Designed as a two-seat, open-cockpit speedster, the DBR22 draws heavily on styling cues from the automaker’s Le Mans–winning DBR1. Powered by a twin-turbo 5.2-liter V-12, the DBR22 is claimed to reach 60 mph in 3.4 seconds and achieve a top speed of 198 mph. While the current wording classifies the DBR22 as a concept, it’s likely that somewhere in the ballpark of 10 Aston Martin Q customers will be able to buy a production version. Created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Aston Martin’s bespoke Q division, the DBR22’s styling draws cues from the Le Mans–winning DBR1 piloted by Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby, the only Aston Martin to earn an outright victory in the event. The automaker is also noting that it’s the 10th anniversary of its bespoke division, Q by Aston Martin, hinting that this car may be made in a limited edition of 10 to celebrate that milestone.

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The DBR22 features the same twin-turbocharged 5.2-liter V-12 found in a few other Astons over the last few years, with power down about 10 ponies, making 705 horsepower and 555 pound-feet of torque. It accelerates to 60 mph in a respectable but not all that blistering 3.4 seconds. Thankfully, you can smile to the tune of a screaming V-12 through the open cockpit even while getting gapped by a Tesla Model S Plaid from the stoplight.

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Carbon fiber sits in for the usual metal weave of the grille, a design Aston said takes inspiration from the DBR1 and DB3S. The body features carbon panels without many to interrupt the flowing bodywork.

The DBR22 is slated for its official debut later this week at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, which is part of the Monterey Car Week in California. There are no official production numbers, though previous models were sold in low-double-digit numbers. It would be fitting that the DBR22 might follow suit. However, don’t expect to see one at your regular Cars and Coffee.
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GM isn’t saying anything official just yet, but the Wall Street Journal spoke with “people familiar with the matter” who said the upcoming luxury EV will start at around $300,000 and will have options that could push the price “well beyond” that threshold.The Celestiq won’t be just any Caddy, or just any EV. Plans call for a roof made of smart glass that each person in the car will be able to adjust for their quadrant, as well as using more than 100 3D-printed components.GM is spending $81 million to revamp part of its Global Technical Center so that it can hand-build the Celestiq there. It will be the first production model to come out of the tech center, which has been operating since 1956.Cadillac’s first plug-in vehicle was the ELR, which wasn’t exactly a success. The sleek luxury coupe that used a version of the plug-in-hybrid powertrain from the Chevrolet Volt only sold around 3000 units in its three-year life span. The ELR bore a starting MSRP of $75,995 when it launched. Now Cadillac reportedly isn’t afraid of slapping an even higher price tag onto its upcoming halo plug-in model, the all-electric Celestiq.According to the Wall Street Journal, the Celestiq EV will cost somewhere around $300,000, with options potentially pushing that to “well beyond” that number, the newspaper reported this week. To make one comparison within the brand, the 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V will start at around $150,000.Understandably, General Motors isn’t saying anything about price just yet, as the Celestiq isn’t expected to arrive until late 2023 and the vehicle won’t even be fully revealed until late July. The Journal based its pricing expectation on conversations with unnamed “people familiar with the matter.”One reason for a solid six-figure cost is the fact that GM is planning to make the Celestiq a limited edition, with plans to build fewer than 500 copies.Another reason the Celestiq could be expensive is because it will be hand-built at GM’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. When production starts, the Celestiq will be the first production vehicle to come out of the tech center since it was established in 1956. This center is not currently set up to build production vehicles, but GM announced this week that it would spend $81 million to upgrade the center with the equipment needed to set up a production line. Renovation work at the tech center campus has already begun, GM said.”Each [Celestiq] will be hand-built by an amazing team of craftspeople on our historic Technical Center campus, and today’s investment announcement emphasizes our commitment to delivering a world-class Cadillac with nothing but the best in craftsmanship, design, engineering and technology,” GM president Mark Reuss said in a statement.

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The Celestiq will feature plenty of tech that sure sounds expensive. GM has said the EV’s roof will be made of “suspended-particle-device smart glass” divided into quadrants so that each occupant will be able to adjust the level of their part of the roof’s transparency to their own desired level. A pillar-to-pillar dashboard screen and more than 100 3D-printed components will also be used in the Celestiq. GM has already started using 3D-printed (also known as additive manufactured) components including shifter emblems and parts in the transmission in the Cadillac CT4-V and CT5-V. GM makes these parts at the Additive Industrialization Center, which opened on the tech center campus in 2020. The Celestiq EV will also come with the latest version of Ultra Cruise, an updated version of GM’s hands-free-on-the-highway driver assistance Super Cruise software.Despite all of these moves, GM will use some economical methods when it starts producing the Celestiq. The EV will use GM’s Ultium platform, which the automaker will also use in multiple all-electric models, including the GMC Hummer EV, Cadillac Lyriq, and Chevy Silverado EV. Using the platform will allow GM to use parts in the Celestiq that it also uses in other Ultium models, including things like battery cells and packs, motors, and integrated power electronics.
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Buick was the highest-ranked brand, while GM was the highest-ranked automotive corporation. Meanwhile, the 2022 Chevrolet Corvette was the highest-ranked vehicle, and eight other GM-produced vehicles topped their segments. GM’s plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, received the Platinum Plant Quality Award. The industry average problems per 100 vehicles reached an all-time high of 180, with pandemic-related issues likely to blame.Electric vehicles had nearly 40 percent more problems per 100 vehicles than their gasoline-powered counterparts. Average initial vehicle quality in the US took a hit in 2022—an 18-point hit to be exact. According to J.D. Power’s most recent Initial Quality Study, released June 28, the average number of problems per 100 vehicles increased by 11 percent from 162 in 2021 to 180 in 2022, a record high. The firm’s coinciding press release pointed to pandemic-related developments like supply-chain issues, surging vehicle prices, and personnel dislocations as factors that contributed to the dip in quality.

