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The longroof M3 combines a station-wagon body with a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six engine.It has standard xDrive all-wheel drive including a RWD drift mode.It will go on sale in Europe (and elsewhere) later this year but is seemingly not coming to U.S.We are often frustrated when European automakers deny us cars with the excuse that they would be in limited demand in the U.S. This, sadly, is one of those occasions, with BMW’s official confirmation of a car that rational market forces are set to deny us. Meet the new BMW M3 Touring.That’s right, it’s an M3 wagon, the first that BMW has ever built through six generations of the nameplate. It got close in the past, having nearly launched a longroof version of the E36-generation M3 that was built between 1992 and 1999. But this is the first to actually make it to production and, on the basis of these images, it is every bit as awesome as you would expect such a combination of practicality and performance to be.
The M3 Touring follows the M4 coupe and convertible and the M3 sedan, and is set to make its official debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K. this weekend. As you’d expect, it shares the station-wagon body of the existing 3-series Touring, which remains a strong seller in Europe, with the all-wheel-drive powertrain of the M3 Competition. And yes, it keeps Howitzer-caliber quad exhaust tips.

That means power from a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder engine that makes 503 hp and 479 pound-feet of torque, with this delivered to the road through a standard eight-speed automatic gearbox and all-wheel drive. The AWD system has an electronically controlled multi-plate clutch to apportion torque between its front and rear axles, plus an equally clever rear differential that allows full variation of the amount of effort sent to each rear wheel. Like the sedan, it will also feature a pure rear-wheel driven mode, although one that can only be selected with the disengagement of the DSC stability control system. Doing this will bring the additional dynamic option of the variable M Traction Control feature which will, according to BMW, “allow the skilled driver to enjoy a driving experience of remarkable purity.” Or, translated: big skids.The new car is slightly heavier than the M4 coupe and M3 sedan, although BMW hasn’t confirmed by quite how much. But it will still be brutally quick: BMW is claiming a sprint to 62mph in just 3.6 seconds—just a tenth behind the company’s claim for the sedan. Top speed will remain limited to 155 mph in standard form, although buyers who opt for the M Driver’s Package will see that increase to 174 mph.
But it is also a wagon, one that will offer a claimed 18 cubic feet of cargo capacity with the rear seats in place, and with this figure increasing to 53 cubic feet with the seats folded. As with lesser versions of the 3-series Touring, practicality is enhanced by the ability to open the rear tailgate glass separately, allowing small items to be placed into the load space without opening the trunk.Beyond the obvious bodywork changes, the M3 Touring sticks closely to the look of the sedan, but it also marks the debut in an M car of BMW’s new Operating System 8 system, and also a new 14.9-inch curved touchscreen display. As the pictures confirm, it extends from the edge of the merged digital instrument cluster to overlap the front passenger’s position.
There has been an M-branded Touring model before this one, with the E60-generation M5 combining wagon bodywork with the sonorous performance of that car’s naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V10 engine. This one is slightly less practical, but also quicker. It will be going on sale in markets including the U.K., Europe, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia later this year. Sadly it seems there are no plans to bring it here.
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Stellantis will be recalling Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs to fix a problem with the antilock braking system that could potentially cause the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly.Included are 270,904 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango models in the U.S., built between June 2018 and April 2019. The recall report filed with NHTSA blames a ZF hydraulic control unit ABS module that “falsely reads pressure in the primary circuit,” allowing brake lights to stay on and the vehicle to start and shift out of park without use of the brake pedal.More than 270,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs are being recalled because they could accidentally start, shift out of park, and move without the brake pedal being depressed. In filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the automaker says “suspect” hydraulic control unit modules were installed in vehicles built between June 10, 2018, and April 30, 2019. The faulty modules can “falsely read pressure in the primary circuit,” potentially allowing the brake lights to come on and the vehicle to start and shift out of park.

