In today's issue:

Filtered from 2,275 items published across 234 sources in the last 24 hours.

AMG put its most advanced hardware into the shape Mercedes sells most: the GLE is the brand's No. 1 seller in the U.S., per Automotive News. The German prices put the bigger SUV about 2,400 euros below the sedan at the entry level. Car and Driver expects the U.S. GT 53 to start around $130,000 and the GT 55 and GT 63 to cost more than their sedan versions, and Edmunds expects the GT 63 could pass $200,000. Read Automotive News' full story.

A Fully Optioned 2027 Chevy Silverado EV Prices Out at $112,521, Above a Base Hummer EV's Price: The refreshed Silverado EV comes in five versions from the WT Standard to the Trail Boss Max Range, with $33,300 between the cheapest and the most expensive, and the Trail Boss starting at $89,395, per Autoblog, which built one with every option in Chevrolet's configurator. The options include a $2,513 Premium Charging Package, a $1,350 utility rack, a $1,950 hard folding bed cover and a $3,995 Dark Matter paint. The total of $112,521 is above the $105,000 Hummer EV price Autoblog cites, above the $97,200 starting price GMC lists for the 2026 Hummer EV pickup, per GMC, and above a fully loaded gas Silverado that Autoblog priced the same way. #market

VinFast-Affiliated Green SM Put 500 VinFast EVs on Los Angeles Streets: Green SM, a Vietnamese ride-hailing company affiliated with VinFast, launched its all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles on Oct. 13, per Autoblog. The fleet is 500 VinFast VF8s and it is Green SM's first U.S. operation, per Car and Driver. Unlike Uber and Lyft it owns the cars and employs 500 full-time drivers it trained, and riders can book through an app, call a hotline or hail one on the street. The fleet alone outnumbers VinFast's U.S. registrations for the first seven months of the year: Automotive News reported only 389 from January to July, per Car and Driver. VinFast announced the launch itself, per Just Auto. #market

A Democratic Congress Would Get a Say on Tariffs and the USMCA Review, but Not a Veto: Election Day is Nov. 3, and Polymarket gave Democrats a 63% chance of winning both chambers as of Oct. 14, per Automotive News. Control would let them hold hearings on U.S. auto tariffs and on the EPA and Department of Transportation, and if the courts narrow the tariffs, "a Democratic Congress is unlikely to provide Trump with replacement authorities," TD Cowen's Chris Krueger wrote. President Trump would keep his veto power, so any legislation Democrats propose on the USMCA review would be subject to it. The U.S. decided in July not to extend the USMCA in its current form, and the three countries meet next July to decide whether to extend it or let it expire in 2036. California's next governor will also shape whether the 2035 EV sales rule survives if the state wins its court challenge; states following that rule made up about 34% of new light-vehicle sales by a 2024 Sierra Club estimate. #analyst

Porsche's New Design Chief Splits the Lineup Into Halo, Plus and Core: Tobias Sühlmann, who joined in February, told Car and Driver that Porsche will sort its cars into "Halo" supercars like the Mission S, "Plus" models like the Cayenne, Macan and Panamera, and "Core" cars with the 911 at the center. He also set design cues drawn from the 911 and the 356 that will run across all three: "torpedo" front fenders, a "flyline" fastback roof, a clean wraparound body line and a muscular rear.

Fiat's 25-MPH Topolino Makes TIME's Best Inventions of 2026: The electric quadricycle was listed in the Design category, per Autoblog. It led Europe's electric quadricycle segment in 2025, still leads it this year and has been No. 1 in France since July. In the U.S., it went on sale in July at $13,995 as a 19-mph low-speed vehicle, per our U.S. launch coverage.

Bentley Opens 93 Early-Career Roles After Planning Up to 275 Job Cuts: The roles are 29 apprenticeships, 15 graduate jobs and 49 placements, while first-half deliveries fell 13.6% to 4,211, per Autoblog.

Mazda Cut the CX-5's Wire-Harness Variants by About 80%: Mazda and supplier Yazaki redesigned the harnesses so more of the work can be automated, with the parts made near Mazda's Japanese plants, where U.S.-bound CX-5s are built, per Autoblog. U.S. CX-5 sales rose 37.8% to 11,345 in September.

VW Will Cap 22,524 ID.4s at 80% Charge Around Oct. 27 Unless Owners Opt Out by Oct. 21: The recall covers 2023 to 2026 ID.4s built in Chattanooga with SK battery cells from Georgia, and the cause of the fire risk is still unknown, per InsideEVs. A myVW app notice tells owners the 80% limit will be applied "on or about October 27, 2026" unless they decline by Oct. 21; it is an interim measure, not the fix. VW believes about 0.1% of the recalled cars have the defect.

Ram Recalls 265,512 ProMaster Vans Whose Power Steering Can Cut Out: Water can corrode the electric power steering wiring on 2022 to 2026 ProMaster vans and 2024 to 2026 ProMaster EVs, and "there is no identified warning before the failure," per MotorBiscuit, citing the NHTSA filing. FCA estimates 7.7% of the vans have the defect and knows of one possibly related crash with no injuries; owner letters go out from Nov. 17.

Yesterday's picks

Lexus Is Sending 35,000 Cars Meant for China and the Middle East to U.S. Dealers Who Have 16 Days of Supply: Lexus has secured roughly 35,000 vehicles originally destined for softening overseas markets, mainly China and the Middle East, for its 246 U.S. dealers, with most arriving in the fourth quarter and the first quarter of 2027, per Automotive News. Lexus ended September with 16 days' supply.

Ford's Certified Used Sales Jumped 44% and Took the Quarterly Lead for the First Time: Ford sold 130,112 certified pre-owned vehicles in the third quarter, up 44% and ahead of volume leader Toyota for the first time, while industrywide CPO sales fell 2.5% through August, per Automotive News. Ford's count includes other brands' vehicles, but it still led the quarter without them. It is on pace for a record 450,000 this year and wants "well over 500,000" and the top spot in 2027, said Rob Kaffl, Ford's director of U.S. sales and dealer relations. The push fills a gap: Ford's new-vehicle sales fell 9% through September, partly because of an F-150 shortage after 2025 fires at an aluminum supplier.

Mercedes Says the Smaller G-Class Arrives in Less Than 24 Months, Built in Hungary: CEO Ola Källenius told Bloomberg the car is coming "sooner than you think" and "less than 24 months from now," per Autoblog, nearly five years after Mercedes announced it in 2023. It was planned as electric-only and will now also come as a hybrid, which U.S. dealers pushed for, and it will be built in Kecskemét, Hungary, not at Magna Steyr in Graz, where the G-Class is made. Land Rover's smaller Defender Sport is reportedly due as soon as 2027. The G-Class starts at $153,900 in the U.S.

Worth a listen

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

Are Cheaper Cars FINALLY Here? GM Drops Dipsticks & Hybrids Crush EVs (The Drive Car Show, also at thedrivecarshow.com): The hosts walk through a scam in which fraudsters use AI to clone a dealer's website, copy its inventory down to the VIN and route the buyer's money into an escrow account that doesn't exist, then ask what GM's move away from oil dipsticks means for owners who rely on a sensor.

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