2026 Genesis G70

You’ll say it’s “just a Hyundai,” but check out these luxury features on the Genesis G70. Friend of the site Connie Peters reviews the 2026 Genesis G70. Take a look at the video or transcript below to see what she thinks. 
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Ford's sales are sliding, and the fix is a manufacturer-to-dealer discount that most shoppers won't see advertised anywhere. Ford has launched a $1,000 factory-to-dealer incentive branded the "Fast Cash Cert Program," in effect from now until the end of September, according to a dealer bulletin. Dealers get $250 credits and can layer as many as four of them onto a single deal, which is how the total reaches the full grand. The catch: that maximum only applies to purchases. Lease deals cap out a

General Motors has been drip feeding the world details about its updated full-size pickups for the 2027 model year. Today, we learned about the planned pricing bumps for the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado.Pricing on the Chevy was made public a few days ago, with GMC having just followed up with the Sierra. The elephant in the room is that everything looks to be getting significantly more expensive. While the Sierra has typically yielded higher MSRPs, it’s also supposed to be the more l

His long career included stints at TV Guide and CNN and now Howard Polskin has what his friends say is the worst job in journalism, reading content on conservative news websites and writing commentary for subscribers of his website TheRighting.com. It's not what you think.  Polskin and host/journalist Ed Garsten have a spirited conversation about the controversial website along with the state of the media in general. TTAC Creator Ed Garsten hosts " Tales from the Beat," a podcast

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe confirmed what the company's cheaper future looks like, even if he's not attaching numbers to it yet. The R3 hatchback's cost will be "materially lower" than the R2, and the R4 waiting behind it will drop the price further still."The next product, which we creatively call R3, is going to take the price point down. We haven't announced pricing yet, but it will move materially lower," Scaringe told The New York Times. "There's a product beyond that, called R4, w

Following last week’s promotion of the new V8s that will replace some of the brand’s more contentious powertrains, General Motors has elected to tease the new Duramax “Mongoose” engine. Despite being named after a small predatory mammal, the motor is a monstrous 8.3-liter turbo diesel.As with the new small blocks, the Duramax V8 will see action in the updated Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. The only difference is that the gasoline engines will premiere in the 1500 mod

Volvo Cars is about to churn through another chief executive, and this time the board went shopping in Wolfsburg — Germany. The Swedish automaker has appointed Klaus Zellmer as President and CEO, less than two years after coaxing Håkan Samuelsson out of retirement to steady the ship. Zellmer takes over no later than Oct. 1, 2027. By then, Volvo will have run through four CEOs in roughly five years — a revolving door that has become the norm rather than the exception in Gothenb

The annual contest to find the best vehicles of 2027, the North American Car, Truck, and Utility of the Year (NACTOY) has whittled the field down to a large group of semifinalists, which includes some surprises.“This is a diverse field of vehicles that reflects the changing nature of the auto industry,” said Jeff Gilbert, president of NACTOY and auto reporter for WWJ Newsradio 950 in Detroit, in a release. “Our jurors started with 56 eligible vehicles and selected 25 to advanc

When the Ford Motor Co. replaced the Model T with the Model A for the 1928 model year, the price tag for the cheapest possible new U.S.-market Ford car jumped 33 percent just like that. It wasn't until the introduction of the Falcon that the Model T had a genuine successor here, and I've found an early example in a Denver-area yard.When the Falcon first appeared as a 1960 model, its MSRP was more than 15 percent less than the next-cheapest U.S.-market Ford car (the two-door Fairlane Business Sed

Lincoln built its whole reputation on being American. The brand started in Detroit, Ford folded it into the Blue Oval as its luxury division, and it once supplied official state cars for several US presidents. The Nautilus, though, is assembled in Hangzhou and made mostly from Chinese parts. That single fact is now the most important thing to understand about the vehicle, because it determines what you will pay to repair one and what you will lose when you sell it. The core problem is a 52.5 per

