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The Folgore is an electric version of Maserati’s new Grecale SUV.It has a 105.0-kWh battery pack and promises up to 590 pound-feet of torque.The Folgore will go on sale in the U.S. in fall 2023.The new Grecale crossover will be a key part of Maserati’s expanding EV lineup. All Maserati EVs will wear the Folgore name (that means “lightning” in Italian), and Maserati has now revealed the 2024 Grecale Folgore alongside the standard model. The gas-powered 2023 Grecale GT, Modena, and Trofeo models are scheduled to arrive this summer, while the Folgore won’t reach the U.S. until fall 2023.

While we wait, Maserati has provided a few juicy specs for the EV. It will have a 105.0-kWh battery pack and its electric motors—we assume there will be at least two—will produce 590 pound-feet of torque. Maserati has not yet confirmed whether this battery information represents net capacity or usable capacity, but either way the Grecale Folgore’s pack is shaping up to be on the bigger end of its segment. The Audi Q4 e-tron’s battery, for instance, offers 77.0-kWh of usable energy. The torque figure, meanwhile, tops the Grecale Trofeo’s twin-turbo 3.0-liter V-6, which has 457 pound-feet.
Visually the Folgore appears to have the exact same body as the gas model, but a few key details identify it as the electric model. The concave grille appears to be different and is partially closed off, and there are also interesting-looking wheels and Folgore badges on the fenders. The pictured vehicle is finished in a copper color called Rame Folgore that’s exclusive to the electric Grecale. Maserati also says it will use recycled fabrics for the Folgore’s interior, including a recycled nylon material called Econyl.Rather than riding on one of Stellantis’ new electric platforms, the Grecale Folgore uses a modified version of the Giorgio platform that underpins the standard Grecale and other gas models such as the Alfa Romeo Stelvio. We’re not sure what that will mean for the packaging of the electric motors and battery pack, but Maserati confirmed that the Folgore will offer all-wheel drive as standard.Look for Maserati to charge a significant price premium for the Folgore compared with the standard Grecale, which starts at $64,995. Given what we’ve heard so far about its specs, we wouldn’t be surprised to see it start at around $75,000.
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General Motors has filed to trademark a new Buick logo with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Unlike Buick’s current logo, the three shields in the new one are horizontally aligned instead of diagonally.The trademark filing doesn’t mention if the new logo will have colors or be monochromatic.The Buick brand has been trying to reinvent itself over the past several years, between deleting exterior name badges and switching to an all-SUV lineup. Now, the company appears to be preparing to adopt a redesigned version of its traditional tri-shield logo. The news comes after it was discovered that General Motors filed a trademark on March 16, 2022, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Based on an image of the new-look logo that was submitted with the filing, the three shields are now aligned horizontally instead of diagonally. The diagonal stripe inside each shield has also been swapped for a downward-swooping line, and the ring that previously surrounded the trio of shields has been removed.

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The current Buick logo features one red, one silver, and one blue shield. However, we don’t know whether or not the new logo will see the return of that color combination or if it’ll be monochromatic. After all, Cadillac recently revealed a new black-and-white logo for its upcoming EVs. Plus, Buicks have worn monochrome logos before, and the application specifically states that GM didn’t claim color as a feature of the mark, so it remains to be seen.What also remains to be seen is what Buick model the new logo will be introduced on. The trademark application still needs to be assigned to an examiner, which is said to take about six months after the filing date. Depending on the length of the process, maybe we could see the new logo start appearing on 2023 model vehicles, or the company could be waiting to unveil it on a potential future model like the all-electric Electra. The timing could be coincidental, but GM at the end of last year filed to trademark the “Buick Electra” nameplate.