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Fiat Chrysler (FCA), as it’s named in the recall documents, first began an investigation last fall after noticing increased warranty claims for brake lights staying on in the two models. There have been more than 200 such claims to date related to the problem, but no reported accidents or injuries, according to FCA’s filing with NHTSA.The recall will include 211,934 Grand Cherokee and 58,970 Dodge Durango vehicles. The automaker is still working out the remedy and said it will notify owners by letters that are to be mailed at the end of July. In the meantime, owners can check whether their vehicle is affected on the NHTSA recalls site.

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This restomod Subaru Impreza was inspired by the original World Rally Championship car.The Prodrive car will make 400 horsepower and, thanks to liberal use of carbon fiber, will weigh less than the original WRC Impreza.The Prodrive P25 will be appearing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend in the U.K. A limited run of 25 will be sold in the U.K., with deliveries later this year.Nostalgia is a hugely powerful force when it comes to “want, not need” car purchases, and having raised the values of earlier classics, it has now reached the 1990s. This seems the most extreme example yet: the Prodrive P25.Yes, it’s a Subaru Impreza, although a substantially reworked one. Just 25 are going to be produced for rich, rally-loving collectors, with each one set to carry a six-figure price tag in the U.K.

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British motorsport company Prodrive created the original works Subaru World Rally Championship cars of the 1990s and early 2000s. The team’s most famous season came in 1995, when Colin McRae won his only driver’s championship in a four-door Impreza Turbo. In 1997, Prodrive created an even quicker Impreza to take advantage of the new WRC regulations, based on the two-door Impreza shell that was only available in Japan. This in turn inspired the Japan-market “widebody” 22B road car, but also the Prodrive-engineered Subaru Impreza P1, which was sold in Europe.

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While Prodrive cites the Impreza 22B as being the primary influence of the new P25, it seems to owe as much to the slightly later P1, including the fact that the man who designed the body kit for Prodrive’s first roadgoing Impreza, Peter Stevens, also did the work on this one. Beyond the P25’s hugely upgraded mechanical spec, the biggest difference is the pricetag; the limited-to-1000 Impreza P1 was originally sold for £26,800 in 2000; that emerges from the inflation calculator as the equivalent of $59,000 in 2022 dollars. The new P25 is being offered for a cool $565,000 at current exchange rates. The P25 will be based on an original two-door Impreza chassis, but with hood, trunklid, sills, mirrors, fenders, and the rally-style wing all made from carbon composite. That reduces mass to less than 2650 pounds, according to Prodrive—even less than the original WRC rally car. Power comes from a reworked version of the familiar 2.5-liter Subaru turbocharged flat-four, this getting new cylinder liners, pistons and conrods plus variable valve timing. Boost is delivered by a Garrett turbo, and the exhaust is a titanium and stainless steel system by Akrapovič.400 HP, 442 Pound-Feet Peak power is claimed to be over 400 horsepower, accompanied by 442 pound-feet of torque, delivered through a paddle-operated six-speed sequential transmission with helical cut gears and an electronically controlled active center differential. A launch control system is claimed to be capable of taking the car through first, second, and third gears without any driver intervention beyond, presumably, keeping the gas pedal tight against the bulkhead. Prodrive claims a zero-to-62-mph time of under 3.5 seconds. And some more good news for lovers of the distinctive fusillade produced by the original Impreza rally cars: this one keeps anti-lag, injecting fuel into the turbocharger to keep it spinning off-throttle. The P25 gets AP racing brakes with cast iron discs front and rear, these gripped by six-pot and four-pot calipers respectively. The interior gets a new digital display screen with a data logger, and buyers will be able to choose between having four seats or substituting the rear ones for a half roll cage. It also gets both a hydraulic “fly-off” e-brake (which disengages the center differential) for easier oversteer and a modern electric parking brake. The P25 will make its official debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend, with customer deliveries starting later this year. Begging the obvious question: which other rallying heroes would you like to see reinterpreted? The Lancia Delta Integrale? Audi Sport Quattro? Peugeot 205 T16?How about all of them?

