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Honda has shared the first official photos of the next-generation Civic Type R.The new model will arrive in 2022 and is based on the eleventh-generation Civic hatchback.It has similar add-ons as the current model but looks more attractive to our eye due to the new Civic’s less tortured lines.We have our first official glimpse of the new Civic Type R courtesy of these photos Honda shared of a prototype model covered in a bit of camouflage. It’s a pretty revealing look at the latest hot hatchback, which looks far better than its predecessor but maintains its aggressive stance with a body kit, a big wing on the back, and a serious wheel and tire package.Again based on the Civic’s four-door hatchback body style, we can see that the new Type R is wearing Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires wrapped around some nice-looking ten-spoke black wheels. Red Brembo brake calipers are visible, too. A big rear wing and three exhaust tips dominate the rear view.

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Honda isn’t sharing many technical details at this point, but we expect the new model to use the same turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four as the outgoing car, likely tuned to produce a bit more than the current 306 hp and 295 pound-feet. Honda has already confirmed that a six-speed manual transmission will be offered, although an optional dual-clutch automatic transmission may join the lineup.More details should be coming soon, as Honda says that the Type R will be revealed in full sometime next year. It’ll go on sale in the U.S. later in 2022, likely with a starting price just under $40,000.
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe announced a new fund called Forever that will put money from the young electric-vehicle company into “high-impact climate initiatives” to protect wilderness.Scaringe said Rivian will invest 1 percent of its equity (not profits) in this fund to move away from the “massive industrial complex” that our current lifestyles rely on.Rivian could end up being valued at $50 billion or even $80 billion in its upcoming IPO, according to various analysts. That would mean a lot of money being spent on Forever.Rivian has been embracing a curious word in its marketing for the past year or two: forever. What started as the “Adventurous Forever” tagline in a series of videos in 2020 about the all-electric R1T pickup and R1S SUV became a new philanthropic mission this week with the announcement of, well, “Forever.”Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe published a note on the Rivian website yesterday about his company’s new Forever mission. The headline detail is that Scaringe promised that he will put 1 percent of Rivian’s equity into Forever, a philanthropic-focused fund that he said would address “our planet’s climate crisis and preserving the critical biodiversity needed for our planet’s long-term survival.”
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Scaringe correctly notes that automakers (and the rest of us) cannot continue to build and consume products as we have been for the past century. The “massive industrial complex” that humans have created, he writes, is “rapidly changing the composition of our atmosphere while simultaneously destroying the interlinked natural ecosystems critical for life on the planet. Our current way of life has been enabled by hundreds of millions of years of accumulated plant- and animal-based carbon in the form of fossil fuels. On our current path, we will fully exhaust this stored energy in only a few more generations and, in the process, carbonize our atmosphere, and damage natural ecosystems to such a degree that life as we know it will not be possible.”

One important detail in Scaringe’s announcement is that Rivian isn’t going to invest some portion of its profits into environmental causes. That would be the very definition of greenwashing, since Rivian is gearing up for an IPO and in some of the paperwork it filed to go public said that it lost $2 billion since the beginning of 2021 and over a billion in 2020. In fact, Rivian will spend around $8 billion building up its facilities and other manufacturing infrastructure through the end of 2023, the New York Times reported. In the Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Rivian specifically said possible investors should not be looking for profits anytime soon: “We do not expect to be profitable for the foreseeable future as we invest in our business, build capacity, and ramp up operations, and we cannot assure you that we will ever achieve or be able to maintain profitability in the future.”