Toyota's all-new, all-hybrid RAV4 was supposed to spend 2026 doing what the RAV4 always does: sit near the top of the sales charts as the best-selling thing in America that isn't an F-Series. Fresh styling, more power, better efficiency. Instead, production problems knocked sales down early in the year, and the Honda CR-V walked right through the open door. Honda's lead is now large enough that Toyota probably can't reel it back before the calendar runs out.Rather than sit on that advantage, Ho

Ford has a small but pointed problem on its hands: a software fix that may have created the very kind of trouble software fixes are supposed to prevent. The company is recalling 86 Mustang Mach-E from the 2023-2025 model years over Battery Energy Control Module (BECM) software that can misreport how much charge is actually in the pack.The affected cars reportedly received a new BECM software update during a prior repair. That update is the culprit. Cars running it might show the wrong charge re

Charging an EV in the U.S. still involves too much fumbling with QR codes and credit cards. Red E Charge is trying to cut that out. The Detroit-based operator has turned on Plug & Charge at a good chunk of its stalls, so drivers can walk up, plug in, and let the payment sort itself out. It's calling the new service Red E Go.The catch, as always, is the setup. Drivers complete a one-time configuration in the network's smartphone app, entering vehicle details and a payment method. After that,

Somewhere past hour six, the romance of the open road starts to wear a little thin. The playlist has looped twice, your lower back has filed a formal complaint, and you've been staring at the same stretch of I-70 in Kansas for what feels like geological time.A cross-country drive is one of the great American experiences when it goes well. When it doesn't, it is a very long, very expensive way to arrive somewhere exhausted and irritable.1. Sort the car out before you leave
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Another one bites the dust. The list of sports car makers who swore they'd never build an SUV and then quietly built one just added its sportiest holdout. McLaren Automotive has confirmed it will produce its first sport utility vehicle in the company's 63-year history, joining a club that Porsche opened in 2002 with the Cayenne and that has since roped in Jaguar, Maserati, Lotus, and even Ferrari. The SUV is the centerpiece of a $670 million (£500 million) investment announced Wednesday,

We sit down with Lee Wilson to discuss his epic 8,222-mile (13,232 km) road trip around the entire U.S. in his all-wheel drive (AWD) orange Volkswagen ID. Buzz. If you've ever worried about EV range, Lee is here to prove that charging infrastructure is a solved problem. Lee shares how utilizing a Peace Vans kitchen box gave them the flexibility to camp, hit up hotels, or stay with friends along their eastbound and westbound routes. He breaks down their strategy of stopping every two hours for a

Volvo says it might bring back the wagon. That alone should perk up the ears of anyone who's spent the last decade watching the brand bulldoze its lineup into an all-SUV monoculture. The Swedish automaker has confirmed 13 all-new models by the end of 2030, and not every one of them will be a crossover. Of the 13, seven are earmarked for Western markets including Europe and North America. The remaining six? Reserved for China. Volvo calls this "the largest and most ambitious global product push

General Motors is hyping up the new V8 options that will be coming to updated versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra — with other models presumed to follow. Considering the lackluster reputation gained by the V8 engines currently available on those models, the forthcoming changes will presumably be welcomed by customers.With the United States recently pulling back on stringent vehicle emissions, domestic automakers feel comfortable fielding more V8 motors. This change is especi

General Motors sits in an unusual spot for a legacy automaker. It sells a wide range of electric vehicles alongside a fleet of profitable gas-powered trucks and SUVs, and it has done so without building the hybrid bridge that nearly every rival leaned on. The only hybrid GM currently sells in the United States is the Corvette E-Ray. Everything else is either a combustion vehicle or a battery-electric one, with almost nothing in between. That looks like a problem right now. EV sales have softene

The 2020 BMW M2 Competition in this video keeps a fully stock exterior and interior, but don’t let that fool you — the S55 under the hood is far from factory.  The build highlights include: S55 3.0L inline‑six, 7‑speed DCT, MHD Stage 2 tune, MHD Flex Fuel + ECA analyzer, XHP Stage 3 trans tune, S5X crankhub upgrade, BMC drop‑in filters, running 50% ethanol. 
Power Estimate: No dyno yet, but this setup should land in the low‑to‑mid 600s WHP/WTQ

