656 horsepower, roughly 5,000 pounds, all season tires, and a regenerative braking setup that prefers to handle most of the stopping on your behalf.

Buried in that lineup is the clue that identifies the 2027 Rivian R2 Performance.

To find it, I took it up a California ridge road and then back down the freeway after dark, continuing until it revealed itself.

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Tick the Tremor box on a 2026 Ford F-250 with the 7.3 V8 and the transmission changes with it. Skip the package and you get the lighter duty 10 speed. Take it and you get the heavy duty unit every 7.3 F-350 comes with.

So which truck did I borrow: an off roader or a transmission upgrade on 35 inch tires?

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The 2027 Genesis GV60 Magma shares its motor ratings and its brake and tire sizes with the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, and costs $10,000 more. I spent a week with it on Toronto roads to find out where that money went, and some of it you have to get on your knees to see.

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Cadillac stops building the CT5-V Blackwing in December, and the late cars got a Precision Package that bundles track tires, new front knuckles for more camber, billet rear toe links, and carbon ceramic brakes.

I took a six speed manual car up a California ridge road to find out whether that's the finished Blackwing or a track car for roads it will never leave.

An M5 gets to the next town sooner. This episode is about which one you'd take the long way.

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Toyota connects the RAV4 Hybrid's engine to the wheels. Nissan built the 2027 Rogue Hybrid so its engine never touches them.

Around town, a 1.67 kWh battery covers for the 3 cylinder. On a long mountain climb at highway speed, the engine should have to carry the load all the way up.

So I took it up the mountain, with the RAV4 along for comparison.

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Nissan built the manual Z NISMO, and the six speed is now the standard gearbox at the same $67,260 as the automatic. The engineering story most people skipped is behind the front wheels - two piece rotors from the R35 GT-R, 19 pounds lighter, with the dampers and steering retuned around them. Every 2027 NISMO gets them, and the pads they clamp are the first thing I'd change.

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The internet called the NC the fat Miata in 2006 and never took it back. The 2015 MX-5 25th Anniversary is the heaviest old Miata Mazda built, at 2,606 lbs with a power folding hardtop, so it is the fairest place to test the joke.

Plus an ex-Skip Barber instructor NC that lost its title and got it back, and what NC owners know about the engine, the coolant bottle and the dampers.

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I've driven the Lexus NX plugin twice and landed on the same complaint both times. Ask for acceleration and the engine noise shows up before the speed does. For 2027, Lexus put a fix in writing, leaning harder on the battery so engine rpm climbs with road speed. I drove the NX 350h hybrid and the NX 450h+ plug in in Ontario to see whether it works on both.

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