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Tesla Cancels the Cybertruck in Australia and New Zealand, Seven Years After Taking Deposits
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Seven years is a long time to hold a place in line. That is roughly how long some Australians and New Zealanders have had a deposit sitting with Tesla waiting on a Cybertruck. This week Tesla emailed them to say it is not coming.
The email is short and flat. Tesla's "plans to produce Cybertruck" for those two countries "have been discontinued." Deposits get refunded within 30 days, counted from when a customer receives a follow-up email confirming their details. Tesla also has a suggestion for anyone still in a buying mood. Order a new Model 3 or Model Y and you get a year of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) at no cost.
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Jaguar’s Type 01 Is Real. Nobody Agrees on What It Costs in the US.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, Transportation,
Jaguar spent nearly two years as a car company you could argue about but not buy a car from. That ended at a world premiere in New York on October 7, where the Type 01 turned up as a finished production car with a factory, a build date, and prices in at least two currencies. It is a four-door electric grand tourer, and it is the first Jaguar you will be able to order since the company tore its own brand down and started again.
The hardware is serious. Three motors make a combined 758 kW and 1,365 Nm of torque, which other outlets have converted to roughly 1,015 hp, and the reported 0 to 62 mph time is about 3.2 seconds. Jaguar also built the car around its own 850-volt architecture, so it takes up to 350 kW on a DC charger. The company says that puts about 320 km of range back in 13 minutes. On a long drive, that is the difference between a coffee stop and a meal.
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GM Brings CarPlay Back to Its Trucks, and This Time It Shares the Screen
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Transportation,
Three years ago GM decided it was done with phone projection. Today it announced the opposite. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are coming back to its cars, though they no longer get the whole screen.
The new interface debuts on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, with other GM models to follow. CarPlay and Android Auto now run in a window alongside GM's own software, so the map, the trailering readouts and the truck's settings stay visible while your phone's apps do their thing next to them.
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Kia’s Electric Hot Hatch Has Fake Gears, and Americans Can’t Buy It
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Kia's new EV4 GT has paddles behind the steering wheel that do not shift anything. Pull one and the car staggers the torque coming out of its motors to imitate a gearchange, with a synthesized engine noise to match. Kia calls it Virtual Gear Shift. The idea is that electric cars are so smooth your brain stops registering how fast they are, so the fix is to put the interruptions back in on purpose.
The EV4 GT is one of three GT-badged EVs Kia put on sale in Europe this week, alongside the EV3 GT and the EV5 GT. All three get dual-motor all-wheel drive, electronically controlled suspension, 20-inch alloys, and neon-green brake calipers, because a performance badge apparently requires a caliper color. Two of the three are never coming to the United States.
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Audi’s A2 e-tron Starts at €38,200 With Up to 646 km of WLTP Range
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Audi has spent the last few years selling big, heavy, expensive electric cars. The A2 e-tron is the correction. It's a compact hatchback about the size of a Volkswagen ID.3, it starts at €38,200 in Germany, and its best trick is how little electricity it uses. The efficiency champ of the lineup needs 12.8 kWh to cover 100 km on the WLTP cycle, which Audi says makes it the most efficient production car the company has ever built.
Pricing went public this week, and it splits into four versions, all built in Ingolstadt. The 125 kW car with a 52 kWh LFP pack is €38,200. The 140 kW car with 61 kWh of LFP is €41,900. Step up to the 84 kWh NMC pack and you pay €48,900 for 170 kW or €51,200 for 240 kW. Order books open September 10, with first deliveries in December.
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2026 Dodge Charger R/T Plus Review: The Case for a 420-HP Hatchback
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The Case for Four Doors
The hatch is what makes the 2026 Dodge Charger R/T Plus four-door interesting to me. Dodge has kept the long hood, broad stance, and considerably more horsepower than the school pickup line requires, then given you a credible reason to bring all of it home. Rear doors, folding back seats, and all-wheel drive make this easier to justify as your only car. At more than 17 feet long, it also demands a generous definition of practical.
The four-door Charger R/T starts at a base MSRP of $51,995 in the U.S., before destination, taxes, and options, with the better-equipped Plus sitting above that base model. I'm interested in the Plus for what it adds to ordinary driving, particularly its seating and head-up display. The underlying R/T already has the engine and useful body style; the upgrade needs to earn its premium inside the cabin.
