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Performance Vehicles (Page 25)

By Tinsae Aregay on December 15, 2022 - 7:41PM
Tesla officially inaugurated Giga Texas only 8 months ago. However, today, the EV maker has announced that the plant has reached a Model Y production rate of 3000 vehicles a week for the first time. This gives Giga Texas an annualized production rate of 150,000 vehicles per year.
By Denis Flierl on December 14, 2022 - 10:41AM
Subaru is dropping the manual gearbox in the new 2024 Impreza hatch. Will the WRX lose the manual too? A new report says no. Check out what Subaru Corporation is doing to keep it alive.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 12, 2022 - 7:49PM
A few days ago, we got our first picture of the Cybertruck's exoskeleton chassis as it was being worked on in Giga Texas. And today, Sandy Munro has reacted to those pictures and has called the Cybertruck's body "more revolutionary than I thought."
By Marc Stern on December 11, 2022 - 3:20PM
Ford, which will soon begin looking at it potential client list, will soon begin to build its final generation supercar, the GT Mk IV. The supercar is designed for ultimate performance on the track. It takes its cues from the original Le Mans-winning GTs that finished 1-2-3 in the iconic 1965 endurance race.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 10, 2022 - 5:27PM
It has been more than two years since Tesla last delivered the Model S and X to Europe. This has undoubtedly disappointed a lot of prospective buyers, however, the wait is finally over as Tesla has delivered the first Model X Plaid to a customer in Germany.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 9, 2022 - 4:02PM
Last month Tesla's Giga Press supplier, IDRA, announced that it has completed assembling and testing a new 9000-t Giga Press that will be used to build the Cybertruck's body. And today, after being disassembled and shipped to the US, the 9000-t Giga Press has finally made it to Giga Texas.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 8, 2022 - 4:25PM
Since Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter, Tesla's stock price has gone down by 47% or by around $500 billion. However, there might be more bad news for Tesla investors as a new report suggests Musk is reconsidering taking out a Tesla-backed margin loan to ease Twitter's Debt burden.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 7, 2022 - 4:16PM
Tesla recently removed radar from the company's vehicles and moved to a camera-based pure vision system. However, today we have gotten conflicting information that suggests, Tesla is planning to bring back updated HD radar to the company's vehicles with the upcoming Autopilot Hardware 4 upgrade.
By Denis Flierl on December 7, 2022 - 10:42AM
The Hoonigan Gymkhana Subaru GL Wagon is the wildest family vacation hauler they've ever built. Check out Travis Pastrana's craziest video yet in the family huckster.
By Denis Flierl on December 6, 2022 - 10:08AM
Where does the 2023 Subaru WRX rank in reliability with other sports cars? See why Consumer Reports says they don't recommend the performance car. Check out where it ranks with sports cars under $40,000.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 5, 2022 - 6:23PM
Elon Musk has said that in the future Tesla will "make an international version of Cybertruck that will be kinda smaller, kind of like a tight Wolverine package." And today we have seen our first glimpse of a smaller, 2 door Cybertruck design directly from Tesla.
By Denis Flierl on December 5, 2022 - 11:40AM
The next-generation 2022 Subaru WRX is up in sales in its ongoing rollercoaster ride. Even with its uptick, the WRX is down significantly for the year. We now have a better idea of how much Subaru misses the next-generation STI.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 3, 2022 - 9:12PM
It has been more than two years since Tesla last delivered the Model S and X to Europe. This has undoubtedly disappointed a lot of prospective buyers, however, the wait seems to finally be over as a ship carrying Model S Plaids is expected to dock in Zeebrugge, Belgium today.
By Tinsae Aregay on December 2, 2022 - 6:07PM
At yesterday's Semi delivery event, Tesla has officially taken the wraps off the company's next-generation V4 superchargers. According to Tesla, the V4 supercharger can charge at 1000KW and has 3 times the current density. However, even more impressively, Elon Musk has also shared that the V4 supercharger "is going to be used for Cybertruck."
