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Opel Astra Start Lowers German Entry Price to €31,890
Opel adds a Start trim for the Astra, with German VAT-inclusive prices for the hybrid and electric models. Here is what buyers should compare.
Motorcare Takes Over Peugeot and Citroën Representation in Mozambique
Stellantis names Motorcare as the brands’ official representative in Mozambique, with five models and Maputo sales and service support announced.
Jeep Plans Renegade Return and Up to Six European Models by 2030
Jeep’s October 12 European roadmap includes a new Renegade by 2030, Recon and another model in 2028. Local prices and specifications remain separate decisions.
BMW Tests a Hydrogen-Combustion Truck in Leipzig Factory Logistics
BMW’s Leipzig trial tests a hydrogen-burning truck in factory logistics. What is confirmed, and what evidence would show whether the approach works?
Hyundai Sets Out Its EV, Hybrid and Hydrogen Strategy at Aachen
Hyundai’s Aachen announcement spans several powertrains. Here is what it confirms, and what buyers still need from a local launch announcement.
BMW Opens Bavarian Battery Plant: What the Production Milestone Means
BMW says battery production has started at Irlbach-Strasskirchen. We explain what the milestone establishes and what buyers still need to check.
Rivian Delivered 19,248 Vehicles — Its Best Quarter Ever. To Reach Guidance It Now Needs 23,193 More.
Rivian built 19,751 vehicles in the third quarter and delivered 19,248. Both are the highest quarterly figures in the company's history, and the delivery number came in roughly 1,2...
Toyota Is Putting $1.34 Billion Into Argentina to Build an Electric Hilux — And Became the First Carmaker Through the RIGI Door
Argentina's RIGI regime has approved 23 projects worth USD 53.382 billion since it was created. Until last week, not one of them was a car plant. On 30 September 2026, the regime's...
Verstappen Finally Won a Race in 2026 — And Mercedes Still Left Sepang 84 Points Clear
Max Verstappen won the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday. His first win of the season, in round sixteen of twenty-three, at a circuit on the wrong side of the Indian Ocean from the...
California Will Fine a Robotaxi $10,000 for Blocking Firefighters. The Law Does Not Start Until July 2028.
On 30 September 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1246. For the first time, a California city or county will be able to take an autonomous-vehicle operator to court and collect...
Twenty States, Four Cities and DC Just Sued NHTSA Over the 34.9 MPG Rule — And the Claim Is That the Agency Broke a 1975 Statute
On Friday 2 October, twenty states, the District of Columbia and the cities of Chicago, Denver, New York and San Francisco filed suit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad...
Tesla's Robotaxi Just Gained One Hour of Night. Musk Says the Blocker Is Grey Kittens on Grey Tarmac.
Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin now runs until 11pm. Until the first week of October it stopped at 10pm, a limit that had been in place since 26 August. One hour. That is the wh...
The One-Millionth BMW M Is a Fire Orange M3. From Next Year, the Factory That Built It Makes Only EVs.
On 2 October 2026, BMW M built its one-millionth car. It is an M3, finished in BMW Individual Fire Orange III, and it came down the line at BMW Group Plant Munich. The company anno...
GM Sold 25,473 EVs Last Quarter. A Year Ago It Sold 66,501.
General Motors sold 670,974 vehicles in the United States in the third quarter of 2026. That is down 5.5% on the same quarter last year — a soft number, not a crisis. Inside it sit...
Tesla Delivered 486,532 Cars and Built 464,391. The 22,141-Unit Gap Is the Quarter's Real Story.
Tesla's third quarter is being reported as a beat, and it was one: 486,532 vehicles delivered against a consensus of 461,974 — 24,558 units clear, or 5.3%. But the number worth sit...
Volkswagen Ended Its Wage Agreements on 31 December. IG Metall Can Legally Strike From 1 January.
Volkswagen did not announce a wage cut on 30 September. It announced an expiry date. The company confirmed it is terminating several collective agreements with effect from 31 Decem...
NHTSA Opened a Jeep Fire Probe Over Nine Complaints. It Closed It Over 1,076,999 Recalled Vehicles.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed its investigation into Jeep fires on Monday 29 September. It did not issue a defect finding. It did not need to. By the ti...
Volvo's Net Cash Fell From SEK 26.9 Billion to SEK 10.1 Billion in Six Months. Now 20,000 Office Jobs Are Frozen.
