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New: Suspension Today. The 4,474 items above are what we filter every day. Now you can watch the filtering live. Suspension Today is a news page that updates hourly. It groups the last 72 hours of car news by how many outlets are covering each story, so the biggest stories rise to the top. This afternoon the top story was Scion’s kei truck, covered by more than a dozen outlets.

In yesterday's picks below, GM is spending $750 million on a Lansing hybrid line, which AutoForecast Solutions expects to start in 2029. Read Automotive News' full story.

Ford's Five-Year-Old Mustang Mach-Es Kept 92% of Their Battery Capacity on Average: Ford pulled battery-health data from about 36,000 2021 Mach-Es sold in the U.S. and Canada and says that after an average of 5.2 years and 55,000 miles they kept 92% of their usable capacity, per InsideEVs. By InsideEVs' math, a 2021 Mach-E rated at 305 miles would be good for about 280 today. The more than 2,000 cars past 100,000 miles kept more than 91%. All had nickel-cobalt-manganese packs. #analyst

Stellantis Confirmed It Sold Its Idled Brampton Plant to Armored-Vehicle Maker Roshel: The undisclosed sale is expected to close by the end of 2026, per Automotive News Canada, days after Unifor said it believed the plant had been sold. Stellantis first lined up Roshel as a buyer in September. "Stellantis has betrayed our members with an underhanded deal to sell the plant and walk away from its commitments to our members," Unifor President Lana Payne said. Industry Minister Mélanie Joly wants Stellantis, Unifor and Ontario at the table this week. #news

BMW Adds Samsung and LG Battery Cells Alongside Its Chinese Suppliers: Samsung SDI will supply BMW's European plants and LG Energy Solution its U.S. plants from the late 2020s, per Automotive News Europe; in Europe BMW also buys from China's CATL and EVE Energy. The cells go into the sixth-generation batteries for Neue Klasse EVs, per Electrive, and BMW says it wants suppliers closer to its battery plants. Yesterday BMW said some Neue Klasse EVs will use cheaper LFP batteries. #market

Toyota Is Reviving Scion With a 25-MPH Kei Truck, Sold to Fleets First: The Scion by Toyota KEI-01 is an 11-foot, two-seat, right-hand-drive pickup with a 660-cc three-cylinder and four-wheel drive, assembled at Toyota's Indiana plant from kits shipped from Japan, per Automotive News; Toyota is investing $34 million and adding 50 jobs there. Its top speed is limited to 25 mph, which lets it meet federal low-speed vehicle rules instead of the crash standards for regular trucks, per Car and Driver, which calls it essentially a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet Jumbo. Production starts in 2027, and Toyota will sell it to fleets first through select Toyota dealers; it has no price or sales target yet. Toyota closed Scion in 2016.

Ford Is Teasing a Mustang Cobra With an 'All-Motor Heart Born From Racing': A short Ford Racing video on X promises the Cobra name's return and says the story continues in 2027, per Motor1, which reads "all-motor" as a naturally aspirated engine. On Sunday we covered a report that Ford is building a Shelby GT350 successor with a naturally aspirated V8 and a manual; Ford has not said whether the Cobra is that car.

Lotus's Next Supercar, Expected to Be the Esprit, Gets a 671-HP Twin-Turbo V8: Horse Powertrain, the Geely-Renault engine venture, says its new 4.0-liter W40 V8 makes 671 hp and 590 lb-ft and weighs about 441 pounds, per Motor1. It will power the Lotus Type 135, a hybrid supercar tipped to take the Esprit name, due in 2028 with more than 1,000 hp in total, per Autocar. Cheaper versions get a V6 hybrid.

Nissan Puts the Patrol Name on an $81,265 Armada, Its First U.S. Patrol Badge Since 1969: For 2027 the off-road Armada Pro-4X becomes the Armada Patrol Pro-4X, and its price rises $4,690, per Car and Driver. The 425-hp twin-turbo V-6, locking rear differential and air suspension carry over. Datsun dealers sold the Patrol here from 1962 to 1969, per Autoblog. It debuts at the Los Angeles Auto Show this month, after Nissan showed a roofless Armada Jungle Patrol concept at SEMA.

