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Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
View Interior Photos of the 2025 Ford F-150 XLT
read the full review While the XLT trim is pretty low in the F-150 hierarchy, its cabin is still a comfortable place to spend time. While you can get an F-150 with a front bench seat, you have to sacrifice a number of desirable options, including the PowerBoost hybrid powertrain, which includes an equipment package that mandates front buckets. The F-150's fixed center console is solid and offers plenty of storage space. Tick another options box, and you can have a foldout work surface too. The F-150's cloth seats proved mighty comfortable for trips both long and short. The F-150's cabin layout is pretty straightforward, though we wish there were a bit more variety in the materials used, especially around the dashboard. Do you like buttons? The F-150's steering wheel has plenty. Not a fan of modern doohickey shift levers? Here's a proper column lever for you. Our XLT tester came packing a fully digital instrument cluster. Keep scrolling to check out even more pictures of the 2025 Ford F-150's interior. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
View Exterior Photos of the 2025 Ford F-150 XLT
read the full review The 2025 Ford F-150 XLT packs a solid quantity of creature comforts in an attractive, familiar shell. It feels like trucks are wildly expensive these days. Even this low-down XLT trim commands figures that would've seemed obscene a decade ago. The XLT is the third model in the F-150 lineup, yet its starting price is a meaty $53,910. With options, the truck you see here costs a whopping $65,940. This XLT carries the regular F-150's top-spec hybrid powertrain option. The PowerBoost setup combines a twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 with a 47-hp electric motor. Combined output is a solid 430 horsepower and 570 pound-feet of torque. Despite a curb weight of 5631 pounds, this F-150 XLT accelerated to 60 mph in 5.0 seconds. Keep going to check out even more pictures of the 2025 Ford F-150 XLT. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
View Photos of the 2025 Cadillac Optiq
Read the full review The Cadillac Optiq is primed to be a hit in the compact luxury-SUV space, offering more space and more aggressive pricing than its closest competitors. The Optiq's style draws heavily from its larger sibling, the Lyriq. Under the body is a 85.0-kWh battery, the most capacious on offer in its cohort. The range is similarly strong, with the EPA estimating a total driving distance of 302 miles. Two motors—a permanent-magnet synchronous unit in the front and an induction motor out back—produce a combined peak of 300 horsepower and 354 pound-feet of torque. Perhaps most impressive is the Optiq's pricing, which starts at $54,390. Pick the highest trim and click every options box, and you'll crest $60K, but only barely. Keep going to check out even more pictures of the 2025 Cadillac Optiq. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Latest Tesla Cybertruck Recall Involves Body Part That Could Fly Off
Tesla is recalling 46,096 Cybertrucks due to a stainless-steel body panel that could potentially fly off the electric pickup. An exterior trim piece called the cant rail is secured with adhesive, which Tesla says is "susceptible to environmental embrittlement." To fix the issue, Tesla will use a different adhesive and clamp the part to the body, which will be covered under warranty. The Tesla Cybertruck is an unmistakable stainless-steel-bodied electric pickup truck, but one of those stainless-steel body parts is susceptible to flying off, based on a recent recall. As a result, Tesla is recalling roughly 46K—or virtually all—Cybetrucks from the 2024 and 2025 model years. The recall involves an exterior trim piece called the cant rail, which is joined together with the truck's steel structure with an adhesive that's prone to "environmental embrittlement," according to a recall report that Tesla submitted to NHTSA earlier this week. The report goes on to say that the Cybertruck's stainless-steel body panel can delaminate and separate from the rest of the vehicle, possibly landing on the road and creating a hazard for other drivers. The affected Cybertrucks were built between November 13, 2023, and February 27, 2025. Owners should be able to notice a delaminated cant rail because it'll either be obviously coming loose from the truck's body or it can create a noise while inside the truck. According to the NHTSA report, Tesla first learned about the issue back in January, which led to inspections and pull tests that the company said revealed no signs of separation. However, in February, NHTSA notified Tesla that owners had made claims about detached cant rails, which were further identified through service records and posts on social media. So what's the fix? Tesla says it will replace the cant rails for free under warranty. The new body part will not only use a different adhesive that Tesla says isn't susceptible to the same embrittlement issues, but it will also be secured with a stud welded to the structure and a nut to clamp the stainless-steel trim piece. The company says the procedure will also apply to Cybertrucks built around March 21, 2025, as well as retrofitted to models still in its possession before they're delivered to customers. This marks the Cybertruck's eighth recall since it went on sale over a year ago, and they've varied in severity, from rearview cameras that don't work to a faulty drive inverter that may cause a loss of power to another exterior trim piece that could come loose and fly off the truck to unintended acceleration from a trapped pedal. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
View Photos of the Joshua Vides Pop-Up Show, 'Check Engine Light'
READ THE FULL STORY A February pop-up art show in Los Angeles, Check Engine Light, featured the work of Californian Joshua Vides that he calls Reality to Idea, or RTI. The show featured three black-and-white-painted cars in a black-and-white world. "It's taking everything back to its original sketch," as Vides describes it. Scroll through for a look at the show. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