Eight days ago Volvo Cars named a chief executive who cannot start for a year. This week it stopped hiring. On 29 September, Volvo Cars confirmed a global hiring freeze covering it...
The EU Was Going to Vote on Tesla's FSD on 6 October. The Agenda Now Allots It 25 Minutes of Talking.
The Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles — the EU body that decides whether a national type-approval gets extended across all 27 member states — was expected to vote on 6 October...
BAIC's Chairman of Fourteen Years Just Got a Suspended Death Sentence — And the Court Would Not Say How Much He Took
Xu Heyi, who ran BAIC Group for fourteen years, was sentenced on Monday 28 September by the Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People's Court to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery....
Geely Just Took 30% of NIO's Battery-Swap Business — And Paid Mostly in Assets, Not Cash
Geely is taking 30% of NIO Power, the battery-swapping and charging arm that has been NIO's most expensive and most distinctive asset for a decade. The unit is valued at roughly RM...
Trump Says He's Approved a 34.5 MPG Fleet Target for 2031 — Down From 50.4, and the Rule Text Still Isn't Public
On Saturday 26 September, President Trump posted that he had approved new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, replacing the Biden-era rules he describes as an "EV mandate." T...
Ford Just Cancelled Every F-150 Crew in Dearborn for Six Days — And Won't Say What Broke
Ford cancelled every production crew at Dearborn Truck Plant from Thursday 24 September through Tuesday 29 September — six days with no F-150s coming off America's most important a...
Ford's Cheapest Electric Van Is on Sale in Britain for £29,421 — And It Was Built in Nanchang
Ford's UK configurator opened on 25 September for the Transit City, and the number at the top of it is £29,421 excluding VAT for the L1H1 panel van. The taller, longer L2H2 asks £3...
Volkswagen's Robotaxi Finally Has Passengers — Three Fixed Routes in a Florida Suburb, by Invitation Only
On 24 September 2026, invited passengers began riding driverless Volkswagen ID. Buzz AD vans in Lake Nona, a master-planned community on the south-eastern edge of Orlando. It is th...
Tesla's FSD Sped in 55% of Brussels' 30 km/h Zones — Eleven Days Before the EU Votes on It
A Brussels road-safety non-profit put Tesla's Supervised Full Self-Driving on the city's slowest streets for three days in July, drove roughly 400 kilometres, and published the res...
Bentley's First EV Is the Most Powerful Car It Has Ever Built — And It Deliberately Stopped Short of Going Faster
Bentley revealed the Torcal on 23 September 2026, and the headline number is the one the company will be asked about for the next decade: 888 PS — 876 hp, 653 kW — making Bentley's...
Chinese Brands Just Took a Record 11.7% of Europe — And They Did It With the Powertrain Brussels Forgot to Tariff
Chinese brands took 11.7% of EU new-car registrations in August 2026 — a record. The volume was 97,639 units out of a total market of 835,409, taking the year-to-date figure to 913...
Nissan Has Run Out of Room in Tennessee — And the Fix Is a Third Shift It Hasn't Approved Yet
Nissan's chairman for the Americas, Christian Meunier, said the quiet part out loud on 21 September 2026: the company has no more room in its American factories. "We're now maxing...
Volkswagen Just Cancelled Combustion Shifts in Wolfsburg — Not Because Demand Fell, But Because It Went to the EVs
Volkswagen has cancelled planned additional shifts at Wolfsburg. Reported on 22 September 2026 by German trade title Automobilwoche and carried independently by electrive, Electrek...
GM Named Its New Diesel After the Animal That Kills Snakes — And Pointed It Straight at Ford's Scorpion
General Motors confirmed on 21 September 2026 that it is building an 8.3-litre Duramax turbo-diesel V8, codenamed "Mongoose", for the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD....
Volvo Named Its Next CEO More Than a Year Before He Can Start — And the Gap Is the Story
Volvo Cars announced on 20 September 2026 that Klaus Zellmer, currently Chairman and CEO of Škoda Auto, will become its President and CEO — effective no later than 1 October 2027....
Volkswagen Just Wrote Down €6 Billion of Its Own Subsidiary — And Cut Its Margin Target to One Percent
Volkswagen told investors on Friday 18 September 2026 that roughly €10 billion — about US$11.5 billion — in one-off charges will land on its 2026 accounts, and cut its full-year op...
