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2025-05-05

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Releases & Reviews

Hang on, Pagani has just unveiled ANOTHER new Zonda (2 minute read)

Pagani turns a 1999-era chassis into the Kunlun-inspired, sky-blue carbon one-off, adding a towering roof scoop and double-plane rear wing. The 7.3-litre AMG V12 still delivers around 750 hp (560 kW) and 575 lb-ft (780 Nm), ensuring the resurrected Zonda remains brutally fast.

2025 Mini Cooper JCW First Drive: Fair Trade (5 minute read)

Mini’s latest JCW swaps an eighth-gear auto for a quick-thinking dual-clutch, trading 7 horsepower for 52 lb-ft (71 Nm) more twist and slightly better fuel economy. A 10-second Boost mode spikes output near 251 hp (187 kW), while fixed-rate, frequency-selective dampers keep the feisty hatch razor-sharp yet unforgiving.

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Technology, Market Data & Analysis

Aurora’s driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas (3 minute read)

Aurora has quietly begun paid freight runs on the 240-mile (386 km) Dallas–Houston corridor using Class 8 tractors that have already logged 1,200 driver-free miles (1,931 km). The milestone follows four years, 3 million autonomous test miles (4.8 million km) and a 2024 net loss of $748 million, with expansion to El Paso and Phoenix slated for 2025.

Jaguar Land Rover restarts car exports to the US, London's Times reports (1 minute read)

After a month-long tariff hiatus, Jaguar Land Rover quietly loaded the first U.S.-bound ship since April 3, when Washington’s new 25 percent import duty took effect. The restart safeguards Britain’s second-largest export market, which buys nearly 20 percent of UK-built cars, while JLR still evaluates pricing and sourcing workarounds.

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Car Culture 

Once Again, Singer “Reimagines” a Porsche—This Time a 911 Carrera Coupe (5 minute read)

Singer’s latest ‘reimagining’ restores a 1989-94 964 chassis, then cloaks it in carbon panels and a whale-tail option. A newly-developed 4.0-litre flat-six produces 420 hp (313 kW), drives the rear wheels through a six-speed manual, and will headline just 100 builds that typically start near $500,000.

2025 Toyota GR86 / BRZ | How Will They Be Remembered? (9 minute watch)

Savagegeese reflects on 12 years of the GR86/BRZ formula, reminding viewers that a 2,800 lb (1,270 kg) coupe offering 200-plus horsepower (149 kW) and a tactile six-speed can now be found used in the mid-$20k range. They praise the car’s lightness, tunability and year-round usability despite early engine-failure headlines.

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Miscellaneous

Buttons Are Back, Baby (8 minute read)

Motor1 charts the backlash against screen-only dashboards: a 2017 AAA study found drivers spend 40 seconds eyes-off-road, prompting Euro NCAP to demand physical switches for five key functions by 2026. Volkswagen, Hyundai and even Mercedes are reversing course, sprinkling buttons back into upcoming models.

Here’s What Years of Salty Roads Will Do To Your Car’s Engine (3 minute read)

A teardown of a 200,000-mile (322,000 km) Subaru EZ30R flat-six shows extreme rust seizing even 8 mm cam-cover bolts; pneumatic hammers were needed to split the block. Internals looked healthy, so compression loss likely came from corroded valve seats—a stark reminder to rinse winter salt before it eats engines alive.

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Quick Links

Top Gear's big super-saloon shootout: BMW M5 vs Porsche Taycan Turbo GT (25 minute watch)

[Top Gear] The Stig wring out BMW’s rumored 735 horsepower (548 kW) hybrid M5 against Porsche’s 1,019 horsepower (760 kW) Taycan Turbo GT across drag, scale, and lap tests on Dunsfold’s runway.

Is This Ram's Compact Truck for America? (2 minute read)

A newly granted April 22, 2025 U.S. patent shows Ram’s South-American Rampage-style compact pickup, stoking talk of a 2027 U.S. launch amid CEO Tim Kuniskis’s pledge for 25 products in 18 months.

Slate Truck, the $28,000 EV, Will Be Built at a Former Printing Plant in Indiana (3 minute read)

Jeff Bezos-backed Slate will retool a 1.4 million sq-ft Indiana printworks to assemble its $27,500 bare-bones electric pickup, offering 150-mile (241 km) or 240-mile (386 km) ranges from 47- or 75-kWh packs.

2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 EV Offers 335 Miles of Range for $60,555 (2 minute read)

Hyundai prices the U.S-built 2026 Ioniq 9 from $60,555, pairing a 110-kWh pack with NACS charging for 335-mile (539 km) rear-drive or 311-mile (500 km) dual-motor all-wheel-drive trims arriving this month.

Limited-Run Mazda Miata ‘Toji’ Has a Classy Set of Subtle Aesthetic Mods (2 minute read)

Belgium’s Mazda St-Michel crafts 12 Miata ‘Tōji’ roadsters in Artisan Red, adding Bilstein dampers, BBS-style 17-inch wheels and houndstooth trim while keeping the 132 hp (98 kW) 1.5-liter engine untouched.

GM to lay off 750 workers at Oshawa plant, citing U.S. tariffs: union president (6 minute read)

Facing a new 25 percent U.S. import tariff, GM will drop Oshawa Assembly from three to two shifts, idling about 750 employees and potentially 1,500 supplier jobs despite pledges to keep Canadian Silverado output.

Colorado May Become The First State In Years To Pass A Law Winning The Battle Against Imported Car Bans (12 minute read)

Colorado’s HB25-1281, headed for Governor Polis’s signature, classifies Kei imports as motor vehicles, mandates idle emissions tests and bars them from roads over 55 mph (89 km/h), marking the first pro-import law since 2019.

Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut v Regera: DRAG RACE (16 minute watch)

Carwow clocks the 1,600 hp (1,193 kW) Jesko Absolut at 8.9 seconds in the quarter-mile (0.4 km), gapping the 1,500 hp (1,119 kW), 1,476 lb-ft (2,000 Nm) hybrid Regera and posting a 0-60 mph time of 2.8 seconds.