Mitsubishi has announced the pricing details of the redesigned 2022 Eclipse Cross, which now features a range of upgrades both visual and under the skin.

A report out of Japan states that Subaru and Toyota might be working jointly on an all-wheel-drive high-performance car. The rumored hot hatch is said take inspiration from the rally machines both companies fielded from their 1990s heydays.

According to Japan's Best Car magazine, the car fits in the footprint of an Impreza Sport, what we know in the US as the Impreza hatchback. Power allegedly comes from a 2.4-liter horizontally-opposed, turbocharged four-cylinder, and the AWD system is not the one found in the fire-breathing GR Yaris. Rather, the report says, it will feature symmetrical all-wheel-drive, a signature Subaru technology.

DETROIT — Toyota and longtime supplier partner Denso will team up with self-driving car startup Aurora to develop and build autonomous minivans for ride hailing networks, the companies said on Tuesday.

The deal gives San Francisco-based Aurora a clearer path to profitability as it competes with Alphabet's Waymo, General Motors' majority-owned Cruise and Argo AI, whose principal investors are Ford and Volkswagen.

Mitsubishi has released pricing information for the comprehensively redesigned Eclipse Cross it revealed in late 2020. Positioned at the bottom of the firm's crossover range, the soft-roader will go on sale as a 2022 model.

The range consists of four trim levels called ES, LE, SE, and SEL, respectively, and the last two can be upgraded with option packages. Front-wheel drive comes standard, and adding all-wheel drive to any trim costs $1,600.

Honda has announced a limited edition package that will make its Civic Type R crate motor easier to install. Called the Controls Package, it includes a wiring harness, fuse box, accelerator pedal, and ECU programmed by Honda Performance Development.

Honda began offering its K20C1 crate motor from the Civic Type R in the U.S. in 2017, but it came as just the long block, alternator, turbo, and starter motor. As anyone who's conducted an engine swap knows, that's just the beginning. To make the motor work with the host car, you have to connect systems like fuel injection, ignition, and sensors to the vehicle's electronic brain, the ECU.

TOKYO — Japan's second- and third-largest automakers, Honda and Nissan, will sell a combined 250,000 fewer cars in the current financial year as a global shortage in semiconductor chips hits production.

The automakers made the announcement as they unveiled brighter outlooks for the financial year ending March 2021 as automobile markets, led by China, rebounded from a coronavirus-induced slump. Honda and Nissan also reported better-than-expected results for the October-December quarter.

The Toyota Camry is available with a handful of GR parts and Modellista parts in Japan that transform the looks of the sedan.

We're all familiar with the phenomenon of the oversized Amazon package, where a box large enough for a chandelier arrives on your front step but contains nothing but nail clippers and a half-deflated string of packaging balloons. Well, the largest Amazon package we've seen is now the driveway-sized one said to enclose a 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander.

On February 16, the Triple Diamond marque and Amazon are joining forces to debut the carmaker's next mid-sized SUV. The pair have released a teaser showing a massive cardboard box sitting on the driveway of a super swanky house that we're not 100% sure isn't computer-generated.

Toyota joined forces with Arctic Trucks to create an evolution of the mighty, Tacoma-sized Hilux that's right at home on some of the planet's most challenging terrain. Called AT35, it was designed specifically to let scientists and adventurers reach places where the notion of a beaten path is completely unheard of.

Arctic Trucks started with the double-cab Invincible X model, which is one of the more user-friendly and less utilitarian variants of the Hilux sold on the European market. Its first order of business was to re-engineer the frame. It then installed a beefier suspension system developed jointly with Bilstein and tucked 35-inch all-terrain tires under punched-out wheel arches. The modifications increase the Hilux's ride height by 2.5 inches, and they give it approach and departure angles of 38 and 29 degrees, respectively, increases of nine and three degrees.

According to Consumer Reports, Tesla owners are more likely to rave about their vehicles than any other brand. And we're not surprised — Tesla has performed very well in past customer satisfaction surveys, despite the fact that the electric cars themselves tend to have more problems than most other automobiles. Second place went to Lincoln, which interestingly had a higher cumulative score than Tesla in individual category measurements like comfort and storage space. Ram, a truck-only brand, rounded out the top three.

The consumer-focused magazine bases its owner satisfaction score on responses to a very simple question: Would you buy this exact car again? The higher percentage of owners who answer "definitely yes" to that question, the higher the satisfaction score. Further breakdowns are scored for other parts of the ownership experience, which is why brands that rank poorly in Consumer Reports' own reliability charts — like Tesla and Lincoln, for example — can still earn top marks for satisfaction.

Mazda is bringing the rotary engine back next year, but it's hard to get excited about its use as a range extender in the MX-30.

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This week saw the release of one of the first driving games built exclusively for the newest generation of consoles, and we got more information on Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge, the crown jewel of Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan.

Because of the abbreviated 24 Hours of Lemons schedule, I haven't been traveling around the country to dispense my uniquely dignified brand of racing justice. That means no North Dakota junkyards, no California junkyards, no Arizona junkyards— these days, it's just Colorado junkyards providing material for this series. Because Coloradans have loved Subarus more than just about anybody during the last 40 years, that means we're going to admire lots of discarded vehicles bearing the Pleiades logo. Today, that means an optioned-up Leone wagon from the era when you had to pay extra for four-wheel-drive in a Subaru.

You've probably been oversaturated with Nissan stories lately, so we'll forgive you if you're feeling a bit of fatigue, but in putting together our showcase of the company's pickup lineage, we stumbled upon a detail that delighted us: Nissan's truck chassis leapfrogged a generation, and not for reasons a non-Japanese-speaker might expect. 

Today's highlight is brought to you by the numbers "420" and "69." Go ahead and giggle. After all, a certain titan of industry loves to reference both figures, and not in any way that is relevant to building electric cars or putting human beings in tunnels (or on Mars, for that matter). At least when we make you snicker, it has something to do with cars.