BYD Is Recalling 183,211 Cars Over a Part That Costs Almost Nothing
BYD has filed a recall with China's State Administration for Market Regulation covering 183,211 vehicles, built between 27 June 2014 and 14 January 2022. The notice was released on...
The EU Asked China to Cap Its Own Hybrid Exports. Beijing Said No, and Cited the WTO.
China's Ministry of Commerce rejected a European Union request that Beijing voluntarily cap its hybrid-vehicle exports to Europe, calling the proposal a breach of trade law in a st...
Stellantis Wants to Sell Brampton to an Armoured-Vehicle Maker. Unifor Is Asking Ottawa to Stop It.
Stellantis has signed a memorandum of understanding with Roshel, a Canadian armoured- and defence-vehicle manufacturer, covering the potential sale of its idled Brampton Assembly p...
Waymo Is Going to Singapore — But Not Until 2028, and Not Without the Government's Hand on the Wheel
Waymo said on 17 September 2026 that it will bring its robotaxi service to Singapore, working with the country's Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority. Vehicles arrive...
Lucid and Bolt Want 25,000 Robotaxis on European Roads — Built on a Platform That Doesn't Exist Yet
Lucid and Bolt announced on 17 September 2026 that they intend to put at least 25,000 autonomous electric vehicles on European roads, built on Lucid's Midsize platform and running...
Volvo Is Building 13 New Cars by 2030 — And Has Stopped Pretending One Car Can Sell Everywhere
Volvo Cars told investors in Stockholm on 17 September 2026 that it will launch 13 all-new models by the end of 2030 and lift its EBIT margin beyond 8% — against 3.5% reported for...
Li Auto Just Priced Its Flagship EV Below Its Own Halo Car — And Aimed It at the Living Room, Not the Nürburgring
Li Auto launched the Li i9 on 16 September 2026, a six-seat battery-electric flagship priced at RMB 369,800 — roughly US$55,100 — in a single configuration, with deliveries startin...
100,000 Orders in Twelve Months: The iX3 Has Quietly Become BMW's Most Successful Launch Ever
BMW confirmed on 15 September 2026 that the electric iX3 has taken 100,000 orders in Europe alone in the twelve months since its premiere — the strongest first year any BMW model h...
GM Blinked: CarPlay and Android Auto Return to the 2027 Silverado and Sierra — But Not to the EVs
General Motors announced on 15 September 2026 that Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will be supported in its next-generation infotainment interface, launching first on the 2027 Chevr...
One and a Half Arms Was Enough: Marc Marquez Erases a 102-Point Deficit to Retake the MotoGP Title Lead at Misano
Marc Marquez won the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano on Sunday, 13 September, and in doing so completed one of the more remarkable championship turnarounds MotoGP has seen in years...
Volvo Just Solved the Electric Truck's Weight Problem — 80 Tonnes, 450 Kilometres, No Compromise
Volvo Trucks announced on 14 September 2026 a new electric truck rated for gross combination weights of up to 80 tonnes — a segment of heavy haulage that, until now, electric drive...
Eighteen Cautions, Two Overtimes, 87 Laps Under Yellow — and Kyle Larson Finally Stopped Counting
Kyle Larson won the Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway on Sunday, 13 September, ending a 51-race winless drought that stretched back to Kansas Speedway on 11 May 2...
Europe Is Now Carrying Global EV Growth — and North America Has Fallen Out of the Race
Global electric vehicle sales reached 1.83 million units in August 2026, up 2% year on year. That headline number is the least interesting thing in the dataset. Underneath it, the...
China's NEV Penetration Hits a Record 65.2% Even as Retail Volumes Fall for an Eighth Straight Month
China's electric vehicle market has produced one of the strangest data prints of the cycle. In August 2026, new energy vehicles took a record 65.2% of retail passenger vehicle sale...
Ford Rejects Transportation Secretary Duffy's China Ultimatum, Calling the Letter a 'Wrongheaded' Attack on American Manufacturing
The quiet part is now very loud. Ford has publicly refused to accept a US Department of Transportation letter demanding it sever its commercial relationships with Chinese technolog...
