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Ahead of October's Paris motor show, Citroen revealed a digital version of its C3 WRC rally car. The C3 WRC replaces Citroen's DS3 WRC from the French automaker's recent years of rallying; this past season, Citroen sat out WRC competition in order to focus on developing the car seen in the video. Due to some slight rule changes in WRC for the 2017 season, teams are allowed significantly more power, a more aggressive aero package and a 55-pound lower minimum weight. Power is up from 300 hp to 380 hp, which the Citroen’s turbocharged 1.6-liter will happily churn out. Will it be enough to shove Sebastien Ogier’s dominant Volkswagen Polo R out of the winner's circle? We won't know how much the rule changes will shake everything up until the start of the season. Citroen plans to lift the cover off of its new car at the Paris show but teased its release with this strange night-vision-esque digital short. The rendered C3 WRC rips around the computer-generated rally stage, complete with engine noise, fans cheering and a strange song playing underneath it all. Sure, Nissan might take the cake when it comes to strangely cut auto show teasers, but this Citroen video is easily one of the weirdest rally-related teasers ever, even if it doesn't temper how we feel about Citroen's hopes during the 2017 WRC season.

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Judged purely on its EV-ness, I think this Kia does everything it needs to very well. But at nearly $40,000, it just seems like a lot of coin. We’ll get back to that in a second. This Soul is rated at about 90 miles on a full charge, plenty for my daily commute and then some. I drove it home the first night with an indicated 87 miles of range; my commute is about 17 miles and dang it if I wasn't exactly at 70 miles range when I pulled up to my door. And that was with the AC cranking. In the morning (I think I lost like two miles overnight), I kept it in B -- battery charge mode, which ups the aggression of the regenerative brakes -- and I only used 12 miles of battery to cover 17 in the real world. So kudos for that, Kia. B-mode does a good job of slowing the car down too -- if you plan ahead a bit, you barely have to use the brakes thanks to the strong regen. The Soul EV isn't particularly slow, and I could stay at 80 mph on the freeway all day long -- well, at least until the battery ran out. I did enjoy getting into the red zone of the speedo, which is about 87 mph. I’m guessing your range goes down precipitously after that. The base Kia Soul weighs about 2,800 pounds, and this electric model has about 500 extra pounds of heft to move around. It stays relatively flat in corners, and steering weight and feel are better than I expected. While I dodged most potholes, I did hit a few, and there wasn’t very much noise in the cabin.

The very last Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution hammered away at an online auction for a winning bid of $76,400. As with the first Final Edition Lancer Evo, the proceeds will be donated to charity. However, unlike the previous $46,200 donation to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, this last Final Edition’s auction money will go towards two food banks -- Feeding America Riverside / San Bernardino and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. Mitsubishi built just 1,600 of these Lancer Evo Final Edition models. Powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged I4, the Lancer Evo sent 303 hp and 305 lb-ft of twist through a five-speed manual transmission to all four of the Yokohama-wrapped Enkei wheels. The special-edition Evos were tuned more aggressively than the run-of-the-mill Lancer Evos, which were rated at 291 hp and 300 lb-ft (and are gone, too). Over 10 generations, three of which actually came to the United States, the Lancer Evo has become a staple at rally stages, drag strips and road courses alike. While we’re sad to see the Lancer Evo fade away, we are curious what Mitsubishi will build to try to fill the void -- if anything.

