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Right now, Ford is experiencing both the highs and the lows of the shrinking car segment. On the family ride side, its sales have long suffered the loss of the Fusion, Focus, and Fiesta. On the fun-ride side, the Ford Mustang is having a grand time. It’s the benefit of being the last pony car standing. Last Horse In The Pony Corral Is Finding More Buyers 2025 Ford Mustang Ecoboost mountain viewFord The Ford Mustang launched its segment when it went on sale in 1964, and 60 years later it is once again the only one. Crosstown-rival Chevrolet killed the…

Creating a marketing graphic or editing a PDF is now as easy as sending a Slack message. Starting today, Adobe for Slack lets you turn everyday conversations, shared files, and project briefs into polished images, videos, and documents, without leaving your Slack workspace. Slack can now create Adobe content with simple prompts Everything runs through Slackbot, Slack’s built-in AI assistant. Tell it what you’re after, like turning a marketing thread into a poster, and it figures out which Adobe tool needs to handle the job. That could be Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, or any of the other 70-plus…

Tesla is moving closer to embedding Grok Bot — xAI’s autonomous agent platform — directly into its vehicle operating system, and the implications stretch well beyond what any in-car voice assistant has attempted before. The signal came this week when Louise Giam, a Grok Voice and Chat engineer at xAI, replied “Stay tuned” to a user asking whether drivers could soon manage Grok Bot agents from behind the wheel. The post was later deleted, but the message landed. This is a different category of capability than what Grok already does inside Tesla cabins today. The Summer 2026 feature drop gave…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Look back about 12 months, and Subaru WRX sales were not in an enviable spot. 2025 marked the model’s worst-performing trip around the sun ever, though it wasn’t necessarily a byproduct of lagging demand. The WRX suffered as a casualty of Subaru’s manufacturing musical chairs over the last few years, when the new Forester supplanted it in production-line priority. While unfortunate, the move made sense from a business perspective, given that the SUV is a major sales…

Automotive Automotive Addicts speculation rendering for a future Dodge GLH Dodge is preparing to bring some much-needed attitude to the affordable end of its lineup with the upcoming 2028 Dodge GLH, a compact performance machine that could blur the line between hot hatchback and small crossover. According to Car and Driver, the new GLH is expected to effectively replace the Dodge Hornet while taking a far more aggressive approach to styling and performance. Dodge has described the vehicle as a “muscle hatch,” which feels fitting for something expected to combine a relatively low stance, boxy proportions, and more than 300…

A Nio Shenji NX9031 smart-driving chip on display at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: Nio Geely is evaluating the M97 chip, jointly developed by Nio and Axera, for a dual-chip L3 autonomous driving system. Shenji has made initial progress in supplying its technology externally and secured a Hefei government nomination for an edge-inference project. The M97 smart-driving chip developed by GeniTech Co Ltd (Shenji), the chip unit of Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO), may enter Geely Auto’s (HKEX: 0175) supply chain, potentially advancing its expansion into third-party customers. Geely’s preliminary plan is to use 2 M97 chips to…

If you’re open to suggestions on what to check out during the sale, I’d like to call particular attention to Darn Tough socks while they’re 25 percent off. These are some of my favorite socks for cycling and working out, thanks to their supportive fit and variety of color options. Notably, they feature a lifetime warranty for both normal wear and inadvertent damage. You can ship them back to Darn Tough, or bring them to a partnered retailer, for a credit or replacement. That said, these socks live up to their name, and they rarely develop holes through normal use.Here…

Official pictures of the resurrected Bristol Fighter sports car

China, the world’s largest electricity market, now has more installed electricity generation capacity from solar than from coal plants. The news comes at just the right time – as China’s EV sales boom, as global energy prices spike, and as climate change continues to ravage the Earth. Chinese state-run media announced this week that the country now has a total of 1,288 gigawatts of installed solar capacity, just edging out the country’s 1,285 GW of coal capacity for the first time. Solar now makes up 31.5% of China’s total installed generation capacity, making it the largest type of generation capacity…

In today’s slightly unexpected acquisition news, the world’s largest mod-sharing platform just bought SteamDB. Nexus Mods announced that it had acquired the Steam-focused independent database in a news post on its website, where it called SteamDB “one of the most trusted resources in PC gaming.” SteamDB was launched in 2013 by two people who go by the names of Marlamin and xPaw as little more than a hobby, but as it grew in size it became more difficult to maintain. Nexus Mods said it started talking to xPaw when the programmer — who had eventually assumed sole responsibility of managing…