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Photo: FiskerWhen you purchase a brand-new automotive, you purchase it realizing it’s going to depreciate. At least so long as it’s a comparatively regular automotive and never one thing like a Porsche 911 R. That stated, it’s not as dangerous as many “never buy a new car for any reason ever” monetary influencers make it sound. You most likely received’t get again each penny in the event you tried to promote a brand new automotive the following day, however you received’t really lose 30 p.c the second you drive it off the lot. Unless you’re Edmunds and lately purchased a…

With its pop-up headlamps within the entrance and a baggage rack within the again, at present’s Nice Price or No Dice 200SX is a bastion of earlier occasions and designs. Let’s see if its worth is simply as old skool.Jonathan Bennett And His Late 1980’s Honda Accord | My First CarRange nervousness isn’t a standard illness for homeowners of recent electrical automobiles. Unfortunately, the 2011 Ford Transit Connect electrical we checked out on Friday is much from a contemporary electrical. With a 28 kWh battery and simply 56 miles of vary, it proved a grim reminder of previous generations of…

The next-generation Nissan Frontier midsize pickup truck could get EV and plug-in hybrid variants, the latter utilizing Mitsubishi tech, Automotive News reviews. Nissan and Mitsubishi have been company allies since 2016, and the current-generation Nissan Rogue and Mitsubishi Outlander crossovers use a typical platform. But the 2 manufacturers are taking a look at nearer collaboration on electrified powertrains, in line with the report. Nissan will quickly launch its first North American plug-in hybrid, “based on a system engineered by Mitsubishi,” Automotive News says. And Mitsubishi will reportedly use Nissan’s EV tech for a North American electrical mannequin. Mitsubishi Triton Absolute…

VTR Customs leads the cost this week, with an aggressive tackle the large BMW R18. We additionally have a look at a few kits for the retro-fantastic Yamaha XSR900 GP, the particular version Triumph Trident Triple Tribute, and a spunky Kawasaki ZXR400 SP that’s presently on public sale. BMW R18 by VTR Customs VTR is at it once more. The Swiss BMW specialist workshop has a knack for remodeling brand-new BMWs into mad neo-retro customs. This time, they’ve labored their explicit model of magic on the monstrous BMW R18 cruiser. Dubbed ‘TRACK8716,’ VTR Customs’ R18 takes the traditional drag-cruiser vibe…

Ahead of the discharge of preliminary Q1 2024 manufacturing and supply figures, anticipated subsequent week, it’s now official: Tesla has delivered greater than 6 million automobiles since 2008, each one a battery-electric car.  Its 5 million whole final September received a number of consideration. But 6 million is extra vital, as a result of it cements Tesla as the primary firm in all however 100 years to attain a outstanding milestone. Nearly 10 years in the past, Green Car Reports instructed Elon Musk needed to ship 6 million Teslas to grow to be the highest-volume startup carmaker within the U.S.…

Which automaker outlined an all-of-the-above electrified strategy for the close to future, together with hybrids, PHEVs, and a 3-row electrical SUV? Which luxurious model teased radiant cabin warmth for a future electrical SUV? This is our look again on the Week In Reverse—proper right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending March 29, 2024. In a primary drive of the 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV, we discovered it to be well-packaged, roomy, and refined, with a driving expertise that’s nearly indistinguishable from that of a battery-electric mannequin. While the car is in high type, the fueling infrastructure will not be.…

Screenshot: KSTP TVIf you’ve been listening to the airline trade currently, you’re most likely conscious there’s been a string of incidents that Boeing most likely needs hadn’t made the information. Considering how a lot adverse consideration Boeing has attracted lately, together with information that its CEO plans to resign, it will be comprehensible when you assumed any unhealthy airplane story concerned Boeing. According to KSTP TV, the most recent incident really concerned a pair of Airbuses. Delta’s Luggage Only Flight On Thursday at about 10:45 a.m., two Delta Airbus A320s had been pressured to return to the gate following an…

With its inch-perfect body, OEM-style bodywork, and period-correct graphics, you’d be forgiven for mistaking this Yamaha for a forgotten 90s manufacturing facility prototype. But what it truly is, is a totally bespoke machine with a Yamaha XS400 engine, an entire lot of progressive engineering, and a patented entrance suspension system. Oh, and it was constructed by a hobbyist in a 13-by-15-foot workshop in Slovakia. “The main idea of the build was to make it look as little like a custom bike, and as much like a factory bike, as possible,” says the mad scientist behind the challenge, Roman Juriš. “In…

A 9-year-old with an obvious “fuck the police” vibe in Northern California determined to – whereas driving a Volkswagen Jetta to his faculty – smash right into a California Highway Patrol car and lead cops on a automobile chase. It was a busy Wednesday for the little man. One police officer referred to as it a “scene straight out of a movie.”Volkswagen Unveils the Jetta GLI Performance ConceptCHP officer in Oroville, California posted a rundown of the entire ordeal on Facebook. They mentioned that at round 9:20 a.m. an officer noticed a grey VW sedan that “stopped oddly in the…

 Many of us imagine the parable the method of mining metals for 1000’s of name new electrical automobiles to exchange inside combustion engines causes extra hurt than good. The debate surrounding the true environmental influence of manufacturing electrical autos is severely advanced, however this video does an awesome job of summarizing it. While this video doesn’t present a remaining, particular reply, it positively contextualizes the larger image. That larger image on this debate is the broadly unseen polluting circus essential to extract fossil fuels from their resting place deep underground and get them to the pump.EV or Gas, What Pollutes…