Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon

Yes, a plug-in hybrid AMG wagon that would be the perfect family daily driver. I loved this one. Friend of the site Connie Peters reviews the Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon. Take a look at the video or transcript below to see what she thinks. 
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The pitch for a nationwide charging network has always been dressed up as a public good. The top executive at EV charging startup Ionna would like to remind everyone it's a business that needs to make money, or none of this works.Seth Cutler, who runs the eight-automaker joint venture, told The Drivecast that the venture has no illusions about its mandate. "This is a for-profit business," he said, and that business is EV charging. Cutler put the stakes bluntly: "Infrastructure has to be for-prof

The 2027 Honda Civic Type R is being updated to incorporate a few creature comforts and some minor performance enhancements. While both are presumably unnecessary factors in driving sales, they will allow the manufacturer to brag that they’ve improved an already excellent performance vehicle.But the visual changes are beyond subtle. Honda claims to have altered the front fascia to improve airflow. An enlarged grille is supposed to help keep the engine cooler, whereas an updated front split

If you think about it, there's no practical reason to buy a 2026 Mazda MX-5 Miata. You feel cramped in a tight space. You get decent, but not great fuel economy. And the MX-5 only offers decent acceleration and roadholding. So what's the point? FUN! Let me show you. Views on Vehicles focuses on new car reviews and news, presented by Robin Warner, a perennial car nut. The reason for the channel's focus becomes crystal clear when you look at Warner’s experience. 
He spent five yea

The 2026 Audi RS3 is back with even more attitude, more precision, and the same legendary five‑cylinder punch that makes it one of the most distinctive performance compacts on the planet. The 2026 RS3 exterior delivers full wide‑body stance, flared fenders, a deeper RS honeycomb grille, and massive functional air intakes feeding the turbocharged five‑cylinder. Inside, the 2026 Audi RS3 interior blends luxury and performance: RS sport seats, heavy bolstering, optional Nappa lea

Nissan treated hybrids as an afterthought for the better part of two decades, now wants to blanket its lineup with them. By 2030, the automaker plans hybrid versions of most of its SUVs, and its North American boss expects the technology to carry the brand.The first wave is a Rogue e-Power hybrid arriving shortly, with Nissan Americas Chair Christian Meunier telling Automotive News he wants the hybrid to account for 30 percent to 40 percent of Rogue sales "very quickly." His bigger claim: "I th

Ford CEO Jim Farley has looked across the Atlantic, watched what happened to Europe's automakers, and decided he'd rather not repeat the experience. His verdict on the Continent's efforts to fend off Chinese brands: "It's too late." Farley said during the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit the U.S. must "be extremely careful around how the Chinese OEMs come to our country," according to Reuters. His reasoning is the cautionary tale already playing out overseas. Once Chinese brands arrive

There are concept cars that look unrealistic because they are clearly made of cardboard, optimism, and lighting tricks. Then there are concept cars that look unrealistic because they are simply too good to be true. The BMW Nazca belongs in the second group.  The Nazca had a carbon-fiber body. It had a mid-mounted BMW V12. It had styling from Italdesign. It had gullwing-style glass sections, Group C racing influences, a drag coefficient that would shame many modern supercars, and a shape so

Lucid pushed out UX 3.0 for the Air this week, a top-to-bottom redesign of the sedan's infotainment meant to close the gap with the newer Gravity SUV. The catch: if your Air is old enough, the update isn't a free download. It's a $950 trip to the service center.Own a 2025-or-newer Air? You're fine. UX 3.0 arrives automatically through Lucid's 2.11.0 over-the-air update, no hardware required.
Own a 2022, 2023, or some 2024 models? Then getting the new system means a $950 processor upgrade, a fig

It used to be popular to say that today’s cars are nothing more than computers on wheels. However, it’s safe to say that’s an understatement. But with the advances in technology have come some homogenization (i.e. all cars are the same) and some excess (i.e. do we really need this). I think it’s safe to say that today’s vehicles are safer than ever, in large measure because of the new technology. In fact, there’s enough helpers/nannies that they get a group n

