$701K Audi supercar, GM V8 probe, Viper-styled Dodge
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Releases & Reviews
2028 Audi Nuvolari First Drive: The 987-HP Supercar Feels Like a Turning Point for the Brand
Priced at $701,000 and capped at 499 units, the Nuvolari is the most expensive road car Audi has ever built, nearly double the Lamborghini Temerario it shares bones with. Three axial-flux motors push output to 987 horsepower (736 kW), and carbon body panels replace the Lamborghini's aluminum.
The 2027 Ram Power Wagon Finally Adds A Diesel, But It Loses Other Things: Driven
The 6.7-liter Cummins brings 430 horsepower (321 kW) and 1,075 lb-ft (1,458 Nm), but its bulk forces out the factory winch and the Articulink front control arms that define the Power Wagon. At $103,395 as tested, it tows 19,630 pounds (8,892 kg) and steers far too lightly.
Technology, Market Data & Analysis
NHTSA Opens Investigation into GM V-8s That Won’t Stop Imploding
The probe targets the 6.2-liter L87 already covered by a recall of 597,630 trucks and SUVs, whose fix was thicker oil for engines that passed inspection. Regulators have logged 499 post-remedy failures; GM itself reports 6,953. The investigation now extends to engines built outside the original recall window.
Inside Honda’s Plan to Keep Cars Affordable Without Squeezing Buyers
Noriya Kaihara, Honda's executive vice president, details "Triple Half": halving development time, cost, and resources, with AI-assisted crash simulation cutting testing spend. Honda is studying Chinese factory robotics while keeping that technology out of US plants. Executives insist the target is value, not the cheapest sticker.
Car Culture
The Lexus LS 400 Happened When The Government Tried To Protect Detroit — Jason Cammisa Revelations
Hagerty's Jason Cammisa traces the LS 400 to Washington strong-arming Japan into capping exports at 1.7 million cars a year. Boxed in on volume, Toyota chased margin instead, staffing Project F1 with 1,400 engineers and 2,300 technicians and moving designers into a Laguna Beach house to study wealthy Americans.
Why This 25-Mile Yugo Is More Important Than Most Low-Mileage Supercars
Museums preserve GTIs and Turbos, not the bread-and-butter cars most people drove, which is why a barely driven survivor of Yugoslavia's cheapest export matters. This one carries the range-topping 1.3-liter engine: 67 horsepower (50 kW) hauling 2,000 pounds (906 kg). New, the GV listed at $3,990, roughly $12,000 today.
Miscellaneous
2029 Dodge Copperhead SRT: Everything We Know About the Viper-Inspired Halo Car
Stellantis calls it a hyper-muscle car rather than a Viper revival, aimed squarely at the Corvette ZR1 and Mustang GTD. Expect the modified Giorgio platform under the Maserati GranTurismo, a front-engine, rear-transaxle layout, and either a Hurricane straight-six or a Hemi V-8. Estimated price is $100,000 for 2029.
Hot Album Drops Tied to Fatal Crash Rate Increases: Study
Researchers in JAMA Network Open matched federal fatality records against Spotify charts from 2017 to 2022 and found road deaths rose 15.1 percent on major album release days, when streaming jumped 43 percent. The effect was strongest among younger drivers, and the authors blame the ease of queuing tracks.
Quick Links
Ayrton Senna’s NSX Hits the Block
RM Sotheby's has consigned the Formula Red 1991 car Honda gifted Senna, the one whose feedback prompted engineers to stiffen the NSX chassis by 50 percent, with a presale estimate of £500,000–£800,000 ($682K–$1.1M).
Revealed: 2028 Genesis GV90 Brings Coach Doors and Concept-Car Luxury to the Real World
The 657 horsepower (490 kW) flagship claims over 310 miles (499 km) of range, and the top Neolun trim hides its B-pillar inside the doors themselves to make the pillarless coach doors crash-legal.
BMW Is Killing Buttons Because Young People Would Rather Talk To Their Cars
BMW Group Australia's boss says drivers under 45 are multitasking with voice and touch, so the iDrive dial is being deleted model by model, though window switches and a volume knob survive.
GTA 6 Driving Physics Hint at Return to the Realism of GTA 4
Leaked footage of a Ranchero-lookalike sliding through an intersection has fans hoping Rockstar restored the wallowing weight transfer of GTA IV, though the writer argues the difference was always more visual than physical.
2028 Toyota Celica: Everything We Know About the Return of Toyota’s Affordable Sporty Car
Toyota has pointed to a turbocharged 2.0-liter four as the likely powerplant, with MotorTrend expecting hybrid assistance, all-wheel drive, and at least 400 horsepower (298 kW) to clear the GR Corolla.
Polestar claims it was blindsided by sales ban
Polestar says Commerce officials signaled approval for months before denying its exemption from the ban on Chinese connected-car software, the same exemption sister brand Volvo, under identical Geely ownership, received in May.
Lightest Hypercar on the Planet? | Praga Bohema Review
Autotrader takes the £1.5 million (~$2 million) Czech hypercar to Thruxton, where its Nissan GT-R-derived 3.8-liter V6 and 2,168-pound (982 kg) carbon body deliver race-car directness rather than brute horsepower.