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This is the new 2022 BMW X5 Black Vermilion Edition, and it’s limited to just 350 units in the United States. They’re all finished in black with red accents on the grille, brakes, and interior, and powered by a 335-hp turbo inline-six. Those interested can place orders at dealers starting at $83,295, and they’ll arrive in the fallBMW is offering just 350 of these X5 Black Vermilion Edition models in the United States, and the limited-edition package gives the luxury SUV a blacked out appearance with bright red accents. They’re scheduled to start arriving in September.
Each X5 Black Vermilion Edition is finished in Frozen Black Metallic paint. Their kidney grilles have red vertical slats, and the adaptive LED headlights are darkened to match the blacked-out look. The M Sport package is standard, a $5400 option, and includes the Shadowline black trim along with more aggressive front and rear bumpers. The limited-edition SUVs are equipped with Orbit Grey 22-inch wheels and red M Sport brake calipers.

It’s based on the X5’s xDrive40i model, meaning it has a 335-hp turbocharged inline-six under the hood paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. In our test, a 2019 model reached 60 mph in 4.8 seconds. The Black Vermillion Edition comes with an M Sport exhaust system.
Red flows into the black interior as well with piping and stitching on the front and rear seats and binding on the floor mats. And there’s a special edition logo on the lid for the cupholders. The glass controls for the gear selector, start/stop button, and drive mode selector, typically a $650 option, come equipped along with carbon fiber trim and an Alcantara headliner. The 2022 BMW X5 Black Vermilion Edition is available to order now starting at $83,295, which is $20,600 more than the xDrive40i model on which it’s based, but it’s nearly fully loaded. And it’s only $500 cheaper than the 523-hp twin-turbo V-8–powered X5 M50i model, but much more exclusive.
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Electric-vehicle concepts are common enough these days that you need more than a zero-emission powertrain to stand out. So why not work on a negative-emission EV?That’s what Heatherwick Studio did with its Airo concept, which uses a HEPA filter under the car to filter out pollution from other cars on the road. The Airo has been on display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week.Hyundai has similar air-filtering technology on its Nexo hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, but there the filter does double duty by cleaning the air that the fuel-cell stack needs to operate.A motor vehicle with negative carbon emissions has, until recently, been basically impossible. Sure, electric vehicles have no local tailpipe emissions, but to actually reduce the amount of carbon in the air as you drive is no small feat. Hyundai says its Nexo hydrogen fuel-cell CUV actually cleans the air it moves through, since the car’s fuel-cell stack needs purified air. The car accomplishes this by using a special filter that removes microparticulates from the incoming air, and that means the exhaust (such as it is) is cleaner than what was taken in. The car can even display the amount of CO2 removed.

This filtering strategy is similar to the one used by the Airo, a new concept vehicle designed by Heatherwick Studio in England. The electric vehicle has a “state-of-the-art HEPA filtering system” that cleans the air that moves through the vehicle’s undercarriage. No precise specifics were given about how many pollutants the Airo traps, but Heatherwick told the BBC that the concept can “collect a tennis ball worth of particulate matter per year.” Heatherwick, which also designed London’s new Routemaster bus and buildings including Google’s headquarters in California and London, is displaying the Airo at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week.

Heatherwick Studio

The Airo’s interior tries to be as different as the air filter on the exterior. Heatherwick said that it’s not supposed to be simply a place to sit while moving around, but to act like a “moving room or a space for your life.” Like other EV concepts, the front seats can swivel around to face the vehicle’s center, where there’s also a four-leaf table that can fold away when you don’t want to dine or play a tabletop game, and use the Airo more like a lounge. You can also unfold a screen for projected video images – Heatherwick said the Airo can become “a perfect gaming-pod” in this configuration and the seats can even fold down into a “spacious” double bed. The glass roof can turn opaque for more private moments.

Heatherwick Studio

“Designed to simultaneously address the global space shortage, Airo is also a multi-functional room with extra space for dining, working, gaming or even sleeping,” said Heatherwick Studio founder Thomas Heatherwick in a statement. “As a new room for our lives, with a changing view, Airo is a car intended to transport us to a cleaner and better future.”

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Heatherwick isn’t planning on building the Airo itself. Instead, the studio designed the EV for IM Motors which said in April, when the Airo debuted at the Shanghai auto show, that it plans to start building the EV in 2023. The BBC said IM Motors plans to make “a million of them.” The Airo is supposedly capable of both autonomous and human-controlled driving but details about the self-driving features and exactly how the air purifier will work in the real world when it comes to production remain, well, up in the cleaner air.
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Hercules Electric Vehicles

The Detroit-based EV startup Hercules has signed Pininfarina to design its upcoming battery-electric pickup.Hercules Electric Vehicles says the Alpha pickup will be available in 2022. The company also says that the four-motor-equipped Alpha pickup will make up to 1000 horsepower. There is a lot of buzz around electric pickups following Ford’s F-150 Lightning reveal, and the tumultuous news coming out of the Lordstown Motors camp. That means there’s even more attention on the EV space and the younger EV startups like Hercules Electric Vehicles. Well, this young, Detroit-based prospective EV maker has penned a deal with the Italian design powerhouse Pininfarina to design an electric pickup truck.

The details of the deal are about as murky as the details of Hercules’s Alpha pickup truck. However, what we do know is this: Pininfarina will design the upcoming pickup truck and other future products for Hercules. Considering that Hercules claims the battery-electric pickup will be available near the end of 2022, it makes that seem like an ambitious timeline.

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That said, the top brass at Hercules seems to have a good understanding of the automotive manufacturing space. The founder, James Breyer, has bounced around different automakers and worked as the lead propulsion development engineer for the Chevrolet Spark and lead powertrain development engineer for the Chevrolet Volt. That doesn’t curb the aggressive timeline for the truck’s availability, but it does give some confidence that the trucks should be well engineered when they make it to the road.As is the case with any startup, though, there’s no telling if this truck will see the light of day. If it does, we’re sure Pininfarina will pen another fantastic design that will put the truck on EV buyers’ maps.

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There’s no rational decision flowchart that lands you here. No one, least of all Daniel Warner, thinks putting a 27-liter tank engine in a Ford Crown Victoria makes a lick of sense. Petty details like logic and reason won’t stop him, though.”It’s not an intelligent choice of engine if you want to have 2500 hp and race. This is more just, I wanted to do this out of pure passion,” Werner told Road & Track in June 2020. Back then it was just a goal. The car was far from operational. A year later, it’s still got some distance to close, but a new YouTube video shows that the engine is now running. The so-called Meteor Interceptor lives. There’s still some distance to close, of course. The Meteor Interceptor has no interior, an incomplete body, and no transmission. The turbochargers are not hooked up to the mighty tank engine, meaning it’s nowhere near its target power output of 2500hp. Given the idle issues, too, the team likely hasn’t sorted the engine programming. But the progress is astounding. The engine design—penned in 1941—featured magneto ignition. Now it’ll have a custom computer-controlled set of injectors capable of supplying it with 24 liters of fuel per minute. Fuel will be exhausted in four minutes at full throttle. Not to worry, though: It will boil its coolant long before that happens.
If he can solve that, big plans lie in wait. Werner told Road & Track that he intends to bring the Meteor Interceptor to the Nürburgring for a lap at the hands of ‘Ring master Misha Charoudin. Asked about the coolant issue, Werner told us the following in an email:”Well it is only at full throttle that we expect this problem, at normal operations it will work fine. And I don’t think that we will be able to have full throttle for so long on the ring anyway :-D”The plan is ridiculous. But nobody pretended it would make any sense in the first place.

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