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If Buick does adopt the new-look logo, it’ll be the second time in the past decade that it has revised the tri-shield insignia. Back in 2015, the brand announced a design change that at the time featured wing-shaped elements and brought the return of the three-color shields. It debuted on the 2017 Buick LaCrosse sedan and then proliferated across the lineup starting with the 2018 model year.
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If you were anywhere near social media over the weekend, you probably came across a viral video of a Tesla Model S soaring through the air in spectacular fashion before crashing into the ground along a residential street in Los Angeles. Well, the cops saw the video as well, and now they’re looking for the driver.
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The rented 2018 Model S was jumped at 12:10 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Baxter Street and Alvarado Street in Echo Park, police said. After its launch, the Tesla hit two parked cars and some trash cans. The stunt was performed in front of a crowd that gathered following a Tesla meet that occurred earlier in the evening, according to YouTuber Alex Choi, who posted a video recapping the jump. The YouTuber claimed no one was injured in the stunt.
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A video published by the Los Angeles Police Department Central Traffic division on Sunday also shows several angles of the jump and subsequent impact taken by other bystanders who were at the scene at the time of the incident. LAPD said on Twitter late Sunday night it was swamped with tips, asking the public to no longer send more. The agency also tweeted it has narrowed its search down to a person of interest, identified as @dominykas on TikTok. The account published a video on Sunday with an angle of the crash overlaid with the words “i just crashed my new Tesla.”
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LAPD Detective Calvin DeHesa told Road & Track the agency has yet to confirm the identity of the driver or the renter, despite online speculation. DeHesa did confirm, however, that the LAPD is currently working with both Tesla and Enterprise, the owner of the car.”Nobody, from we could tell, has been injured,” DeHesa said. “There were several witnesses, as you can see in the video. Anybody that can come forward and actually put the driver behind the wheel, that was there, that saw it, that knows the guy; there’s a $1000 reward.”Jordon Hook, a musician who owns one of the parked cars struck by the Tesla, published a video on YouTube recounting the events of the night and detailing the damage to his Subaru Forester.”They came down here and hit my car pretty bad,” Hook said in the video. “They jacked up my front tires, my steering column’s all messed up, my suspension’s all blown, so the car’s done.”“Two of my neighbors saw them carry a cat out of the crashed car,” Hook told Road & Track.” One of them saw like kitty litter and stuff in the back of the car. They weren’t really being hasty about their getaway. They all jumped in other cars that came over with them from the meetup.”This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a person with a social media presence attempt to jump their Tesla at this exact cross-street. YouTuber David Dobrik did the same thing in his Tesla Model X back in 2020, though he wasn’t going nearly as quick.“It’s this trend thing,” Hook said. “Everybody’s like ‘Oh I could be seen by Elon if I do a stunt or a trick on this street!’ It’s just gotten kind of stupid.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley has confirmed the EPA range number estimates for the F-150 Lightning in a tweet after a Lightning Monroney window sticker leaked over the weekend.The standard battery provides a range of 230 miles, while upgrading to the Extended Range battery boosts that to 320 miles, says Farley.The Platinum model, only available with the bigger battery, can go 300 miles on a charge, likely losing some range due to larger wheels and taller ride height.Deliveries of the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning are set to commence this summer, and now Ford CEO Jim Farley has confirmed the EPA fuel-economy estimates for the upcoming battery-electric truck. Farley revealed the efficiency figures in a tweet after the Lightning’s Monroney labels—the stickers displaying official information on new cars—were leaked on forums over the weekend.
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The mileage estimates have yet to appear on the official EPA website, but according to Farley, the Pro, XLT, and Lariat models with the standard battery will have a range of 230 miles. Upgrading to the Extended Range battery on those trims boosts the range to an impressive 320 miles. Meanwhile the Platinum model, which can only be had with the bigger battery but has a higher ride height and larger wheels, can travel 300 miles on a charge. Farley said that the Extended Range figures beat their initial target by 20 miles.

The estimates for the Lightning’s Extended Range models are on par with the EPA’s figures for the Rivian R1T, which currently is only offered with the “Large” battery pack providing 314 miles of range. The R1T and Extended Range versions of the Lightning match up on price too. The cheapest Extended Range Lightning, the XLT, starts at $74,169, while Rivian pricing begins at $79,500. However, Lightnings with the standard battery, which start at $41,669 for the base Pro model, strongly undercut the Rivian on price.
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Porsche has revealed this 911 Classic Club Coupe, a new one-off from its Sonderwunsch (“special wish”) customization program.The Classic Club Coupe started as a 1998 911 Carrera but gained the chassis, brakes, and engine from the 996.2 GT3.The interior was entirely reworked in black and gray leather with Club Blue accents, and Porsche added Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and SiriusXM.Last year, Porsche launched Sonderwunsch, the resurrection of a 1970s-era program, and it’s dedicated to building one-off dream cars based on new and old Porsches. This collaboration bore its first fruit, a custom 911 GT3 with a Le Mans–winning livery, last fall. Now Porsche has revealed the latest from Sonderwunsch: the 911 Classic Club Coupe, drawing inspiration from the 1972 911 Carrera RS 2.7 and 2009 911 Sport Classic. The company worked closely with the Porsche Club of America on the project, which spanned two and a half years.
The Classic Club Coupe started life as a 1998 911 Carrera that the executive director of the Porsche Club of America found in derelict condition in Columbia, Virginia. The car was then sent to the Porsche Classic workshop near the main plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, where it underwent a complete restoration and gained the chassis, brakes, and engine from the 996.2 GT3. That naturally aspirated 3.6-liter flat-six is good for 381 horsepower.

