Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short.
The Downshift is The Drive’s morning summary of all the auto industry headlines you need to know. News is summarized with a few sentences, including links to dig deeper if you wish. Happy Friday, let’s see what’s cooking on the last news day of the week.
That camouflaged rally car Toyota’s been testing not so inconspicuously as of late? Autocar has it on someone’s authority that it will be called the “Celica Sport,” it’ll be all-wheel-drive (shocker) and Toyota’s upcoming 2.0-liter four-cylinder will go into the production version, likely with an electrified boost to circumvent emissions restrictions. That last detail is actually official, with Gazoo Racing marketing manager Mikio Hayashi telling the publication, “Nothing has been decided yet about whether it will be a standard hybrid or plug-in hybrid.”
Ford CEO Jim Farley recently spoke to Top Gear about a range of topics, notably the automaker’s new Universal EV Producti …
Go to Source
Author: Adam Ismail
