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Worldpac’s 2026 Supplier and Training Expo (STX) brought together more than 2,500 automotive aftermarket professionals who collectively completed 43,200 hours of training during the five-day event. The biennial expo, held Aug. 19-23, featured exhibits from more than 100 international parts manufacturers, along with training, networking and keynote presentations. Worldpac also recognized nine suppliers for their partnerships with the company and announced that its next Supplier and Training Expo will be held in 2028. Keynote speakers included Terry Bradshaw, a four-time football champion and Hall of Fame quarterback, and Siri Lindley, a two-time world champion and Hall of Fame triathlete. Bradshaw…

The all-new IM L6 electric sedan. Credit: IM Motors The all-new L6 starts at a limited-time promotional price of 199,900 yuan ($29,480) and offers up to 850 km of CLTC range. The Jimmy Choo edition has begun its second sales round, with a starting price 10% above the regular entry-level version. IM Motors, the electric vehicle (EV) brand of SAIC Motor (SSE: 600104), on Friday launched the all-new IM L6, overhauling its core sedan to challenge Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Xiaomi (HKEX: 1810). The 3 regular variants have limited-time promotional prices ranging from 199,900 yuan ($29,480) to 259,900 yuan. The…

Apple’s iPhone is a product that the world, including potential buyers, critics, and competitors, watches obsessively. Over the years, the Cupertino giant has repeatedly shown up every September, with the best iteration of their smartphone technology, spread across multiple Pro and non-Pro models. However, the iPhone 18 series could change that tradition. This year could be the first time the company splits its massive September event into two, focusing on different categories of the upcoming iPhones. The premium ones, including the Pro models and the purported Apple foldable, could arrive this fall (the date is finally out), while the more…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. To date, iRacing has primarily been a platform for multiplayer racing. Eventually, the simulator added computer-controlled opponents, and you were always free to hot lap in solitude, but the single-player experience was never really a focus. That’s changing, though, with the addition of a career mode to the platform. It’s been brewing for some time—iRacing says it still needs “a little more time in the oven”—and few details were previously given, until today. iRacing’s August development update…

Kia issued a recall affecting more than 21,000 EV9 SUVs because the airbag system may fail to detect a child in the front seat. Kia recalls 21,290 EV9 SUVs MY2025-2026 In a letter sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last week, Kia said it was recalling 21,290 EV9 SUVs model years 2025 and 2026. The recall is due to improper routing of the Occupant Detection System (ODS) mat bladder tube by the supplier. According to documents submitted to the NHTSA, the tube may get pinched after the front seat is adjusted several times. If this occurs, the…

Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount from the usual price. We spotted scaling discounts on larger sizes as well, although Amazon already listed low stock on the 65-inch version. While OLED televisions are great for deep black levels and great contrast, their high price point may be off-putting to some buyers. Mini-LED TVs like this TCL are a more wallet-friendly option, and have high brightness while also supporting features like Quantum Dots for vivid colors.The QM7L also includes the features you’d expect…

Automotive Ram is bringing the ProMaster City back for 2027, and this time it returns to a commercial van market that looks very different from the one it left. Small vans have essentially disappeared from U.S. showrooms, leaving business owners with few choices between a large SUV and a full-size cargo van. Ram is aiming directly at that gap with a new midsize ProMaster City priced from $39,995 including destination, making it the least expensive commercial van available in the U.S. when deliveries begin in early 2027. The lineup starts with the Tradesman Cargo at $39,995, while the…

People are grafting a pre-release version onto their favorite games with unspectacular results. Sometimes, photorealism (or something approaching it) makes a video game look better. Other times, well, you get whatever this is from NVIDIA’s leaked build of DLSS 5. The unfinished software, extracted from an early-access PC version of NBA 2K27, has been grafted onto various games. The results are… let’s just say, not universally beloved. DLSS 5’s neural rendering model takes the upscaling technology in a new direction. Rather than simply reconstructing a sharper version of the image the game rendered, it “infuses pixels with photoreal lighting and…

Somewhere in a suburban school pickup line, a Toyota Camry is quietly capable of embarrassing cars that look far more serious. That’s not a hypothetical. For one generation, Toyota built a version of its family sedan with a genuine sports-sedan engine wearing camouflage so effective that most people never noticed. That car is gone now, replaced by a hybrid-only lineup from the 2024 model year that trades acceleration for efficiency. Understanding what Toyota walked away from means looking past the badge and into an engine bay that once housed something genuinely special, and increasingly hard to find anywhere else. The…

Official pictures of VW’s new ID. California Cruise