The 2024 Ford Mustang is getting a new supercharger kit courtesy of Ford Performance.With the regular 5.0-liter V-8, Ford claims the kit will raise horsepower from 480 to at least 800.The supercharger debuts on the Ford Mustang FP800S concept, which previews a package of other Ford Performance parts.Just because Dodge isn’t building any more V-8 Hellcats doesn’t mean Ford isn’t interested in making new Mustangs with 800-plus horsepower. That’s what’s on the menu with the new Ford Performance supercharger kit, which debuts on the Ford Mustang FP800S concept at this year’s SEMA show.Supercharged 5.0The Mustang’s naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V-8 is good for 480 horses off the showroom floor. That figure rises to at least 800 horses with the Whipple 3.0-liter supercharger, which also comes with obligatory upgrades to the air and fuel systems. Ford says the kit is compatible with the automatic and manual transmission, and the company says a version that’s specially designed for the Mustang Dark Horse is also on the way.FordThe supercharger kit is compliant with CARB regulations, and it comes with a three-year, 36,000-mile warranty from Ford Performance. The Mustang kit will be available next year, but a price hasn’t been released.Mustang FP800S ConceptJust like it did with the Ford F-150 FP700, the company has now revealed a similar treatment for its pony car. Not only does the Mustang FP800S concept have the new supercharger, but it has a Borla Extreme cat-back exhaust with four 5.0-inch tips. The concept also has a lowered ride height, carbon-fiber aero elements, and it’s fitted with stronger half-shafts. FordThe supercharger kit is available separate from the FP800S package, which we think will make it to production. We especially like the Mustang concept’s appearance, mixing white wheels and matching grille nostrils with a body-side stripe that looks appropriately racy. New Ford Mustang ReviewsThis 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.Senior EditorEric Stafford’s automobile addiction began before he could walk, and it has fueled his passion to write news, reviews, and more for Car and Driver since 2016. His aspiration growing up was to become a millionaire with a Jay Leno–like car collection. Apparently, getting rich is harder than social-media influencers make it seem, so he avoided financial success entirely to become an automotive journalist and drive new cars for a living. After earning a journalism degree at Central Michigan University and working at a daily newspaper, the years of basically burning money on failed project cars and lemon-flavored jalopies finally paid off when Car and Driver hired him. His garage currently includes a 2010 Acura RDX, a manual ’97 Chevy Camaro Z/28, and a ’90 Honda CRX Si. More

Customer deliveries of the 2023 Lucid Air Touring begin today, with all-wheel-drive versions of the Lucid Air Pure following in early December.The official EPA range rating of the 480-hp Pure with all-wheel drive is 410 miles, while the 620-hp Touring is rated at 425 miles—each when fitted with the 19-inch aero wheels. For comparison, the more expensive Air Grand Touring Performance model offers 518 miles of range.Recent changes that came out of Touring and Pure final development have lowered the Air’s drag coefficient to just 0.197 with the 19-inch aero wheels, a production-car best.With deliveries imminent, Lucid has released definitive performance and range information for their entry-level Lucid Air Pure and midlevel Lucid Air Touring. Both range figures are higher than the 406-mile estimates we’ve seen to date. The Touring comes standard with all-wheel drive, but it’s a $5500 option on the Pure. All initial builds of the Pure will be fitted with AWD, with rear-drive examples slated to emerge during the second quarter of 2023. Moving Forward QuicklyThe official EPA range of the Touring, which starts at $109,050, is 425 miles with the 19-inch aero wheels and all-season tires, which are a no-cost option that replaces the Touring’s standard 20-inch setup. Lucid now confirms that the Touring packs 620 horsepower, and has clarified that it will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds. It comes standard with a solid aluminum roof, with the glass canopy roof that’s been standard on all Airs we’ve seen to this point a $4500 option here.The all-wheel-drive Pure is rated at 410 miles of range on its standard 19-inch aero wheels and all-season tires. Its dual-motor drive system generates 480 horsepower, and that’s enough to propel the sleek sedan from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds. The solid aluminum roof is the only offering on the Pure, which starts at $94,550 for the all-wheel-drive version that is being built now. The rear-drive Pure that starts at $89,050 will be EPA certified later as the delivery date approaches.The Air and Touring have less range than the Grand Touring and Dream editions we’ve seen before because their underfloor battery packs are built from 18 modules instead of 22, resulting in a smaller 92.0-kWh pack. The four absent modules are from the area under the rear passengers’ feet, but the effect is far more expansive and normal-looking than the Porsche Taycan’s so-called rear “foot garage.” The result is a much lower and expansive rear floor that gives the Pure and Touring a far more natural and comfortable rear seating position, an effect that’s augmented by a reduced seat cushion rake angle that takes advantage of the lower foot position.After sampling both, we can say the absent cell modules make the back seats of the Lucid Air Pure and Touring feel even more spacious than the higher-priced extreme long-range versions that have been sold to date. And for our money, 400-plus miles of range is still mighty impressive in any EV, especially one that has Lucid’s impressive 900-volt battery and power electronics. After all is said and done, the less expensive Pure and Touring can still take on as much as 200 miles of range in just 15 minutes—at a suitable 350 kW DC fast-charge station, of course.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