The car is finished in Sport Grey Metallic, with full-length light Sport Grey racing stripes outlined in Club Blue, similar to the 911 Sport Classic. At the rear, a ducktail spoiler protrudes between the taillights in a nod to the Carrera RS 2.7. The Classic Club Coupe also gains a double-bubble roof that, like the spoiler, was hand-built for this car, and rides on 18-inch forged aluminum Fuchs wheels.
Inside, the Classic Club Coupe is covered in black leather with Slate Grey and Club Blue accents, an Alcantara headliner, and a woven black and Slate Grey pattern on the seats and door panels. The “Classic Club Coupe” script appears throughout, and the car receives modern touches including Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and SiriusXM. Porsche says all of the technical modifications were evaluated so that the car remains in compliance with U.S. regulations. Having been the customer for this factory restoration project, the Porsche Club of America has taken delivery of the completed vehicle, according to a Porsche spokesperson.
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Here’s the plan. First, sneak into the lot where the automaker keeps the expensive vehicles that it just built but hasn’t shipped out to customers yet. In this case, Stellantis.Second, find the keys stored in the vehicles, and, even though these are secured lots, smash your way through a gate or a fence and drive away.Third, do it again a few nights later. Just watch out, as police are investigating.Brand-new trucks are disappearing out of the parking lot outside Detroit-area assembly plants in a new twist on car theft—so brand-new, they are still in the custody of the manufacturer. Truck thieves have targeted at least three locations full of new vehicles in the metro Detroit area recently. The details of these thefts are under investigation, but the general plan seems to be that the thieves break into the lot somehow and then drive the new trucks away, maybe by smashing a gate or fence on the way out. A Stellantis spokesperson responded to Car and Driver’s inquiry about these news reports with a short statement on the situation. The statement said Stellantis is working with the Sterling Heights Police Department on the theft of several vehicles from a shipping yard that services the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant managed by a third party.”As this is an open investigation, the Company is not commenting any further on what vehicles were stolen or how they were stolen,” the spokesperson said.

According to an Instagram post by Metro Detroit News, however, at least 15 vehicles have been stolen in the past month, including new Ram trucks, a Jeep Wagoneer, Charger Hellcats, and a Jeep Trackhawk. Stellantis locations that have been claimed to have vehicles stolen recently include a lot in Shelby Township, the Chrysler plant in Auburn Hills, and the Jefferson Assembly plant in Detroit. At least four trucks were stolen from one location in a single night, including a Ram TRX worth more than $100,000. The thief driving one of the trucks quickly crashed the new car into a nearby semi truck before being picked up by a thief in a different stolen truck. Metro Detroit News said it can’t confirm if all of these thefts are connected, but there are definite connections between some of them. They claim that two high-end vehicles, including a $90,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, were stolen from the Stellantis Jefferson North Assembly Plant a few weeks ago and then, in an unusual twist, the thieves used the Trackhawk to go back to the lot and steal a Dodge Challenger Hellcat a few days later.It might be easier to steal these new vehicles than outsiders assume, according to a report by Detroit’s WDIV news channel that notes that Stellantis and its partners do use prominent security guards at these locations. But the automaker could possibly change a policy to make these new vehicles more difficult to steal.”Insiders tell us it’s really no secret that keys are put in these brand-new, high-dollar trucks and thieves sneak onto the property, somehow undetected, get into the trucks, and wait for the key moment to drive off,” Click On Detroit reporter Shawn Ley said in a video report.Thieves have targeted Detroit-area car factories as easy targets in the past. In 2018, for example, as The Detroit Bureau reported at the time, a group of thieves first stole a 2003 Ram truck, then used that truck to approach the Fiat Chrysler plant in Warren, Michigan, in the middle of the night. From there, they cut a hole through the fence and then drove away with eight new trucks that had recently come off the production line. At the time, there were questions about why the thieves could so easily steal those trucks and it was assumed that the keys were kept in the vehicles. Fiat Chrysler declined to comment on that policy at the time and declined again for this article, but this new wave of thefts will certainly raise that question again.
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Lego will release a Back to the Future Time Machine kit on April 1, saying it was “inspired” by the car used in the films, but we all know it’s a DeLorean.The new building set can be used to make the three versions of the BTTF DeLorean seen in the three movies, but not at the same time.Lego first released an official Back to the Future DeLorean set in 2013, but the new version is larger and way more screen-accurate. It goes on sale next month for $170.Somewhere near the top of the list of instantly recognizable movie cars is the Back to the Future Time Machine, a.k.a. a modified 1981 Delorean DMC-12. Plenty of scale models and toy versions of this iconic vehicle have been released in the past, but a new building set from Lego gives movie fans the chance to build all three versions of the vehicle from the three films.The DeLorean Time Machine most people are familiar with is the one from the first movie, and the Lego version includes a light-up flux capacitor and a box of plutonium to re-create scenes from that movie. You’ll have to buy three sets to display the three versions at the same time, as each box includes different greebles and other design elements to make the car look more like it did in the movie’s future timeline from the second film and the Wild West from the third, including Marty McFly’s hoverboard and either railroad-ready wheels or wheels that fold so the car is ready for flight mode. After all, where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

