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CarPlay is great as it comes, but a few personalization tweaks make it even more convenient. Habanero Pixel/Shutterstock If your vehicle supports the feature, one of the best quality-of-life upgrades you can make to your drives is setting up Apple CarPlay with a cable or wirelessly. This way, you don’t need to deal with the clunkiness of a phone mount. Your navigation app of choice and essential media controls are displayed directly on your car’s infotainment screen. Plus, with Siri receiving a major overhaul in iOS 27, interacting with your device completely hands-free should finally feel…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Which came first: The Ford Model T or the turbocharger? You might be surprised—just like I was when I googled it—to learn that the turbo is actually a bit older. Swiss engineer Alfred Buchi may have patented a design for exhaust-driven whirlers back in 1905, but such a newfangled contraption was the furthest thing from Henry Ford’s mind when he created the Model T in 1908. Now, more than 100 years later, those two influential innovations have…

Kia gave three of its new electric vehicles, the EV3, EV4, and EV5, the GT treatment. Kia EV3 GT, EV4 GT, and EV5 GT prices and specs Although the EV2 stole the show at the 2026 Brussels Motor Show in January, Kia offered a sneak peek at its upcoming electric GT models. Following the EV6 GT, which arrived in 2022 as Kia’s first fully electric GT vehicle and the brand’s most powerful production vehicle ever, Kia added the three-row EV9 GT to the lineup in late 2024. With the EV3 GT, EV4 GT, and EV5 GT now on sale in…

The 2027 Toyota Highlander represents a number of firsts for the company. The redesigned crossover will be its first electric vehicle manufactured in the United States, and it’ll also be the automaker’s first electric vehicle with three rows of seats. But those milestones rely on the Highlander actually making it to dealers, which may not be for another few months. Nikkei Asia reports that the EV has been delayed, with sales beginning in early 2027. Does that portend bad things for the edgy new SUV? Perhaps not, because Toyota’s EV sales are stronger than they’ve ever been. The New Highlander…

Off-road enthusiasts come in many stripes. There are those who don’t mind a little dust for the sake of outlandish rock climbing, and those who prefer the quiet serenity of the deep woods, despite mosquitoes and massive, biting flies. And then we have the waders – the drivers on lifted suspensions who can’t find a stream or river deep enough to keep the rubber dry. Aren’t there depth finders to take away the guesswork? Horse Powertrain, the UK’s low-emission hybrid supplier, has a better engine solution than an adapted depth finder. B20 Engine Isn’t Really About Horsepower Horse Powertrain B20…

A Nio ES6 on display at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2025. Credit: CnEVPost. The exhibition is expected to cover 400,000 square meters, exceeding the 2026 Beijing Auto Show’s 380,000 square meters. Beijing and Shanghai will continue alternating comprehensive auto shows, with Beijing’s March 2027 event designated as a specialized exhibition. The 2027 Shanghai Auto Show will run from April 23 to May 2 next year, covering an expected 400,000 square meters and adding a dedicated embodied AI (artificial intelligence) zone. The event’s organizers announced the schedule at a news conference on Tuesday. The twenty-second Shanghai Auto Show will…

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is almost here, and just hours ahead of the launch, we may finally have a better idea of how much it will cost. According to a new Bloomberg report, Apple has recently discussed pricing the device as high as $2,199, while higher-storage versions could get close to the $3,000 mark There is no getting around it. $2,199 is a lot of money for a smartphone. However, the figure is also a little lower than some of the estimates we have been hearing over the past few months, which placed Apple’s first foldable somewhere around $2,300 to…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. It seems like just yesterday that The Drive video producer Tom Gorelik embarked on a quest to affordably revive his Porsche 944 by swapping in one of the tuning community’s favorite engines: a Honda K-series. A year may seem like an eternity in social media terms, but in terms of shadetree engine swaps (which can sometimes rival geological time scales), it’s nothing. And that’s how long it took to get the K-swapped 944 running. Yes, running! The…

Automotive Ford has spent much of the past several years trying to shake a reputation for quality problems and an unusually high number of recalls, and there are finally signs that the effort is producing meaningful results. The biggest proof point came in the 2026 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study, where Ford ranked highest among mass-market brands. That is a dramatic turnaround for a company that sat much farther down the rankings just a few years ago and has been under intense pressure to improve the quality and durability of its vehicles. A big part of the change…

BYD is testing a new boxy SUV positioned as a smaller, lower-priced sibling to the Ti 7 (Tai 7). Here’s our first look at it. BYD begins testing new Ti 6 SUV The Tai 6 will be the fourth model from BYD’s sub-brand Fang Cheng Bao’s Titanium lineup in China, following the Tai 3, Tai 7, and most recently, the Tai 9. While it’s sold under the Fang Cheng Bao brand in China, BYD rebadges it under its own brand and sells it as the Ti 7 in Europe, the UK, and other global markets. Earlier this week, the first…