MikesCarInfo Daily Car News
Monday, August 17, 2026
New cars, new car technology, and the industry moves that change what you pay at the dealer. Here's what landed today.
New Car Launches and Reveals
Monterey Car Week wraps with a heavy debut list
Aston Martin brought DB12 S cars with 75th anniversary graphics, BMW showed a quad-motor electric M Concept on the Neue Klasse platform, and Bugatti rolled out a one-off called the Destrier. Auction totals are tracking toward $500 million for the week.
Source: Motor1 ›Lamborghini Revuelto SV
Hybrid V12, and Lamborghini says it's the most powerful car the company has built. The hybrid V12 hardware is the part worth watching, since that kind of engineering trickles down over time.
Source: Autoevolution ›2027 Subaru Crosstrek holds at $26,995
Subaru left base pricing flat for 2027. Most MSRPs moved up this year, so a carryover sticker on a volume compact stands out.
Source: Subaru Media Center ›2027 Kia Telluride starts at $40,735
All-new generation with a turbo four, a bigger look, and more room inside. The forty-grand entry point drops it right on top of the three-row pack.
Source: Kelley Blue Book ›Hyundai Ioniq 3 details
Two powertrain options, four trims. Small EV aimed squarely at the affordable bracket Hyundai has been circling for a while.
Source: Autoevolution ›New Car Technology
Lucid turns on hands-free driving in the Gravity
The system initiates its own overtakes and returns to the original lane on its own. Hands-free highway driving keeps spreading past the GM and Ford systems that started it.
Source: WardsAuto ›Tesla Model Y clears NHTSA's new ADAS benchmark
It's the first vehicle through the new blind-spot intervention, pedestrian braking, and lane-departure correction tests. Those benchmarks will shape how every automaker tunes driver assist from here.
Source: GreenCars ›CATL claims a six-minute charge
CATL showed a pack it says charges in six minutes with range in the 1,500 km class. China gets it first and the US sees it much later, but that's the target everyone else is now chasing.
Source: EVTech.News ›Methanol range extender from Horse
Horse showed a methanol-powered range extender for electric cars. It's an early-stage idea, and it points at how much room remains in series-hybrid packaging.
Source: Autoevolution ›Industry Developments
Recalls: Toyota, GM, Ram
Toyota is recalling 2025-2026 Camry Hybrid models for a potential blank instrument cluster, plus the 2026 bZ Woodland. GM has 952 Silverado EV and Sierra EV trucks with steel wheels that can crack at the vent holes. Ram covers 2019-2026 1500s for improperly installed second-row belt anchors.
Source: NHTSA recall summary ›Ford pulls some Lincoln production out of China
Tariffs made the math impossible. JLR is running a similar shuffle to cut its tariff and currency exposure on North American models.
Source: Automotive News ›New car prices keep climbing
Average transaction price sat around $49,077, up 2.6% year over year, the biggest move in two years. Trade agreements locked tariff rates in for the long haul, so automakers have less room to absorb the cost themselves.
Source: Kelley Blue Book ›EV sales climbing back after the tax credit ended
Q2 battery-electric sales hit 247,226 units, up 14.2% from Q1 and still 20.5% under last year. Automakers are covering the gap with their own money, roughly $5,700 per EV in incentive spend.
Source: InsideEVs ›The Takeaway
Sticker prices are moving up and the discounts that have been hiding tariff costs are thinning out. If you're shopping a compact or a three-row, check whether the model you want carried its pricing over for 2027, because a few did. And if you own a recent Camry Hybrid, Ram 1500, or Silverado EV, run your VIN on the NHTSA site this week.
MikesCarInfo.com · Daily Car News · August 17, 2026
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