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Mercedes-Benz is revamping its electric vehicle lineup. The new CLA and GLB are now on sale, while a few EVs are on the way out in 2027. Mercedes adjusts EV lineup in 2027 Out with the old, in with the new. Mercedes is discontinuing two electric vehicles and another plug-in hybrid from its US lineup in 2027. The all-electric EQE sedan is one of them. A Mercedes-Benz spokesperson confirmed to Car and Driver that the EQE sedan is being dropped for the 2027 model year, including the performance AMG version. Mercedes is also pulling the Mercedes-Maybach EQS 680 SUV, the…

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The 2027 Chevy Silverado will kick off the truck’s fifth generation, and dealers are looking to clear out the old inventory by any means, with a whole host of deals up for grabs on the 2026 models. Here’s what you need to know. You Can Take $7,000 Off A 2026 Silverado To start with our favorite deal, Chevrolet is offering the 2026 Silverado 1500 with a 5.3-liter EcoTec3 V8 engine at a $7,000 discount. Here’s how the deal breaks down. $4,250 customer cash. $1,750 bonus cash. $1,000 trade-in bonus. Offer is available until November 4, 2026. Offer cannot be stacked…

The same aluminum block has seen four different generations of silicon. Wachiwit/Getty Images Put the first-gen Apple Mac Studio next to the newly released M5 Ultra, and you’d struggle to tell them apart on looks alone. Apple has stuck with the same 7.7-inch square of aluminum, standing at 3.7 inches tall, for the fourth generation in a row. But what’s inside has changed fundamentally since the Studio’s 2022 inception. That first-gen M1 Ultra topped out at a paltry-by-comparison 128GB versus the M5 Ultra’s 512GB, which also moves data at 1.2TB/s, nearly 50 percent higher than what…

Few things age worse than internet hysteria, unlike the hybrid batteries still racking up fares (and miles) in your local cab company’s fleet of aging Toyota Priuses. When early hybrids started to proliferate in the marketplace, online comment sections were brimming with warnings and predictions. People speculated about mass battery failures, ruinous repair bills, and landfills overflowing with toxic cells, among other disasters. Anything’s possible when you make things up. Here in reality, hybrids had the exact opposite future. Today, they’re routinely cited as the most dependable powertrain architecture on the road, and they generate some of the highest owner…

Tesla Model 3 (Source: Tesla) UK EV sales hit a new all-time record in September. The country registered 99,199 battery-electric cars last month, up 36.3% from a year ago and good for 28.3% of the market, according to preliminary data released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Tesla’s Model 3 was the best-selling EV and the second best-selling car overall. And yet the auto industry’s own lobby group is using the record month to argue that the UK’s EV targets are too hard. Plug-ins are carrying the UK car market September is a big month in…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. Kei trucks are the antithesis of big, brawny American trucks, which makes them great conversation pieces as well as useful tools. They can fit places a full-size pickup never would, and consume a fraction of the fuel. They are a bit limited when it comes to payload, though. Thankfully, there are other options for trucks that reflect Japan’s unique automotive culture. First spotted by patina.cars on Instagram, this 1997 Chevrolet C3500 dually rollback is…

BMW revealed the all-new, all-electric i3 just a few days ago, and the company has now achieved yet another major milestone. The millionth M car has just rolled off the assembly line at its Munich plant, an M3 draped in a special, one-off finish called Individual Fire Orange III. In an official ceremony at the production facility, plant director Peter Weber handed the keys over to M Division CEO Frank van Meel as a symbolic gesture. Then it came time to look at what the future holds, and what better way to celebrate one million Ms than a preview of…

David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic.It’s understandable if you’re feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous the thing they helped build is. They did, after all, make this mess. But that doesn’t mean we should discount their warnings.Robinson says that the culture in industry is fundamentally broken. That this is a deeper issue than simply slapping a few new rules or regulations…

You probably already have a few hiding in plain sight. Nor Gal/Shutterstock Gear makers will gladly sell you a hundred different add-ons to improve your sound system. To this day, it’s possible to buy gold-plated audio cables, even though they can’t really improve digital audio — you’re either getting a clean data signal or you’re not. On the short list of products to take seriously is an amplifier, whether you’re building a home theater or your own private music sanctuary. There’s a reason your local boutique audio store has been selling them for decades. You shouldn’t automatically…