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AC brings back the Cobra
If you are a fan of classic cars, especially sports cars, you are no doubt familiar with the Cobra roadster, an “invention” of American racer Carroll Shelby that was built in just under 1,000 units between 1962 and 1967. Today, an original 1963 or 1964 Cobra i...
AC brings back the Cobra
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Toyota drops its LF-ZC project
A sign of the times, major Japanese automaker Toyota ha...
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Toyota drops its LF-ZC project
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A sign of the times, major Japanese automaker Toyota has announced that it is dropping its LF-ZC electric vehicle project, which was unveiled in 2023. This futuristic sedan was meant to compete with similar all-electric models, but several of those projects have also since been shelved.
The LF-ZC, which stands for Lexus Future Zero-emission Catalyst, was intended in part to rival Tesla's vehicles, at a time when Lexus believed it could reach annual production of one million electric vehicles by 2030 before transitioning its entire lineup to electric propulsion by 2035.
It is clear that Toyota has been influenced by several other automakers, including Honda, Mazda and Subaru, which, faced with declining interest in this technology, have temporarily scaled back their efforts in that direction.
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