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• Legislative uncertainty harming fleet plans to go EV

  18-06-2026 17:09 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Operators are now looking back towards hybrid, petrol and diesel, new survey showsUnclear regulations are hampering fleets’ appetite for electric cars, a new survey has revealed. 
  One in nine (11%) UK businesses are now forecasting a permanent role for petrol or diesel on company car fleets, and there are signs that sustainability is becoming less influential during procurement. 
  Leasing firm Alphabet’s 2026 European Fleet Emission Monitor report shows only half (50%) of th
  
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• Porsche Just Built A Rare 911 GT3 You Probably Can't Buy

  18-06-2026 19:00 via motor1.com
  
  The 911 GT3 Earls Court 51 Edition is built to celebrate 75 years of Porsche in the United Kingdom.
  
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• Volkswagen Has 10+ New Models Coming In 2026. Here's All Of Them

  18-06-2026 18:00 via motor1.com
  
  This year is one of the busiest years on record for the core Volkswagen brand.
  
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• Electric 3 Series: BMW i3 brings 567-mile range for £53k

  18-06-2026 17:21 via autocar.co.uk
  
  New i3 saloon is among the UK's longest-range EVs – and cheaper than its Mercedes-Benz rivalOrder books for the new BMW i3 – the first electric 3 Series available globally – have opened, with prices for the saloon starting from £53,005.
  Although it is considerably costlier than its outgoing petrol and plug-in-hybrid counterparts (from £41,945 and £47,210 respectively), it undercuts the rival Mercedes-Benz C-Class Electric, which starts at £57,995. 
  
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• Slate Shares Fresh Details On Its 'Mid-$20,000' Electric Truck

  18-06-2026 17:00 via motor1.com
  
  The Slate Truck will roll off the assembly line with few feature and a ton of options.
  
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• This Is The World's Fastest Lego Car

  18-06-2026 16:00 via motor1.com
  
  The full-size Lego Technic build took more than 9,000 hours and features over 327,000 pieces, yet still managed to reach 69 mph at Goodwood.
  
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• Ferrari to blend past and future with early July reveal

  18-06-2026 15:43 via autocar.co.uk
  
  "Wait till the fourth of July", says Ferrari CEO, hinting at big unveiling that blends past and presentFerrari chief executive Benedetto Vigna has hinted that the Italian supercar manufacturer will unveil a significant new model at the start of July, promising a vehicle that combines the company’s heritage with its future direction.
  Speaking earlier this week to US car dealers at a Las Vegas conference run by dealer software company Tekion, Vigna repeatedly referenced an upcoming
  
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• Land Rover Found An Unlikely Partner To Build SUVs In America

  18-06-2026 15:00 via motor1.com
  
  The British brand gets help from Stellantis to build the Defender in North America.
  
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• 3000 miles in the boggo, petrol Mini

  18-06-2026 10:46 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Is the petrol hot hatch a spent force? Not based on this 6000-mile testMuch has been made of whether the new Mini Cooper really merits being described as such, because if you peel back the subtly updated bodywork, rip out the funky knitted dashboard and disconnect the massive circular touchscreen, you will be left with fundamentally the same chassis and body-in-white as those used by its predecessor, which went on sale way back in 2013.
  While the electric Cooper is all-new, now built in China at
  
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• Maserati's Best Engine Isn't Going Anywhere—But It Is Going Hybrid

  18-06-2026 10:30 via motor1.com
  
  Maserati says it has plans for hybrid versions of the Nettuno V6.
  
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• Mitsubishi Dealers Say The Montero Is Finally Coming Back To America

  18-06-2026 10:19 via motor1.com
  
  But you may have to wait until 2030 to buy one.
  
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• Maserati Isn't Giving Up On Sedans: 'We Are Developing A New Model'

  18-06-2026 10:15 via motor1.com
  
  Maserati says a replacement for the Ghibli/Quattroporte is on the way due largely to customer demand.
  
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• New Spring: Dacia reveals name for upcoming £16k electric city car

  18-06-2026 10:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Bold new look but a familiar name for Dacia's Twingo twin, due to be revealed in coming monthsDacia will keep the Spring name for the next generation of its electric city car, it has revealed.
  The new model, which is twinned with the Renault Twingo and built in Europe, unlike the current China-built Spring, will be officially known as the New Spring.
  However, a new preview image of the £16k EV's rear end shows it will be badged simply as Spring. 'New' will be used to differentiate the
  
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• Maserati's Lineup Is Getting A Big 2027 Update. Here's What's Changing

  18-06-2026 10:00 via motor1.com
  
  The Maserati lineup sports a new look for 2027, while some models get an even more powerful V6 option.
  
