The biggest car news and reviews are here. Honda has sold the number-one vehicle in the U.S. over the first half of 2026, and the top spot belongs to none other than the CR-V. Credit supply shortages for slowing the Ford F-150's pace, and a generational redesign for doing the same to the Toyota RAV-4. CR-V sales improved 19% year-over-year in May and a whopping 30% in June. By the end of last month, Honda had moved 226,114 examples of the SUV in the last six months.
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa recently opined on how the automaker lost its way over the past decade, telling Reuters, “Before, it was like, okay, we want volume, volume, volume. This is not a good way of operating a car company.” Espinosa said he’d also prefer to distance the brand from the rental car market.
View Price on AmazonRivian beat its own forecast for production and sales across the second half of Q2, which has allowed it to raise its guidance for the end of 2026. Certainly good news for the EV maker on the heels of the R2’s launch. BYD’s total sales have risen again for the second month in a row, but the real story is how the export market is contributing massively to that growth. Overseas sales soared by a staggering 95%, helping to counter a 22% slide in the automaker’s domestic market.
General Motors has inked a deal with memory-chip producer Micron to supply the manufacturer’s vehicles, which is ideal given the soaring cost and depleted stock of memory and storage these days. Bugatti has produced a one-of-one Mistral with porcelain trim pieces that also has black outlines that make it look like it jumped out of a manga into real life, weirdly.
Source: thedrive.com
