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🚘 $280K Fox Body packs 715 HP, R2 vs Model Y, 4.3M recall
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2026-08-31
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Releases & Reviews
A road trip to Mammoth Lakes pits the $61,485, 656 horsepower (489 kW) R2 Performance AWD against Tesla's Model Y Performance, the $51,815 Ioniq 5 Limited AWD and Ford's 480 hp (358 kW) Mach-E GT. Handling, comfort, range, charging and driver assistance all get scored.
TheStraightPipes finds Chrysler's refresh skin deep: a new front end, new badge and fresh colors over the same 287 horsepower (214 kW), 262 lb-ft (355 Nm) Pentastar V6 and nine speed automatic. Yuri and Jacob like the styling but call the update one of the laziest they have seen.
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Technology, Market Data & Analysis
Nearly 3 million of the recalled cars are Teslas, and the action follows a death in which bystanders could not open a burning car's doors. Fixes are mostly over the air updates that drop the windows after a crash. China will also ban flush handles outright from 2027.
M boss Frank van Meel says the Neue Klasse based, four motor electric M will not fake a gearbox, because copying one also copies its disadvantages. Instead, paddle selected performance stages and a turbine like soundtrack tied to the electric motor will supply the drama.
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Car Culture
Top Gear visits Velocity Restorations, which bolts a Roadster Shop chassis beneath the original unibody and fits a 5.0 liter Coyote V8 good for 715 horsepower (533 kW) with the optional Whipple supercharger. At roughly $280,000 and 3,000 pounds (1,359 kg), the verdict is glowing.
Nine sub $13,500 econosedans, ranked for Generation X buyers in June 1994. The Dodge Neon Sport takes it on the strength of a class leading 132 horsepower (98 kW) 2.0 liter four and genuine handling, beating the Nissan Sentra and Honda Civic; the Kia Sephia finishes last.
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Miscellaneous
Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins and Andy Garcia star in a period piece about brothers Alfieri, Bindo and Carlo Maserati, shot around Modena and Rome. The centerpiece is Maserati's back to back Indy 500 wins in 1939 and 1940, still the only Italian marque to manage it.
A parked, unoccupied rig rolled into an excavation site on Enbridge's Line 5 in northern Wisconsin, breaching the pipeline and releasing a natural gas cloud that forced evacuations. Enbridge still cannot explain how the truck got moving. The 645 mile (1,038 km) line dates to 1953.
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Five years after panning Rivian's Quad Motor system, David Tracy finds the real magic is elsewhere: air springs with cross linked hydraulic roll control that force a drooping wheel back down onto the rock.
The second generation Titan's worst headlight variant cleared the safe limit by 615 percent, and it topped the index only because its height puts those beams closer to your eyes than the BMW X5's.
Faulty software governing an eFuse can let the exterior lighting circuit overheat on 2022 to 2026 Air sedans, and more than 6,000 owners still have not installed the over the air fix released in July.
The 2025 SUV of the Year gets simplified geometric grilles, a skinnier full width taillight, five new wheel designs and two Black Label interior themes, while the 48 inch display carries over untouched.
Jeep's Tuxedo Park trim slathered chrome on the CJ in a bid to go upmarket; roughly 4,300 sold in 1964, backed by a 75 horsepower (56 kW) four and a column shifted three speed manual.
Ian Fleming's Bond was more of a Bentley man, and the novel's DB Mark III became the DB5 on screen only because Goldfinger's filmmakers wanted the company's newest car.
Mat Watson of carwow lines up a 1,156 horsepower (862 kW) Denza Z9GT against the Lamborghini Temerario, then the 1,600 horsepower (1,194 kW) Denza Z Racing, which runs the standing quarter mile in 9.5 seconds.
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