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Porsche Not gonna lie, the Porsche Macan EV looks like a fairly appealing selection within the $80,000-ish ballpark, especially now that Porsche has announced a gaggle of digital goodies coming to SUV for the 2026 model yr. But there’s also something for fans of the Macan’s versatility: the all-wheel-drive trims — 4, 4S, and Turbo — are getting a substantial 1,100-pound bump in towing capability, taking the full to five,500 kilos. We’ll get to all the brand new stuff in a moment, but first a little bit of housekeeping. You will have to purchase a 2026 Macan to benefit from the…
INEOS If you need to know whether a startup automobile company will succeed, the very best place to look is the vehicles it plans to sell in the longer term. Yes, exotic supercar brands can get by with one magnificent machine and a few variations, but proper automobile corporations need portfolios. That is why it’s discouraging, a minimum of for now, that INEOS, which made its name on a reboot of the old-school Land Rover Defender, has delayed the rollout of its Fusilier SUV. We reported on the Fusilier when INEOS announced it in early 2024, back when the automotive…
Mercedes-Benz Let’s not sugarcoat the situation: EVs were speculated to make up a much larger percentage of annual sales than they’re currently. And with Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill now a law that is killing EV incentives, automakers are having to backtrack. Within the U.S. particularly, this has created a weird scenario wherein internal-combustion has gained a brand new lease on life, hybrid powertrains are suddenly hip again, and EVs have slipped right into a kind of limbo, priced as luxury options for a small group of purchasers but pitched as taking up the complete market in some unspecified time in…
Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Was he or wasn’t he? Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares was abruptly un-CEO’d six months ago, an unsurprising turn of events for industry insiders but shocking when it comes to how disorganized the choice looked from the surface. Chairman John Elkann needed to take over, with no alternative candidate lined up, so while it looked like Tavares was fired, perhaps he just…quit? In his first interview for the reason that disputed termination, Tavares told Bloomberg he wasn’t fired and that he left Stellantis because he and Elkann agreed to disagree concerning the company’s strategic direction. More on…
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images The Trump administration’s shambolic tariff policy is imagined to send a transparent signal to domestic and foreign automakers alike: Make more vehicles in the nice old US of A! Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro has been beating this drum for months with wild-eyed conviction, as has Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, offering the inevitability of a U.S. auto manufacturing restoration as a type of fait accompli. We currently import about eight million vehicles a 12 months, making up half of the 16 million annual US sales marketplace for cars and light-weight trucks. Tariffs, broadly speaking, can even have…