Author: Jonathon Ramsey
On a recent trip to Paris, we wanted to get from the City of Light to the Pop Culture Museum about half-hour away. Scrolling the transportation options, we discovered a Budget rental automobile location in the town offering a Lynk & Co Co 01 plug-in hybrid crossover. We do not write much about Lynk & Co anymore, I’d forgotten about them until I kept seeing the shapely, full-figured Co 1 driving around Paris. The backstory: Geely accomplished its purchase of Volvo in 2010, then created Lynk & Co in 2017 to fill the MSRP gap in China between Volvos and…
Americans buy 44% of the Audi Q5s sold world wide annually. Europe buys one other 35%. When two similar markets vote to your best-seller in those sorts of numbers, the secret is to supply them higher versions of what they need. So once we say the Audi Q5 is all-new, we mean Audi brought together all-new ingredients to enhance the old recipe. That starts with the Premium Platform Combustion (PPC) architecture Audi developed, an extra iteration of the MLB Evo platform the second-gen Q5 sat on, renamed to enhance the Premium Platform Electric utilized by the brand new A6 E-Tron.…
It has been a protracted, strange trip to get the fashionable Volkswagen Bus back to the U.S. in the graceful electric type of the 2025 ID.Buzz. While that replaces the model, though, it doesn’t replace the old Bus culture. That is where Seattle shop Peace Vans is available in, having spent six months working with the automaker behind-the-scenes to create camper packages customized for ID.Buzz owners. Quick background courtesy of The Autopian: An ex-Microsoft exec bought a VW repair shop, adding restoration and rentals to the business proposition, and over the past 11 years becoming the biggest Bus repair and…
Hyundai trucked its 2025 Santa Cruz to this yr’s Latest York Auto Show for debut. With dealer deliveries expected later this summer, it is time to answer the query every dad is programmed to ask at the top of a meal when eating out: “What is the damage?” As with nearly every 2025 light-duty vehicle, the approaching Santa Cruz costs greater than the present Santa Cruz. Let’s recap what the cash pays for. We’re a brand new front grille and fresh front bumper, re-styled daytime running lights, and latest wheel designs. Interior updates are similar in scope to what we…
The Dodge Charger and Challenger rumbled to the pearly gates with a posse of special editions. The Dodge Durango is doing the identical, albeit with fewer outriders. After the 2024 Durango SRT 392 AlcHEMI from January, we now welcome the 2025 Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet and Durango R/T twentieth Anniversary special editions, which might be considered celebratory brackets across the 392-powered AlcHEMI that cost $91,390. Starting with the large dog, the Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet (pictured) is available in a two-tone exterior, Triple Nickel with a Satin Black hood, plus the contrasts of 20-inch wheels in a Lights…
Along with official info from Dodge about what buyers could stay up for on the battery-electric 2024 Charger Daytona, there’s been quite a little bit of leaked info we filed under Rumormill. That features specs for First Edition trims from early dealer guides that Mopar Insider saw, a note a few 90-day delay from a purported April opening date for order books, in addition to potential pricing gleaned from a photograph of a Stellantis computer. Dodge has come forth with real pricing, and it seems the goalposts have moved little. Let’s get the massive bit out of the way in…
The last BMW M2 CS arrived as a limited-edition special in 2020, putting out 444 horsepower and 406 pound-feet of torque for only one yr available on the market, asking the lucky few for $84,595 simply to get a shot on the ride — and that was before options and markups, because all of us remember what it was like attempting to get any automotive in 2020, right? The M division’s cooking up one other M2 CS to reach next yr either as a 2025 or 2026 model; Bimmerpost forum member yunguldyn has intel on what’s ahead. This is similar…
1984 was one other stocked 12 months for concept cars, all banished to obscurity. Ford showed its concept Aerostar minivan, the much cooler Maya coupe, and the Vignale Mustang Ghia that hinted at a production Probe. Bertone showed what the C4 Chevy Corvette might be with the Ramarro. Kia had what might need been its first concept, the KMX-90, on display on the Seoul Motor Show. A continent away, on the Pininfarina stand on the Turin Motor Show, opposite the brand new Ferrari Testarossa, Honda showed its first concept automotive, the HP-X, for Honda Pininfarina Experimental. The automaker created…
The Jeep Compass enters a 3rd model 12 months with the updates that made it a significantly better vehicle, namely, the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder. Jeep made the second-best improvement the identical 12 months, lowering pricing in 2023, then did it again in 2024, taking 4 figures off MSRPs across the lineup. That call got the entry-level Sport trim right down to $27,495, where it stays for 2025. The Compass continues to shed trims, though, the Latitude Lux no more for the approaching model 12 months. Jeep didn’t make any mid-year changes to the range, so there aren’t any surprises here.…
Automaker investor days are joining spy shots and leaked documents as essentially the most regular sources of unexpected information on future product. After Jaguar Land Rover held its confab with Wall Street last month, Automotive News found just how far upmarket the English group desires to go. JLR CEO Adrian Mardell, who left Bentley for his current job, referred to a “halo strategy” that, in AN’s words, is “trying to increase sales of high-value, special edition models costing upwards of 1.5 million kilos” in a brand new “halo strategy” push. That is a floor of $1.95M U.S. at current exchange…
