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Kids have stolen around 200 vehicles this year already. Earlier this year, Mazda was named the best car brand of 2021, but we doubt that New Zealand citizens will feel quite so good about the Japanese automaker a year from now. See, the Australasian country, specifically the province of Taranaki, has been going through a strange phenomenon: the theft of older Mazda cars. Apparently, theres some sort of social media challenge that is going viral, and this is causing teenagers to film themselves ...

Is anyone really surprised? For years, Elon Musk has made bold claims about how far Tesla is to attaining Level 5 autonomy in its cars. In July last year, he said that Tesla was "very close" to doing just that, a claim that was quickly dismissed by industry experts. With this in mind, Teslas latest announcement comes as little surprise. The company has apparently informed a regulator in California that it may not achieve full self-driving technology before the end of 2021. This information was ...

Its definitely happening, and its going to be epic. The Chevrolet Silverado is a workhorse, but as is usually the case, Ford is ahead of the game. It already offers a hybrid version of the F-150, and an all-electric model is in the works. But GM isnt waiting to get steamrolled, and has begun the process of getting its own electric pickup developed. There were rumors of such a vehicle back in February of 2019, and then again in June. But Chevy only admitted that those rumors were valid last mont...

Production capacity has been reached. Tesla has added yet another impressive achievement to its growing list of them. According to sources familiar with the matter who tipped off Electrek, the all-electric automaker has already reached production capacity for the second quarter despite the fact that there are still two months remaining in the business period. Until now, it was expected both the heavily updated Tesla Model S and Model X would experience production bottlenecks following a previou...

Tesla Dr. Vazquez has been organizing pop-up clinics across the city focusing on getting younger people to get the job, and the doctors train of thought is that a brand new Tesla should incentivize people enough to visit one of the clinics. In order to enter the raffle, you must have both shots. Then youll get a ticket. You come in with a parent, you get the shot, you get a ticket, bring a kid, they get a ticket and the odds go up. "We have to try whatever we can because hesitancy is really...

Nothing like this has happened before. Right now, there are thousands of partially built Ford F-150s sitting in massive parking lots around Detroit. Final assembly cannot be completed until one final component is installed, semiconductor chips. Without them, new cars and trucks cannot function properly as crucial systems like navigation and Bluetooth depend on them. Ford has been forced to idle several production plants, including the Mustang assembly line in Flat Rock, Michigan, for various pe...

Rockstars latest job opening gives us a glimmer of hope. The gaming industry is huge and car-themed video games are up there with some of the best titles in the business. Such is the influence of the genre that Gran Turismo was recently named as an official Olympic sport. Keen gamers have been waiting in anticipation for new titles like Gran Turismo 7 (unfortunately delayed until 2022 due to production issues stemming from the pandemic), as well as Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6. With GTA 5 having be...

A fancier version of the sedan is now available. Things havent been going all that well for Infiniti. Along with being comprehensively outshined by the likes of Genesis, there hasnt been much in the way of good news. The brands Formula One-inspired sports car will not make production, and our review of the Q50 hasnt convinced us that its good enough for the company it aims to keep. Still, at least we are promised a good showing from the QX60, and it seems that Infiniti may be aware of the short...

2014-2018 Audi SQ5 Audi first brought its sporty SQ5 crossover to the American market in 2014, using the same 3.0-liter supercharged V6 found in the S4 sedan and S5 coupe. It produced 354 hp and 347 lb-ft of torque, going out to Audis all-wheel-drive system through an eight-speed automatic. Zero-to-sixty mph took just 5.1 seconds, making the SQ5 quicker than the Kona N. For the 2018 model year, Audi replaced the supercharged V6 with a turbocharged motor producing the same power but a bit more t...

But we wouldnt recommend it. The furor surrounding Teslas semi-autonomous Autopilot system seems to show no sign of subsiding. Consumer Reports (CR) elicited fiery responses from Tesla fans recently when it proved that a Tesla Model Y could be driven without a driverbehind the wheel. In that experiment, CR placed a weighted chain on the steering wheel to trick the system into thinking a driver had their hands on the wheel. In a disturbing turn of events, a third-party provider of Tesla accessor...