An old Korean proverb about jumping frogs is suddenly finding fresh currency in the executive suites and engineering labs of Hyundai Motor Co. After pressing pause on years of breakneck expansion to nail quality, restock the product pipeline and streamline production, Hyundai is on the offensive again. Internally, the company’s engineers and executives liken it to an old Korean saying: “Even a frog must rest before the next jump.” And Hyundai’s next leap may be its biggest yet. The restd-and-ready company is simultaneously jumping into three new areas: a full range of eco-cars, from hybrids to EVs to fuel cells; a new subbrand of performance vehicles; and the new Genesis luxury marque nearly built from scratch. The executives leading these initiatives, in interviews with Automotive News, describe today’s Hyundai Motor Group as a mature, waking giant that used its downtime to regroup and is poised to build on its rank as the world’s No. 5 automaker. “Every organization needs a break before it goes for another jump,” said Ahn Byung-ki, director of eco-vehicle development. “A lot of people inside feel that way. I’m ready for the next jump.” The trifecta bet underscores the outsized ambition of a company that traces its roots to just 1967, has scant racing heritage and only developed its first proprietary engine in 1991. Indeed, the stakes are high for the entire auto group, including Hyundai and Kia, as the new ventures devour valuable resources at a time when Hyundai Motor is sliding into a fourth year of falling profits. The transformation also adds strain as speculation swirls about the transfer of corporate control from Chung Mong-koo, the Hyundai-Kia group’s 78-year-old patriarch and chairman, to his 45-year-old son, Vice Chairman Chung Eui-sun. Sagging profits are a reason to push into more profitable segments, but also a limitation. Operating income dropped 1.5 percent in 2013, 9.2 percent in 2014, 16 percent in 2015 and was down 7 percent through the first half of this year.

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The sporty hatchback loses its two-door body Volkswagen plans to kill the cool, less-expensive two-door version of its GTI. Announced at the same time as the Subaru-fighting Golf Alltrack, VW says it doesn’t think the GTI two-door makes enough sense to see it live through the short-term future. To some, it might come as a surprise that VW still makes the two-door GTI, as it isn’t exactly commonplace on the street or at VW dealers. Ordering a two-door VW GTI involved, well, doing just that -- ordering one. The less-useful GTI was rare enough on dealer lots that you probably had to talk to a salesperson and get one built. It makes sense that the four-door GTI takes the reins, as it follows the utilitarian hot hatch trend. More so, it closely follows the product planning for the top-Golf -- the Golf R. Unlike the Golf R, we doubt the GTI will ever ditch its manual gearbox. While we’re sad to see VW GTI lose its two-door body, we can’t say we’re surprised. Sure, the two-door hot hatch shaved about $600 off the GTI's price tag, and added a bit of cool, but it sacrificed a lot of rear-seat convenience.

Retired and restored 1962 roadster is on sale through Petrolicious When we think about classic British police cars (which we constantly do), we typically picture the old Rover P6 slowly navigating foggy London streets at bicycle speeds. What we don't picture is a Triumph roadster chasing down bank robbers piloting the obligatory British Ford Transit van. Despite their reputation for using words alone to shame criminals into surrender, Britain's finest have occasionally had to put some pedal to the metal and chase down some baddies. Back in the '60s, if you and your mates nicked some antique shotguns ("That's right, guns that fire shot") and took off in something British Leyland cobbled together from rusty steel left over from the war effort, you might have seen a Triumph TR4 in your rearview mirror.

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Fiat-Chrysler will recall 1.9 million vehicles built from 2010 to 2014 equipped with faulty airbags and seatbelt pre-tensioners, and that the problems are responsible for three deaths and five injuries. Chrysler did say that the conditions for a problem to occur are specific, and require a “vehicle equipped with a particular occupant restraint module and front impact sensor wiring of a specific design” to be involved in “certain collisions.” The recall does spread outside of the United States, hitting 142,959 cars in Canada, 81,901 cars in Mexico and 284,051 outside the North American continent. The affected cars in Mexico are examples of 2010 Chrysler Cirrus compacts, and the affected cars outside North America are 2012-13 Lancia Flavia sedans.

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Volkswagen today released teaser pictures of an electric car that it hopes will lead the automaker out of its diesel scandal and into an electrified future. The near-production concept previews a compact EV with a long range that VW brand is expected to launch in early 2018 or 2019. The EV will have a distinctive design to differentiate it from VW’s non-electric cars. The production version will be the first VW to enter the market based on the automaker's new MEB (modular electrification kit) platform, the company said in a statement. VW did not reveal any more information ahead of the concept's debut at the Paris auto show later this month. The concept "signals VW brand's entry into a new era," it said. "The vehicle is as revolutionary as the Beetle was seven decades ago," VW said. Last month VW brand CEO Herbert Diess told the German news magazine WirtschaftsWoche that the EV will be the size of a Golf compact hatchback but with the interior space of the Passat midsize car. The extra room comes from the way the batteries have been packaged in the floor of the car.