Now it’s Toyota’s turn. The automaker is recalling nearly 600,000 vehicles sold under both the Toyota and Lexus badges because their digital instrument panels can fail. Similar problems have plagued its competitors this year, notably Ford, reports Headlight.News.
Ford Motor Co. will move into a new world headquarters inside of its main product development campus a few miles away from its current corporate office building. In turn, Ford will tear down “Glass House,” the 12-story building that had served as its HQ for the last 70 years. More from Headlight.News.
Toyota plans to introduce all-electric versions of two familiar SUVs, the RAV4 and Land Cruiser, according to a new report, with both set to be assembled at the automaker’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky. More from Headlight.News.
Few vehicles have had more of an impact on the U.S. automotive market since the turn of the Millennium, even though Nissan Leaf has slipped into relative obscurity in an increasingly crowded EV segment. Can it regain its early luster? That’s what the Japanese automaker hopes as it rolls out an all-new 2026 Nissan Leaf offering a new crossover design, improved performance, substantially better range and plenty of other reasons to check it out. Add a surprisingly affordable price according to this Headlight.News review.
Another day, another big Ford recall, it seems, the automaker now announcing it needs to fix faulty rearview cameras in about 1.9 million vehicles. It’s the second time this problem has cropped up recently – and now brings the total number of recalls involving Ford products to well over 100 this year. Headlight.News has more.
Polestar’s next EV, the Polestar 5, is an all-electric beast, punching out as much as 884 hp and 749 pound-feet of torque. But there were also some surprises to be learned during the EV’s debut at IAA Mobility 2025 in Munich. No rear window, for one thing. And it won’t be sold in either the U.S. or China – at least not for now. Here’s the latest from Headlight.News.
Lucid’s new Gravity model got off to a slow start, the EV marker’s CEO acknowledged, but production – and sales are ramping up, even as the company races to finish work on a trio of affordable, midsize models now scheduled to start rolling out by the end of 2026. That is, however, going to require Lucid to raise substantial amounts of new funding. More from Headlight.News.
In a fast-changing automotive world, even the biggest brands have no guarantee they can survive indefinitely. That’s led Ford to launch its first global marketing campaign in a decade. But what’s the “Ready Set Ford” big buck project trying to achieve? Headlight.News has the story.
The new BMW iX3 is the first all-electric model based on the automaker’s Neue Klasse platform – but it won’t be the last. The Bavarian automaker’s CEO said Monday that 40 new and updated products using the “new class” technology will roll out over the next two years. Up next: the i3, an all-electric version of the 3-Series, reports Headlight.News.
Polestar’s next model is set to make its debut at IAA Mobility 2025 in Munich this week and it could position the Swedish automaker as a serious contender to performance products like the Tesla Model S, the Lucid Air and Porsche Taycan, with a top-end model set to deliver nearly 900 horsepower and gobs of tire-spinning torque. Here’s more from Headlight.New.
South Korea’s foreign minister headed to the U.S. Monday morning to move forward with plans to release hundreds of South Korean nationals arrested last week while working on the construction of a $7.6 billion Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. The move came just days after the Korean carmaker upped investment plans for the U.S. to $26 billion — and threatens to chill relations between the U.S. and one of its staunchest allies. Headlight.News has more.
He’s already the richest man in the world but the Tesla board of directors has proposed a new $1 trillion pay package that would put CEO Elon Musk’s wealth nearly on a par with the market capitalization of some of the world’s most exclusive companies. Headlight.News has more.