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Mercedes-Benz Warns Two Plants in Germany Could Close Without Cost Cuts
Mercedes-Benz has warned that two of its German facilities could face closure unless labor costs are reduced, putting an assembly plant and a powertrain site directly in the firing line of the company’s cost-cutting plans. The wording matters. Mercedes-Benz has not...
Rolf Michl Reportedly Bound for China as Audi Sport Faces Leadership Uncertainty
Audi Sport may soon be looking for a new person to steer one of the company’s most important performance and racing operations. Rolf Michl, the former Abt manager who became managing director of Audi Sport GmbH on September 1, 2022, is reportedly being transferred to...
Nearly 202,000 Jeep SUVs Face a Tire-Pressure Warning Software Defect
A tire-pressure warning light is supposed to be one of the least dramatic things a Jeep can do. It glows, the driver checks the tires, and everyone carries on with the day. For nearly 202,000 Jeep SUVs, however, a software defect means that warning may never appear...
2027 GMC Sierra 1500 Prices Rise as the New Generation Arrives
The new-generation 2027 GMC Sierra 1500 is arriving with a less welcome surprise: higher starting prices. GMC has released pricing for four-wheel-drive crew-cab versions, and most of those models cost several thousand dollars more than their predecessors. That detail...
Francesco Bagnaia Finds a Spark in Austria After Dani Pedrosa’s TV Observation
Francesco Bagnaia arrived at the Austrian Grand Prix carrying the sort of form that makes a factory rider’s weekend feel longer than it really is. Since the MotoGP summer break, the Ducati rider had failed to score a point and had also struggled to qualify directly...
Philippe Prette Clinches GT2 European Series Title for Maserati at Zandvoort
Philippe Prette did not wait for the final weekend, the last corner, or some theatrical championship decider to settle the matter. At Zandvoort, the Monegasque driver secured the GT2 European Series title with two races still remaining, delivering another major result...
Volkswagen’s German EV Orders Are Outrunning Gas Cars—and That Creates a Production Headache
Volkswagen has apparently reached an awkward point in Germany: customers are ordering more electric vehicles than gasoline-powered cars. That sounds like the sort of news a manufacturer would celebrate with a presentation, several tasteful photographs of wind...
Jack Miller Admits Austrian GP Pace Fell to “Bagger Cup” Levels
Jack Miller didn’t need a stopwatch to tell him the Austrian Grand Prix was going badly. The Yamaha rider could feel his race unraveling beneath him, with tire degradation dragging his lap times down to what he described as “Bagger Cup” pace. His verdict was unusually...
Venuum Black Voltoro V1 Turns the 1,001-HP Lamborghini Revuelto Into a Dark Knight
Lamborghini already gives the Revuelto enough drama to make most supercars look like sensible commuter appliances. Venuum Black apparently felt the car still needed a little more theater, so it has created the Voltoro V1: a dark, wide-bodied interpretation of...
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