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2022 Toyota GR86 promise kept — base price stays well under $30,000

When we first drove the 2022 GR86 back in August, Toyota’s marketing team assured us that its base price would start “comfortably” under $30,000. On Wednesday, Toyota came through. The 2022 GR86 will start at $28,725 (including $1,025 for destination) — an increase of just $710 over last year’s model.  While MSRP is relatively meaningless

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Hyundai Mobis’ e-corner module can turn car wheels 90 degrees

When Hyundai Mobis took its e-corner module to the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, Digital Trends wrote that Hyundai touted the new tech as “the first integrated, modular platform designed specifically for electric and eco-friendly vehicles,” and that the component “should be developed in its entirety by 2021.” Here we are in 2021, and Hyundai Mobis

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Stellantis’ 4 new EV platforms to each support 2 million cars a year

TURIN, Italy — Stellantis’ four new electrified platforms are expected to each underpin the production of 2 million vehicles a year, the automaker’s head for Italy said on Wednesday. Since the creation of the world’s fourth largest carmaker at the beginning of this year through the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA, Chief Executive

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McLaren CEO Mike Flewitt resigns from the British supercar maker

McLaren Automotive Ltd. CEO Mike Flewitt will step down after eight years leading the closely held company, which has started a search for a successor. The Woking, England-based supecar maker said Wednesday that Michael Macht, a McLaren Group non-executive director, will oversee technical and operational functions, while Chairman Paul Walsh will lead sales, marketing and

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