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By late 2025, new car payments in the United States had risen so high that buyers started treating auto loans like long-term housing debt, with some contracts stretching out to 100 months just to keep monthly bills survivable. The numbers landed with the blunt force of a bill you cannot ignore. Most buyers still financed, … Read more
In a quiet industrial pocket near the Nürburgring, Capricorn and Zagato quietly assembled a 19 unit, carbon heavy, supercharged V8 hypercar with a manual gearbox and almost no electronic filters. It started with fog, concrete floors, and an unglamorous address in Meuspath. There was no stage, no influencers, and no booming launch show, just a … Read more
Lexus unveiled the LFA Concept as a battery electric supercar study that tried to carry the brand’s old performance myth into an EV future, without pretending the past still ran the show. The reveal was framed as a new chapter, not a reunion tour. The badge was familiar, but the mission was electric and unapologetically … Read more
Audi’s Concept C had already signaled a design regime change, but when creators translated that look onto a big SUV silhouette, the brand’s next era suddenly felt believable, premium, and a little dangerous. Audi showed the Concept C and, with it, a new visual language that felt sharper and more intentional than what many buyers … Read more
By the time the 2026 model year planning cycle became public, the industry had already accepted that pure gas cars were becoming the exception, and the next wave of launches leaned hard into hybrids, EVs, and the last high output holdouts. The shift had already happened, quietly, then all at once. The 2026 pipeline was … Read more
A tiny French brand once tried to crash the 1990s supercar party with a V12 borrowed from Mercedes, a manual gearbox, and big performance claims, but the project stayed so rare that even the build count became a debate. It was the kind of car that made sense on paper and disappeared in real life. … Read more
A little known Chinese brand backed by industrial heavyweight FAW pushed the Bestune T77 into Europe with a price cut that undercut mainstream rivals by roughly $22,000, while still offering a 160 hp turbo engine and a standard automatic gearbox. Late 2025 was when the Bestune T77 started to look less like a curiosity and … Read more
This radical Toyota concept quietly signaled that luxury did not have to surrender to full electrification to stay relevant, powerful, and culturally dominant. For decades, the name Century meant almost nothing outside Japan. Yet in 2025, Toyota used the Century Coupé to send a carefully calculated message to the global luxury industry. While rivals rushed … Read more
Subaru quietly turned its only EV into a much quicker, longer-range machine, and it did it without pretending the Solterra was a track toy. Subaru had launched the Solterra as a cautious first step into EVs, basically a practical crossover with Subaru badges and Subaru promises. When the 2026 update arrived, the tone shifted: more … Read more
The 2026 refresh didn’t chase electrification, it doubled down on proven muscle: a naturally aspirated V6, three rows, and an AWD setup that still aimed at dirt as much as school runs. At a time when most rivals trimmed cylinders and added batteries, this big seven-seater stayed stubbornly old-school in the ways that mattered to … Read more