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• The 33-year-old car looks clean and has 58,000 miles on the odometer. • The paint is finished in Alpine White while dark-tinted windows protect a burgundy interior from any unwanted UV rays. • If you’re interested in bidding, the auction ends Friday, June 24. Like many other young car enthusiasts, I spent much of my spare time throughout high school scrolling through page after page of car listings I could not afford. I never worked during the school year and therefore never really had any buying power. I did, however, have eyes quite a bit bigger than my wallet—and a friend willing to drive me around in his 1982 Porsche 924.

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I was head over heels for that car, even if it was riddled with mechanical and electrical issues. It was simply gorgeous in its peeling burnt-orange-paint glory. It sounded the way I thought a car should, and it had a manual transmission, which intrigued me even if my 14-year-old self couldn’t realistically drive anything. I spent hours poring over examples of 924s and 944s I would never be able to buy.

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When I discovered the 944, I was, simply put, smitten. The Porsche 944 took the body from the entry-level 924, muscled it up, and gave the car wider proportions. This generation of 944, which is up for auction on Bring a Trailer—which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos—came in 1989 and was labeled the 944 S2, the third and final variation of the car.

The 944 S2 is powered by a 3.0-liter inline-four originally rated at 208 horsepower and 207 pound-feet of torque. That power is mated to a five-speed manual transaxle and limited-slip differential sending power to the rear wheels. According to the listing, the timing belt, idler pulleys, tensioners, and accessory belt were all recently serviced, along with an A/C system recharge. The car is being auctioned from Arizona with an owner’s manual, service records, tool kit, and a window sticker.

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There are a few blemishes: the shift knob shows wear, and the top of the dash is cracking around the vents. Even so, with all the recent service and sophisticated Alpine White paint, this 944 S2 managed to charm us. If you want a crack at it, the auction ends on Friday, June 24.

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The 100th running of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb starts Sunday, June 26, at 9:30 a.m. ET (7:30 a.m. Mountain time).Tickets are sold out, but fans will be able to watch the action for free from the Mobil 1 Facebook page.More than 70 entrants will participate, including six drivers who share multiple King of the Mountain titles for quickest overall. Among them are five-time winner Rod Millen, his son and two-time king Rhys Millen, and current Time Attack 1 division record holder and three-time king David Donner.Entering the final week of practice with qualifying beginning on Tuesday, June 21, the 100th running of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is almost here. The green flag drops for the legendary race up Pikes Peak Mountain near Colorado Springs, Colorado, at 7:30 a.m. Mountain time (9:30 a.m. Eastern) on Sunday, June 26. Spectator tickets are completely sold out, but don’t let that stop you from watching the wildest motorsports event in the United States.

Here’s how to watch it for free. Pikes Peak Live, presented by Mobil 1, will be hosting live video from their official Facebook page. We’ll embed that video here on race day. If you’re unable to watch but want to listen to the action, Live flag-to-flag coverage by Colorado Springs’s own news station, KRDO, will be featured on their website and FM radio channel. For those who tweet, the PPIHC Twitter will continue to post updates and behind-the-scenes coverage throughout the week.This year’s roster includes more than 70 entries, with drivers from some of the most exciting circles of motorsports. Rod Millen, who turned 71 this year, returns with the legendary 1998 Toyota Tacoma hill-climb pickup in which he achieved two of four consecutive King of the Mountain wins. This time, the road up the mountain is completely paved, but in the dirt, Millen’s quickest run in the Tacoma was 10:07.70 in 1998. Rhys Millen, Rod’s son, nearly beat Romain Dumas last year for an overall win. Rhys returns for an attempt at his third King of the Mountain title in a 2016 Porsche GT3R built by E-Motion Engineering.

