The Range Rover will be available with only hybrid powertrains from the 2024 model year, which also brings upgraded plug-in hybrids and a new V8 option. A new 215bhp electric motor boosts the 434bhp P440e to 454bhp, while the 503bhp P510e has been uplifted to 542bhp. As such, the two PHEVs are now badged as the… Continue reading Updated 2023 Range Rover goes hybrid-only
Category: US Motoring Press
From the archive: on this day in 1925
“The motoring world owes a great deal to [Ettore] Bugatti, not only because he was one of the first men to make the small sports car a serious rival in competitions but also because he appears to be constitutionally endowed with originality and unable exactly to follow any other designer’s lead.” Emerging successfully from the… Continue reading From the archive: on this day in 1925
Autocar magazine 17 May: on sale now
This week in Autocar, we’ve got the latest news on JLR’s trio of stunning new EVs, go off-road in Scotland’s equivalent of the Land Rover Defender and drive the totally absurd Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato. News JLR is reinventing its Land Rover lineup, beginning with the Range Rover Velar which will arrive with a radical all-electric… Continue reading Autocar magazine 17 May: on sale now
New Range Rover SV is 607bhp range-topping performance SUV
The hottest version of the new Range Rover will use a 607bhp, 553lb ft twin-turbocharged hybrid V8 to become “the fastest, most dynamic and technologically advanced” version of Solihull’s sports SUV yet. Called the Range Rover SV, dropping the ‘R’ suffix of the previous car, it uses a hybrid powertrain for the first time, with all new Range Rovers going hybrid-only from next… Continue reading New Range Rover SV is 607bhp range-topping performance SUV
Abarth 500e
The biggest change dynamically, if you can call it that, has been the addition of the Abarth Sound Generator, a big external speaker, multi-channel amplifier and subwoofer mounted under the boot floor where the spare wheel well would be. It sounds like something from the Max Power era and makes the sound of something like… Continue reading Abarth 500e
Mother, daughter are rare team building Ford F-150 Lightning as plant expands
While the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning has made headlines around the world, few people know of the mother-daughter team inside the Rouge factory that builds the popular pickup truck — women who carry on a family tradition that reflects generations of hard work on the production floor. “It’s important when you do have generations working… Continue reading Mother, daughter are rare team building Ford F-150 Lightning as plant expands
China’s Car Buyers Have Fallen Out of Love With Foreign Brands
For years, foreign automakers in China had a bead on customers drawn to luxury brands, like the Cao family in Shanghai. Not anymore. Ben Cao and his wife, Rachel, both 36, are trading down from two Porsches to one, a gasoline-fueled $290,000 Porsche 911 sports car, and buying their first electric vehicle, a $70,000 sport… Continue reading China’s Car Buyers Have Fallen Out of Love With Foreign Brands
What to Know About Buying Electric Cars and the New Emissions Rule
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed ambitious auto emissions rules that could significantly change the kinds of cars and trucks on sale in the United States — but not right away. The regulations, if carried out, will effectively require automakers to replace fossil fuel cars with electric vehicles starting with cars for the 2027 model… Continue reading What to Know About Buying Electric Cars and the New Emissions Rule
Automakers Face Test in Reaching U.S. Target for Electric Vehicles
The Biden administration’s plan to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles — reaching a two-thirds share of new cars in less than a decade — pushes automakers further in a direction they have already been going. But meeting the new timetable will be a challenge. Most car companies are convinced that a transition to electric… Continue reading Automakers Face Test in Reaching U.S. Target for Electric Vehicles
Cool? Or Just Clunky? The Fight Over Dashboard Touch Screens.
From pocket-stretching smartphones to wall-hogging TVs, Americans have often asked: How much screen is too much? The question has come to today’s gadget-stuffed cars, whose increasingly colossal screens are splitting opinions among designers, car buyers and industry critics. These do-it-all touch screens, the nerve centers of many new cars, have sparked a backlash because of… Continue reading Cool? Or Just Clunky? The Fight Over Dashboard Touch Screens.