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Filtered from 2,192 items published across 213 sources in the last 24 hours.

Ford stretched the Mustang name onto an electric crossover with the Mach-E; on this report, GM is keeping the Corvette a single sports car. GM hasn't confirmed the report or given a reason. If the report is right, the numbers support the choice: a car whose sales are rising, an engineer arguing in public for keeping it attainable, and GM EV sales down 62% from a year earlier. What the report does not settle is whether the SUV died with the electric drivetrain or is waiting for a different one, now that GM is readying its three-row SUV plant for hybrids. Read GM Authority's report.

BYD's Exports Doubled in October as Its Sales at Home Fell 11%: BYD sold 490,168 vehicles in October, up 10.97% from a year earlier and its best month of 2026, per CnEVPost. Exports more than doubled to 170,194, while sales in China fell 10.57% to 319,974. The same split showed up elsewhere: GWM's domestic sales fell 33.06% while its overseas sales hit a record 62,862, and Chery exported 200,618 vehicles, up 58.67%, per CnEVPost's October roundup. At home, Nio's deliveries fell 15.23%, ending a 31-month growth streak, Li Auto's fell to 29,025, its lowest since February, and Huawei's HIMA brands roughly halved, while Leapmotor set a record at 106,127 and Xpeng passed 50,000 for the first time. #market

Volkswagen's All-Electric Zwickau Plant Has a New Job: Taking Cars Apart: The eight-stage dismantling line will start with preproduction vehicles and later take cars at the end of their life, processing 4,100 a year across two shifts from 2027 with 100 retrained workers, per InsideEVs. VW has been selling recovered original parts through dealers, independent shops and parts retailers since July, with doors, bumpers, motors and transmission components in high demand, to make repairs cheap enough to keep older cars on the road. It plans to invest up to €90 million in recycling, with €10.7 million pledged by the Saxony government, and says the business could eventually support 1,000 jobs. Zwickau has no vehicle production planned beyond 2031. #analyst

Honda Canceled Its 0 SUV, but a New U.S. Design Patent Looks Just Like It: The newly granted patent's drawings match the prototype shown at CES 2025 in the rear quarter window, the conventional door handles and the front bumper, per Autoblog. Honda canceled the 0 SUV, the 0 Saloon and the Acura RSX for North America, and automakers often patent designs they never build. #enthusiast

Toyota Detailed the Smaller Hybrid Engine Expected in the Next Corolla, Aiming for 15% Better Mileage: These are the engines from Monday's lead on Toyota selling its next engines to other automakers, and Toyota has now said more about them. The new family of 1.5-liter four-cylinders, designed from the start for hybrids, will come naturally aspirated and turbocharged, paired with lighter and more compact electric drive units, per Car and Driver. The naturally aspirated version replaces the 1.8-liter four that gives today's Corolla Hybrid 138 hp. Toyota is aiming for more than 15% better fuel economy from lower friction, better heat management, smaller electrical losses and a lower hood the compact hardware allows. Toyota didn't name the car, but its graphic shows a silhouette matching the Corolla concept from last year's Tokyo show, and the next Corolla, expected for the 2028 model year, is due in hybrid, plug-in and electric versions on one platform. #enthusiast

Karma Built a One-Off Revero With a 6.2-Liter V-8 and 1,195 HP: The Eximius 1, shown at the Concours at Wynn in Las Vegas, swaps the Revero's three-cylinder generator for a V-8 in the same plug-in series-hybrid layout, per Car and Driver. Karma claims 2.7 seconds to 60 mph and 200 mph. It is the first car from Karma's new Eximius bespoke program, which will build at most nine cars from each production model, and it goes to its owner in 2027.