The study, which has been conducted annually for 36 years, surveyed more than 80,000 new owners of 2022 model-year vehicles on problems they encountered in the first 90 days of ownership. The survey was revamped for 2020 and now includes 223 questions to evaluate a wide range of problems from serious mechanical failures to infotainment glitches. Reassuringly though, the category of problems with the most reports for 2022 was infotainment systems, with 45 problems per 100, 19 more than the next-highest category.

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While overall quality worsened, General Motors apparently rose above the disturbances, becoming the automotive corporation with the fewest problems per 100 vehicles. Meanwhile, Buick, which is under the GM umbrella, topped the list as the brand with the fewest problems per, tallying 139 versus 156 last year. Chevrolet ranked third with 147 after Dodge’s 143. In addition, the 2022 Corvette was named the highest initial quality model overall, while the Chevy Malibu, Buick Encore GX, Chevy Equinox, Cadillac XT6, Chevy Tahoe, Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Silverado, and Chevy Silverado HD all ranked as the top models of their segment. Even more GM-produced vehicles populated the top three of each segment, and the company’s plant in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, received the Platinum Award as the automotive plant with the fewest problems per 100 vehicles produced.

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On the less sunny side of things, the study delivered concerning statistics about electric vehicles. Excluding Teslas due to market saturation, fully electric vehicles averaged 240 problems per 100, while plug-in hybrids averaged 239 problems per. These are in comparison with ICE-equipped vehicles, which averaged 175 problems per. Tesla itself average 226 problems per 100 vehicles, and newcomer EV brand Polestar averaged a staggering 328 problems per, by far the most of any brand included in the study. However, it’s important to keep in mind that this study only tracks problems that occur within a very narrow timeframe, so it’s not the be-all-end-all of vehicle reliability metrics. While initial quality is certainly important, those looking to buy or lease a new vehicle are advised to research long-term reliability as well and look carefully at the new-vehicle warranties that could cover the problems outlined in this study.
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McLaren has submitted trademark applications for three new names with the U.K’s Intellectual Property Office, as first reported by Carbuzz.The three names are Solus, Aeron, and Aonic, and all have been filed in the Motor Vehicles category.These new names could end up being used for the successor to the 720S and McLaren’s future electrified supercars.Since McLaren Automotive started building road cars in 2011, most of its supercars have been given complex alphanumeric names. The first modern McLaren Automotive supercar was the MP4-12C, with that mouthful shortened to 12C after a year. The 12C was followed by a slew of supercars with hard-to-remember monikers, such as the 650S, 570GT, 765LT, and 620R. But recently McLaren has started using real names such as Senna, Elva, Speedtail, and Artura. Now it appears that McLaren is ditching the alphabet-soup names for good, with the British supercar firm submitting trademark applications for three new names with the United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office, as first reported by Carbuzz.

The three names McLaren is seeking to protect are Solus, Aeron, and Aonic. All three trademark applications have been filed under Class 12, which is for “motor land vehicles and parts and fittings therefor.” There are no other details in the applications to indicate what sort of vehicles these names might belong to, but they are likely to be for all-new models unrelated to McLaren’s current offerings, although they could be used on a special edition like the Senna-based Sabre. McLaren has said in the past that it will not enter the lucrative super-SUV segment as Lamborghini, Aston Martin, and Ferrari have done, and any other four-door body style is also likely out of the question. The 720S has been on sale since 2017 and could be due for a replacement soon, and at least one of these nameplates could end up on a hybrid or fully electric supercar. Solus, a term often used in stage directions, comes from Latin and means alone or by oneself, and it could perhaps end up on a hard-core single-seater in the same vein as the Ferrari Monza SP1.
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The 2023 Nissan Pathfinder starts at $36,295, which is only $360 more than the previous year. The Rock Creek trim, the newest to the Pathfinder lineup, is an off-road-oriented model starting at $44,115.Updated standard features include a new wireless charging pad for the SL trim and a power passenger’s seat for the SL and Platinum trims.The Nissan Pathfinder entered its most recent generation for the 2022 model year with a boxier and more rugged look. For 2023, the Pathfinder becomes more rugged once again, through the addition of the Rock Creek trim that has a suspension lift, 18-inch beadlock wheels, and other visual upgrades. We now know that the Rock Creek starts at $44,115, and that pricing is up for other Pathfinder trim levels as well.Prices for both the base S and the mid-level SV are up by $360, with the S costing $36,295 and the SV costing $39,115. The SL trim increases by the largest amount, adding $880 and bringing the price to $42,715. The SL receives a wireless charging pad as a new standard feature.More on the PathfinderThe range-topping Platinum trim increases by $830, bringing it to a stout $49,265. Most Pathfinder models come standard with front-wheel drive, with all-wheel drive costing $1900 extra. The Rock Creek comes standard with all-wheel drive, meaning it fits between the AWD SV and AWD SL within the lineup. The loaded Platinum with AWD crests $51,000.The Pathfinder’s seating configurations have changed a bit, too. While the Platinum previously came standard with second-row captain’s chairs, the top trim level now comes with a three-place bench and offers those chairs as part of a $550 option package, like on lower trims. The Rock Creek comes standard with the captain’s chairs. The SL and the Platinum also receive a 10-way power adjustable passenger seat as a newly standard feature.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