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    Automotive

    The Drivecast

    The Drivecast gives you an inside, behind-the-scenes look at the biggest stories, controversies, and people shaping the car industry from one of the top automotive news sites in the country.

    Each week, The Drive’s editor-in-chief Kyle Cheromcha, director of content Joel Feder, and a rotating cast of expert staffers will break down how automakers are navigating a transformative time. Massive shifts in technology, manufacturing, and consumer demands are changing the ways cars are built and sold quicker than ever, and the way car companies are navigating this moment will shape the way our roads look for the next century.

    It doesn’t matter if you’re an enthusiast since birth or just curious about why cars are the way they are today—we’ll give you the inside line with our exclusive reporting and break it all down for you.

    If you like what we’re doing, check out The Drive for the latest news, analysis, and in-depth car reviews, sign up for one of our newsletters, and subscribe to us on YouTube. We’re also posting all the time on Instagram and Facebook.

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    Ferrari, Jony Ive, and the analog future of dashboards Feb 11, 2026
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    Ferrari's first electric car is a massive gamble for a company steeped in heritage. So is tapping the designer of the iPhone to create a revolutionary new interior and make a statement about the place of screens in cars today.

    This week, the automaker revealed the cabin of the Ferrari Luce designed by LoveFrom, the firm founded by Jony Ive, the former head of design at Apple, and his partner Marc Newson. It's a retro-modern centerpiece that's very much Ferrari meets the Apple Car: restrained simplicity, aluminum and glass everywhere, lots of squircles, and clever touches like a pivoting center screen that looks like a giant Apple Watch. Critically, there's also an emphasis on physical controls like buttons and toggles for all key functions.

    Ive and Newson have never worked on a production car before, so it tracks that the Luce's interior is like nothing else we've seen before. That's by design, because Ferrari can't act like its first EV is just business as usual.

    There's a lot on the line, and not just for Ferrari. Ive is very open about how he thinks the auto industry learned the wrong lesson from his work at Apple. Giant screens in cars might feel like "the future," but they aren't the answer to designing a functional interior; in fact, routing critical controls through a screen you can't operate by feel while driving is dangerous.

    The unintended consequences of his creations are one of the reasons why Ive left Apple in 2019, and why he and Newson felt compelled to take on the Luce project. So can two legendary designers and automotive outsiders show the car industry the error of its ways?

    • Electric Ferrari Luce’s Interior Revealed: When Apple Meets Ferrari
    • Why ‘Luce’ Is the Perfect Name for the First Electric Ferrari
    • iPhone Creator Jony Ive Slams Tesla-Style Touchscreens: ‘Easy and Lazy’
    • Here’s Why the Ferrari Luce’s Interior Has No Carbon Fiber

    00:00 Intro

    02:49 The Apple Ferrari?

    13:08 Steering wheel

    19:05 Gauge cluster

    24:52 Center screen

    28:16 Why glass and aluminum?

    33:31 Lessons for the industry

    40:12 Ive's regrets about screens

    46:11 Outro





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    The Drive Awards 2026: The best new cars and behind the scenes with The Drive team Feb 06, 2026
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    Today we're rolling out The Drive Awards, aka the Slashies, our annual celebration of the very best new cars and trucks on sale right now. We're running through the winners, the losers, the almost-got-it-rights—and we're peeling back the curtain to explain our picks and how exactly The Drive runs a comprehensive car review operation.

    Every year, we review well over a hundred new cars and trucks to see if the promises car companies are making actually bear out in the real world. Next, we take the top-scoring models in our six main categories that best represent where the market is today and subject them to a staff-wide debate to make our picks. And finally, we put the winners of each category through one more round of voting to determine who gets the ultimate prize: Car of the Year.

    This episode is special for another reason: The Drive's entire editorial team will be joining Joel and Kyle round-robin style as we walk through our thinking and methodology for each category. Get to know these names and voices, because you're going to be hearing from them a lot in the future.

    Without further ado, these are your 2026 winners of The Drive Awards, with links to the full stories explaining each pick on thedrive.com.

    • Best Truck: Rivian R1T Quad
    • Best Value: Honda Civic Hybrid
    • Best SUV: Land Rover Defender Octa
    • Best Performance Car: Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing
    • Best EV: Nissan Leaf
    • Best Hybrid: Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid
    • Car of the Year: Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing

    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro

    03:53 BTS of The Drive Awards

    09:47 Best Truck with Joel Feder

    17:24 Best Value with Andrew Collins

    22:57 Best SUV with Caleb Jacobs

    30:17 Best Performance Car with Byron Hurd

    37:59 Best EV with Cyril Soliman

    45:28 Best Hybrid with Adam Ismail

    52:13 Car of the Year with Kyle Cheromcha

    01:01:21 Outro

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    Volvo on the edge: Inside the plan to turn things around Jan 28, 2026
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    For our very first episode, we're taking a hard look at Volvo. The Swedish company once known for quirky wagons and safety innovations is in trouble after dumping billions of dollars into an early, all-in bet on electric vehicles five years ago that led to a mess of software issues and production problems, tanking reliability and dragging its global sales to dangerous lows.

    Last year, then-CEO Jim Rowan warned of "turbulent" times ahead for Volvo as tariffs scrambled its manufacturing plans—shortly before Volvo's Chinese parent company Geely replaced him with Hakan Samuelsson, who led the company through the boom years of the 2010s before retiring in 2022. Classic move to bring back the old guy.

    Samuelsson knows he has to nail this turnaround, and the first car launching under his watch is the Volvo EX60, a midsize electric SUV that represents everything Volvo is trying to get right—new platform, new motor+battery combo, new software stack, new everything. And Joel was on the ground in Sweden for the reveal event last week, where he grilled Samuelsson and the rest of the executive team to find out if Volvo's really learned from its mistakes, or if the company is doomed to repeat them.

    Check out all our exclusive stories mentioned in this episode:

    • 2027 Volvo EX60 Feels Like a No-Brainer for EV Newbs With 400-Mile Range and Reasonable Price Tag
    • Volvo CEO Says, ‘Good Luck, the Rest of You’ Legacy Automakers
    • Volvo EX60 Debuting Next-Gen Infotainment System With Google Gemini AI Assistant
    • Volvo Is Updating Five-Year-Old Cars With AI
    • Volvo Keeping Apple CarPlay, Refuses to ‘Force You To Something’
    • Volvo Proposes 100-Mile Plug-in Hybrids as a ‘Bridge’ for Drivers with EV Range Anxiety
    • Volvo Is Not Done With Wagons After All

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