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Stand Out in this Special Edition Highlander!
To celebrate 25 years, Toyota revealed the 2025 Toyota Highlander 25th Edition. You essentially get a hybrid Highlander Limited with a few unique twists. The first Toyota Highlander arrived on U.S. shores in 2000, at the dawn of the crossover SUV craze. 25 years later, Toyota decided to celebrate its mainstream SUV mainstay with the…
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Comfort and Cold Drinks Await in the New Sienna!
Toyota updated its Sienna minivan for 2025 and added important safety tech as well as several comforts. It’s also hybrid only with available all-wheel-drive! What’s new Toyota updated its Sienna minivan for the 2025 model year and stuffed it full of new features. To start, the Sienna now offers a system called the advanced rear…
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Striking Balance, Honda Takes a New Approach to Building EVs
The Honda EV Hub combines final assembly with a retooled engine plant and a partnership with LG Chem to create a campus to build future ICE, Hybrid, and EV models. It’s called the Honda EV Hub. A campus, of sorts, which includes a final assembly plant in Marysville Ohio, another in East Liberty Ohio, and…
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More Electrified Porsches on the Way!
The 2025 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid joins the line-up. It’s the fourth of four hybrids for the 3rd generation four-door. The non-hybrid GTS also arrives. Porsche recently revealed two new trims for the third generation Panamera: The 2025 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid and Panamera GTS. These two now make seven trims in total…
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Mazda Drops A New Powertrain for the CX-50!
Borrowing a hybrid system from Toyota, three new hybrid trims join the Mazda CX-50 line-up, delivering 38 MPG combined and extending driving range by over 100 miles to a single tank. For the 2025 model year, Mazda added a Hybrid to the CX-50 line-up. Excluding the mild-hybrids in the line-up, this is the only non-plug-in-hybrid…
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Stand Back in Awe of the new Porsche 911!
The 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera received subtle styling changes with its 992.2 refresh. You get more power, more tech, and only one transmission to choose…for now. Check it out! It’s the new, refreshed 2025 Porsche 911 Carrera. It’s an update to the 992.1, which first arrived in 2020. The 992.2 generation Carrera stands out with…
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Turn Heads in the New Porsche 911 Hybrid!
The 2025 Porsche 911 GTS T-Hybrid makes use of two electric motors and a compact, 400V, 1.9kWh battery to deliver over 500 horsepower and under 3.0 seconds runs to 60mph! For the 2025 model year, Porsche welcomes the 992.2 911. This is a mid-cycle update, but a significant one. As it includes the GTS T-Hybrid.…
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Rumbling through in the New Porsche GTS SUV!
The 2025 Porsche Cayenne GTS sports an energetic, twin-turbo, 4.0-liter V-8 twisting out 493 horsepower and 487 lb.-ft of torque. And a sport suspension, too. Why a new GTS? Last year, Porsche updated the third-generation Cayenne for the 2024 Model Year and we saw the revival of the V-8 for the Cayenne S, among other…
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Acura Swoops In with a New SUV! The ADX.
Expected in early 2025, the ADX will slide in under the RDX and act as an SUV shaped gateway to the Acura line-up. Think of it as a tall Integra, hopefully. Acura recently announced that we will see a new, entry level SUV added to the line-up, beneath the RDX, MDX, and ZDX models. Its…
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Sharp! See How Acura Improved the MDX.
Updated and coming soon. The 2025 Acura MDX gets a refreshed front-end, new tech inside, and more insulation to keep the noise outside. The fourth-generation, Acura MDX, which debuted for the 2022 model year, just received a mid-cycle update for the 2025 model year. As refreshes go, Acura stuck with the basics here: new front…