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5 Mar 2024, 21:15 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's hard to accept the Challenger isn't coming back anytime soon, and it's harder still to come to terms with the lack of eight-cylinder powertrain options for the new Charger. Available in three- and five-door guises, the newcomer ...
5 Mar 2024, 19:11 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / More than 4.3 million units of the L-platform Charger, Challenger, and 300 were produced between 2004 and 2023 at the Brampton Assembly Plant in Canada. During this period, Chrysler was known as DaimlerChrysler, Chrysler LLC, the Chrysler Group, Fi...
5 Mar 2024, 16:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Ferrari closed the order books for the 812 Superfast and 812 GTS in February 2022. Internally referred to as F152M, the flagship V12 grand tourer will be replaced at the beginning of May 2024 by a more powerful successor, internally referred to as ...
5 Mar 2024, 14:32 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Closely related to the Tundra pickup truck, the Sequoia comes with hybrid assistance by default. With 437 horsepower and 583 pound-feet (790 Nm) at its disposal, the body-on-frame sport utility vehicle should be relatively fast over the quarter. ...
4 Mar 2024, 21:07 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Closely related to the Renault Megane E-Tech Electric for Europe, the Nissan Ariya has entered the 2024 model year with – surprisingly enough – lower prices in the US market. According to Nissan North America, the compact electric cross...
4 Mar 2024, 18:55 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Quite polarizing by design, the BMW XM has been hit with a safety recall. As it happens, the Bavarian automaker identified 267 units equipped with tailgate panels that may detach while driving. Due to improper adhesive bonding, the original tailgat...
4 Mar 2024, 18:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Care to guess which is the least fuel-efficient vehicle in the Infiniti lineup for model year 2024? The answer is QX80, a body-on-frame sport utility vehicle with Armada underpinnings and oily bits. The Z62 rolled out in 2010 for the 2011 model ...
4 Mar 2024, 17:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Lamborghini has a long and seriously convoluted history of all-terrain vehicles. It all started with the 1977 Cheetah, built on a contract from Mobility Technology International. Turns out MTI blatantly copied the 1970 XR311 from FMC, a military ve...
4 Mar 2024, 16:06 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Hyundai Motor America has recalled 186,588 examples of the 2015 to 2016 model year Elantra after identifying a noncompliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 401. As per the South Korean automaker, the trunk latch pawl is prone to contrac...
4 Mar 2024, 15:08 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Jaguar Land Rover launched its first battery-electric vehicle in 2018 under the Jaguar brand. Unfortunately, the I-Pace received little in the way of updates in the past six years or so, meaning that it fell behind the competition by a dramatic mar...
4 Mar 2024, 13:59 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Kia America Inc. has identified an issue affecting a little over 35,000 units of the 2020 model year Telluride. As per documents published by the NHTSA, vehicles equipped with halogen headlights may experience high beam failures due to high beam sh...
3 Mar 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Luxury automobiles can trace their roots back to the late 1800s, an era during which the self-propelled carriage targeted the most affluent of people. The luxury car segment took a turn for the mainstream in the period after Oldsmobile introduced t...
2 Mar 2024, 00:17 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Porsche has big plans for its model range going forward. Electrified vehicles will play an increasingly vital role in the lineup due to increasingly stringent emission and fuel economy regulations. The Macan comes to mind, a sporty crossover that b...
1 Mar 2024, 23:11 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Back in July 2022, the Office of Defects Investigation opened a preliminary evaluation into the Chrysler Pacifica PHEV over complaints alleging a loss of motive power due to a transmission malfunction. FCA US LLC recalled the 2017 to 2023 Chrysler ...
1 Mar 2024, 21:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As of March 2024, the most powerful series-production BMW is the 738-hp XM Label plug-in hybrid sport utility vehicle. When it comes to purely internal combustion models, the M5 CS is king of the hill. Its twin-turbo V8 pushes out 627 horsepower fr...
1 Mar 2024, 20:59 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Dearborn's favorite son has issued a safety recall for 216 units of the F-150 Lightning. More specifically, 2023 models produced at the Rouge EV assembly plant from October 31, 2022 to August 2, 2023. The recall condition is loose or missin...
1 Mar 2024, 19:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In three weeks, Infiniti will unleash the next-generation QX80 with a completely different engine from the naturally aspirated V8 of the 2024 model. Previewed by the QX Monograph concept last year, the body-on-frame sport utility vehicle sports a t...
1 Mar 2024, 18:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's been a rough week for FCA US LLC in terms of safety recalls, but even more so for the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Previously recalled to the tune of 338,238 vehicles for potentially damaged upper control arm pinch bolts, the mid-sized sport util...
29 Feb 2024, 21:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Ford Motor Company sold 105,665 units of the Bronco last year in the United States of America, of which 7,527 examples have been hit with a recall. Optioned with hard tops, the suspect vehicles were produced at the Wayne-based Michigan Assembly...
29 Feb 2024, 20:56 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / On paper, the BMW M3 Competition xDrive is quicker from zero to 100 kilometers per hour (make that 62 miles per hour) than both the Lexus IS 500 F Sport Performance and Nissan Skyline NISMO. Real-world testing didn't get even close to the adve...