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The new set comes with two Lego minifigures—of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, of course—even though the car model is nowhere near minifig scale. These are not the first time characters from the Back to the Future films have appeared in Lego form. The company previously released both Doc and Marty as BrickHeadz and, back in 2013, released a minifig-scale DeLorean with the different minifig versions of the two characters. Lego also released two Back to the Future—themed sets for its short-lived Dimensions video game.

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The Lego Back to the Future Time Machine set goes on sale April 1 and will cost $169.99 for 1872 pieces. While there will be minor differences between the three versions of the DeLorean you can build, the main model ends up being over four inches tall, 15.5 inches wide, and 7.5 inches deep.

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Despite the fact that it can’t ever go faster than 88 miles per hour, the Back to the Future DeLorean is a pop-culture superstar. Last year, the National Historic Vehicle Register made the car the 29th entry on its short list of vehicles highlighting “America’s automotive past for future generations.” Another movie car, the 1979 Lamborghini Countach LP400 S seen in The Cannonball Run, was the 30th car added to the list.

The Back to the Future brand has been strong enough to get applied to non-DeLorean vehicles as well. In 2015, Toyota used the movie car’s famous license plate (which reads OUTATIME) on a modified Mirai for display at SEMA that year. Instead of a hydrogen fuel cell, this version was supposedly powered by a cute Mr. Fusion prop created with help from MV Designz. The Mirai was also modified with gullwing doors, something that will be easier to build with Lego bricks than in the real world. Toyota also featured actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in a BTTF-themed ad for the Mirai at the time.
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The 2022 Bentley Bentayga Space Edition is a bespoke model built by Mulliner, the brand’s in-house design division, for one special customer.The Space Edition wears a special greenish-gray Cypress paint job with orange accents inspired by comets’ dust trails.The Bentley’s space theme continues inside with details such as a solar system depicted on the illuminated doorsills.Can you bankroll the 2022 Bentley Bentayga’s six-figure asking price? Do you have a fondness for astronomy, Star Wars, or any other outer-space-related subject matter? Well, apparently one Bentley customer answered yes to all of the above, because someone has commissioned the brand’s in-house design division, Mulliner, to custom-build them a space-themed version of the $262,125 Bentayga Speed.

For those who don’t know or never had a reason to learn, the Bentayga Speed is powered by a 626-hp twin-turbocharged W-12 engine. When we tested a 2017 model–back when it had only 600 horses–it rocketed from zero to 60 mph in just 3.5 seconds. That’s pretty quick for something that tipped our scales at 5672 pounds. Obviously, we don’t expect the 2022 Bentley Speed to be any slower, but we do expect it to shove its well-heeled passengers into the back of the SUV’s richly appointed seats.
Along with the rest of the cabin, the seats in the bespoke Bentayga (simply dubbed the Space Edition) are wrapped in beautiful materials. Bentley says the “Beluga and Porpoise” color scheme is intended to evoke the night sky. A similar aesthetic inspired the black satin speaker grilles with their illuminated badging, which are meant to resemble stars. Perhaps our favorite detail is the illuminated design in the doorsills depicting planets in a solar system. Can you guess what the splashy orange accents on the bottom spokes of the steering wheel and on the shift lever are designed after? If you guessed burning rocket fuel, you’re wrong. If you guessed solar eruptions, you are correct!
From the outside, the Bentayga Mulliner Space Edition doesn’t have any gaudy graphics or overt references to a galaxy far, far away. But the SUV does look striking in the photos that Bentley released, especially with the starry sky as the backdrop. While the bespoke Bentley’s space theme is more apropos when the sun goes down, a brighter light might shine more attention on its paint job. We’re told its greenish-gray Cypress paint is the same shade that was worn by the first-generation 2003 Bentley Continental GT. Mulliner also replaced the Bentayga’s shiny exterior trim with gloss-black pieces. In another nod to space, the Orange Flame accents on the lower bodywork are likened to comets’ dust trails.
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