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America Built A 100% Tariff Wall To Keep Chinese EVs Out, Volvo’s Plant Could Open The Door

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Volvo is open to building Geely EVs at their South Carolina plant. Facility is underutilized as it makes slow-selling EX90 and Polestar 3. Geely had previously suggested they want to come to US in 2-3 years. Volvo had high hopes for their Ridgeville, South Carolina plant, which opened in 2018 to build the S60. Unfortunately, the sedan arrived as consumers were embracing crossovers. The S60 rode off into the sunset six years later and the plant was retooled to build the even slower-selling EX90 and Polestar 3. This has left the facility underutilized and the automaker will attempt to address that problem by adding the XC60 later this year . However, they might not stop there. More: Volvo’s Chinese Parent Built A $14K Sedan Americans Can’t Get In an interview, Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson said the company would consider building Geely vehicles at the plant as they have excess capacity. However, the executive told Business Insider that any such move would require the Chin...
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Ford Rates The Mustang GTD At 815 HP, A Dyno Shows 753 WHP, And That Loss Is Good News

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Mustang GTD puts down 753 wheel horsepower and 609 lb-ft of torque on a Dynojet. That’s a massive jump over the old Shelby GT500 and proof Ford’s supercharged V8 evolved. The improved broad torque curve is one reason Dark Horse SC buyers can be very excited. Automakers claim all sorts of things as they’re building and marketing their products. Horsepower and torque figures tell us what an engine can make, but they don’t tell us how much of that energy makes it to the tire. Now, we’re learning exactly how much power a Ford Mustang GTD pushed to the wheels, and to put it simply, it’s downright impressive. Perhaps even more notable is that Dark Horse SC buyers are going to get a similarly stellar powertrain. First, let’s get the headline figures out of the way. Ford says this ultimate, $320,000+ super muscle car will make 815 horsepower (608 kW) and 664 lb-ft (900 Nm) of torque to the flywheel. Late Model Restoration just put one on its DynoJet dynamometer, and it made 75...
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Driver Says Cyclists Took His Lane, Then His Honda Pilot Hit Two Of Them

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Cyclists claim 72-year-old Jerry Ross used his Honda Pilot to hit two riders. Cellphone video caught the plate and helped deputies quickly find him. Ross now faces charges of aggravated assault, hit-and-run, reckless driving, and more. Road rage is just objectively one of the dumbest activities one can engage in. Often, though, the result is little more than a spike in blood pressure and perhaps a damaged ego. In this case, it led the driver of a Honda Pilot to jail, facing several serious charges. It also made the cyclists he was allegedly angry at look nearly as reckless in the process. According to WSBTV , authorities in Cherokee County, Georgia, say 72-year-old Jerry Ross of Woodstock pulled up behind a group of 10 cyclists on Sugar Pike Road, laid on the horn, then aggressively passed them in his Honda Pilot despite having an empty oncoming lane to use. Instead of giving them the legally required room, deputies say he struck two riders and then fled the scene. Rea...
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A 17.3 MPH Speed Limit Sounds Like A Mistake, Wisconsin Says It Isn’t

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Wisconsin drivers are doing a double-take after spotting a 17.3 mph speed limit sign. Officials say the oddly specific number is designed to break “autopilot” driving habits. Similar decimal-point speed limits, such as 8.2 mph, have appeared elsewhere. Habituation is what we humans experience when we fail to notice something because our brain believes the information is somewhat unimportant. We roll by a 25 mph (40 km/h) speed limit sign and don’t think too hard about whether we’re actually going below that limit. Wisconsin has a government facility that’s trying to buck that trend with a simple decimal point. Rather than a limit of 15 or 20 mph, drivers have to stay below 17.3 mph (27.8 km/h). And that double-take is exactly the point. Read: Speed Limits Are Outdated, And We All Know It According to officials at the Outagamie County Recycling and Solid Waste facility, the oddly precise number was chosen for one simple reason. It forces people to stop and actually lo...
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The Land Cruiser 70 Was Built For The Outback, Toyota Just Made One For The City

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Toyota’s Land Cruiser Base has two new one-off concepts heading to Tokyo. The Land Cruiser 70 wears beige paint with retro stripes pulled from the ’80s. Its sibling, the LC250, gets a darker matte gray and gloss black bi-tone look. Toyota’s dedicated Land Cruiser Base division will roll into the Field Style Tokyo 2026 exhibition with a pair of one-offs that argue for restraint. One is built on the 250 Series, the other on the venerable 70. Both are called “Urban Style” in some form, both are aimed at owners who fancy modifying their own trucks, and neither is going into production. Starting with the classic 70 Series , it wears a beige paint job with alloys finished in the same shade, wrapped in all-terrain rubber. Black and grey stripes run down the flanks, a style borrowed from the 1980s. The “Urban Heritage Style” name does most of the explaining. The point of the exercise, Toyota says, is to demonstrate that a vehicle this agricultural can still pass muster in the c...
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America Is About To Tariff Itself Out Of Its Last Affordable Cars

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Cheap cars could disappear if North American trade worsens. US tariffs squeeze already tiny profits on low-priced vehicles. Only 7 % of new cars at the end of last year cost under $30k. Buying a really affordable new car in America is already hard, but it could soon get much harder. Foreign automakers are reportedly warning the Trump administration that low-cost models may disappear entirely if North American trade rules are weakened or tariffs remain in place, according to the Wall Street Journal. Many mainstream brands have already abandoned affordable sedans and hatchbacks. Detroit automakers largely pivoted toward trucks and SUVs years ago, leaving companies like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Hyundai carrying much of the budget-car burden. And even they’ve sometimes struggled to make the numbers stack up, leading Nissan to axe the Versa after this year. Related: The Average New Car Costs $50K, So Americans Are Emptying Used Car Lots Models such as the Toyota Corolla...
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A 550 HP Inline-Six From The Charger Could End Up In Alfa’s Next Giulia And Stelvio

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The redesigned Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio are due in 2028. They’ll be offered with conventional, electric, and plug-in hybrid power. Models reportedly had to be reengineered to allow for engine cooling. Alfa Romeo was set to launch redesigned versions of the Giulia and Stelvio this year. However, the company got cold feet after seeing other automakers deal with lackluster demand for electric vehicles. Instead of pushing the models out and hoping for the best, Alfa embraced a radical rethink and is delaying the vehicles to give them additional powertrains. While the redesigned sedan and crossover ride on the STLA Large platform, which underpins the Dodge Challenger and allows for both ICE and electric powertrains, things are more complicated than just installing an engine. More: Alfa Romeo Scraps New Giulia And Stelvio Plans To Start Fresh According to Autocar , the vehicles had to be reengineered to “allow more cooling for combustion powertrains.” As part of the m...
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