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<\/p>\nCommitted planners might be looking ahead to 2024 to save dates in the social calendar, but automakers always exceed even the most ambitious planners when it comes to the year ahead. We’re already covering the 2025 model year with seven weeks to go in 2023, with deliveries of those models expected for midway through 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This forward planning, or time manipulation, dates back nearly a century, as a way to allow time to ramp up production of a new car and deliver it to dealers by the new calendar year. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt codified the practice with one of many Great Depression-era executive orders to protect autoworkers from being idled before the holidays during a model year factory makeover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Here’s a look forward to a few 2025s, some 2024s, and everything that moved us this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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2025 Volvo EX30 review<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s a good, affordable electric hatchback with up to 275 miles of range, but its SUV credentials are thin, and those used to Volvo\u2019s recent luxury vibe won\u2019t find that here. It earns a TCC Rating of 7.5 out of 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2025 Ram 1500 preview<\/strong><\/p>\n The redesigned Ram 1500 pickup truck now comes in three variants, including a gas truck with three engine options, a plug-in series hybrid known as the Ram 1500 Ramcharger, and a Ram 1500 REV electric truck.<\/p>\n 2024 Audi Q8 E-Tron review<\/strong><\/p>\n The Q8 E-Tron shows that electric vehicles don’t have to look so different versus their gasoline counterparts, and it excels in comfort, features, and safety for an overall rating of 8.3 out of 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n 2024 Volvo XC90 review<\/strong><\/p>\n Now entering what\u2019s likely to be its final model year before a revamp, the 2024 Volvo XC90 remains an appealing three-row luxury SUV with a TCC Rating of 7.5 out of 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n