The Auto World

Copart will acquire ACV Auctions in a $1.9 billion all-cash deal. ACV gives Copart access to dealer trade-ins and wholesale inventory. The purchase is a long-term data and logistics play. Copart isn’t exactly where you go for healthy used cars just waiting for a fresh tank of fuel and an oil change. For the most part, the business is known for cars that insurers have written off. Vehicles connected to flood damage , theft recoveries, catastrophic crashes, and more. That’s why its new $1.9 billion purchase of ACV Auctions is important. The auction house known for salvaged cars is buying its way into the used-car pipeline before a vehicle becomes a total loss. ACV currently runs a digital dealer-to-dealer wholesale marketplace. Copart says it moves more than 800,000 vehicles per year, has over 22,000 active buyers, and handled roughly $10 billion in gross merchandise value during 2025. That gives Copart access to trade-ins and other...

PROS ›› Strong power, modern cabin, spacious trunk CONS ›› No V8 or manual, unrefined exhaust, slower than rivals There are faster cars. There are cheaper cars. There are better-handling cars, more luxurious cars, and certainly more efficient cars. Yet after living with the new Dodge Charger R/T, I kept coming back to the same slightly ridiculous conclusion: this might be my favorite new car on sale in America . That’s not because Dodge has reinvented the muscle car formula. In fact, the company has committed what some fans consider sacrilege by putting a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged straight-six where they think a Hemi V8 belongs. But spend some time actually using the new Charger rather than arguing about its cylinder count, and it becomes remarkably difficult to dismiss. My four-door R/T carried a $51,995 base price and landed at $55,980 after options and a chunky $1,995 destination charge. That’s not cheap....

Mercedes-AMG’s new Spezialanfertigung CLE 646 debuts the brand’s all-new V8. Only 30 of the AMG coupes will be built, and they’re rumored to carry a $1m sticker. Ford’s Mustang GTD is less exclusive but costs less and makes even more power. Mercedes-AMG just delivered the best kind of apology for messing us around these last couple of years. The Benz performance division has dropped the Spezialanfertigung CLE 646, a musclebound limited edition coupe that costs silly money, has an even sillier name and a brand new V8 engine that makes up for the disappointment of the recent C63’s four-cylinder PHEV experiment. You can read our initial story on the CLE 646 here , but it strikes us that there’s another angle worth exploring. Because conceptually, and even visually, to an extent, this hot new AMG coupe seems rather similar to another steroidal two-door. One made in the USA. We’re talking about the Ford Mus...