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Three-time King of the Mountain David Donner is back for his 26th attempt at Pikes Peak with a 2022 Porsche 911 Turbo S 000 production car. Donner currently holds the record for the quickest climb of the Time Attack class with a blistering 9:36.559 time, but this year he’s back to reclaim the production car record of 10:18.488 set by Rhys Millen 2019.Acura is debuting its race-prepped 2023 Integra alongside two 2022 NSX Type S and a pair of 2021 TLX Type S sedans. The NSX Type S is the official pace car for this year’s event piloted by Renée Brinkerhoff, who has competed in La Carrera Panamericana Mexican Rally three times. The race up Pikes Peak is a 12.42-mile time trial event, where one car at a time climbs the 156-turn paved scenic roadway and finishes at the summit at 14,115 feet above sea level. Six divisions of cars compete, ranging from production cars to open-wheel aerodynamic freak shows. Each year brings quicker and more powerful competition. It’s how records are made, and later broken. The quickest time yet, a mind-blowing 07:57.148, was set by Romain Dumas in 2018 with Volkswagen’s electric ID. R, and there’s plenty of horsepower (and downforce) in Colorado this year to potentially beat it. Everyone’s chance hinges on successfully completing this week’s practice and qualifying leading up to an exciting race on Sunday. Until then, we highly suggest watching last year’s PPIHC from the Mobil 1 YouTube channel.
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Pagani first revealed the Huayra, its successor to the legendary Zonda, in 2012. In true Pagani fashion, though, the company is still releasing limited-edition and one-off versions of the mid-engine carbon-bodied supercar. The latest version is this, the Huayra Codalunga.

The Codalunga—Italian for longtail—was developed by Pagani’s Grandi Complicazioni special projects division. It started out as an idea from a single client that, over the course of two years, developed into a small production run of cars. Using the Huayra’s dimensions as a base, the Codalunga has a revised fascia and a totally new rear section that sports a rear hatch covering an area over 12 square feet. Underneath sits an uprated version of the AMG-supplied twin-turbo 6.0-liter V-12 making 840 horsepower and 811 pound-feet of torque. There’s also a new ceramic-coated titanium exhaust system that weighs just 9.7 pounds. In all, the car weighs just 2822 pounds—about as much as a new Subaru BRZ. Pagani says the Codalunga’s design was inspired by Italian race cars and coachbuilt machines of the Sixties.”We made the Huayra Codalunga longer and smoother, as if it had been caressed and molded by the wind, to design lines that were even more elegant than the coupe,” founder Horacio Pagani said in a statement. “We drew inspiration from the longtails of the 1960s that raced at Le Mans, which had very clean lines. The Huayra Codalunga comprises very few essential elements; we have taken away rather than added. Simplifying is not at all straightforward, and this vehicle is, above all, the result of a complex pursuit of simple ideas.”

The Huayra Codalunga starts from an incredibly reasonable $7.4 million at current exchange rates. Not that that matters, as all five examples have already been sold. Interestingly, one of the cars was sold to a customer in the U.S., as Pagani says it was able to homologate one car for use on our roads. We hope it gets driven rather than stashed away in a collection.

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Ford, GM, Stellantis, and Toyota have all signed on to a letter asking the federal government to do away with the cap on consumer incentives for buying an electric vehicle—which are currently limited to 200,000 vehicles per automaker.The four companies say the number of credits should be increased because the pandemic and supply-chain problems have raised prices, potentially preventing customers from being able to afford a new EV.GM and Tesla are the only automakers that have hit the threshold thus far, but Ford and Toyota could reach the limit this year, Reuters noted.Four major automakers are asking the U.S. government to expand the $7500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles, citing rising prices and economic turmoil as reasons to allow more than 200,000 qualifying sales per company. Ford, GM, Stellantis, and Toyota North America have sent Congress a letter, first reported on by Reuters, signed by the respective CEOs asking for the extension. The letter was not released publicly.

