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Porsche is in the business of making its vehicles faster with each new generation. The 2026 Porsche 911 Turbo S, for example, set an incredibly quick Nürburgring lap time thanks to its 701-horsepower hybridized flat-six engine. Building ever-more powerful cars is all well and good, but you know what’s better than making a car faster? Making the driver faster. Porsche may be working on a solution for that as well, according to a recent patent filing uncovered by CarBuzz. The application, which was filed on November 10, 2025, and published on December 31, 2025, covers a system that will project…

Automotive Stellantis just made a move nobody really had on their 2026 bingo card. As first reported by The Drive, the company is ending its traditional plug in hybrid lineup in North America starting with the 2026 model year. That timing feels especially bold because the federal clean-vehicle tax credit window effectively closed for most buyers last fall, and plenty of us assumed plug in hybrids would become the “safe” electrified choice while the market recalibrated. Instead, Stellantis is stepping away from the very vehicles that helped it put real PHEV volume on the board in the U.S.…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. Built-in navigation systems were some of the earliest examples of what we now call “tech” in cars, but they’ve fallen behind the times. Compared to the other voice-control systems that are now part of everyday life, most navigation systems are rigid and robotic. But one of the biggest names in GPS hopes to change that. TomTom is a major auto industry supplier, and at CES 2026 it announced a partnership with SoundHound AI to integrate the latter’s…

Shelby American is one of the key authorities in making already rapid machines get down the road even quicker, with the American operation having been racing and tuning primarily Ford vehicles since the early 1960s. Having impressed the public – as well as Ford – with the blazing Cobra, Shelby found itself enjoying a closer working relationship with the blue oval. It unveiled its first tuned Mustang model in 1965, before developing the mighty GT40 racer that won four successive 24 Hours of Le Mans events. It continues to breathe on rapid Fords to this day, with the GT500 being…

Audi has relied on its now-iconic five-cylinder engine since 1976. It debuted in the second-generation Audi 100, which was one of the cars that helped Audi maintain its independence, and would go on to be used in some of the automaker’s most influential and important models, both road-going and its venerated motorsports icons. Today, the five-cylinder engine serves as the main motivator of one of the most powerful hatchbacks currently available. Although it’s far from the most affordable model in Audi’s current lineup, it doesn’t hold a candle to what Audi’s first performance-focused model powered by a five-cylinder engine is…

Fewer than one-third of Canadians support the federal zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, while nearly half want it eliminated or made less strict with affordability being the primary concern. Those results come from a poll conducted for the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association (CVMA), Global Automakers of Canada (GAC) and the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association (CADA), to showcase the growing skepticism about the government’s approach to vehicle electrification. The mandate, known as the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard, requires ZEVs to account for 20 per cent of new light-duty vehicle sales in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent by…

The A10, branded as the B03X in markets outside China, is Leapmotor’s first global model built on its all-new A platform. Measuring 4,270 mm in length with a range of up to 500 km, the A10 will be priced below RMB 100,000 ($14,330) in China. (The Leapmotor A10 — known as the B03X in markets outside China — made its debut at the Brussels auto show. Image credit: Leapmotor) Chinese new energy vehicle (NEV) maker Leapmotor (HKG: 9863) showcased its compact electric SUV, the A10, at the 2026 Brussels auto show, marking the model’s European debut following its global premiere…

The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. A job like this one offers no shortage of memorable encounters. A few years back, on an Easter Jeep Safari junket in Moab, I managed to scam some time behind the wheel of Jeep’s all-electric Magneto concept with then-boss Jim Morrison riding shotgun. The Magneto was essentially a Wrangler body sitting on top of a battery pack, a pair of motors, a Hellcat’s six-speed manual gearbox and 40″ tires. Reaching a clearing, I turned to him and…

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The Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit tax credit under Section 45W of the IRS tax code may be gone, but it’s not forgotten! A number of states and utilities are stepping up with their own programs – and Oregon is the latest, offering rebates of up to $120,000 per vehicle for fleets looking to electrify their operations. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently launched the Zero-Emissions Rebates for Oregon Fleets Program which helps business- and public-sector fleets looking to electrify their operations overcome the initial cost difference of BEVs compared to diesels. “We’ve priced the rebates to bring those…