But equity? Equity is another story. It’s difficult to know exactly what Rivian’s valuation or equity will be, but over the summer sources told Reuters that Rivian could be looking for a valuation somewhere in the $50-to-$80-billion range in its IPO. Institutional investors including Amazon and Ford have already plowed billions into Rivian, but the stock market has not yet had its say. To cite one obvious comparison, Tesla took years to make a profit, but the company was valued at around $700 billion earlier this year, way more than other automakers. Shareholder equity, which can be calculated by figuring out a company’s total assets and then subtracting its total liabilities, isn’t the same as valuation, but the two are connected. However much money Rivian ends up putting into Forever, the fund’s focus will be on what Scaringe called “high-impact climate initiatives” that emphasize “preserving and restoring wildlands, waterways and oceans.” These areas shouldn’t just be protected so they can offer exciting backdrops for drone shots of an R1T off-roading, but because these are exactly the parts of our planet that act as “powerful carbon sinks that pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, storing carbon in soil, grasses, trees, shrubs, coral reefs and ocean floor sediments,” Scaringe wrote, and the more valuable Rivian becomes, the more money will be spent on protecting these area. “By putting 1% of Rivian’s equity into Forever, the natural world will become a shareholder in our success,” he wrote. “As our company’s value grows by transitioning our customers to sustainable transportation solutions, so will the value of our impact and philanthropic giving, creating a virtuous cycle of impact.”
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A new Bond-movie car exhibit, Bond in Motion, has opened at the Petersen Automotive Museum and will run until October 2022.There are 30 cars from 60 years of Bond films.The exhibit features submarines, motorcycles, a Tuk Tuk taxi, and something called a Wet Bike, too.When the very first Bond movie was filmed in 1962, the whole production had a budget of just one million English pounds, or about what the catering budget would be for a modern Bond film. And since Dr. No was shot on the island of Jamaica in the days before carmakers fought—and often paid—to have their cars featured in movies, the Dr. No crew had to rely on the largesse of the local Jamaicans for cars. Thus, Bond’s first-ever chase scene shows Sean Connery piloting an 80-hp Sunbeam Alpine borrowed from a local resident, who happened to own one of the few sports cars on the island.As you’ll no doubt recall from that movie, Bond had to outrun a hearseful of Dr. No’s murderous henchmen, who were driving a LaSalle hearse from the 1930s. Remarkably, the hearse was able to keep up with the Sunbeam Alpine, maybe because the Sunbeam only had a 1.6-liter engine, but only until Bond snuck under the boom of a parked crane, sending the hearse off a cliff to a flaming fireball of death.”Where were they going?” the crane operator asked.”I think they were on their way to a funeral,” said Bond, in the first of what would be hundreds of clever quips delivered over vanquished foes.

The chase scene that started them all: Dr. No.
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Since that first chase scene, the cars of the Bond franchise have advanced to the point where they are almost as famous as the stars. Since the Sunbeam, 007 has now driven everything from Lotuses, Jaguars, and BMWs, to the coming crop of Aston Martins that will be seen in the 3oth installment, No Time To Die, opening October 8 in the U.S. To celebrate all these wheeled wonders, the Petersen Automotive Museum in the heart of Hollywood has opened an exhibit called Bond In Motion that will run until October 30, 2022. So while there’s no immediate rush, you may want to see it before the latest movie premieres.

“The Petersen Automotive Museum will present a new exhibit celebrating the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise through a highly diverse selection of iconic screen-used vehicles,” the museum stated. “Bond in Motion will be the largest official Bond vehicle display to date in the US, and will feature more than 30 cars, motorcycles, boats, submarines, helicopters and even scale filming models of aircraft from an array of both classic and contemporary Bond films.”
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Among the cars, boats and subs will be some of your favorites: the 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 Submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), 1985 Aston Martin V8 from The Living Daylights (1987), 1999 BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough (1999), and the 2019 Aston Martin DB10 from Spectre (2015).The iconic 1964 Aston Martin DB5 from several different Bond films will be there, along with the DBS from 2008’s Quantum of Solace and the Deux Chevaux camera car that was hooked up to a trailer hitch to shoot For Your Eyes Only in 1981. And, of course, the Lotus Esprit submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me will share floorspace with the Bath-O-Sub Escape Pod from the same movie.”James Bond is an international pop culture icon and the vehicles he drives are an integral part of his character,” said Petersen Automotive Museum executive director Terry L. Karges. “The Petersen is excited to showcase so many of the series’ most well-known vehicles. We are sure that there will be something to satisfy every generation of Bond fan.”If you’re a Bond fan, or even if you’re not, you should check it out. Wonder when they’ll do a Cars of the Fast and Furious Franchise?