Polestar's Formula 2030 Concept Previews Its Next Cars as It Winds Down U.S. Sales: The low four-door has rear-hinged back doors, no B-pillars and eight physical controls under the center screen, and its details preview the next Polestar 2 and Polestar 7, per InsideEVs. Polestar will not build it. Polestar is winding down U.S. sales, per InsideEVs, after nearly selling out its U.S. stock in October. The U.S. Connected Vehicles Rule bars its China-linked technology from the 2027 model year, per Motor1.

Mercedes Has Stopped Taking Custom Orders for the EQE, EQE SUV and EQS SUV in Europe: The three can no longer be configured in Mercedes' online configurators in Germany, France, the U.K. and the Netherlands, only bought from stock, per Electrive; Mercedes has not confirmed it is ending them. That would leave the EQS sedan, updated in April with an 800-volt system, as the last of Mercedes' four large EVs on its EVA II platform. An electric E-Class due in the second half of 2027 will replace the EQE sedan. In October, Mercedes dropped the EQE sedan from its 2027 U.S. lineup.

The 2027 Mercedes EQS 450+ Went 539 Miles in Edmunds' Range Test, 72 More Than Its EPA Estimate: That beats the Lucid Air for the longest range of any electric sedan Edmunds has tested; only the Cadillac Escalade IQ went farther, per Edmunds. The 2027 EQS gets a 122-kWh battery, up from 118. It starts above $100,000.

Mercedes CEO Ola Källenius Says Combustion Engines Have at Least 10 More Years: "The combustion engine, it will be around for minimum 10, probably 15 years more," Källenius told reporters in Pune, per Motor1, citing Autocar India. He called the shift to EVs a 20- to 25-year industrial transformation. In October he said the four-cylinder C63 did not bring "the whole tribe" of V8 buyers along.

Subaru's Quarterly Profit Nearly Tripled on Lower Warranty Costs and Currency Gains as U.S. Sales Fell 10%: Operating profit rose to ¥73.4 billion ($466.4 million) in the July-September quarter, per Automotive News. Fewer warranty claims added ¥42.0 billion and exchange rates ¥47.9 billion, more than covering higher incentives and material costs. U.S. sales, 73% of Subaru's volume, fell 10% to 151,000.

NHTSA Is Checking Whether Waymo's Fix for Passing Stopped School Buses Worked: Waymo had its software fix on every affected vehicle by Nov. 17, 2025, and filed the recall on Dec. 10, but most of the incidents NHTSA had found of Waymos passing stopped school buses with red lights flashing or stop arms out happened after that date, NHTSA's defects office wrote in opening a recall query on Nov. 6, as The Wall Street Journal and Engadget reported.

Yesterday's picks

Mazda Is Back in the Black, and Its CFO Credits the CX-5 It Redesigned to Cost Less: Mazda earned an operating profit of ¥26.3 billion ($167.1 million) in the July-September quarter, up from a ¥7.8 billion loss a year earlier when U.S. tariffs hit the export-heavy brand, per Automotive News. CFO Jeffrey Guyton credited the CX-5's new engineering approach with helping Mazda back into the black; a richer sales mix and a weaker yen also did part of the work. Mazda now expects full-year operating profit to triple to ¥150 billion ($953.2 million).

Toyota Came Within About 1,000 Sales of GM in October, and GM Is Spending $750 Million on Hybrids to Answer: GlobalData estimates Toyota trailed GM by about 1,000 vehicles in October, a tenth of a point of market share, per Automotive News. GM has led U.S. sales in 94 of the past 95 years, but its sales fell 6.3% to 2.01 million through September while Toyota rose 0.6% to 1.88 million. Hybrids are the gap: Toyota sells 30 hybrid models that make up more than half its U.S. volume, and GM's only hybrids are Corvettes, the Grand Sport X and the ZR1X, as we noted when GM began readying its three-row SUV plant for hybrids. GM's $750 million goes to its Lansing, Mich., plant that builds the Traverse, Acadia and Enclave, and AutoForecast Solutions' Sam Fiorani expects 150,000 to 180,000 hybrid crossovers a year from there starting in 2029.

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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.

2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500: Did GM Fix Its Lifters and 10-Speed? (Pickup Truck +SUV Talk, also at YouTube): The hosts weigh GM's explanation of how it fixed the cylinder-deactivation lifter failures in its V8s, then revisit the 10-speed automatic's valve-body problems, for anyone eyeing a 2027 Silverado 1500.

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