This content is imported from youTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.When it comes to cars, the only thing stranger than French exterior design is French intake runners. That’s what the crew found out this week with a challenge to find something from the land of brie for la somme généreuse of $50,000. They went everywhere but France to do it.Road & Track senior editor John Pearley Huffman headed to Belgium for a chunk of French history: a Panhard Dyna Z rarer than a truffle and no more pleasant to look at. Panhard was an innovator, creating some of the earliest clutch pedals and steering wheels, building the first series production car, and inventing us the Panhard Rod. This Dyna Z was avant garde all over until it opened its hood. Then it was a Hungry Hungry Hippo, a look that has no French translation. Senior editor Joey Capparella, who used this show to reveal he has a degree in French, opted for beauty and another hemisphere over innovation. His Peugeot 406 Coupé located in Argentina could be considered the least French car of the lot, designed as it was by Pininfarina without a weird line on it. It could also be considered the most French car of the lot in that it’s gorgeous, comfortable, and underpowered. Contributor Jonathon Ramsey alighted on a Peugeot 505 Turbo sedan pulled out of a barn in Vermont. The 505 was the standard bearer of Peugeot’s misadventure in North America, but panelists were more interested in peculiarities like the hub bolt pattern, the umbrella in the back seat, and the startling fact that Pug set up assembly operations in 14 countries.Executive editor K.C. Colwell went to that most French of American cities, Phoenix, Arizona, to cruise the boulevards in a Paris icon, the Citroen XM Berline. A set of anonymous 1990 aftermarket wheels couldn’t hide the ultimate Frenchness of Syd Mead sci-fi lines, a pneumatic suspension, and an ashtray half as large as the radio. The manual transmission might make it tough to enjoy a café au lait on the morning commute through Scottsdale, though.Editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga swung by Portugal for a French legend, the Peugeot 205. The rally maestro was almost everything you’d want from a hot hatch named “GTI,” including a (more) reasonable price. Shame about the ride quality, but Quiroga set a new benchmark for accessory shopping to allay that. Cue up the latest weekly episode for diversions into Michelin, European versus U.S. headlights, Capparella’s French translations, and how long it takes air in a 205 engine to travel from the intake to the manifold. No Le Cars were hurt in the making of this video. Although they were insulted.More Window ShoppingThis content is imported from OpenWeb. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. More

This 2005 Porsche Carrera GT is now the most expensive car ever to sell on the auction site Bring a Trailer.The selling price of just over $1.9 million beat the previous high by more than $400,000.To everyone who missed out on this Porsche, do not despair.Record-setting auction results have become routine at Bring a Trailer, but the just-completed sale of this 2005 Porsche Carrera GT is notable for topping them all. Selling for $1,902,000, it vaulted to the top of the auction site’s hit parade to become the most expensive car ever sold on BaT, smashing the previous high-water mark of $1.4 million set by a 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster in July 2021.

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That Carrera GT prices are skyrocketing is not hard to understand. This purist machine could be considered the last analog supercar, and yet it’s also a true exotic. Its 5.7-liter V-10 is naturally aspirated yet features titanium connecting rods, dry-sump lubrication, and an 8400-rpm redline. It’s mated to a six-speed manual transaxle with a novel twin-plate ceramic clutch and drives the rear wheels. There’s no stability control, although there is traction control and ABS. Derived from Porsche’s stillborn Le Mans prototype, the Carrera GT has a carbon-fiber central tub and front structure and carbon-fiber bodywork. The control-arm suspension features pushrod-actuated horizontal coil-over shocks, and the brake rotors are carbon-ceramic. The design of the production car was hardly changed from the concept car that wowed the crowd at the 2000 Paris auto show. Upon driving it in 2004, we said simply: “We have been to the top of the mountain.”

