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I cannot even think back to the last weekend where I wasn’t fixing something. Truly, I think at least 90 percent of my non-travel weekends between age 24 and 31 (well, in two months) have involved wrenching on a shitbox. That’s seven years of my youth occupied by the ol’ wrench. You’d think that the result of a youth spent with machines and not people my age would be an ability to fix damn near anything....

In case you’re not familiar with Morgan, this funny little British car brand was founded by H.F.S. Morgan back in 1910. After a few decades of making quirky three-wheelers, Morgan cooked up a four-wheeled sports car called the 4/4 in 1936. It used a conventional frame and hand-beaten panels, as was the fashion of the time. While that might not sound particularly remarkable, Morgan stuck with this general style of car for more than eighty years, fenders sitting proud of the body and all (that’s a newer 4/4 below)....

One of Lane Motor Museum’s biggest assets is Jeff Lane’s good friend and our man-in-France Claude Gueniffey. In addition to translating and helping me pronounce things correctly, Claude also seeks out cars. Of the museum’s 550 cars, French manufacturers make up the majority of the collection. For this delightful Twingo, he didn’t have to look far; this was his mother-in-law’s car. This Twingo is a first-year model. It debuted at the 1992 Paris Motor Show as Renault’s newest city car, the smallest passenger car class defined by the European Commission....

Carrying a price tag of $212,735 including a $1,895 freight charge, The Nismo trim lists for almost $100,000 more than the GT-R Premium, so you’d have to be properly GT-R obsessed to buy it. Sure, turbochargers from the GT3 car, 600 horsepower, and carbon ceramic brakes are cool, but so is not eating ramen. In contrast, the GT-R Premium carries an MSRP of $115,435 including freight and includes forged wheels, Apple CarPlay, a Bose stereo, and Nappa leather, along with 565 horsepower of turbocharged V6 thrust....

BMW’s M division has produced some epic cars throughout history. Founded in 1972, BMW Motorsport GmbH started producing hits right out of the gate. In the early days, there were greats like the BMW 3.0 CSL and the M1. And later, cars like the BMW E30 M3 would excite enthusiasts. E30 M3s remain insanely popular today and people will pay frankly insane money for one. I mean, the E30 M3 is so cool that I’d probably be among them if I had the cash....

Mind you, an upcoming Tacoma is just one possibility. This thing could also be the next Hilux given that the Tacoma isn’t currently sold in Brazil — or this could be something else entirely. What we can say for sure is that this definitely looks like a Toyota truck. Not only are several authors listed on the patent employed at Toyota’s Calty design studio, but the truck itself plays host to a bunch of Tundra styling cues....

A couple of weeks ago, this 1984 Chevrolet S-10 conversion van popped up for sale near me. I scooped it up thinking that I’d feature it in a Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness, but finding information on this creation has been a challenge, to say the least. The fact that it exists at all isn’t too surprising. As some of our readers could probably attest, there was a conversion van craze in the 1970s and 1980s....

This year, we’ve been on a constant search for electric motorcycles that don’t break the bank. Expensive machines like the LiveWire are certainly awesome, but not everyone can afford something like that. It has been awesome watching what companies are coming up with towards the inexpensive-end of the market, and now America is soon to get another pick that looks like a stunner. What Is A Velocifero? If you’ve never heard of Velocifero before, you’re not alone....

Cash For Broncos Think the auto industry’s supply crunch is over? Think again. Ford debuted the insanely popular Bronco at a very unfortunate time — right in the middle of the pandemic — and that’s kept a lot of models from reaching buyers’ driveways. The automaker has a bunch of Bronco orders it needs to fill, and now it’s going to pay you cash money if you consider another Bronco trim level or switch to another model entirely....

Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too well, pull up a throne and have a gander at the best of the rest of yesterday. The Treasury Department’s Delay Is Good For Consumers I love news that continues over three consecutive days and I love news that’s good for consumers. On Monday, we discussed how Senator Joe Manchin (a key vote to passing the Inflation Reduction Act) was pretty steamed that automakers were looking for workarounds to continue to give consumers the full $7,500 EV tax credit....

