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First electric Ferrari Luce sells for $40 million

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Enzo Ferrari once famously quipped that he sold engines and threw the rest of the car in for free. For well over seven decades, that intoxicating, high-rpm combustion crescendo was the untouchable soul of Maranello. But when the Italian marque revealed the Luce – a quad-motor, five-seat electric super-tourer penned in partnership with LoveFrom – the traditionalists suffered a collective… Read more…

Porsche is turning to XPeng to save its combustion soul

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The automotive world has a way of delivering plot twists that no scriptwriter would have imagined a decade ago. Porsche – the sacred temple of screaming flat-sixes, and motorsport pedigree – has formally decided to decouple from its parent conglomerate’s emissions pool and jump into bed with Chinese EV maker XPeng. It sounds like an alternate-universe fever dream, but when… Read more…

A new study shows how bad touchscreen-centric car controls are for road safety

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In the last decade or so, screens have become an inseparable part of modern-day vehicles, but at some point, the pendulum has swung a bit too far. Nowadays, drivers are complaining about complicated UI and touch controls to perform simple tasks like adjusting the AC or even changing the radio station. And according to a study conducted by Vi Bilägare,… Read more…