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Obviously, any Carrera GT is desirable. This one was made more so, first by its ultralow mileage, and second by its rare Guards Red livery. It’s believed only 42 Carrera GTs in Guards Red cars were imported to the United States versus 103 Black and 362 GT Silver. This car also has two special options: the wood shift knob and a set of fitted luggage.

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This sale also garnered more than 122,000 page views—which would have put it among the top-10 most popular BaT auctions last year—and just over 700 comments. There were also 4910 auction watchers. As for the underbidders, chin up! There’s another Carrera GT on BaT right now. It’s GT Silver but it has even fewer miles: just 250. Raise high your [virtual] paddles, Porsche fans.

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As first reported by Road & Track and by Instagram user Ronnie C Photography, a modified Porsche Carrera GT known as a Gemballa Mirage GT was spectacularly wrecked in Manhattan this morning. A New York police spokesperson told R&T that the owner of the car was arrested following “a series of crashes.” Car-modification specialist Gemballa […] More

Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are cars that change important aspects of their performance based on new lines of code. With over-the-air updates, SDVs can adjust everything from infotainment to safety features to self-driving capabilities.Hyundai will spend $12.6 billion by 2030 on what it is calling the upcoming Software Age for vehicles.While some of today’s Hyundai Group vehicles can already be updated over cellular networks, the first vehicles that are part of this new Software Age will arrive in 2023.Hyundai Motor Group will invest $12.6 billion by 2030 to make lines of code the most critical part of future Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis vehicles. The automaker announced its road map for software-defined vehicles today and said it expects to have 20 million vehicles around the world be part of the Group’s Connected Car Services (CCS) by 2025. That’s also the year that all Hyundai Group models will be considered software-defined vehicles (SDVs).HyundaiHyundai is calling its shift to get more SDVs on the road the “Software Age.” The technology—in which updatable code controls and changes a vehicle’s components, parameters, and features—will be used in electric and traditional gas-powered cars. Many Hyundai Group vehicles are already defined in some way by software that can be updated over the air. Current OTA services revolve around infotainment, connectivity and ADAS features, but Hyundai is promising more of everything when it comes to future SDVs. The first vehicles that reflect the brand’s wholesale commitment to the SDV era will arrive in 2023, according to Hyundai electronics development group vice president Hyung Ki Ahn. These SDVs will offer better environmental recognition and improved autonomous driving and parking features.50 Percent More RangeHyundai will introduce two new electric vehicle platforms as part of its embrace of SDVs. Compared to Hyundai’s current E-GMP platform, used in the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, and Genesis GV70, the new platforms will offer more range and better use of OTA updates for improvements. The first platform, called eM, will be used for passenger vehicles in all segments and promises to offer a 50 percent range improvement compared to current EVs. Hyundai is building the eM platform with Level 3 and higher autonomous driving technology in mind. The eS “skateboard” platform will be used for purpose-built vehicles, especially for companies that use vehicles for deliveries or ride-hailing. The first Hyundai Group vehicles that use these new electric platforms will arrive in 2025.While some OTA features can be found on vehicles that customers already own, the core of Hyundai’s new SDV future is its internally developed Connected Car Operating System (ccOS). The ccOS platform uses an integrated controller to make software updates more efficient. Hyundai is also working with NVIDIA to load an optimized ccOS onto the NVIDIA DRIVE high-performance semiconductor. Faster, better semiconductors are required because of the massive data collection and processing requirements of new vehicle functions, including information from the car’s camera, radar, and lidar sensors. Before the end of the year, Hyundai will add an advanced Highway Driving Pilot (HDP) to the Genesis G90 (pictured below) that will offer Level 3 semi-autonomous driving features. Hyundai is also moving its Remote Parking Pilot (RPP) to Level 3 standards. For Level 4 functionality, Hyundai is looking at chip options from multiple suppliers.2023 Genesis G90.GenesisMore Subscriptions?Hyundai’s customers will, of course, have to pay for these updatable features in some fashion, and the automaker touts SDVs and Feature on Demand (FoD) services as a way to provide “diverse, stable revenue streams.” That, of course, brings us into the tricky world of ongoing subscriptions for vehicle features. BMW caused a ruckus earlier this year when it announced heated seat subscriptions for its vehicles in the UK. BMW claimed that a feature like this can be purchased for one up-front cost or paid for over time and that different payment options help consumers. Hyundai didn’t address the BMW situation but claimed that SDVs put customers in charge and said constant updates would help with a car’s residual value.”Our theory is that customers can use what they want,” Ahn said on a conference call announcing the news. “At the same time, customers who do not want the feature can stop using the feature without incurring any further cost. Being able to use the features you want when you want them and pay for what you use is a service that is made possible by SDV technology.”Ahn said Hyundai is researching how customers may respond to different updatable functions and prices.This content is imported from poll. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.This content is imported from OpenWeb. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. More

