Pig For a Platform That Doesn’t Exist Yet
Stellantis wants Belvidere to feel like a win. On Thursday, the company said it’s raising its investment in the shuttered Illinois assembly plant to more than $800 million and confirmed the factory will build the next-generation Jeep Cherokee. Buried a few paragraphs down, though, was the number that actually matters: retail production won’t start until…
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Stellantis Promised to Keep Brampton Running Until 2035. Canada’s $529 Million Contract Had a Trapdoor Built In.
Unifor called it “a dire development” when Stellantis told the union on August 12 that it’s shopping the Brampton Assembly Plant to another company. That’s the headline everyone is running with. It is not the interesting part. The interesting part is sitting in a 98-page contract most Canadians will never read, signed in 2022, quietly…
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California’s New Tire Rule Could Wipe Out 70% of What’s on the Shelf — And Sacramento Sat on the Law for 23 Years
Sacramento didn’t invent a new law on Monday. It finally read one it wrote in 2003. That’s the detail buried under all the coverage of the California Energy Commission’s unanimous vote to create the nation’s first efficiency standard for replacement tires — a standard that, by the tire industry’s own estimate, will make roughly 70…
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Every so often a manufacturer decides that the race cars rotting in the back of its warehouse are worth more as a business than as decoration. Honda Racing Corporation USA reached that conclusion this month, launching the HRC Heritage Racing Program during Monterey Car Week with a lineup of Acura prototypes and GT cars for…
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Hyundai Cut Crash Test Review Time By 90 Percent. That’s Not Even Close to the Interesting Part.
Hyundai’s AI numbers are big. The real story is a 2019 data infrastructure decision that most competitors haven’t made yet — and that seven-year head start is the actual competitive advantage.
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GM’s New Parts Ban Is Definitely a Safety Policy. It’s Also a Very Convenient Revenue Strategy.
GM just banned every non-OEM ADAS radar, camera, sensor, and bracket from collision repairs on all Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac vehicles. The safety argument is legitimate. So is the business one. Here’s what the position statement doesn’t say out loud — and why your next fender-bender could cost more because of it.
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Dodge Is Building a Cop Car Again Because Police Never Cared About the V8 in the First Place
The last HEMI Charger Pursuit made 370 horsepower. The turbo six replacing it makes more. The missing V8 is the least interesting thing about the 2027 Charger PPV.
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Stellantis Recalled 900,000 Vehicles Over a Backup Camera Bug. That’s Not Even the Interesting Part
One bad piece of radio software just reached into a Ram pickup, a Jeep Wrangler, a Dodge Charger, and a Chrysler minivan at the same time. Ten years ago, that sentence wouldn’t have made sense. Those four vehicles came from four different brands, four different engineering teams, and four different reasons to exist. This week,…
