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2025-07-16

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Releases & Reviews

2025 Ford Maverick Lobo Review - STREET TRUCK! (16 minute watch)

The Lobo turns the Maverick into a factory street truck with a 250 horsepower (187 kW) 2.0-liter turbo four, 277 lb-ft (376 Nm) of torque, a seven-speed automatic, lowered suspension and 19-inch wheels. The Straightpipes praise its playful handling but note budget tires and a $42,345 entry price.

Destination Dawn: An All-Night Patrol in the Rolls-Royce Spectre Black Badge (15 minute read)

MotorTrend’s night patrol shows the Spectre Black Badge’s silent brutality: dual motors deliver 659 horsepower (492 kW) and 792 lb-ft (1,074 Nm), launching the 6,500-lb coupe to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds. Its 102 kWh battery promises 329 miles (529 km) of range, though bespoke options balloon the $420,000 price.

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Technology, Market Data & Analysis

BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race. Here’s how. (13 minute read)

BYD has narrowed Tesla’s lead: full-year 2024 BEV deliveries hit 1.8 million against Tesla’s 1.9 million, and BYD is forecast to pass 2.2 million in 2025. Vertical integration gives 17 % gross margins, Blade batteries and 1 MW charging undercut Tesla’s price war while Tesla’s China share slides to 8 %.

Nissan Takes 'Tough But Necessary Decision' to Close a Factory (3 minute read)

Nissan’s Re:Nissan turnaround will shutter its historic Oppama plant, birthplace of 17.8 million cars since 1961, by March 2028, trimming global sites from 17 to 10. Roughly 2,400 jobs and production of Note/Aura superminis shift to Kyushu as the firm targets 2.5 million-unit capacity and 20,000 layoffs.

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Car Culture

Jay Leno Drives a Tiny Terror: The 1958 Berkeley Sports Car! | Jay Leno's Garage (27 minute watch)

Jay Leno’s Garage shrinks the spotlight onto a 1958 Berkeley SE328, a front-drive fiberglass roadster weighing barely 700 lb (318 kg). Its 328 cc two-stroke twin musters just 18 horsepower (13 kW) and 27 lb-ft (37 Nm), yet the micro missile charms with keening exhaust, go-kart steering, and period quirkiness.

Future and Past Collide—Confusingly, Excitingly—at the World's Best Car Meet (13 minute read)

MotorTrend’s 140-shot gallery from the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed captures everything from BYD’s 1,341 horsepower (1,000 kW) Han L prototype to Travis Pastrana slinging a WRX ARA24 and Max McRae hustling Colin’s 1990 Legacy RS, illustrating how electric futurism and Group A nostalgia collide on the Duke’s driveway.

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Miscellaneous

Koenigsegg's New Hypercar Broke a Goodwood Speed Record (2 minute read)

Koenigsegg’s 1,625 horsepower (1,212 kW) Sadair’s Spear sliced Goodwood’s 1.16-mile hill in 47.14 seconds, eclipsing the Czinger 21C by 1.68 seconds to become the fastest road-legal production car there. The twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 hypercar weighs just 2,910 lb (1,320 kg) and will be limited to 30 units.

Porsche’s V10 Legend Needed A Tree-Clearing Rescue (3 minute read)

A rare Fayence Yellow Carrera GT—one of only 89—slid off a damp Alpine road and tumbled into a tree-lined ravine, forcing Austrian firefighters to spend three hours winching the 605 horsepower (451 kW) V10 icon back to safety. Photos show destroyed carbon-ceramic brakes and heavy front-corner damage.

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Quick Links

The new 349bhp CLA Shooting Brake is Mercedes’ first-ever electric estate (3 minute read)

Due in March 2026, the 85 kWh CLA SB offers a 268 hp (200 kW) rear-drive 250+ with 247 lb-ft (335 Nm) and 473 mile (762 km) range, plus a 349 hp (260 kW) AWD 350+ good for 380 lb-ft (515 Nm) and 454 mile (731 km) stretches.

BMW is crafting a 'street legal track day pack' for the bombastic little M2 (1 minute read)

Set for 2026 arrival, M Performance's kit adds a swan-neck wing, extended splitter, red tow hook and lightweight wheels to sharpen aero grip while staying road-legal and factory-warranted.

'Dirtiest Part of the Car': Why the Range Rover Electric Skips the Front Trunk (3 minute read)

Chief engineer Matt Becker says the EV Range Rover dedicates its nose to crash structures, HVAC and wading-depth seals, calling the area the ‘dirtiest’ spot and arguing owners prefer a larger cabin over a frunk.

Chevy Intends To Dominate Ford (and the Nurburgring) With the Corvette (2 minute read)

After a three-week June test blitz at the Nürburgring, Corvette engineers hint the upcoming ZR1 and twin-turbo ZR1X have already posted a record lap that would reclaim the ‘fastest American car’ crown from Ford’s GT.

Corvette Boss: 1250-HP ZR1X “Is Not the End” of the C8 Story (2 minute read)

Tony Roma teases that the 1,250 hp (933 kW) hybrid ZR1X is merely a midpoint, with skunk-works aero and powertrain experiments already underway to push the mid-engined C8 beyond present Nürburgring targets.

Porsche Hikes Prices Second Time in Four Months, Base 911 Carrera Now $134,650 (2 minute read)

Blaming market pressures, Porsche raises sticker prices by 2.3–3.6 percent, lifting the base 911 Carrera to $134,650, while option costs concurrently climb, marking the second across-line increase since March 2025.

Why America’s Street Lights Are Turning Purple (2 minute read)

Aging LED streetlights are shedding their yellow phosphor layer, exposing the raw 8500-K diode and bathing roads in an unintended purple glow that manufacturers must now replace under warranty to meet federal luminance standards.

The Best Sedans of 2025 (So Far) (6 minute read)

Motor1’s mid-year roundup applauds the Audi A4 e-tron, Hyundai Ioniq 6, and Kia K5 GT for blending sub-5 second 0–60 sprints with 300-plus mile (483 km) real-world ranges, proving the mainstream sedan still has pulse.

GM Issues Stop-Sale for a Handful of 2026 Chevy Traverse SUVs (2 minute read)

GM has temporarily halted sales of just 92 2026-model Traverse, Acadia and Enclave SUVs over an unspecified quality glitch, assuring dealers the fix—and customer deliveries—should be cleared before July 20.