UPDATE 5/25/2022: Stellantis will pay $300 million in fines and plead guilty to criminal charges resulting from an investigation into diesel emissions cheating by the company, according to a report from Reuters this morning. The Environmental Protection Agency launched the investigation in 2017 against the company’s former business unit, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), and had settled with FCA in 2019 for $800 million in civil penalties as described in the story below. The criminal charges and the plea deal are pending.Fiat Chrysler will pay $800 million in civil penalties and compliance costs to settle allegations that it installed “defeat device software” allowing its Jeep and Ram diesel vehicles to emit higher levels of nitrogen oxides while driving, the automaker said in a statement on Thursday.The settlement resolves allegations since January 2017 that the turbo-diesel 3.0-liter V-6 in the 2014–2016 Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee had software that let the vehicles “operate in a way that produces increased NOx emissions off cycle,” according to a complaint filed separately by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Roughly 100,000 vehicles are affected; of those, more than 13,000 are in California. FCA is one several manufacturers to use similar Bosch software that Volkswagen admitted in 2015 that it co-developed to cheat federal emissions tests. However, FCA has not been charged with any crime and maintains that it never intentionally deceived regulators.”The settlements do not change the company’s position that it did not engage in any deliberate scheme to install defeat devices to cheat emissions tests,” the automaker said. “Further, the consent decree and settlement agreements contain no finding or admission with regard to any alleged violations of vehicle emissions rules.”Settlement Includes Payments to Vehicle OwnersFCA has agreed to pay nearly $400 million in civil penalties, including $305 million to the EPA, the Department of Justice, and CARB; $6 million to Customs and Border Protection; and $72.5 million to various state attorneys general. California will receive $78.4 million, including a $19 million payment to upgrade an unspecified set of 200,000 vehicles with new catalytic converters. The remaining $400 million covers a software update and payments to current and former vehicle owners in amounts that average $2800 per person. FCA said the software update, which should be available to owners later this year, will not affect fuel economy or performance. In July 2017, the EPA and CARB approved 2017 model diesel Ram and Jeep vehicles after the company agreed to release this software update.At issue is what CARB calls “auxiliary emission-control devices” (in other words, software code) that can allow excess pollution at specific times, such as during a cold start or for dumping fuel to clean the particulate filter, that must be disclosed. CARB said FCA either did not disclose each of the eight devices on board or did not disclose them “fully or accurately.” Unlike the VW case, CARB and the EPA did not present evidence in their complaints of the exact amounts of nitrogen oxides that these vehicles emitted. Regardless, the nondisclosure of these devices makes the vehicles noncompliant with emissions laws.Since the VW scandal, CARB and the EPA have gone after other automakers and delayed their diesel-vehicle certifications. Mercedes-Benz, Ford, and General Motors are facing federal investigations and class-action suits for the same allegations. However, these automakers, including FCA, have not been found guilty of any crime. VW was found to have colluded with Bosch to pass U.S. emissions only while its vehicles sensed they were being tested by federal agencies, while otherwise they operated in a completely different driving mode that polluted up to 40 times above the legal limit. This story was originally published on January 10, 2019.

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