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BYD’s new Denza Z supercar is ready to take on all comers, especially high-performance battery-electric vehicles like the Ferrari Luce. But if you’re looking to buy one you’re out of luck – at least if you live in the U.S. It’s one of a growing list of high-performance Chinese EVs effectively barred from the American market. Headlight.News has more. The BYD Denza Z will be offered in three distinct trims.

Its name, appropriately enough, is Topolino, or “Little Mouse,” in Italian, and its barely as long as a ping-pong table. Fiat’s newest model is also the most affordable EV in America. Headlight.News checks it out. In soft-top form, the Topolino replaces doors with ropes. The “Little Mouse” is coming to America. The Fiat Topolino is barely as big as a ping-pong table and a convertible version doesn’t even offer doors.

Almost buried amidst the bullet points for July sales was a surprising fact: after a 44-year run, the Ford F-150 lost its crown as the nation’s best-selling vehicle during the first half of 2026. Who’s toppled the king-of-the-hill? And can they maintain their lead for the full year? Headlight.News has more. Honda added the CR-V TrailSport in 2026 and may be leaving Ford’s F-150 in the dust.

A new direction for BMW? That may be the case with the 2027 X5 which will be offered with a wide range of powertrain options – including gas, PHEV, EV and even hydrogen. Headlight.News was there for the new SAV’s debut. The 2027 BMW X5 will be offered with a wide range of powertrain options. The 2027 BMW X5 represents more than the next generation of the company’s best-selling luxury SUV.

Sales of electrified vehicles helped keep the industry afloat in June and during the second quarter, with Korean brands, in particular, delivering record sales numbers. New car sales for June gave a bit of much-needed momentum to the industry. South Korean automakers Hyundai, Kia and Genesis reported record sales during the second quarter and the month of June, providing some much needed momentum to a market that had been showing signs of strain in recent months.

Stagnating demand in Western markets, the end of the ‘global car,’ and the cost of electrification present automakers and suppliers with a triple conundrum, says AlixPartners’ annual report on the state of the auto industry. Chinese automakers are rolling out new products like this Geely Emgrand EV at a rapid pace.

Introduced in 2020, with its first deliveries taking place in the latter part of 2021, as 2022 models, the BMW iX has now been around for over half a decade. The marque’s first purpose built all-electric SUV, the iX looked like something out of a science fiction movie when it was unveiled. The new BMW iX xDrive45 gets some styling updates and can charge from 20% to 80% in as little as 20 minutes. Perhaps owing to that, opinions about its appearance were somewhat mixed.

Automakers are coming under increasing pressure to move production to the U.S. – with hefty tariffs penalizing not only products imported from abroad but those built in the States using foreign parts. Which products are the most “American-made”? A new study finds Tesla and Jeep at the top of the list, though Japanese brands make up six of the top 10 spots, reports Headlight.News. Graphic courtesy: Cars.com.

The Iran War has left the U.S. military with a depleted stockpile of weapons – even while revealing there’s an entirely new form of warfare. Yet that has the Pentagon reaching into its past and could see Detroit’s automakers emerge as a modern version of the “Arsenal of Democracy” that played a critical role in winning World War II. Headlight.News has more.

Mazda knows a good thing when it makes it. When the brand introduced the CX-50 in late 2021, it created a massive buzz. It supercharged Mazda’s transition to a crossover-dominated lineup. Four years later, nothing’s changed and it’s nearly the brand’s top-selling vehicle. More important, Mazda keeps making it better, as evidenced by the all-new 2026 Mazda CX-50 Turbo Meridian Edition.