Pagani's Last Huayra 70 Gets a Seven-Speed Manual With Its Linkage on Show: Horacio Pagani unveiled the one-off Huayra 70 Anima on Oct. 31 at the same Las Vegas concours, closing a three-car series for his 70th birthday, per MotorBiscuit, citing duPont Registry. Its headline feature is a seven-speed manual with the gear linkage left exposed, behind a body of bare carbon fiber. Pagani has not confirmed output; the car is expected to use the Derecho's 864-hp twin-turbo V-12.

The Gallardo's Original Designer Is Rebuilding It as a €900,000 Manual: Fabrizio Giugiaro, who drew the Gallardo at Italdesign in 1998, styled the HOMMAGE 26 for CAVËN Atelier, per Autoblog. Only five parts of the donor car survive, the V-10 revs to 8,500 rpm with 540 or 560 hp through a manual, and 25 will be built from first-generation Gallardos at €900,000, about $1 million, before the cost of the donor.

Lincoln Is Recalling 11,623 Nautilus and Corsair Hybrids That Can Slip Into Neutral: Anti-rust oil used in assembly can corrode the circuit board in the transmission's park module, and the resulting sensor fault can command neutral while the car is moving, per AutoGuide. The recall covers some 2026-2027 Nautilus Hybrids and 2027 Corsair Hybrids. Dealers will replace the module, and interim letters go to owners from Nov. 2 while replacement parts are still on the way.

Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda Built 32% Fewer Cars in China From April to September, Their Fewest Since 2008: Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda built about 1.02 million vehicles there, per ChinaEVHome, citing Nikkei Asia. Honda's output fell 60% and Nissan's 49%, the factory side of Nissan's 62% drop in China sales in September; Mazda was the only one to grow, up 43%.

The Car Curious Weekly: A Spy Photographer's First Shot Made a Magazine Cover: Car Curious, our sister car-podcast platform, recaps 332 episodes across 226 podcasts from Oct. 25 to 31, including Brenda Priddy on Backseat Driver, whose first spy photo, a camouflaged 1994 Mustang prototype outside her grocery store, made the cover of Automobile Magazine.

Cadillac Made a Blacked-Out Escalade Only Japan Can Buy: The Escalade Noir Edition wears matte-black paint protection film and costs ¥21 million, about $133,000, with 20 built, per Autoblog.

Yesterday's picks

BMW's Electric 3 Series Is Estimated at More Than 450 Miles of Range, and First Drives Say It Shares Almost Nothing With the Gas One: The 2027 BMW i3 50 xDrive starts at $61,500, makes 463 hp and 476 lb-ft from two motors, and has a 108.7-kWh usable battery, with BMW estimating up to 468 miles of EPA range, per Road & Track. Car and Driver says the EPA has yet to rate it and puts its own estimate at 450 miles.

Audi's Tariff Relief Would Require Starting a U.S. Plant by the End of Next Year, WSJ Reports: Following up on yesterday's report on Audi's tariff cut, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Commerce Department program expected to cover automakers that invest in U.S. production would likely give exemptions or offsets on imported vehicles or parts, but only to those that start building a factory before the end of next year, per Road & Track. The program would likely be modeled on a Commerce program for polysilicon, where companies submit plans to move production and win exemptions on certain products. Audi's Georgia plant does not start production until the early 2030s.

Magna Cut Its Sales Forecast on Weaker Production in China: The supplier now expects 2026 revenue of $41.2 billion to $42 billion, down from $41.3 billion to $42.5 billion, and estimates China will build 30.4 million vehicles this year, about 800,000 fewer than it expected, per Automotive News. Third-quarter adjusted earnings still rose 11% to $683 million on $10.1 billion in revenue, helped by recovering tariff costs from customers. Magna left its North American and European production forecasts unchanged.

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Worth a listen

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

#167 Brand Cults: What Drives Unshakable Brand Loyalty? (Best In Class, also at bestinclass.podbean.com): The hosts ask what turns a car brand into a cult, from a Rivian driving day at the DirtFish rally school to a guest's case that once you own a Duesenberg, "your life becomes Duesenberg."

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