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The 49% measures only gas-only cars, so by itself it says little about what replaces them. The reported shares leave about 16% for diesel, plug-in hybrids and minor fuels, and the cause both reports name is the price of fuel.

Lucid Delivered 852 More Cars Than It Built in Q3: Lucid delivered 3,806 vehicles and built 2,954, its first quarter this year delivering more than it built, per Electrek. Output fell 38% from Q2's 4,774, and CEO Silvio Napoli says Lucid is selling down unsold Airs and Gravitys that piled up in the first half. Lucid also led Sunday's issue with its $950 Air software upgrade. #market

Used RAV4 Hybrids List at 116% of New MSRP: New hybrid sales are up 24% year to date while used 2026 RAV4 Hybrids list at 116% of new MSRP, per CBT News citing CarGurus data, as regular gas hit $4.48 a gallon on Sept. 24. #market

Stellantis Idles Cassino for the Third Time This Year: The Italian plant pauses body, paint and assembly from October 6 through 9, per MoparInsiders. Automotive World reports Italy's overall Stellantis output rebounding this year, but Cassino alone is sliding by more than a third. #analyst

Bronco Filson Targets the Mid-$70,000s and Skips a Badlands Option: Ford is targeting a starting MSRP in the mid-$70,000s for the 2027 Filson, with exact pricing not yet announced, per Autoblog. The trim won't offer the front stabilizer-bar disconnect at any price, per Ford Authority. It is a $1,305 option on the Badlands without the Sasquatch Package and standard on the Raptor. #enthusiast

BMW Teases Its First Electric M3 With Four Motors and Up to 900 HP: New images show the quad-motor M3 EV in tricolor camouflage, and it is expected as a 2028 model, per Autoblog and Hagerty. Following up on BMW's Quad-Motor Electric M3 Concept.

Kia EV3 First Drives: Planted on Logging Roads, $41,000 as Tested: Electrek drove the 201-hp Wind FWD and the 261-hp GT-Line AWD around Vancouver Island and never felt short of power, per Electrek. The cheapest version it tested cost $41,000, and Kia's 321-mile figure needs the 81.4 kWh pack, not the 58.3 kWh base pack's 221 miles. Car and Driver calls it charming enough to beat the Bolt and Leaf at their own price point.

Renault Reboots the Minivan for Paris: The E-Space Concept debuts at the Paris Motor Show on October 12 and matches a Honda CR-V for length, per Motor1.

Hyundai Ioniq 3 Undercuts Rivals at £18,495: The base car qualifies for the full £3,750 UK government grant and is rated at 213 miles WLTP; the Long Range model, at up to 308 miles WLTP, starts at £21,995, per AutoCar UK.

Australia's RAV4 Gets a Safety Upgrade, No Price Hike: In Australia, the 2027 RAV4's safety refresh lands in showrooms this month aimed at a five-star rating, per Drive.com.au.

A Tesla Robotaxi Got Stuck in a Parking Lot for 14 Minutes: A Cybercab rider in Austin says the driverless car circled and failed to reroute itself until Tesla support remotely stopped and restarted it, per Tesla North. It came two days after Musk blamed grey kittens for the service's night curfew.

Homemade V8 Race Car Hits the Street: YouTuber Markus Rubba started welding the tube-chassis car in his garage more than two years ago with no experience, per MotorBiscuit.

Honda Racing's CEO to Retire: Koji Watanabe steps down at year's end, handing HRC to Keiichi Yasuda, per RACER.

VW Recalls Nearly 50,000 Tiguans for Engines That Can Shut Off: 49,958 2025 Tiguans are affected by a software fault that can reset the body control module and, in the worst case, shut off the engine while driving, per Motor1. VW reported the campaign to NHTSA on September 10, 2026, and the fix is a free dealer software update.

Yesterday's picks

UK Weighs Tariffs on Chinese EVs as Pressure From Brussels Mounts: Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is drawing up options for import duties on Chinese-built EVs, The Times reports, per Car Dealer Magazine. A government spokesperson said no tariffs have been imposed, per Automotive News.

Rivian Beats Estimates With 19,248 Q3 Deliveries: Rivian delivered 19,248 vehicles in Q3, up 46% year over year and ahead of Wall Street's 18,000 estimate, per CBT News. Tesla's Q3 deliveries beat estimates too but sit about 2% below a year ago. By our math, Rivian needs at least 23,193 Q4 deliveries to hit the low end of its 65,000-70,000 guidance.

Toyota's Prius Hybrid Sales Fall 51% as Its Other Hybrids Boom: Toyota sold 16,731 Prius Hybrids through September, down from 34,237 a year earlier, per Toyota's September sales report. Camry Hybrid is up 11.2% year to date at 260,671 and RAV4 Hybrid is up 43.6% at 200,209.

Worth a listen

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

ev.news Daily: Kia Expands GT Range, Tesla Beats Delivery Expectations & Ford/GM EV Sales In Freefall | 05 Oct 2026 (ev.news, also at ev.news): A quick daily EV rundown on Tesla's Q3 delivery beat, falling Ford and GM EV sales, and Kia's wider GT lineup.

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