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Filtered from 2,372 items published across 221 sources in the last 24 hours.

The plant does nothing for Audi's tariff bill before the 2030s. Until Georgia opens, at least five years from now, the new Q7 and Q9 will be shipped from Audi's plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, per Motor1. BMW and Mercedes-Benz have had major plants in the American South for decades, which CarBuzz argues is a large part of why they absorbed the tariffs better than Audi did. Motor1 also asks why VW is building a second plant a state away from Scout's rather than expanding that one, which is sized for 200,000 vehicles a year. Read Automotive News' full story.

NHTSA Would Let Self-Driving Cars Show Cyan Lights When Nobody Is Driving: A draft rule released Friday would let automated vehicles carry cyan marker lamps that switch on only while the car is driving itself and switch off when a driver is expected to watch the road, per Electrek. The lamps would be optional, not required. Mercedes proposed the color alongside its Level 3 Drive Pilot system and trialed the lights in California, per the same report. China's version, proposed days earlier, uses turquoise, is also optional on Level 3 and higher systems, and would take effect Jan. 1, 2028, per CnEVPost. #news

Europe's Tariffs on Chinese EVs Don't Cover Used Ones, and One Exporter Says Its Sales Are Up 280%: China EV Marketplace, which ships cars from China to buyers in Europe, says its used-car sales to EU customers rose 280% from a year earlier to 7,900 through September, per Electrek, citing CarNewsChina. "Pre-owned cars are exempt from the additional BEV tariffs and from the new hybrid (PHEV) quota. That is why we are making pre-owned vehicles the main focus of our European business," COO Jakub Geršl said. The company says it regularly finds cars with about 6,000 km (3,700 miles) on them priced 40% below their original Chinese list price. The figures are the company's own, and 7,900 cars is small next to Europe's market, but it is a route around rules written for new cars. #market

Ford Cut GM's Full-Size Pickup Lead by a Third in the Third Quarter: GM sold 233,229 Silverado and Sierra pickups in the quarter to Ford's 204,007 F-Series, a gap of 29,222 trucks, down from 44,524 in the first quarter and 44,503 in the second, per Autoblog. That is 15,281 fewer than in the second quarter, or 34% of the lead gone in a single quarter. The Sierra did most of the slipping, at 86,590 sales, 9% fewer than in the second quarter, while the Silverado rose 4.4% from a year earlier to 144,984. Ford's Super Duty output reached 110,275, its highest quarter in 19 years, and F-Series production has recovered from last year's fire at Novelis' aluminum plant. GM's redesigned Silverado and Sierra reach dealers before the end of the year, which may have some buyers waiting. #analyst

Alpine Says the Electric A110 Won't Launch Until It's 'Perfect,' and a Gas Version Could Follow for North America: CEO Philippe Krief told Automotive News Europe the next A110 launches as an EV and "could arrive next year, or slightly later if the project is not yet perfect," with 95% of its parts new, per Automotive News. Its platform was designed for EVs only but now fits a mid-rear combustion engine, which "could become relevant" as Alpine looks at North America, starting with Canada. Production of the current gas A110 stopped in June.

The 2027 Cadillac Vistiq Gets a Tesla-Style Charge Port and Loses Its Power-Close Doors: Cadillac's smaller three-row EV switches to a native NACS port, drops its "900" tailgate badge and the strakes on its rear quarter windows, moves its dark chrome mirror caps to the accessory list, and drops its power-close doors, per AutoGuide.

Ford Patented a Car That Moves Itself Away From Thieves: The application describes a vehicle that detects "suspicious activity," such as someone peering into the windows or another car circling, and re-parks itself somewhere safer, per Car and Driver. It could also back its tailgate against a wall, or park between two obstacles to make wheel theft harder.

A Stellantis Supplier Will Close Its Detroit Plant After Losing Jeep and Dodge Work: Dakkota Integrated Systems will lay off 397 workers after losing contracts to build instrument panels for the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango, with 205 jobs ending Dec. 31 and 192 on March 31, according to a state layoff notice, per Mopar Insiders.

