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Toyota has a strong manufacturing footprint in the US, and one of those places is celebrating a birthday. Venture south – way south – and you'll find a place solely dedicated to engines. It's been that way for 25 years, and Toyota shows no signs of letting up. In fact, the investments are ongoing.

Kosmera is a new premium-vehicle company owned by the Chinese consumer-products business Dreame. The fledgling automaker aims to introduce a three-vehicle range of EVs in the coming years, including an SUV, a four-door grand touring car, and a hypercar. Kosmera already has offices across the world and intends to have its first products available by 2029.

Yesterday, as part of Ford's announcement of the new blacked-out Explorer ST Sinister Package, the ST team did a Facebook ask-me-anything (AMA) on the Ford Explorer ST Facebook group. So the group members proceeded to, indeed, ask them anything. But a whole bunch of them ultimately asked the same thing: Make this six an eight.

Mazda is hard at work on developing its own hybrid system, and when it debuts sometime next year in the CX-5 crossover, it'll have a feel that's much better than existing gas-electric crossovers. That's according to company program manager Koichiro Yamaguchi, who said that he wasn't satisfied with the feel and performance of current hybrid SUVs and that he intended for his product to meet those standards.

Audi surprised the world just a couple of weeks ago when it revealed its flagship supercar, the Nuvolari. It didn't just stand out for its monolithic styling and impressive performance stats, but also for the fact that it's a production-ready vehicle, not a concept. Audi proved this by bringing it for a parade lap at Monaco, as well as taking it around Porsche's Nardo test track in Italy. Plus, Audi shared one more surprising bit of news: the car will be in production and reaching customers in a

Ford's recall department clearly isn't getting much time off. After setting an all-time US industry record for recalls in 2025, the Blue Oval has carried that momentum straight into 2026 – and the reasons keep getting weirder.

Remember that scene in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, when Mr. Potter is about to offer George Bailey a job? But before he does, Mr. Potter gives George credit for skillfully navigating the Great Depression and keeping the Bailey Bros. Building & Loan afloat. "You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. You saved the Building & Loan, I saved all the rest." (Or stole the rest, George mutters.)

While it's only been a couple of years, it feels as though we've been waiting for BMW's first electric M car for ages. And that wait isn't completely over, but we're getting extremely close to the end. Just ahead of this years running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the automaker has revealed the M Concept Neue Klasse, which is our first look at what will become the iM3, effectively the electric M3.

Every automotive enthusiast with a pulse recalls the sizzling Genesis Magma GT Concept the company revealed in November 2025. A surprise reveal during the GV60 Magma launch, the mid-engine sports car basically stole the show. Now, we're getting another surprise from Genesis.

The Ford F-150 Raptor is a great high-speed off-roader, but what doesn't get better when you swap out a twin-turbocharged V6 for a supercharged V8? The Raptor R variant is happy to answer that question with 720 horsepower, a huge upgrade from the base Rap's 450 hp. But although the V8-powered Baja truck is a headline grabber, Ford has no plans to endow its other Raptor models with high-performance R variants, citing the Bronco and Ranger Raptors' shared twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 as being mo

There has been an uproar over the past week from the nerdier side of the internet, but the question of access to data is one that affects everyone. Essentially, it seems Volkswagen Group has quietly disabled the CarNet API (Application Programming Interface) for its We Connect service that allows users to control and read the data from its vehicles through independent software.

Last fall, a few Japanese automakers started looking into the possibility of importing some of their American-made vehicles into Japan. Seemingly the reason behind this wasn't just to sell more cars, but also to potentially improve relations with the US, and particularly the Trump administration, to potentially ease tariffs on Japan's exports. Some automakers have begun to follow through on those plans, particularly Toyota, as it and its subsidiary Subaru may bring two more models to Japanese cu

BMW's Neue Klasse styling language is filtering through the lineup since it first launched in the iX3 EV. It was just a few months ago, even though it feels like forever, and part of the reason it feels so long is vehicles like this. The new X1 won't even be in the first five to hit production with the face, but here it is. The CarBuzz spies have caught it in its M form, to boot.

The biggest event in sports car racing runs this weekend in France, but it looks like the racecars won't be the only four-wheeled heroes grabbing headlines. A photo taken near Le Circuit de la Sarthe in France, where the Le Mans 24 Hours race is held, shows what appears to be the new electric M3. Just waiting to make its first official appearance.

Honda has plans for the new Prelude to make it look more like a sports car. No, the plans don't include more horsepower (for now, at least), but they do come from the company's racing arm. We've had a few glimpses at the widebody HRC Prelude, but these photos from the Suzuka Circuit in Japan are the best ones yet. They show a Prelude that – at least in the looks department – is every bit as cool as any of the originals.

At the Tokyo Auto Salon in January, Toyota and Daihatsu revealed a pair of customized kei trucks as part of a friendly internal competition between divisions to show who could build the wildest vehicles. However, this was only the start of Toyota's corporate build-offs, with two more in the works. This past weekend at the Super Taikyu series' 24-hour endurance race at Fuji Speedway, the fruits of the second competition were revealed, and they are absolutely absurd.

It seems Dodge wants to chase Porsche when it comes to finding imaginative ways to deploy active aero. CarBuzz uncovered a Stellantis patent for a device that deploys from the roof of your car. But, instead of going across the back of the car like a wing, it's two devices that run front to back like the roof rails on your Dodge Durango. You could call them roof rails that pop up at high speeds, but these aren't for SUVs. In fact, it looks like the Dodge Charger is the target vehicle.

The Ford Fiesta was a generally great subcompact hatchback that went away amid the Blue Oval's shift away from traditional cars in favor of a lineup full of crossovers and SUVs. There was even the Fiesta ST hot hatch that ranked among the best entry-level performance vehicles of the 2010s.

When General Motors dropped Android Auto and Apple CarPlay from its electric vehicles, people were slightly baffled and largely upset. The automaker decided that new Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC EVs wouldn't be able to use the immensely popular phone mirroring software and would instead be forced to log in to their car and use the Google built-in system and Android apps (and data).

Volkswagen's Atlas is new this year on an updated platform. It also has more horsepower thanks to revisions to its 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. But with gas prices well above $4 per gallon across the country, the real question is how thirsty is it? The answer is that it should use less gasoline than last year for every mile you drive.