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Second hand Audi passenger cars stand on display at an Audi dealership on May 8, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.Carsten Koall / Getty Images Welcome to our weekly round-up of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from this past week. Get caught up and ready to get on with the weekend, because it’s hard keeping pace in a digital traffic jam.Here’s what you missed while you were away.Audi dealer sues dad after kid draws on new cars with rockThree-year-olds require constant attention. Don’t give it to them and they’ll find some other, less appropriate outlet for their frenetic energy. Like, for example, ten brand new Audis. A father visiting a Chinese Audi dealership was handed a hefty bill after his three-year-old used a rock to doodle on the paint of a bunch of new cars. The vehicles at that point could no longer be sold “new,” pressing the dealership to sue the father for $37,500. He was able to secure a settlement of $13,000. Next time, just bring the iPad, Dad. We hacked into a Chevy to find out everything it knew about usWhat does your car know about you? That’s the question the Washington Post was seeking answers to when it had a forensic engineer rip open a Chevy Volt’s dashboard and hack into its computers. The clever little car can gather up to 25 gigabytes of data per hour through its various sensors and satellite connections, storing much of it in the onboard drives. The Post’s hacker was able to recover a collection of previously visited locations, a log of phone calls from the previous week and an extensive list of contacts including names, addresses, emails and even photos. GM claims it only gathers data pertaining to vehicle location, performance and driver behaviour, all geared toward improving current and future designs and processes. So, in summation, your car knows quite a bit about you. Find out what you can do about it. Watch a Tesla Model X dominate a Ford Raptor in a tug-of-warIt’s the most anticipated tug-of-war of the decade: the Cybertruck vs the Ford F-150. Yes, it already happened during the Tesla truck’s debut, but that was hardly fair as the Ford chosen was a 2WD model. But, while we wait for the two major brands to get their acts together and give us the “apples to apples” rematch we deserve, there are other tug-based experiments to be observed. YouTubers The Zenigas hooked their Model X to a Ford Raptor to see which would pull which. And, well, the results speak for themselves (scrub to the 4:20 mark in the above video for the actual contest). The GM Oshawa plant completes its final truck after 66 yearsThe final vehicle to be built at GM’s long-running Oshawa assembly plant rolled off production lines this week. Restructuring within the brand led to the announcement of the plant’s closing last year. The factory, which has been in operation since 1953, will pivot from assembly to parts production (namely quarter panels, trunks, doors and hoods) and autonomous car research for the brand. Some 2,300 jobs have been cut from the area, with around 300 employees staying on to operate the new facility. Trucks with mismatched hoods serendipitously find each other on FacebookA perfect story 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/9delVKLIiq 𝐿𝒶𝓁𝑜✭ (@TXLalo214) December 10, 2019It was a match made in Facebook heaven. Two truck owners, each with a mismatched hood; one Facebook group dedicated to truck lovers near Denver, Colorado; and just a touch of luck. That’s all it took to complete Üziel Valles white Chevrolet Silverado. After building out a new front end and getting hung up on a yellow hood, Valles decided to go fishing for the right piece on Facebook. That’s how he found his truck’s inverse doppelganger, a yellow truck with a white hood, and completed the most perfect swap the Internet has seen in a while. The moral of the story is this: when seeking a soulmate, consider starting on
Origin: News Roundup: A toddler ruins 10 new Audis, and we hack a Chevy’s brain

Las Vegas, NEVADAMopar or Chevy? Diesel power or electric energy? Battery versus brawn? Old rivalries were made new again at the 2019 SEMA show in Las Vegas, as GM and FCA each breathed new life into a couple of their old trucks.Dedicated to the automotive aftermarket, the SEMA show is jammed with modified vehicles showing off new products. Some of the major automakers get in on the action, creating or commissioning their own builds for the show. This year, that included transforming two trucks a 1962 Chevy C-10 and 1968 Dodge D200.Both drew the crowds, but they were as different as they could be. The Chevy had a couple of electric motors under the hood, while the Dodge went old-school with a diesel. See how they stacked up and which do you prefer?1962 Chevrolet E-10 Chevy changed C-10 to E-10 for what the company dubbed its E-Crate motor, and its basically made by stacking electric motors together and with components from the Bolt electric compact car.The E-10 has a dual-stack system, and GM claims more than 450 horsepower and 470 lb.-ft. of torque at the wheels. Zero to 96 km/h is about five seconds, and the truck is estimated in the high 13-second range for the quarter-mile. But dont expect it to do it silently: theres an emulator on board that churns out the sound of V8 induction and exhaust.A custom truck is more than an engine, and the E-10 has an adjustable air suspension, 20- and 22-inch wheels, illuminated bowtie badges and a digital instrument cluster. The hood and tailgate have been smoothed out, the drip rails have been shaved, and the 62 grille has been replaced with one used in 1964. The E-10 isnt just for show. GM says the E-Crate is a concept but its also a fully-functional prototype that could one day be available to drop into anything that is currently set up for a Chevy LS engine currently (no pun intended) the engine of choice for most hot-rod and custom-car conversions.These next-generation electric motors can be stacked three-high for more than 1,000 horsepower. Right now the E-10s box is taken up with the battery, but the E-Crate can run on a range of 350 to 800 volts, so the battery can be sized for practicality or performance.Mopar Lowliner Concept The Lowliner also has a battery, but its just there to turn over the trucks 5.9-litre Cummins engine. The inline-six is considered legendary by diesel fans, and was first put into a Ram truck in 1989; the Ram brands current 6.7L diesel choice initially appeared in 2007.The 5.9L started with 12 valves but went to 24 valves in 1998, and its the 2-4 thats in this truck now. And heres the best part: the transmission has to be manually shifted through its six gears.The designers started with a 1968 Dodge D200 Sweptline heavy-duty Camper Special that they found in Ohio. They boxed the frame, and in addition to extending the wheelbase, pushed the front axle forward 76 millimetres. An adjustable air suspension on both axles gives it low, driving height, and driving height-plus positions.But while the trucks been lowered, the bed heights been raised by welding in the box floor from a new Ram 1500 and that was done to accommodate the air suspension and the fuel cell.Just about everything on the outside has been customized: the front end flips forward electrically, the handle-free doors open with electric poppers, the badges and chrome have been shaved off, the headlights and taillights are LED, the fuel fillers now mounted in the bed, and the Candied Delmonico red paint has the Mopar M subtly ghosted into the fenders.Take Our Poll The wheels are styled on the smoothie stamped-steel design that was popular in the 1960s, but while those were usually 15 inches, the Lowliner rides on 22s, with wide enough tires that the rear wheel wells have been widened. The interiors done in distressed-look leather, the shifter ball has a Cummins logo, and the original 1968 steering wheel is still in place.Unlike the E-10, which could potentially spin off a production aftermarket conversion, the Lowliner is all about the show. But we like em both, and really like that two old trucks that were already cool have been made even
Origin: Trucks at SEMA 2019: Chevy’s electric vs Dodge’s diesel