The Trump administration just released finalized a new set of federal emissions rules covering passenger cars and light trucks, unwinding the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) targets set in 2024. The relaxed rules cover new vehicles through the 2031 model year, and GM stands to be the single biggest beneficiary.According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, GM was on track to spend $31.7 billion on compliance technology through 2031 under the prior rules, a figure Reuters reported. Th

I wanted to share the cars I personally own. What if any work there is to do on them in future videos that maybe coming to the channel as well as the car/cars I am looking to add in short order. The TTAC Creators Series tells stories and amplifies creators from all corners of the car world, including culture, dealerships, collections, modified builds and more.
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The Roadster that Tesla has been promising fans for the better part of a decade will have to keep waiting. The company said Monday it made the "difficult decision" to bump its reveal from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15, citing severe weather in the forecast."We've been tracking the weather closely with local meteorologists, but given the severe conditions predicted & because this event can only be held outdoors, we've made the difficult decision to reschedule," Tesla said in an X post.
The reveal date w

Volkswagen has announced that it will be launching an all-electric version of the Tiguan SUV as a replacement for the ID.4.While the Tiguan has seen sales slipping a tad in recent years, it remains a popular model for VW. This is likely at the core of what's driving the name change, since we’re betting the new model has much more in common with the ID.4 than the current version of the Tiguan.“More than 8.3 million Tiguan vehicles produced demonstrate the strength and trust associated

Ford has spent years renting celebrities to sell its wares, and its latest hire is a comedian whose main qualification is that he can't work on his own car. Nate Bargatze is the face of a new ad campaign built to lure customers back to the dealership service bay, and the pitch is aimed squarely at people who have no idea what happens under the hood.The effort is called "Real Parts. Real Pros. Real Easy.," and it rests on three selling points: genuine parts, technicians trained specifically on y

Today, the Trump administration lowered the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) from 50.4 mpg to 34.9 mpg by 2031. This applies to passenger cars and light duty trucks. The CAFE at the end of 2024 was 30.1 mpg.The final move in Trump’s “Freedom Means Affordable Cars” reportedly allows automakers more flexibility in the types of vehicles they build to attract more buyers. It would also reduce the average price of a new vehicle by $1,300 and save $138 billion during the next f

Tesla finally has a 500-mile electric truck rolling off a real production line, and the thing works. The problem is that a truck rated for 500 miles per charge still needs somewhere to plug in, and the network that would make cross-country electric freight possible barely exists. Tesla's own website shows two public megawatt chargers running around Los Angeles, which is not a network so much as a rounding error.
That gap is the whole story of electric trucking right now. The vehicle is the easy

We resume our Ford Taurus coverage today and wade into the multi-faceted arrangements that were trim levels and options at its launch in 1986. Ford didn’t have it all figured out right away, and there were small changes made here and there throughout. So while the brochures might have specified this or that feature or appearance as part of a trim, a Taurus on the lot may have been slightly different!
The information presented here is taken from a 1986 Taurus brochure, a version from Septem

If you walk into a North American Subaru showroom today, you'll find that their only new vehicles available with three pedals are the BRZ and the WRX. In the not-so-distant past, though, the U.S.-market Outback could be purchased with a six-speed manual. I found one of the final examples of that powertrain rig in a Denver-area car graveyard last spring.The fourth-generation Outback, sold in North America for the 2010 through 2014 model years was quite a bit bigger and more SUV-like than its pred

Automatic engine stop-start has spent years shutting off your engine at red lights whether you asked for it or not. Ford now wants to extend that logic to the gas station, and it has filed a patent describing a vehicle that turns itself off while you refuel. The idea is straightforward enough to explain in a sentence: the car figures out that you have pulled up to a pump, and it cuts the engine for you. Whether any of this reaches a showroom is a separate question, and Ford is careful to say so

