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Japanese cars may be best known for their reliability or, in some cases, their impressive sportiness, but one brand is willing to take American carmakers on in their own field of expertise – off-roading appeal and adventurous spirit. This, of course, is none other than Subaru. The eastern brand has developed an incredible all-wheel-drive system that is equipped to every one of its models, from the smallest Impreza hatchback through to the three-row Ascent SUV. This gives them a certain degree of versatility that many mainstream rivals struggle to compete with, even in the SUV segment. Since SUVs are currently…

Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing.Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central’s staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar, Derrek Lee, Harish Jonnalagadda, and Nicholas Sutrich, and former senior editor Namerah Saud Fatmi updated her LinkedIn to indicate that her tenure at Android Central had ended. Both Lee, the site’s managing editor, and Sutrich confirmed that all remaining staff were laid off.The former staffers weren’t told whether the site would shut down. Today, new…

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. Unique colors, paint jobs, and even wraps are cool. After all, it’s the unique individuals who spring up for these that keep our roads looking less bland than they already are. But how much are you willing to pay for that visual pizazz? What about 20% of the vehicle’s purchase price? A Ford F-150 Lariat SuperCrew starts around $60,000, so checking the box for the new $12,545 two-tone paint job offered on 2027 models…

The third-generation Nio ES8 battery-electric SUV. Credit: Nio. The ES8 accounted for 49.45% of the Nio brand’s September deliveries and 28.18% of Nio Inc’s total. ES8 deliveries totaled 31,831 in the third quarter, down 4.91% from the second quarter and accounting for 29.16% of Nio Inc’s total. Nio Inc (NYSE: NIO) delivered 10,542 third-generation ES8 SUVs in September, topping 10,000 for a third consecutive month as the model remained a key sales driver for the Chinese electric vehicle maker. Nio announced the figure on Weibo on Thursday. ES8 September deliveries fell 4.17% from August’s 11,001 vehicles, a figure revised based…

Images are generated with OpenAI’s latest model and you can save clothes you like for later. OpenAI OpenAI is adding to ChatGPT’s suite of shopping features by letting the AI chatbot generate virtual try-on photos with images you upload. The concept is identical to a feature Google added to Search in 2025, which similarly lets users upload photos and see themselves in a variety of clothes. You can access ChatGPT’s Virtual Try On feature anywhere a product listing for clothing appears in a chat. To create your custom image, you just tap on the piece of…

The 2027 Ram 2500 is on dealer lots now with confirmed pricing and invoice data from iSeeCars across the full lineup, and TrueCar’s transaction data confirms buyers are averaging 7.6 percent less than MSRP on current Ram 2500 inventory. A confirmed 2027 Ram 2500 Black Express Crew Cab 4WD is on dealer lots at $76,455 MSRP. iSeeCars confirms the 2027 Ram 2500 base pricing before the $2,795 destination charge from $47,375 for the entry Tradesman to $92,570 for the top Limited Longhorn, with invoice prices from $44,746 to $87,433. TrueCar’s nationwide inventory confirms 2,400-plus Tradesman listings averaging $61,061…

Tesla launched a new feature called “Emergency Drive Away” that lets drivers shift into Drive and leave while still plugged into a Supercharger. The update comes two months after a gunman shot three people in Teslas at a Supercharger station in Twin Falls, Idaho. And Tesla is limiting it to the US. Tesla’s charging team announced the feature on X today with a 36-second video and a few short follow-up posts: Until now, a Tesla wouldn’t shift out of Park with a charge cable connected. You had to unlock the charge port from the touchscreen, the app, or the button…

If you’ve spent any time shopping for a used compact SUV, you already know how overwhelming the options can be — and how much a strong reliability record can cut through the noise. One model has quietly dominated that conversation for years, and the data backs it up. That model is the Mazda CX-5. Below, we’re digging into more than a decade of expert reliability data on it and four key competitors to show how this tight race ultimately finished with the Mazda CX-5 in first place as the most reliable compact SUV of the decade — narrowly edging out…

As time goes by, the EV industry is gathering some strong evidence about battery longevity. The oldest mass-market EVs now have enough mileage to make their long-term durability genuinely interesting, with even younger electric pickup trucks generating some useful evidence. Take the case of a rather battered 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning recently brought into a service and repair shop. It had almost 234,000 miles on the odometer, but still had the original, if faulty, high-voltage battery. This Lightning was ready for a second life once it received a lower-mileage, used, standard-range pack. One Module Finally Gave Up At 233,930 Miles…

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. What happens when you mix sky-high fuel prices with a rollback of EV incentives? A boom in hybrid sales, as it turns out. A year after Congress officially ended America’s electric vehicle subsidies, we’ve seen an unsurprising decline in EV sales. But as the stagnant and unfavorable geopolitical climate continues to put pressure on global fuel prices, Many (though clearly not all) buyers are turning to hybrids for their new-car purchases, and companies like…