The Speed Academy team digs back into a BMW project that had been on the sidelines — until now. Speed Academy is a website and YouTube channel based on making things go fast and enjoying cars. Peter Tarach and Dave Pratte are the forces behind Speed Academy.The TTAC Creators Series tells stories and amplifies creators from all corners of the car world, including culture, dealerships, collections, modified builds and more.An AI-produced summary of the transcript, edited by a

In-car breathalyzers are already a fixture for repeat offenders. Court-mandated hardware that no one would mistake for a modern driving experience. Aftermarket ignition interlocks are clumsy, easy to tamper with, and prone to contamination from sitting inside a hot car. Hyundai has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that proposes building the whole thing into the car from the factory.The system lives in the steering wheel. According to the patent uncovered by CarBuzz res

When General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra revealed in 2023 the automaker would begin phasing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto out of its vehicles in a few years the reaction was … quick and fierce. Scores of potential GM owners lined up to say, “Goodbye [insert GM brand here]!” To be fair, GM’s native software isn’t too bad as owners of the automaker’s electric vehicles (EVs) could attest. Despite that lukewarm endorsement from EV buyers who were forced to

Turns out the people wanted CarPlay after all. Who could have possibly predicted that?
General Motors revealed it is putting Apple CarPlay and Android Auto back into its vehicles, starting with the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and 2027 GMC Sierra. This is the same company that in 2023 announced it would phase the technologies out of its EVs in favor of homegrown software, and whose CEO Mary Barra said late last year that the death sentence would extend to all GM vehicles, gas-powered ones included.

Jaguar Land Rover reportedly wants into the American pickup market, and the vehicle to do it is a Defender-based truck built in the United States through the joint venture it's cooking up with Stellantis. That's the report from Britain's The Times, which pegs the U.S. pickup segment at $80 billion and frames the move as a fightback under JLR boss PB Balaji, who has already cut 4,000 jobs.The reason a Defender truck makes sense right now comes down to tariffs. The current Defender is assembled i

Reports have claimed that Costco has been forced to raise the price on its Kirkland Signature oil blends and will even be rationing how much customers can purchase within a given timeframe. This has led to subsequent concerns that other major retailers may soon do the same.
We recently discussed how escalating warfare in the Middle East and Ukraine have helped drive up the per-barrel cost of oil and thereby fuel prices. But we’re now getting reports of large retailers claiming that they wo

Ram brought back the Rumble Bee. The very first retail example just changed hands for $1.5 million, and the buyer is UFC President and CEO Dana White, who scooped up the one-off truck at Barrett-Jackson in Las Vegas on Friday, along with a customized 2005 Dodge Ram 1500 SRT-10 thrown into the deal.The marketing shots show the 2027 Ram 1500 Rumble Bee SRT in the expected yellow-and-black livery. The truck White actually took home is different. It wears a hand-painted Molten Red Pearl and Diamond

Today, if a car company announces a 700-horsepower luxury SUV with a six-figure price tag, the reaction is usually a shrug. Of course it does. Every luxury manufacturer has one. Bentley has the Bentayga. Lamborghini has the Urus. Aston Martin has the DBX. Rolls-Royce has the Cullinan. Ferrari even joined the party with the Purosangue.  But back in 2006, the idea of an exotic super-SUV was almost absurd. Sports car companies built sports cars. Luxury brands built limousines. SUVs were thing

Buying a new car in America keeps getting more expensive. The exception, oddly enough, is the segment that spent years being written off as too pricey to bother with.Kelley Blue Book's August pricing report puts the average new vehicle at $50,089, up 1.9% year over year. EVs moved the other direction, averaging $54,813 — down 2.7% annually and 1.2% from July.
Yes, electric cars are still more expensive than the average new vehicle. But the premium is now $4,724, and it's shrinking. For a

Meet the Bentley Blower Jnr, a handcrafted, 85% scale electric replica of Bentley’s legendary 1929 supercharged race car.  Built by Hedley Studios, this fully street-legal EV blends vintage charm with modern electric performance. Powered by a 15-kW motor and a 10.8 kWh battery, it delivers up to 65 miles of range and a top speed of 45 mph in Europe. Only 349 will be made, making this a truly collectible piece of automotive history.
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