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Genesis GV90 Flagship SUV Debuts With Hidden B-Pillar Coach Doors and 657 HP

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The pillarless hardtop died around 1976. Rollover and roof-crush rules were coming, the engineering answer was a thick B-pillar, and one of the prettiest shapes in postwar car design went with it. Nobody has really brought it back since. Rolls-Royce and the old Lincoln kept the rear-hinged doors, but they kept a pillar too, or they built the pillar into the door and hoped you wouldn’t look.

Genesis just unveiled a full-size electric SUV that does the whole trick. The GV90 arrived at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on August 19, and the headline feature is a pair of coach doors with no B-pillar between them.

Kia America Posts Record Year-to-Date Sales Through April 2026

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Kia America delivered 72,703 vehicles in April 2026, a 3 percent dip versus the same month a year ago — a comparison made difficult by elevated April 2025 demand — but the headline number understates a broader story of structural momentum. Through the first four months of 2026, Kia has moved 279,718 units, a 2 percent gain over the same period in 2025 and a new year-to-date sales record for the brand.

Subaru of America Reports 52,733 Units in April 2026 as EV Family Posts Best Month Ever

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Subaru of America sold 52,733 vehicles in April 2026, a 5.9 percent decline versus April 2025, continuing a year-to-date pattern that has the brand trailing prior-year totals by 12.7 percent through the first four months — 194,683 units against 222,968 a year ago. The headline numbers are soft, but the model-level story is more selective than the aggregate suggests.

Forester held the volume lead for the fourth consecutive month, moving 17,837 units. Crosstrek posted its best April ever at 15,667 units, up 4.9 percent year-over-year. Outback, at 10,552 units, remains a stable contributor despite an 8.3 percent monthly decline and a steep 26.9 percent YTD shortfall — a number that warrants attention as one of the brand’s historically strongest nameplates.

2026 Land Rover Defender V8: The Off-Roader That Learned Performance Without Forgetting Its Purpose

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Land Rover Defender V8 answers a question that nobody strictly needed to ask: what happens when you put a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 producing 518 horsepower into a car that can also ford rivers, climb gradients that defeat other off-road vehicles, and carry a family of five across terrain that requires disconnecting the front anti-roll bar and deploying a low-range transfer case? The answer is that it works, and it works in a way that is not obviously coherent but is undeniably entertaining.