Missed you all last week — was on the road through Tennessee and Kentucky where Ford is building their $11.4 battery and electric vehicle plants. I don’t blame em for taking the incentives and building in truly greener pastures. The roads are great, too.
Reads:
💳 Since consumers love a monthly payment, car features are going subscription-based. [Car & Driver]
🏁 Even the loaded Launch Edition Lotus Emira will ring in under $100k [Jalopnik]
🧼 Larry Kosilla of AMMO NYC went from Wall Street to pro detailer with a huge YouTube channel and a line of his own detailing products. [Road & Track]
👼 Ford is deploying a team of *Charge Angels* to travel the US in Mach-Es to repair broken Electrify America chargers. Who else wants to apply? [Auto News]
🦭 The pre-owned department at a Kia dealership in New Jersey has an unusually exotic inventory… [CarBuzz]
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The Ferrari Purosangue testing at Fiorano is a sight. They will sell so many of these it’s not even funny.
McLaren’s Zak Brown and Jodie Kidd take a tour of the legendary cars in the McLaren racing collection.
The BMW i4 M50 enters the EV arena. It’s no secret that the Model 3 has successfully eaten the 3 Series’ lunch. This is a solid counterpunch and I, for one, love it. My favorite part? Hans Zimmer did the sound. What a party trick. This is getting the usual articles asking “is it a real M car” and… of course it isn’t. But if you think of it as the first EV Alpina… Now we’re getting somewhere.
Pistonheads looks at the Taycan CT against one element of the Jaguar F-Pace SVR.
Auction Finds of the Week:
1990 964 Targa 4 — rare and so damn pretty…
2008 CLK63 Black Series or a 2009 CL65 Black Series?
2012 Bentley Continental GTC W12 — these are aging well imo…
1976 Fiat 131 Rally Car (!!!)