The Latest Breaking News from Autocar

Manufacturers are slowly starting to listen to what car journalists and owners have been complaining about for almost a decade: Cramming all the car’s functions into a touchscreen is an inferior solution to having dedicated physical controls for key tasks.

UPDATE: Added official statements from Maserati.

The jacked-up Porsche 911 Dakar wasn't around for long, with the final model rolling off the assembly line in November. We thought that was the end of the model, with Porsche only building 2,500 examples. However, it appears the company isn't done with the 911 Dakar model yet. A new report…

Everyone knows the Smart car. The sort of roller-skate-shaped microcar was a godsend to city-dwellers all over the world, and in many ways still is. But these days, Smart is half-owned by its original parent company, Mercedes-Benz, while the other half is owned by China's Geely Group. And as Geely…

Update: The initial report from Autocar suggested that Citroen was considering a new 2CV, but the French automaker has since denied those claims. Our colleagues at Motor1 Italy spoke to representatives from Citroen, who said a new 2CV isn't being considered. A small EV with the 2CV name would potentially…

We certainly didn't have DS becoming a rival for Bentley or Rolls-Royce on our bingo cards. As unexpected as it might seem, Stellantis aspires to fight the ultra-luxury brands. The automaker wants to elevate the DS Automobiles brand to a higher echelon by making the Citroën spin-off brand the "Louis…

Porsche’s best-known models are sports cars, but the brand’s moneymakers are the SUVs: the Macan and Cayenne. The smaller of the two, the Macan, is Porsche’s global best-seller, so eyebrows were surely raised when the manufacturer announced that it would go electric-only for its next act. But now, one Porsche…

In 2022, Mercedes-Benz decided to drop the much-loved twin-turbo V-8 in its AMG C63 in favor of a hybridized four-cylinder powertrain. While the new setup is more powerful and more technologically advanced, it rightfully failed to garner the same excitement as the outgoing car's characterful eight-cylinder. The boss of AMG…

Ever since it was introduced a decade ago, the Macan has been a veritable cash cow for Porsche. It has consistently been one of the best-selling products. Even in 2024, when it was axed from Europe because of cybersecurity laws, the crossover racked up 64,517 sales. Only the bigger Cayenne…