First things first: Here’s a look at the outgoing Polestar 2: And here’s a look at the upcoming 2024, post-refresh model: The rear end looks pretty much the same, but the nose does look quite a bit different, ditching the grille-like section between the headlights for a big panel that Polestar calls the “SmartZone.” From Polestar: Other changes include 205kW charging power (up from 150 kW) for a new 82kWh battery....

Welcome to The Morning Dump, bite-sized stories corralled into a single article for your morning perusal. If your morning coffee’s working a little too well, pull up a throne and have a gander at the best of the rest of yesterday. The Durango Hellcat Is Back With the Hellcat era’s sunset rising over the horizon, Dodge is taking its fire-breathing V8 for a bit of a victory lap. Among other announcements, Dodge is bringing back the Durango SRT Hellcat SUV for 2023....

Yep, that is what I expected. It’s hard to beat the utility of a simple little truck. And yes, thank you all for pointing out that I’m a idiot and the Saturn is in fact the SC2 model. I trusted the listing instead of my own eyes, and I should know better by now. Doesn’t matter, I guess, since it lost anyway. Moving on: Today, it’s an East Coast vs West Coast battle, courtesy of Cadillac’s dinosaur of a personal luxury coupe: the Eldorado....

This week I’m back on my kick of cheap V12s and there are two of them this time around. There are also a couple of imports and a big GM bus. I often search the entire country for a good balance of price and vehicle condition. But sometimes, some really cool cars end up for sale with really high prices. It’s disappointing, of course, but there’s nothing wrong with window shopping and dreaming....

For now, let’s dive into today’s news: President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act could be a bigger effing deal than expected, Hyundai and Kia get back on track, Toyota’s top scientist fires back at EV evangelists and Americans aren’t doing great on the car repossession front. The EV Tax Incentive Boom For Battery Manufacturing Could Be Even Bigger Than Predicted We begin today with a scoop from Axios‘ Joann Muller, who reports that the tax breaks for automakers and battery manufacturers under the IRA might just be significantly more than even Congress initially anticipated....

Close one, but I’m calling it: the old Dodge is our winner. David’s right; this van has a good face, with those big round headlights. To me, it looks a little like the old retired guy who hangs out at the hardware store “helping” customers even though he doesn’t work there. (Not that I’m knocking that guy; quite the contrary, I hope to be him someday.) Convertibles are sort of a love-them-or-hate-them vehicle....

There’s not a ton of new news today beyond some important stuff we hit last night thanks to our pervasive insomnia and insatiable thirst for clicks, but we’re gonna make it work anyway. We’ll get through this together. Have You Seen This Car? Photo: GM I’ve heard very positive, promising things about the Cadillac Lyriq EV. Of course, that’s all been from automotive journalist friends who have driven it in press-launch situations....

Ford is in an interesting position within the compact crossover space. The company has a wildly-successful Bronco Sport, but the Baby Bronco is stealing some sales from its platform-mate — the segment’s old-timer, the Ford Escape. With small SUVs currently the hottest class in the car industry right now, Ford knows there’s space for two vehicles. The ticket to maximizing Ford sales is to minimize how much the two vehicles cannibalize one another, which is why when Ford debuted the very first Escape redesign since the 4×4-oriented Bronco Sport debuted back in 2021, The Blue Oval made sure to push the Escape farther towards “sporty, city-oriented car” than perhaps ever before....

Last Tuesday was a nightmare, as you read in Jason Torchinsky’s live blog. It was supposed to be a glorious, rare day in which I actually reduced my vehicle fleet in what has to be the most painfully glacial move towards any goal ever — the goal being me having some semblance of a social life. Look at how happy the buyer, Tracy (whose dad is the Jeep’s original owner) is:...

First things first: I’d like to show you all the new E-Ray’s power curve, as it includes that of the 6.2-liter naturally aspirated LT2 V8 and that of the electric motor, overlapped. You’ll see peak power for the gas engine is 495 ponies, and that of the electric motor is 160, though the shapes of the curves are quite different. It’s worth noting that the x-axis, speed, is probably not what you think it is....