Dodge Will Fix Failing Durango Taillights for Free and Pay Back Owners Who Already Did: Stellantis extended coverage on the LED racetrack taillight of 2018 to 2024 Durangos to five years with unlimited miles, with a six-month grace period for older ones, and is reimbursing owners who already paid for a repair, which a class action lawsuit said cost up to $2,000, per Autoblog.

Lancia's New Gamma Crossover Will Be Sold Through Fiat Dealers Outside Italy: The Gamma, which debuted at the Paris show, starts at €39,900 as a mild hybrid and €45,900 as an EV, and Lancia's sales are up 3.3% to 9,012 through September, all but 94 of them the Ypsilon, per Automotive News.

This Week in Car Podcasts: A Tornado-Hit Corvette Parts Maker and a $10,000 Raptor Markup: Car Curious, our sister car-podcast platform, recaps 315 episodes across 207 shows, including Corvette Today on Mid America Motorworks, which salvaged about 20% of its parts after a June tornado, and a buyer's agent who was quoted $10,000 over sticker on an F-150 Raptor by a California Ford dealer.

Land Rover Recalls 93,997 Range Rovers Because Water Can Ruin the Backup Camera: The 2022 to 2026 full-size Range Rover's tailgate trim does not have enough drain holes, and the final fix is not ready yet; owners get interim letters starting Dec. 11, per MotorBiscuit.

Toyota Recalls 105,794 Land Cruiser Hybrids Over a Fuel Leak It Can't Explain: A retaining clip on a fuel-tube connection near the tank can lift and let fuel leak, and Toyota has not identified the cause, per Car and Driver. It has logged 23 field reports and 64 warranty claims, and dealers will add a supplemental clamp, per Motor1.

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Reviewers Split on Whether the Electric BMW X5 Beats the Gas One, and BMW Already Has a Loyalty Offer on It: It starts at $81,250, about $7,700 more than the gas X5 40 xDrive at $73,550, per Edmunds, which notes the X5 is regularly BMW's best-selling model in America. Motor1's verdict is "A Better Buy Than The Gas X5," and its reviewer wrote that the iX5 "felt like the more complete SUV," per Motor1. Car and Driver went the other way: it found the iX5's ride bouncy, said it enjoyed the gas model's ride and handling more, and concluded the iX5 is "outmatched by its own stablemate," per Car and Driver.

Porsche's Plan for Selling Fewer Cars Is Charging More for Each One: Porsche's deliveries fell from a record 320,221 in 2023 to 279,449 in 2025 and are down 16% through September, and its operating margin was 1.1% last year against a long-term target of 15%, per Automotive News. Its answer is personalization: a Paint to Sample color costs $15,050 on a 2027 911 Carrera that starts at $137,850, a Sonderwunsch color $32,940, and Porsche wants option revenue per car up about 20%. Product boss Alexander Fabig said future projects "could exceed a 200 percent price premium over the base model." The average configured Porsche in the U.S. already reached $128,663 in 2025, up 31% from 2019, according to Edmunds figures cited in the same report.

Mercedes-AMG Is Bringing the C63 Back as Both a Gas Car and an EV: Mercedes CTO Jörg Burzer told Australia's Drive "we're working on both," per Motor1. The combustion version comes with the next-generation C-Class, not the current one. On Monday, AMG CEO Stefan Weckbach said the C63 will not get its V8 back; Burzer would not say whether the next one gets a V8: "I don't know what these guys are doing at AMG," per Autoblog. An inline-six C53 replaces the four-cylinder plug-in hybrid C63 in the meantime.

Worth a listen

One episode from Car Curious, our sister car-podcast platform, picked out of everything the shows published in the last day.

Bonus Episode: Will humanoid robots replace factory workers? (Automotive News Daily Drive, also at YouTube): A 12-minute look at whether humanoid robots will replace auto factory workers, where a guest calls this phase "more of a reshape than a replace" and says a robot's break-even time is falling from five or six years to one or two.

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