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Flash Drive: 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

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Flagship Cadillac Electric SUV The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ is the luxury brands flagship SUV. This route clearly demonstrated the handling, ride and performance capabilities of the Escalade IQ as both a city and open road full-size SUV. Cadillac did not stray far as the best-selling luxury full-size SUV has a loyal following.

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Ford Stops Mustang Mach-E Deliveries For 12-Volt Battery Drain Recall

The Truth About Cars

The recall affects 196,911 Mach-E SUVs from the 2021 through 2025 model years, and an additional 120,000 or so international vehicles. Ford said it is unaware of any accidents or injuries related to the problem, and spokesperson Mike Levine told The Detroit News that “a software update is coming soon to address this recall.”

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Ford CEO Jim Farley Teases Explorer Tremor

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Ford doesnt make it easy anymore to find official American sales statistics few automakers do these days, especially the Detroit Three but we will tell you the brand shifted 194,094 Explorer SUVs in the 2024 calendar year. In comparison, Toyota moved 161,379 vehicles across the Highlander/Grand Highlander family.

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EVs Are Out, Gasoline Power Is In At GM’s Orion Plant

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Local media, specifically The Freep (Detroit Free Press) were among the first to report on the story. Top brass expect the plant to begin cranking out trucks and SUVs sometime in the 2027 calendar year. At the time, it was mused the Bolt was being killed because it didn’t employ the don’t-call-it-Ultium architecture.

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Ford Taurus SE Wagon

The Truth About Cars

Because I'm an older Generation X guy whose parents mostly drove Detroit cars during my childhood, this is the part of the story in which I'm supposed to get teary-eyed about Kingswood Estates and LTD Country Squires.

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Abandoned History: America's 1970s Convertible Controversy, Who's to Blame?

The Truth About Cars

Nader asserted the Detroit automakers knew their cars weren’t safe and had flawed designs, and sold them to the unsuspecting public anyway. The Detroit automakers were of course against such testing, and claimed, alongside the Automobile Manufacturers Association, that testing both sides of the roof was “unnecessary.”

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GM to invest $2.2B at Detroit-Hamtramck to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs; GM’s first fully-dedicated EV plant

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billion at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. Detroit-Hamtramck will be GM’s first fully-dedicated electric vehicle assembly plant. Our electric pickup will be the first of multiple electric truck variants we will build at Detroit-Hamtramck over the next few years.

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