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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. The Fast and Furious movie saga may be nearing the finish line, but the franchise will continue on the small screen for diehard fans who don’t think 12 movies (including the spinoff Hobbs & Shaw) are enough. Deadline reports that a live-action television show based on the franchise has been greenlit by Peacock, after being announced by the streaming service earlier this year. It’s due to start streaming sometime in 2028, according to the…

Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time?The technology’s finally ready for 3D movies to shine, more than 15 years since James Cameron’s Avatar wowed me on the big screen and went on to become the highest-grossing film worldwide. Video glasses are giving me the experience I’ve always desired.I’ve always loved 3D movies, but viewing them was awkward. Walking into a movie theater with a pair of polarized glasses, I would only get half the resolution and roughly half the brightness, since those glasses…

You won’t need a sharpener for your Apple Pencil, but that doesn’t mean your tips will last forever. Stephen Lam/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Apple Pencil is a nifty little gadget that lets you draw and doodle on all manner of Apple tablets. Now that the iPhone Duo is allowing for Apple Pencils to be used with an iPhone model, the gizmo’s popularity is sure to see a spike. However, just because it’s a tool that interfaces on digital screens doesn’t mean it can’t wear out like a…

Few sports cars have inspired as much creative reinvention as the Mazda MX-5 Miata. With more than a million units sold since its 1989 debut and four generations on the road, the little roadster has become the go-to donor car for builders who want a lightweight, affordable, and endlessly adaptable platform. The results range from retro-styled coach-built beauties to full-on EV conversions — proof that the Miata’s appeal stretches well beyond the showroom floor. Below, we take a look at some of the most compelling restomods, kit cars, and EV conversions based on the Miata. Whether you’re after a track-ready…

The Ride1Up Roadster V3 is, for all intents and purposes, is a budget-focused daily driver urban bike. It’s not really a gravel bike. Maybe if you stand back a bit and squint, you could give it a bit more of a gravel bike interpretation. But ultimately, it’s a lightweight, affordable urban e-bike with decent multi-role tires that I mostly use for cruising around bike lanes and city streets. So naturally, yesterday I took it on a 38 km (24 mile) ride where I spent most of the time off-road. And you know what? The little $1,295 e-bike surprised me. My…

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. The past decade has been transformative for the former Chrysler corporation, to put things mildly. Whether we’re talking about the FCA years or the Stellantis years, things have been tumultuous, to put it lightly. The steady decline in U.S. production of smaller cars helped transform it into a truck and SUV company, and with it, elevating Jeep to the point where it was pushing more volume than any other brand under the corporate umbrella.…

For years, enthusiasts have been asking Nissan to do the obvious thing: put a manual gearbox in the Z Nismo. Now it’s happening — and the timing couldn’t be better. With the Toyota GR Supra and BMW Z4 both out of production as of March 2026, the segment for manual, twin-turbo sports cars under $70,000 has never been thinner. Nissan is stepping into that vacuum with exactly the car the market has been waiting for. The announcement of a manual-equipped Z Nismo is exactly the kind of move enthusiasts have been demanding. When Nissan first launched the Z Nismo with…

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk.The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend pass, and a week-long pass option to be able to watch channels like ESPN and CNN without a full-month cable subscription. But soon after it launched, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery sued Sling TV over Sling Pass, though a federal judge ruled against Disney in its request for a preliminary injunction to block the feature.“Sling was…

During the last Tesla investor conference, Elon Musk was flanked by his Optimus humanoid robots scanning the room. But Toyota is also in on the humanoid robot game with its units called ELEY. However, they are not robots to show off with, as ELEY stands for “Embodied Learning robot for Enhanced Yield.” Toyota is planning a big deployment as part of the automaker’s push to create factories where people and robots work side by side. ELEY Is A Two-Fingered Non-Employee Toyota Robot EELYToyota Going from AI to robots is a logical step forward for any corporation that wants to replace…

We’re closing out this week with another jam-packed early fall Prime Day deals edition, starting with the Yozma IN 10 Pro Electric Dirt Bike back at its exclusive $1,699 low, while the IN 10 Electric Mini Dirt Bike is down at $999. Right behind that are EcoFlow’s 192Wh and 288Wh TRAIL 200 and 300 Power Station deals starting from $109, as well as Bluetti’s 288Wh Elite 30 V2 Power Station at an exclusive $237.50. We also have Worx’s 13A Electric Leaf Mulcher back at a $125 2026 low, as well as a 40V Greenworks mower and blower combo annual low,…