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This week’s viewer-submitted challenge was to find an interesting or cool version of an otherwise boring car. The budget was $50,000, and almost all the contestants played exceedingly to type. The only exception was contributor Jonathon Ramsey, who decided to use his European sabbatical as chance to buy a brand-new GR Yaris off a Spanish dealer lot. Would bearing the hot hatch crown in Europe and zero miles on the odo would be enough to sway the jury? Maybe in a just world.Senior editor Joey Capparella started with a second-gen Subaru Forester XT, then spent 50% of the purchase price on modifications to make it cool. His stiffest competition didn’t come from colleagues but the fact that Subaru made the even more interesting and cool Forester STI.Deputy testing director K.C. Colwell sourced a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII. Perhaps better than the WRX STI of the time but just as harsh, we revisited Car and Driver’s long-term test of the car back in the day. Apparently drivers over 40 tended to avoid it. With four of our five presenters over 40, there was a good chance voters would avoid it, too. Road & Track senior editor John Pearley Huffman outdid himself with a 1981 Ford Thunderbird Silver Heritage Edition. We’re still speechless, so it’s best you just watch him make the most questionable arguments since The Chewbacca Defense.Lastly, cars director Tony Quiroga went back to the past and to Germany via Italy with an all-wheel-drive Golf Rallye. The most expensive car in the episode was basically VW’s version of a Lancia Delta Integrale without any of the Integrale’s success, begging the question: is that actually cool?

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This boldly painted 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera, the second in a series of “art cars” created for a Canadian museum, is up for auction on Bring a Trailer.The eye-catching look was dreamt up by Canadian artist Jean-Pierre Lafrance and painted onto the car by specialist Yves Thibeault using several techniques, from airbrushing to finger-painting.The 911 underneath uses 3.2-liter flat-six and a five-speed manual transmission, and bidding currently sits at $57,000 with four days left.Most new cars are painted white, black, grey, or silver, so a vibrant paint color helps your car stand out amongst the sea of anonymous vehicles. But if you want to make it really easy to remember where you parked at the big-box store, you should spring for this 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe, an “art car” for sale on auction site Bring a Trailer boasting a one-of-a-kind paint job.

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This Porsche was the second in a string of 911s custom-painted for the Art Cars Project, which saw several artists decorate the iconic German sports car as part of a collaboration with the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec in Canada. Called “Masterpiece II,” this particular art car’s abstract look was created by Canadian painter Jean-Pierre Lafrance. Lafrance’s vision was then applied to the Porsche by auto-body painter Yves Thibeault via a number of techniques, from airbrushing to finger-painting.

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Underneath the snazzy paint is a stock 1989 Porsche 911, powered by a 3.2-liter flat-six that made 217 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque when new. It has a five-speed manual transmission and the 205/55 front and 225/50 rear Dunlop SP Sport 5000 tires are wrapped around white 16-inch Fuchs wheels. The interior is decked out in Mahogany leather upholstery and features niceties such as power front seats, air conditioning, cruise control, power windows, and a Blaupunkt cassette stereo system. There’s also a sunroof.

The odometer shows 114,000 miles, but the listing notes that the Carfax report shows mileage inconsistencies in January 2011 and June 2021. The car was acquired by the current owner back in 2013, and less than 1000 miles have been added since. “Masterpiece II” has recently been serviced and is being offered on dealer consignment in California with an Arizona title. Currently, bidding sits at $57,000 with four days remaining on the auction, but expect the price to rise in the coming days, as another 1989 Porsche 911 art car from the same project sold for $72,000 on Bring a Trailer earlier this year.
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The INEOS Grenadier, which honors the uncluttered design of the original Land Rover Defender, is set to hit the U.S. market in 2023.The U.S. won’t receive the diesel option, with only the gas-powered 3.0-liter inline-six from BMW available under the hood.INEOS is currently finding dealer networks to partner with, and preorders will open to the general public in two weeks.The INEOS Grenadier, revealed last summer, is a boxy off-road SUV bearing a strong resemblance to the original Land Rover Defender. The owner of British chemical company INEOS, Jim Radcliffe, had been a huge Defender enthusiast, and when the original Defender ended production, Radcliffe tried to buy the rights. When Land Rover wouldn’t bite, Radcliffe forged his own path, creating a back-to-basics SUV—with solid axles and locking differentials—that mimicked the squared-off Defender’s design. After a legal battle revealed that Land Rover did not have exclusive rights to the Defender’s shape, INEOS set to work developing the Grenadier, and we now have details on INEOS’s plan to bring the Grenadier stateside.

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INEOS is aiming to start sales of the Grenadier in the United States in 2023, but the chemical company will need to find places to sell the off-roader. According to Edmunds, at a recent roundtable discussion Greg Clark, the head of commercial operations for North America, said that INEOS is currently evaluating dealer networks to partner with and that INEOS may link up with more than one dealer group.