Lincoln will reveal an updated version of the Nautilus on November 20.
The 2021 Nautilus is likely to have interior upgrades, possibly including a larger touchscreen.
Expect the 2021 Lincoln Nautilus to go on sale either late this year or early next year.
Lincoln’s mid-size Nautilus crossover is poised to get some updates for the 2021 model year. A short teaser video confirms that the 2021 Nautilus will be revealed on November 20, and we think the improvements will largely be focused on the interior.
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2019 Lincoln Nautilus Improves on the Former MKX

Like its downmarket cousin, the Ford Edge, the Nautilus is likely to gain a larger touchscreen infotainment system. The 2021 Edge has a new 12.0-inch vertically oriented screen, but a leaked photo of the 2021 Nautilus’s interior on FordAuthority shows a different screen setup. It also shows a completely different dashboard layout compared to the current Nautilus. The new cabin’s air vents and HVAC controls look similar to the newer Aviator and Corsair’s.
Lincoln may also revise the 2021 Nautilus’s exterior, but we expect smaller changes in that regard. The Nautilus nameplate was introduced for the 2019 model year, but it was essentially a rebadged and restyled version of the previous MKX crossover that arrived for 2016.
More details will be available later this week about the 2021 Lincoln Nautilus, which should reach dealerships within the next few months.
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Volkswagen is preparing to unveil its latest EV, the ID.5 GTX, which appears to be a SUV “coupe” version of the ID.4, with a similar front end but a sleeker roofline.The GTX portion of the name indicates a performance-focused model, and the ID.5 GTX will have an electric motor on both the front and rear axles.Volkswagen has yet to say whether the ID.5 GTX will make its way stateside or whether it will be offered without the GTX powertrain setup.Volkswagen sold just over 6000 examples of its new ID.4 electric crossover in the first half of the year, and while Ford has sold around twice as many Mustang Mach Es, it’s still a solid start to Volkswagen’s electric offensive in the United States. Now VW is preparing to launch another member of its battery-powered lineup, the ID.5 GTX. The company is previewing the model with several teasers before its upcoming reveal at the Munich auto show in early September.

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Volkswagen says that the ID.5 GTX will be its first electric SUV “coupe”, and the garish green and red swirls of the camouflage in the teasers does nothing to hide the sloping roofline. The ID.5 appears to be closely related to the ID.4, sporting what appears to be an identical front end but trading the boxy tail for a sleeker, rakish roofline in the rear. As a result, it will likely have less cargo space than the ID.4.

