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As of June, Land Rover sales were up 1.7% from 2025, which was a record year for the storied marque, even with the Cyberattack the company experienced last year. Of course, with product like the 2026 Range Rover P400 SE SWB on offer, it’s easy to see why. After a week in the 2026 Land Rover Range Rover P400 SE SWB, luxury SUV gets a new definition. You think you know luxury? I now I thought I knew luxury, until I drove my first Range Rover back in 1998.

It may be the most controversial new product in recent automotive history and the success or failure of the all-electric Type 01 could determine the success – or failure – of the Jaguar brand. Headlight.News was on hand Tuesday night for the sports sedan’s New York debut. The Jaguar Type 01 rolls down a Manhattan street ahead of its official debut.

To mix metaphors, the 2027 Kia EV3 fires on all cylinders: attractive, affordable, with great range, quick charging and good performance. A Kia EV3 Land edition with front-wheel-drive offering 201 hp. While we’ve seen the auto industry make a multi-billion retrenchment on EVs, Kia continues to move pretty much full speed ahead, betting that demand will eventually bounce back after the tumble triggered by the phase-out of federal tax credits in September 2025.

The popularity of luxury crossovers and SUVs remains strong, and perhaps no brand benefits from that more than Lexus. For years, Toyota’s luxury marque has set the bar for luxury utes in the U.S. The OG in the segment is the NX, and after a week in the 2026 Lexus NX 450h AWD, it’s clear the bar isn’t backsliding.

By all accounts, General Motors is currently experiencing one of its strongest product eras ever. Case in point; the 2026 Cadillac Optiq-V reviewed here. The Cadillac Optiq-V is the marques’ smallest high-performance EV and its fastest street legal product — ever. New for the 2026 model year and planned when GM was envisioning an all-electric future, Optiq is Cadillac’s smallest EV model, which makes Optiq-V the marques smallest high-performance EV and its fastest street legal product — ever.

There are no original ideas in the auto industry anymore, or at least it feels that way. That said, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and that’s what you get when you climb behind the wheel of the 2026 Nissan Armada Nismo. But does it hit the mark? It’s not enough to be big and powerful if you’re a full-size SUV. Being sporty is necessary, thus the 2026 Nissan Armada Nismo. When Lincoln rolled out the Navigator it was a hit.

For the life of me, I do not understand why people continue to fawn all over crossover SUVs when cars like the 2026 BMW M5 Touring offers all the utility most people will ever require. The 2026 BMW M5 Touring offers all the utility most people will ever require. Plus its blended with prodigious handling, speed, style and luxury. Granted, manufacturers have figured out how to make crossover SUVs fast and handle too. However, none of them can compare to the M5 Touring.

Nowhere else is everything that’s old new again like the auto industry. Toyota’s the latest to bring us back to the future with the 2026 C-HR XSE. And while its predecessor was a small, gas miser, the new variation is a powerful, stylish, electric-only model that could benefit from some more range. Toyota’s the latest automaker to bring us back to the future with the 2026 C-HR XSE. Toyota has resurrected the C-HR, which disappeared from the U.S. market after 2022.

Overall new vehicle sales held up in August thanks to the growing popularity of hybrids, which have served as a shield from increasingly troubling economic news. A growing number of product lines, like the Honda Prelude, are available solely as hybrids.

The price for diesel is about to hit a record high and that will fuel another surge in the cost of everything from burgers to construction materials. The Ram 2500 Power Wagon gets a first-ever Cummins turbo-diesel. Timing is everything, they say. And that’s bad news for the U.S. economy, and for the Ram brand, in particular. The Stellantis truck brand revealed Tuesday morning it will offer a 6.7-liter Cummons turbo-diesel option for the Ram 2500 Power Wagon for the very first time.