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• Maserati "will have to have" manual gearbox in future supercar

  18-06-2026 10:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Head of bespoke division says manual gearbox and petrol engine are musts for next supercarMaserati has confirmed it is working on a limited-run supercar fitted with a manual gearbox – as first reported by Autocar a year ago.
  The head of the Bottegafuoriserie bespoke division was previously responsible for the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, Cristiano Fiorio, told journalists: “Mainly 50% of our [Bottegafuoriserie] customers demand a manual gearbox and a petrol engine. We can say they ar
  
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• Maserati overhauls Granturismo, Grecale with supercar-inspired look

  18-06-2026 10:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Makeover inspired by MCXtrema brings extra power and noise for V6-powered cars, plus rangier EVsThe Maserati Granturismo, Grancabrio and Grecale have all been updated with fresh faces that bring them closer in appearance to the MCPura supercar, while gaining additional power.
  Design chief Klaus Busse said the harder-edged look was started with the MCXtrema – a track-only car that “was never meant to be beautiful” – before being evolved with the MC20 GT2 Stradale and then
  
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• Toyota's New Boss Sees A Problem: Too Many Models

  18-06-2026 09:13 via motor1.com
  
  CEO Kenta Kon wants to slash costs by trimming the lineup.
  
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• Why the £21k Dacia Duster is Britain's value champion

  18-06-2026 08:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  The Duster proves that cheap doesn't need to mean cheerlessOne of the cleverest things about the latest Dacia Duster is that its creators avoided messing it up.
  Better than that, they refined and improved it while maintaining its very attractive price (starting from £21,845) and its singular character - a real feat in a car market stuffed with me-too affordable crossovers.
  Despite changing the platform, giving it new styling inside and out, hybridising most of the powertrains and killing o
  
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• How to crack the UK market, according to BYD

  18-06-2026 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Bono Ge has grown the Chinese brand from an unknown in the UK to a big threat to everyone from Ford to AudiThere's a tendency for car industry watchers to view the rapid UK progress of leading Chinese marques as some kind of unearned overnight success, predicated on their ability to sell advanced cars at lower prices than anyone else.
  There is an element of truth to this, not least the recognition decades ago by China's long-termist government that the global electrified car market would be a pr
  
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• Ford’s New Super Duty Is Basically A Rolling Tribute To America

  18-06-2026 03:00 via motor1.com
  
  The 2027 Ford Super Duty Proud to Honor Package gives the truck a patriotic makeover.  
  
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• Ferrari 296 Speciale A

  18-06-2026 01:01 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Maranello continues near-twenty-year-old tradition of peeling back the roof on its mid-engined trackday heroThe greatest supercars very often don’t make the most perfect sense. Logic would have allowed no need, nearly twenty years ago, for Ferrari to have built a limited-run of 499 open-topped versions of the untamed 430 Scuderia to celebrate the 16th constructor’s championship of its Formula 1 team. Who would want a Scuderia Spider ‘16M’ anyway, when they could just hav
  
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• Dead: Porsche's Best Taycan

  17-06-2026 23:00 via motor1.com
  
  Porsche has reportedly killed off the Taycan Cross Turismo and Taycan Sport Turismo due to low sales.
  
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• Dead: Porsche Taycan Wagon

  17-06-2026 23:00 via motor1.com
  
  Porsche has reportedly killed off the Taycan Cross Turismo and Taycan Sport Turismo due to low sales.
  
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• EV Registrations Have Rebounded After Months Of Decline

  17-06-2026 21:00 via motor1.com
  
  Higher gas prices could be causing buyers to consider EVs again.
  
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• Nissan's Smallest SUV Gets The Hybrid Treatment—But Not In America

  17-06-2026 20:00 via motor1.com
  
  Nissan sells the Kicks compact SUV in the United States with a naturally aspirated 2.0-liter four-cylinder.  
  
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• GM Sees Truck Demand 'Shrinking' Due To High Gas Prices, Just In Time For Its New V8

  17-06-2026 19:00 via motor1.com
  
  A General Motors executive admitted that increased fuel prices are driving consumers away from expensive trucks and SUVs.
  
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• Ford Thinks It Has A Solution To Its Recall Problem

  17-06-2026 17:07 via motor1.com
  
  Ford is already seeing results from a new engine teardown program in its warranty data.  
  
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• How tunnels made Paris and Rome 120 miles closer to each other

  17-06-2026 17:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Alpine tunnels transform European road travel - perhaps we could learn a thing or two from the continent
  "The St Bernard is a high pass, opening late and closing early.
  "It is one of the very few ways across this part of the Alps, and in summer the motorist may find himself behind strings of coaches and oil tankers climbing majestically in their lowest gears, at a rate which is slow, over-heating and exceedingly tedious for a holiday car. At the end of the summer the pass grows dangerous, as the
  
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• This Startling Statistic Is Why Seatbelt Reminders Have Gotten So Annoying

  17-06-2026 16:00 via motor1.com
  
  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety began evaluating seatbelt reminders in new vehicles in 2022 to get people to buckle up.
  
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• Heavy-Duty Trucks Are Finally Getting The Safety Ratings They Need

  17-06-2026 15:00 via motor1.com
  
  Believe it or not, commercial vehicles are not tested under consumer standards. But that will soon change.
  
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