Lotus Unveils a Hybrid V8 Supercar to Save the Brand. The Real Story Is the Chinese Factory Running at One-Fifth Capacity
Lotus wants the headline this week to be about a supercar. A new hybrid V8...
Hybrids
One Faulty Chip Can Shut Down Almost Every New Land Rover On The Road — And There’s Still No Fix
Forget the part number for a second. The real story buried inside Jaguar Land Rover’s...
BMW Says 29,000 Hybrids Might Catch Fire — Good Luck Finding Out if Yours Is One Before Next Month
If you own a BMW 330e, 530e, or 740Le built sometime in the last decade,...
Mexico’s ‘Electrified’ Car Boom Is Mostly Just Hybrids, and It Picked the Worst Possible Week to Look Suspicious
Mexico’s auto distributors want you to know that electrified vehicle sales are up 44% this...
Kia Barely Raised 2027 Carnival Prices, and That Restraint Is the Real Story
Kia raised 2027 Carnival prices by just $100, even while eating tariff costs on its only imported minivan. That restraint,…
Ford Recalls 66,000 Lincoln and Explorer Hybrids Because the First Fix Didn’t Fix It
A car that’s too quiet is, legally speaking, a defective car. That’s the part of...
Thailand’s $4.1 Billion EV Push Isn’t About Electric Cars. It’s About Not Choosing Sides.
Thailand just put $4.1 billion behind electric vehicles. Read the fine print, though, and you’ll...
The 2027 Hyundai Elantra Gets a Bigger Body, an Angrier Face, and an AI Co-Pilot
Hyundai just pulled the wraps off the eighth-generation Elantra in South Korea, where it’s sold...
Hyundai Recalls 96,310 Tucsons Over a Dashboard That Might Reboot Mid-Drive
There’s a specific kind of automotive anxiety reserved for the moment an instrument cluster goes...
Porsche May Offer Six-Cylinder Hybrid Option for Next Boxster and Cayman
Porsche appears to be revising its plans for the next-generation Boxster and Cayman. After previously...
Diesel Swap Challenges a Honda Insight’s Factory Hybrid System
The answer may surprise you.
Honda Pivots Away From Full EV Push Toward Expanded Hybrid Strategy
Almost like it’s copying Toyota.
Ford Pivots From All-Electric Ambitions Toward Hybrids
And just like that, the EV revolution is getting put on ice.
BMW’s Hybrid Performance SUV Enters Production, Hyundai’s Theft Fix Rolls Out, and Cybertruck Watch Continues
Here are the automotive news stories you might have missed this week.