Mark Vaughn

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Mark Vaughn

Honda launched and landed its own rocket yesterday in Japan. The rocket was 20 feet tall and weighed just under 3,000 pounds. No specific space plans were announced. For a company that started out in a shed converting surplus US Army engines to power bicycles, Honda has certainly grown.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Mark Vaughn

5 hours agoOver several decades in power, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has built up regional proxy forces and a formidable missile arsenal with the aim of deterring precisely the kind of direct assaults being carried out by Israel. With his allies defanged and Israeli planes controlling the skies over …

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Mark Vaughn

The weekend after Le Mans, another 24-hour race sets off in Germany, at the fabled Nürburgring. Top entries are GT3 cars: 911s, AMG GTs, Audi R8s, Astons Martin, etc. Racing starts Saturday at 4:00 p.m. CET and ends 4:00 p.m. Sunday. The Nürburgring is truly an amazing place. It’s 17.6 miles long when you throw in the new and, fairly safe, grand prix track. Depending on what you consider a turn, it has as few as 80 of them by some estimates, while still others say 140 turns. Many of those are blind.

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Mark Vaughn

Third-generation Nissan Leaf goes up to 303 miles on a charge, which should be enough for most consumers. It'll hold 55.5 cubic feet of cargo, too. The Leaf was fully redesigned on a new platform that will sprout numerous other EVs.Pricing and further specs will be announced closer to its fall launch. Nissan’s all-new 2026 Leaf will become a full-fledged battery-electric crossover utility vehicle instead of a hatchback when it hits the market this fall.

1 week ago | autoweek.com | Mark Vaughn

Honda gets into the urban delivery game with the funky, boxy eQuad. The last-mile box vanscycle is all-electric, with swappable batteries, regenerative braking, and OTA updates. Pricing should be out closer to its launch in 2026. Package delivery has become a huge business, with Amazon vans everywhere and thousands of folks squirting through city streets on scooters with insulated square boxes on the back delivering who knows what to who knows where. Honda sees this as an opportunity.