This is the gasoline-powered SIXPACK Charger, with a twin-turbo inline-six rather than a V8. The electric Charger wears the Daytona name. The R/T gets the standard-output version of the six, below the more powerful Scat Pack. Calling 420 horsepower the starting point gives you some idea of Dodge's priorities.
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Lucid Gravity Grand Touring Review: Fast, Smart, and Almost Unreal
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There is a very specific fantasy car that keeps showing up in the EV era. It seats a whole family without punishment. It looks expensive without trying too hard. It charges fast enough to make road trips feel normal again. It handles like something much smaller than it is. And it does all of that without becoming another giant rolling refrigerator.
The 2026 Lucid Gravity Grand Touring gets shockingly close to that fantasy.
In its most efficient factory configuration, Lucid says it can go up to 450 miles on a charge. In the real world, that number moves around a lot depending on wheels, tires, and seating layout. The borrowed example here, loaded up with the third row and bigger wheels, wore a 386-mile EPA label, which already tells you the most important thing about the Gravity: this is a vehicle where configuration matters a lot.
The bigger story is that Lucid did not build a soft, compromised family hauler and then sprinkle performance on top. The Gravity Grand Touring makes 828 horsepower, uses a 123-kWh battery, supports charging at up to 400 kW, and has become the rare three-row EV that is both genuinely practical and genuinely exciting to drive. The Gravity is very fast, very spacious, very clever, and still a little unfinished around the edges.
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2025 Range Rover Sport PHEV Review: Turning Electrification Into a Luxury Feature
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There are luxury SUVs that try very hard to convince you they’re practical, sporty, efficient, and somehow still special. Then there’s the 2025 Range Rover Sport Autobiography PHEV, which skips the sales pitch and just shows up looking expensive. It has that particular Range Rover talent for seeming both aggressively modern and completely uninterested in trends. The plug-in hybrid setup only sharpens that vibe. This thing is not trying to reinvent the luxury SUV. It’s trying to make the existing formula quieter, smoother, and just a little smarter. In a lot of ways, it succeeds.
The version I borrowed was basically the full expression of that idea. Carpathian Grey. Black roof. Red calipers. Massive 23-inch wheels. A cabin trimmed like a private lounge. And under it all, a turbocharged and electrified straight-six making over 540 horsepower, backed by a battery big enough to make the electric side of the experience feel real, not symbolic. At $131,680 as configured, it also shows up with the kind of price tag that makes clear this is not a quiet little efficiency play. This is fast, rich, quiet, and deeply competent, but the “Sport” badge still promises more attitude than the chassis really delivers.
How the Tesla Cybertruck Became a $10 Billion Mistake
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It has been six years since Elon Musk stood on stage and watched the "bulletproof" window of the Cybertruck shatter in front of the entire world. At the time, we thought it was just a funny PR mishap, but looking back, it was actually the perfect metaphor for what was coming. We need to talk about how the most hyped vehicle in history has turned into a maintenance nightmare, plaguing owners with everything from rust issues to a recall caused by assembly workers using literal soap as a lubricant. It is a classic case of what happens when a company prioritizes "cool" over engineering fundamentals.
But the hardware failures are only half the story. The financial data surrounding the Cybertruck is where things get truly ugly. We are looking at a reservation conversion rate of just 2.5 percent. This means that the vast majority of people who said they wanted this truck, even after putting their money down for one, walked away when it actually arrived. I’m breaking down the numbers, the massive depreciation early adopters are facing, and why Tesla’s refusal to report separate sales figures for this truck tells you everything you need to know about its performance.
This more than just a polarized design or a polarizing CEO. The Cybertruck flop is about a $10 billion bet that seems to be failing to deliver on basic utility. From the cancelled range extender to the struggle of doing basic truck stuff like driving in sand, the Cybertruck is proving to be less of a revolution and more of a warning sign for the future of Tesla. Let's dig into exactly where this went wrong.
2025 Jeep Wagoneer S Limited 4xe Review
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Jeep has spent the last few years turning “Wagoneer” into a luxury label. The Wagoneer S is the version designed for a world where luxury mostly means software, screens, and quiet speed.
It’s also the part that confuses everyone at first: the Wagoneer S is fully electric. And on this model, “4xe” is a brand badge, not a plug-in hybrid promise. You charge it, you drive it, and you try to figure out whether Jeep has finally built an EV that feels as polished as it looks.
The answer is complicated in a very modern-car way. The Wagoneer S Limited does some things incredibly well. It also stumbles in a few places that you touch, feel, and notice every single day.
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