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Lexus has built an impressive legacy of V8-powered models, but that era is ending, and soon. Today, the automaker offers just one nameplate powered by a V8, the LC coupe and convertible, and all signs point to it disappearing later this year. 2026 Lexus LC Front 3/4 ViewLexus While Lexus hasn’t officially confirmed the LC’s demise, the evidence is mounting. A dealer bulletin that surfaced earlier this year highlighted that the 2026 model year will be the last, with production slated to end in August. If that timeline holds, buyers have just a few months left to order one of…

Photo: Kempower Kempower and Blink Charging are expanding their EV fast-charging partnership across the US East Coast, with 14 new charging sites planned through 2026. The rollout will focus on high-traffic locations near convenience stores. Kempower will supply its Power Units and Satellite DC fast chargers while Blink handles the software side of the charging experience. Two locations are already live: a site at Vasa Fitness in Colorado and another in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Blink said Kempower’s reliability and charger uptime played a big role in choosing the company’s hardware for the expansion. Advertisement – scroll for more content “Reliable…

Against used Porsche Cayman S and Boxster S models now occupying similar price brackets, here this Japanese contender delivers an experience many drivers ultimately trust more. And in the hands of a committed driver, it can leave Porsche owners asking uncomfortable questions about where their money actually went. Why Used Performance Cars Are Making Badge Prestige Matter Less Than Ever Front 3/4 shot of 2010 Porsche Cayman SBring A Trailer The modern used sports car market has changed dramatically over the last decade. Cars that once occupied completely different financial brackets are now competing for the same buyers, and that overlap…

Much to the relief of the beady-eyed Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, the famous Italian brand has introduced the all-new Luce. It’s pronounced “loosay” in the kind of voice you’d use if you were trying to make amorous advances on a British girl named Lucy. The Ferrari Luce is exactly what we expected, but also not. It has four electric motors for a combined output of 1,035 horsepower and 730 lb-ft of torque, which gets it to 62 mph in 2.5 seconds and on to a top-speed of 192 mph. And thanks to a 122 kWh battery pack, it weighs 4,982 pounds,…

Shift is offering to clean homes for free, but there is one important condition. The company will record those chores to build training data for future home robots. The New York-based startup is currently offering free cleaning services, in which a vetted operator visits a home and wears a camera-equipped device while performing routine household work. The footage can then help AI systems understand how people clean homes outside controlled lab settings. Your messy home is valuable AI training data AI companies have already used text, images, and videos from the internet to train software models. But robots need a…

Leapmotor is proving an example of just how quickly Chinese car firms can establish themselves. It joined up with Stellantis in late 2023, when the latter gained majority ownership of Leapmotor International, and now, as a result, the brand is looking to expand its European footprint by building cars in Spain. Advertisement – Article continues belowThe location will be Zaragoza, where Stellantis and battery manufacturer CATL are spending 4.1 billion euros on a battery gigafactory. Adjacent to this facility, there’s the existing Figueruelas plant, which looks set to produce Vauxhall’s new all-electric C-segment SUV, which in turn will utilise Leapmotor platform tech.  Leapmotor…

It’s the world’s worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announcement. The Windows and Nvidia GeForce accounts on X both posted “A new era of PC” earlier today, and now Arm has followed up with an identical post.All three posts include coordinates pointing to where Computex is hosted in Taipei. Nvidia is holding a Computex keynote in Taipei at 8PM PT / 11PM ET on Sunday night, where it’s rumored to be announcing its new N1 and N1x…

It must have been hair-on-fire time for the product development team at Stellantis, getting ready to announce a flood of 60 new vehicles and 50 significant refreshes by 2030, along with advanced technologies and new platforms, all headed to five major automotive markets worldwide. As chief design officer for Stellantis, Ralph Gilles supervised the whole process and summed it up like this: “I’ve been head of design since 2008, and I’ve never seen a workload like this – probably the most intense onslaught of projects ever, which is a good sign.” Gilles then took journalists into the Stellantis Design Dome…

Updated Geely Xingyuan. Credit: Geely The updated Geely Xingyuan has a limited-time starting price of 61,800 yuan ($9,130), a 6% reduction from its predecessor. The Geely Xingyuan is one of China’s best-selling compact EVs, with retail sales totaling 465,775 units for the full year of 2025. Geely Auto (HKEX: 0175) has launched an updated version of its Xingyuan compact electric vehicle (EV) to consolidate its position in the entry-level market. The updated Xingyuan officially went on sale on Thursday at a limited-time price of 61,800 yuan ($9,130). This represents a 6% reduction from the discounted starting price of 65,800 yuan…

The cable news channel has accused the AI company of “massive copyright infringement.” Hapabapa/Getty Images CNN has joined the growing ranks of media companies suing Perplexity for copyright infringement. The cable news network has accused the AI search company of “massive copyright infringement” that includes wrongfully scraping its website and copying more than 17,000 pieces of its content. The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, claims that the AI company “unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes CNN’s content from CNN Digital Platforms and third-party platforms.” It also accuses the AI tools of reproducing “verbatim copies” of its…