By Tinsae Aregay on December 1, 2022 - 5:16PM
It has been 5 years since Tesla first unveiled the company's all-electric class 8 truck. However, today the wait is finally over as the EV maker is only hours away from making the first deliveries. And to add to the excitement, Tesla has announced the event will be streaming live on Twitter. Below are links to all the places Tesla will be live streaming the Semi delivery event.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 30, 2022 - 2:57PM
The Tesla Cybertruck has one of the most iconic designs of any production vehicle. However, today, in a new CNBC interview, asked what his favorite vehicle design is, Tesla's Chief Designer, Franz von Holzhausen revealed that he prefers the design of the upcoming driverless "futuristic" robotaxi even to that of the design of the Cybertruck.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 29, 2022 - 5:38PM
Last month Tesla's Giga Press supplier, IDRA, announced that it has completed assembling and testing a new 9000-t Giga Press that will be used to build the Cybertruck's body. And today, IDRA revealed that the company has already started working on a new Giga Press that looks similar to the 9000-t Cybertruck Giga Press.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 28, 2022 - 4:53PM
At Tesla's showing at the Peterson Automotive Museum, among other items, the EV maker has also brought a scaled-down version of a Hyperloop pod that the company has been working on. A Hyperloop is a new form of transportation Elon Musk has invented and is expected to travel at speeds as high as 700 mph.
By Denis Flierl on November 27, 2022 - 8:02AM
Which is the best next-generation 2024 Subaru Impreza pick for you? The new Impreza RS will be a good pick for compact car customers. Check out how it could have been better.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 26, 2022 - 7:46PM
5 years after the unveiling, Tesla is set to begin delivering the company's all-electric class 8 truck on December first. However, only days out until the start of deliveries, Tesla's head of Investor Relations, Martin Veicha says he "didn't believe it's possible to make a 500 mile, fully loaded Class 8 truck."
By Tinsae Aregay on November 25, 2022 - 4:02PM
Since its unveiling back in 2019, Tesla has made several changes to the Cybertruck design. And today, thanks to a video of a new Cybertruck prototype that surfaced online, we can see all the final changes Tesla has made to the Cybertruck before the start of production.
By Denis Flierl on November 25, 2022 - 10:55AM
Subaru announced three changes coming to the 2023 WRX. Should you wait for the new upgrades? The recent improvements won't have you running out to buy one.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 24, 2022 - 6:25PM
Tesla has decided to open the floodgates and allow any Tesla owner in North America who purchased the full self-driving option to download FSD Beta. Now hundreds of thousands of Tesla owners will have one more thing to be grateful for on thanksgiving.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 23, 2022 - 6:18PM
Citing a conversation that Elon Musk had with the South Korean president, today Reuters came out with a report claiming that Tesla has picked the east Asian country as one of its top candidates for the EV maker's next gigafactory. This new sent Tesla share surging rising by 8% in a single trading day.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 22, 2022 - 4:02PM
Tesla China has reached a new domestic delivery record selling 55,100 vehicles between October 1 and November 21. This number significantly outperforms the previous record for a similar timeframe which stood at 43,000 vehicles.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 21, 2022 - 2:02PM
For years Tesla owners have been asking Elon Musk to bring Apple Music to the company's vehicles. And today their pleas have been answered as Model S with developer software on display at the Peterson Automotive Museum has been spotted with Apple Music installed.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 20, 2022 - 6:18AM
Tesla is currently in the initial stages of rolling out FSD Beta V11 which is the company's next iteration of autopilot software. FSD Beta V11 is expected to bring vector spaces and use of all 8 cameras to highway driving. Currently, we have yet to see FSD Beta V11 out in the world however, until then we have gotten V11's release note with a list of all the improvements coming with the new software.
By Tinsae Aregay on November 18, 2022 - 9:12PM
According to an official statement by Tesla, the EV maker doesn't expect to begin Cybertruck mass production until mid-2023. However, today we got new insider leaks that suggest Tesla is planning to deliver 30 manually-built Cybertrucks in December.
By Denis Flierl on November 18, 2022 - 10:28AM
The 2022 Subaru WRX was nominated for Motor Trend's Car of the Year competition but failed to impress the judges. There are three areas of concern and why they dropped the performance car out of the race.
By Mary Conway on November 17, 2022 - 4:39PM
Ralph Gilles, who has helped design most of Stellantis' and Chrysler's premiere vehicles, will receive a Lifetime Design Achievement Award.