When the U.S. federal tax credit for electric vehicles was passed back in 2008 under President Bush, the message was that the 200,000-vehicle limit would give companies selling their first EVs a price cushion to help make them cost-competitive with gas-powered cars. Once a company has sold 200,000, the thinking went, it would have reached some sort of economies of scale, and thus be able to lower their prices. This plan is working, in some instances. GM, for example, ran out of credits in early 2019 and recently announced prices for the 2023 Bolt EV and Bolt EUV that were around $6000 less than for the 2022 models.But now we’re in 2022, and the auto industry is asking for the government to rethink that 200,000 limit. The reasons lie in the off-kilter world around us. “Recent economic pressures and supply chain constraints are increasing the cost of manufacturing electrified vehicles which, in turn, puts pressure on the price to consumers,” the CEOs wrote in the letter.Overall, the automakers are basically asking for more time, saying that they’ve collectively pledged to spend $170 billion through 2030 to make EVs a reality in the U.S. and want the tax credit to expand in order to attract more customers.

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Ford, Toyota on the Verge The four automakers are in quite different stages of hitting the limit of 200,000 vehicles sold. GM, as stated, has already passed it. GM and Tesla are the only automakers that have hit the limit so far. But they are likely to be joined by others, and soon. We don’t know when, since automakers do not have to release qualifying EV sales numbers, but based on company statements and outside calculations, Ford and Toyota are likely to hit the level later this year, Reuters said, with Stellantis picking up the rear.

Beyond simply lifting the cap on the number of qualifying sales per automaker, previous ideas to expand federal incentives for EVs have included allowing the credits to continue until EVs reach a predetermined market share threshold for a predetermined length of time (so, for example, the credits could end once EVs make up 25 percent of the new cars sold for six quarters, or something like that). During discussions about potential changes to federal EV incentives during negotiations over some of President Biden’s infrastructure and Build Back Better plans, a number of ideas were floated. One would offer credits for used-EV purchases, while another would change the tax credit to a point-of-sale rebate, and yet another would have increased the amount of the maximum tax credit from $7500 to $12,500. Some of these ideas have been proposed before, like when President Obama tried to change the credits into at-dealer rebates a decade ago.
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A 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with exclusive Minted Green paint is headed for a charity auction next week.The custom Z06 is accompanied by a color-matched NFT, and they can only be bid on with Ethereum cryptocurrency.The auction is open to eligible bidders from June 20 to 24, 2022, with all proceeds going to the DonorsChoose organization.What a time to be alive. It feels like not that long ago a mid-engine Corvette was a future fantasy. Now, they’re in Chevy showrooms, with a new 670-hp Z06 version on the way. And that’s not even the craziest thing. That distinction goes to the custom-painted 2023 Chevy Corvette Z06 and its matching one-of-a-kind non-fungible token (NFT) that’s about to be auctioned off for charity next week.

We can already imagine all of you right now who are firing up the Google machine to find out just what the heck is an NFT. Well, we sort of explained it in our recent comparison test of full-size luxury SUVs, also known as “Nice F—ing Trucks.” For the TL;DR crowd, an NFT is a “unique digital identifier that cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided, that is recorded in a blockchain, and that is used to certify authenticity and ownership,” as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Still confused? Welcome to 2022.

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In this case, the NFT was designed by xsullo, and it features artwork depicting a Z06 racing through the streets of what appears to be a futuristic city. The illustrated Z06 wears the same zany green color as the physical ’23 Corvette Z06, which Chevy says is called Minted Green. It also says the car that’s being auctioned is the only 2023 production model that will wear the exclusive hue. The exact spec includes the Z07 package and carbon-fiber wheels, along with a commemorative plaque and a VIN that’s inspired by binary code—the language of computers. At least attention to detail isn’t out of style in these unprecedented times.So, if all this talk of a new Z06 in a crazy color complete with a matching NFT makes you interested in bidding, the charity auction will be live around the world from June 20 to 24, 2022, to those who are eligible. However, there’s an M. Night Shyamalan–like twist: bids can only be placed with Ethereum cryptocurrency. For the unfamiliar, we’ll direct your attention back to Google. All the crypto proceeds go to the DonorsChoose organization that’s aimed at helping teachers in need. Because if this cryptocurrency and NFT business has taught us anything, it’s that our youth need a good education that’ll prepare them for even more weirdness that’s sure to come in the future.
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