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• GMC's Best-Selling Truck Just Got a Massive Makeover

  25-06-2026 17:00 via motor1.com
  
  The new GMC Sierra 1500 comes with two new V8 engines and a fully revamped interior. Pricing will be announced at a later date.
  
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• Polestar Can’t Sell Cars In The US Anymore

  25-06-2026 16:00 via motor1.com
  
  A new rule restricts the import and sale of connected cars with ties to China or Russia.  
  
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• Why do UK drivers pay more for fuel than in other European countries?

  25-06-2026 14:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Sharp rises in fuel costs have hit UK drivers' wallets, but that isn't the case everywhereBritish drivers are paying significantly more at the pumps than drivers in several other European countries.
  According to RAC data, petrol currently costs around 156p per litre in the UK, compared with roughly 136p in Cyprus, 130p in Spain and 116p in Malta.
  Drivers don’t have to refuel too many times before the difference starts hitting their wallets. According to the RAC, filling a 55-litr
  
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• 20 of the best front-wheel-drive cars ever built

  25-06-2026 13:49 via autocar.co.uk
  
  The cars that prove you don't need rear-drive balance to have funWhen handling is mentioned, it’s usually rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive cars that get time in the spotlight.This is because of the amount of grip and balance offered. But hey don’t hold a monopoly – and many excellent cars to drive have been built whose engines drive just the front wheels – these are some of the best:Ford Puma
  In the 1990s, Mazda had the MX-3, Vauxhall had the Tigra, Fiat gave us the Ba
  
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• In pictures: the Alfa Romeo story

  25-06-2026 13:22 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Alfa has long been one of the most-loved Italian marques for Autocar readers, and here we celebrate its historySome people say that every true petrolhead has either owned an Alfa Romeo or, at the very least, wanted to.Alfa was founded in Milan, less than a hundred miles from its current home in Turin. The actual date was 24 June 1910, but as we’ll see the Alfa Romeo story in fact began a little earlier than that. Let's take a look at this famous firm through the lens of its most
  
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• Semi-solid vs solid state: Decoding the future of electric car batteries

  25-06-2026 13:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Battery breakthroughs will narrow the gap between ICE and EV, making charging as quick as pumping petrolAs battery technology improves, so the terminology gets more confusing, but soon it may pay to understand the differences when choosing an EV.
  Renault and MG have announced forthcoming updates to their respective technologies, with both edging closer to solid-state lithium-ion from conventional liquid electrolyte technology.
  MG says it will be the first brand to mass-produce a semi-solid-state
  
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• Is This Electric Porsche Boxster Secretly An Audi In Disguise?

  25-06-2026 12:23 via motor1.com
  
  The Volkswagen Group plans to launch three electric sports cars, and this is one of them.
  
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• Inside JCB’s plans to smash hydrogen land speed record

  25-06-2026 11:33 via autocar.co.uk
  
  The British engineering firm’s Hydromax challenger has topped 208mph in testing
  British engineering firm JCB’s new Hydromax land speed record challenger has reached 208mph to exceed the current speed for the faster hydrogen-powered combustion car as its testing programme wraps up.
  The firm is aiming to set a new hydrogen land speed record with the machine on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in August, repeating its success in setting a diesel land speed record with its Dieselmax cha
  
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• The New Jaguar Will Chase A 'Niche Part Of A Niche Part'

  25-06-2026 11:08 via motor1.com
  
  Jaguar will stop targeting volume to focus on high-margin products.
  
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• Electric car vs heatwave: Can my Renault 4 cope in 34 degrees?

  25-06-2026 11:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  We know EVs take a range hit when the temperature drops - but hot weather isn't all good newsLike for a lot of people, the novelty of the 30deg C-plus temperatures and fearsome sunshine are wearing off pretty quickly for me. It wasn't long into this latest heatwave before I was practically kneeling in the street and begging the skies for a summer downpour – if only for the sake of my new hydrangea.
  Compounding this heat-induced frustration was that once the mercury gets past a certain
  
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• Land Rover Sold These Color-Changing Classic Defenders To A Single Buyer

  25-06-2026 09:27 via motor1.com
  
  Land Rover Classic makes the old Defender new, complete with V8 power.
  
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• Vauxhall given new freedom to adapt Opel cars for UK roads

  25-06-2026 09:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Vauxhall will get more room to meet "the specific needs of UK customers" amid Stellantis brand overhaulOpel will give UK subsidiary Vauxhall more engineering freedom to adapt its cars for its home market, in line with an ongoing commitment to preserving the British marque's role in the Stellantis group.
  Stellantis – parent company of Opel-Vauxhall, as well as other European marques Alfa Romeo, Citroën, DS, Fiat, Lancia and Peugeot – recently announced that it would channel
  
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• Porsche Launches A New 911 Race Car

  25-06-2026 08:44 via motor1.com
  
  The $375,500 Porsche 911 GT4 R has a flat-six engine producing 512 horsepower. It begins racing next year.
  
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• BMW M3 Touring poised for epic Neue Klasse comeback

  25-06-2026 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Massive success of BMW's straight-six super estate lays groundwork for a second outingThe M3 Touring will live on in BMW's Neue Klasse era, in part thanks to unexpectedly high demand in markets such as the US and China.
  While the M3 saloon is now in its sixth generation, the performance model has only been offered in estate form since the arrival of the G80-generation version in 2021. But strong sales since then have prompted BMW to bring the super-estate back with the next-generation M3, as pre
  
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