
Toyota's Largest Plant Hosted Kentucky's Robotics Kickoff in Its 40th Year
Kentucky's FIRST teams got their first look at this season's CANOPY game inside Toyota's largest plant, which also funds team grants and mentors in its 40th year.

Kentucky's FIRST teams got their first look at this season's CANOPY game inside Toyota's largest plant, which also funds team grants and mentors in its 40th year.

Lucid built just 2,954 cars after dropping a shift in Arizona, filling the gap from inventory. It's the visible part of a $1.4 billion cash plan, and there's more stock left to clear

The 30,000-square-foot Saline center will evaluate packs from Toyota's $13.9 billion North Carolina plant, and it opened more than a year after Toyota's original 2025 target.

The milestone car is a Fire Orange M3, but the bigger news is where its electric successor will come from: Munich, a plant that goes EV-only in 2027.

A new M Performance wheel for the M5 sedan and Touring saves up to 20% per wheel. BMW's fall update also hands the X3 M50 the new M350's six-cylinder output.

The GM–LG Energy Solution joint venture will retool its Tennessee plant for lithium manganese-rich cells, a chemistry aimed at long-range trucks without high-nickel costs. Work wraps up in 2028.

The Blue Springs factory has built only gas Corollas since 2011. A $125 million retool adds the hybrid sedan in 2028, and roughly half the plant's output could go electrified.

Ho Tzu Nyen's AI-driven video plays every time a visitor presses a floor button, and a companion work opens in Hyundai's factory city of Ulsan in October.

Series production of the new GLA is underway in Rastatt, EVs first and 48-volt hybrids to follow. American deliveries are still about a year away.

Days before the Torcal's debut, Bentley showed the new hand-assembly line inside its Crewe factory — a £350 million bet on building its first EV at home.

Eight torture surfaces, a roundabout simulator, and air jets mimicking autobahn speeds — the new Eric Platford Testway at Goodwood gives finished Rolls-Royces a final shakedown before delivery.

The company that spent a decade insisting it would never build an SUV now has one in development — plus its first in-house engines, funded by Abu Dhabi owner L'IMAD.

The new shop replaces the existing one at Kentucky Truck Plant, home of the Super Duty, Expedition, and Navigator. Ford will break ground by year-end but hasn't said when it opens.