Americans will only have one choice of engine in their Grenadier when, and if, sales begin in 2023: a 3.0-liter inline-six supplied by BMW. According to Clark, there wasn’t enough of a business case for INEOS to consider bringing to the U.S. the diesel powertrain that will be offered in other markets. The gearbox is coming from ZF, and INEOS has worked with Magna Steyr on development and testing. At the moment, Clark said that INEOS is hoping to provide a five-year/60,000-mile warranty, although that is not set in stone. The Grenadier is set to be produced in Austria. INEOS’s first SUVs will begin rolling off the line next summer, headed to customers in Europe. Production for the U.S. market will begin in early summer of 2023, with deliveries by the end of that year. Today, preorders opened for the 75,000 people who registered their early interest in the vehicle, and preorders will open to everyone else in two weeks. There is no word yet on what the INEOS Grenadier might cost in the United States.
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This 2022 Nissan Frontier wears a livery inspired by the brand’s ’80s off-road race trucks, and what’s more, it will compete in the all-women 2021 Rebelle Rally.Based on the already rugged Pro-4X model, this one-off version has off-road parts from Nissan’s motorsports division, NISMO.The roster includes 4.0-inch cowl-mounted lights, a performance exhaust, unique wheels, and an upgraded suspension.After undergoing a generational transformation, the 2022 Nissan Frontier will also appear as a one-off rally truck that pays homage to the brand’s Hardbody off-road race trucks from the 1980s. It’ll compete in October in the all-women’s 2021 Rebelle Rally, which is said to be the longest off-road rally in America.
For anyone who’s unfamiliar with the Nissan Hardbody trucks that raced in the ’80s, they were very successful and had a distinctive red, white, and blue livery. A very similar visual treatment is seen on the new Frontier racer, with a wrap that covers the front end and rooftop in red and splits most of the sides and the rear with white and blue colors. A smattering of decals call attention to its Nissan branding and assortment of parts from NISMO, the company’s motorsports division.

Among the myriad parts courtesy of NISMO are 4.0-inch lights mounted high on the Frontier’s cowl, a performance exhaust system with a chome-tipped tailpipe, and an off-road-oriented suspension kit. The rally-ready mid-size pickup truck also rides on special 10-spoke, 17-inch wheels shod with BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A K02 tires.
The ’22 Frontier used for the rally is based on the already rugged Pro-4X model. We drove one in Utah and appreciated the new truck’s much improved interior, enhanced features, and overall refinement compared with its predecessor. Every Frontier features a 310-hp 3.8-liter V-6 and a nine-speed automatic transmission. The Pro-4X comes standard with all-terrain tires on 17-inch wheels, an electronically locking rear differential, Bilstein dampers, underbody skid plates, and four-wheel drive (the Pro-X is a similar-looking rear-drive version).

Nissan’s Team Wild Grace will race the retro-themed Frontier in the 2021 Rebelle Rally that spans eight days and covers more than 1500 miles of desert between Nevada, Arizona, and California. The rally starts on October 7 at the Hoover Dam in Nevada and ends on October 16 in California’s Imperial Dunes.
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Genesis has revealed more details about the 2023 GV60 electric vehicle.It will offer three powertrain setups ranging from 225 hp to 429 hp.Expect to see the GV60 go on sale in the U.S. in 2022.After showing off the look of its first EV last month, Genesis is now sharing more specifications for the 2023 GV60. Set to go on sale in the U.S. next year, this new electric model shares its E-GMP platform and various powertrain setups with the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 but promises a more luxurious interior than those mainstream models.The GV60 will be offered only with the larger of the two battery pack options from the Hyundai and Kia, which measures 77.4 kWh. Its base rear-wheel-drive one-motor powertrain makes 225 horsepower and 258 pound-feet, while the dual-motor all-wheel-drive model has 314 horsepower and 446 pound-feet. Genesis will offer a performance dual-motor model as well, which has 429 hp and 446 pound-feet and claims a zero-to-62-mph time of 4.0 seconds.

While we don’t yet know about U.S.-specific EPA range ratings for the GV60, Genesis is claiming that the RWD model offers the most range, at 280 miles for the Korea-market version. The AWD version drops that claim to 249 miles and the performance model offers the least range, at a claimed 229 miles.New tech features available in the GV60 include facial recognition software that can unlock and start the car without a key when combined with fingerprint readers on the door and dashboard of the car. There’s also an interesting shifter that’s styled to look like a crystal ball. Genesis says it has used recyclable materials for the interior from fish nets and plastic bottles.We’ll learn more U.S. details about the GV60 in the coming months, such as EPA efficiency numbers and pricing. We expect it to start somewhere around $55,000.
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