New cars crossed the $50,000 average transaction price last month and is likely to stay there for a while. Fortunately, we could always turn to the used market as the escape hatch. It isn't anymore.A recent Edmunds study lays out the damage. According to Edmunds, a car in the $10,000 to $15,000 range now averages almost nine years old with roughly 98,000 miles on the odometer. Edmunds notes that back in 2019, the same money bought a car four years younger with 40,000 fewer miles. The budget sho

New cars in the United States now average more than $50,000 for the first time. That buys you a Highlander, a Passport, or some other appliance with a badge. It does not buy you 400 horsepower unless you go shopping in the used market, where the math bends heavily in your favor. The Hagerty Price Guide lists plenty of cars making more than 400 hp, and a surprising number land under $40,000 in #3 (Good) condition — the driver-quality tier that needs a bit of sorting. What follows are six m

There are plenty of ways to determine what’s “affordable” when it comes to a new car, truck, or crossover. But only one that really matters: What a buyer is willing to spend. Cox Automotive has a specific measurement that can determine “affordability.” They call it the “Vehicle Affordability Index.” Clever. It’s a monthly measure of the number of median weeks of income needed to purchase a new vehicle.Currently it sits at 35.5 weeks for August. It

The good news at the pump this week is thin, but it exists. The bad news is that it's parked next to a diesel market setting fresh all-time highs and a global oil supply that isn't reaching anyone. According to AAA data, the U.S. national average for regular gasoline slipped on both Sept. 22 and 23. The relief was measured in fractions of a cent. It didn't stick. Regular sat at $4.47 yesterday before ticking up a penny to $4.48 today.
One penny sounds tolerable until you remember AAA's national

General Motors just shared details about the new 8.3-liter Duramax turbodiesel along with the relevant changes being made to the next batch of HD pickup trucks designed to accommodate the massive engine.
Thanks to other manufacturers not doing much beyond showcasing a few pointless concepts and announcing some new paint options this week, General Motors’ evolving engine lineup has taken up the brunt of the automotive news cycle.
We previously discussed the updated (and upsized) V8 motors s

The good news for anyone eyeing a high-mileage electric truck: pulling the battery out of a Ford F-150 Lightning is, in raw mechanical terms, simpler than yanking an internal combustion engine. The bad news is that the pack weighs roughly as much as a small car, and one wrong move with a scissor lift can leave you with a broken connector and a ruined coolant hose.Here is what the job actually demands, based on a real swap performed after a Lightning's battery failed at 234,000 miles driven in t

As politicians wrangle about what rules Chinese auto and parts makers should be subjected to in the United States, a new report out suggests the two legacy American automakers — General Motors and Ford — face tough times in 2027.According to a new Cox Automotive forecast, the pair are going to see sales — and market share — drop in 2027 due to a lineup of vehicles that doesn’t help buyers combat rising gas prices. Ford will get hit hard with sales dropping a predic

TATRA is redefining heavy-duty trucking with its FORCE e-DRIVE lineup, a range of zero-emission vehicles built without sacrificing off-road capability.  The FORCE e-DRIVE trucks are available in three configurations: a fully electric Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCEV), and a BEV with a Range Extender engine. Each is built on TATRA's signature backbone tube chassis with swinging half-axles and air suspension, preserving 100 percent of the brand's legendary m

The used-car bias against high-odometer readings has a well-worn logic behind it: more miles mean more wear, and more wear means more repair bills waiting to ambush the next owner. However, a new study suggests that instinct, developed over decades of gasoline-powered vehicle ownership, may steer you wrong when the car in question runs on electrons.The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) recently conducted a large study of vehicle inspection records and found that high-mileag

Bentley has finally built an electric car, and the company calls it its most powerful production vehicle. The Torcal, an ultraluxury compact crossover, will do the silent estate-to-country-club run faster than anything Crewe has made before. The catch: this is not the flagship, and Bentley now needs to find buyers willing to write $200,000-plus checks for a model that isn't even the top of its own range. Two electric motors deliver a combined 876 horsepower in S trim, or 888 in metric ratings,