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Inside a modern automotive design studio, there are enormous screens, virtual-reality headsets, laser scanners, 3D printers and computers capable of rendering a car so convincingly that its paint appe
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Follow an SUV down a wet highway and its rear end soon develops a familiar gray coating. The bumper gets dirty. The license plate gets dirty. The rear window looks as though someone misted it with mud
Once you notice it, you can’t unsee it. Walk through a random parking lot in 2026 and it starts feeling weirdly dystopian. Rows of anonymous crossovers. Same sloped roofline. Same angry L
There’s a moment that happens to a lot of SUV owners. You see a lifted 4Runner or Tahoe rolling past on chunky tires looking like it just escaped a mountain trail somewhere in Utah, and s
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Xiaomi’s back with a bang in the EV world, and this time it’s not just a sleek sedan. Say hello to the new Xiaomi YU7: a stylish, high-performance crossover that officially launches in Chi