The GTX suffix attached to the ID.5’s name indicates that it is performance-focused, with GTX representing for VW’s ID models what GTI means for the Golf. VW revealed that the ID.5 GTX will have an electric motor on each axle, providing all-wheel drive, and is predicting a range over 300 miles. VW has already given the GTX treatment to the ID.4, but the GTX sub-brand will be limited to the European market, while the U.S. will get a mechanically similar model called the ID.4 AWD. It is not yet clear if the ID.5 will be offered as only the GTX or whether it will be available to American consumers, but more details should be revealed when VW takes the covers off the ID.5 GTX in a month’s time.
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The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning will bring the biggest-selling vehicle in the United States into the EV game.By putting an electric propulsion system into an existing mass-market vehicle, Ford could attract a new kind of customer to the EV market.Demand for a pickup EV is almost entirely untested, so it’s too early to say how big the Lightning’s impact on the market will be. It’s been more than a decade since the first modern mass-market electric vehicle went on sale in the United States, the Nissan Leaf. EVs have come a long way since then, thanks largely to the influence of Tesla and its lightning-rod CEO, Elon Musk, but they’re still essentially a niche technology. That might all be about to change.
Today, Ford released the details of the F-150 Lightning, the EV version of its bestselling pickup. The Lightning is one of a recent cluster of EVs that, rather than asking buyers to sacrifice in the name of efficiency, hew close to the brand’s existing identity. The Lightning will go on sale next spring, and if even 1 percent of F-150 buyers go electric, this truck could outsell about half the existing EV field. Ford’s F-series pickups were the bestselling vehicles in the United States in 2020 for the 39th consecutive year. In addition to filling parking lots and job sites across the country with blue ovals, the F-trucks rake in mountains of cash. An analysis by the Boston Consulting Group estimated that Ford’s pickups made the company $42 billion in revenue in 2019 (a year in which almost 900,000 of them were sold). At that rate, if Ford were to spin the F-series family into its own company, that company would be one of the largest in the country by revenue.

That all makes the F-150 Lightning the perfect candidate to attract the type of interest EVs will need to make the jump from niche to normal. Stephanie Brinley, an analyst with IHS Markit, says that for EVs to become mainstream, “Electric propulsion systems have to be in vehicles that we already want.” But, Brinley says, because EVs are still more expensive than their similarly outfitted gas counterparts, a universally appealing EV would also have to offer something that gas- or diesel-powered models can’t. Ford clearly heard that message when designing the Lightning, which has more power and more torque than the rest of the F-150 lineup, plus the capability to power a job site or campsite using the car’s onboard plugs and an (optional) system that can power a home for a week or more, depending on energy use.It’s still too soon to say how many customers will be pulled in by the Lightning’s unique array of features. The Lightning is the first of its kind, so demand is untested. And so is the truck; Ford says the Lightning can tow up to 10,000 pounds but hasn’t said how many miles it can go between charges with a rig behind it. The answer could make or break the truck in the minds of curious buyers. As could the price. Ford is positioning the base version of the truck, starting at around $42,000 before any incentives, for commercial customers. We’re expecting the next-up XLT trim to start around $55,000, meaning base retail versions of the Lightning will compete on price with the gas version’s upper Lariat and King Ranch trims.

Ford has at least one interested customer. Yesterday, a visibly giddy President Biden piloted a camouflaged Lightning around Ford’s test grounds and told a reporter he would consider buying one. So far, the investments automakers have made in EVs have been directed more by regulation championed by enthusiastic legislators than by customer demand. If the Lightning’s unique package can spark interest from people who would otherwise sit out the EV revolution, it could be a game changer. But don’t hold your breath. Brinley says Ford is hedging its bets (has anyone talked to you about a new Bronco?) and is willing to wait on the Lightning’s success. “Our expectation is that [sales will be] relatively low as a percentage of F-150 for quite some time . . . It’s a long, long-term play.”
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