Christopher Bell Ended a 33-Race Drought at Darlington — and Carson Hocevar Ended the Apology
Two major storylines emerged from the Cook Out Southern 500 on 6 September. One was Christopher Bell finally returning to victory lane after a year-long drought. The other was Cars...
Porsche Is Racing on Five Fronts This September. McLaren Just Bet £450 Million. Both Are the Same Decision.
Read Porsche Motorsport's September calendar purely as a race schedule, and it looks like boundless enthusiast energy. Read it as an industrial budget allocation, and it reveals a...
Ferrari Won Lone Star Le Mans Without Being the Fastest Car — And That Is the Whole Story of Hypercar in 2026
Six hours of racing at the Circuit of the Americas ended the way modern endurance racing increasingly ends: not with an overtake, but with a component failure. With roughly twelve...
The Rideshare Safety Paradigm Shift: How Autonomous Robotaxis Challenge Legacy TNC Driver Liability
The emergence of dedicated autonomous robotaxi fleets — led by Tesla’s Cybercab in Austin and Waymo’s expanding commercial footprint — is triggering a fundamental rethink of passen...
Tesla Cybercab Begins Rider Feedback Rollout Following Austin Commercial Operations and Palo Alto Fleet Testing
Following the commercial debut of its driverless ride-hailing operations in Austin, Texas, Tesla has initiated its first comprehensive Cybercab rider experience feedback program, g...
Tesla Schedules September 24 Semi Factory Rollout Event at 1.7 Million Sq Ft Dedicated Nevada Gigafactory
Tesla has formally sent out invitations for a dedicated "Semi Rollout" event on September 24, 2026, celebrating the high-volume operational launch of its brand-new, 1.7-million-squ...
Elon Musk Spotlights Giga New York as the Global Production Powerhouse for Next-Gen V4 Supercharger Cabinets
Elon Musk has placed a spotlight on Gigafactory New York in Buffalo, publicly acknowledging the facility's pivotal role as the primary manufacturing heart of Tesla's worldwide Supe...
Electric Vehicles Outsell Petrol Cars in Australia for the First Time in Historic Market Tipping Point
In a watershed moment for the southern hemisphere's automotive landscape, pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) have officially outsold petrol-powered cars in Australia for the fir...
China GT Shanghai Crash & Fire Sparks Global Motorsport Safety Outcry Following Driver Rescue
A catastrophic multi-car collision and inferno during the China GT Championship round at the Shanghai International Circuit has ignited fierce international scrutiny over trackside...
The Great European Auto Squeeze: How Tesla and Chinese EV Pincer Movements Are Forcing Historic Legacy Downsizing
The European automotive establishment is enduring its most perilous reckoning since the post-war reconstruction era. What began a decade ago as dismissive executive commentary towa...
Jaguar Land Rover Is Cutting 4,000 Jobs — And It's a Warning Sign for Every Legacy Automaker Chasing Net Zero
Britain's largest carmaker just confirmed what industry watchers have been dreading: Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is cutting around 4,000 jobs — roughly 10% of its UK workforce — over t...
Tesla Giga Berlin Implements Mandatory Special Shifts to Target 7,500 Model Ys Per Week
Tesla has reached an agreement with its works council at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg (Grünheide) to introduce mandatory weekend and night shifts as the plant targets an aggressi...
Monza 2026: Antonelli Leads Historic Italian Grand Prix as Ferrari Unveils Tribute Livery
The 2026 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix at Monza is shaping up as one of the most electrifying weekends of the season. 19-year-old Italian phenom Kimi Antonelli enters his home race...
Tata Motors Launches €3.82 Billion Takeover Bid for Iveco Group in Landmark Global Commercial Vehicle Play
In one of the most consequential industrial acquisitions of the decade, Mumbai-based Tata Motors has initiated an all-cash voluntary tender offer to acquire Italy's Iveco Group N.V...
Uber and Wayve Deploy UK's First Autonomous Ride-Hailing Fleet in London with Mustang Mach-E
Passengers in London can now be paired with an autonomous Ford Mustang Mach-E when booking UberX, Uber Electric, or Uber Comfort trips. The pilot marks the first operational deploy...
China Enacts Mandatory Safety Protocols for Level 3 & Level 4 Autonomous Vehicles
Chinese regulators, led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), have enacted comprehensive statutory safety regulations governing Level 3 and Level 4 autonom...
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