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Hello and welcome to\u00a0The Downshift<\/a>, or TDS for short,\u00a0The Drive\u2018s morning news roundup that gathers the biggest automotive headlines from around the world.<\/p>\n The Downshift\u00a0summarizes stories into a few sentences and adds links for those seeking more detail. We hope you had a great weekend\u2014here\u2019s your bulletin for Monday, August 17, 2026.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude99 The sixth-gen Jeep Cherokee only just arrived for the 2026 model year, after the previous generation lasted from 2014 to 2023. But Stellantis is already planning to replace it with a successor in 2029 that will be built at the company\u2019s Belvidere Assembly plant in Illinois\u2014rather than Mexico, as the current SUV is\u2014and use the newer STLA One architecture. [Automotive News<\/a>]<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd79\ufe0f Porsche North America CEO Timo Resch said in an interview that while the company\u2019s manual transmission and hybrid powertrain are not currently compatible, he \u201cwouldn\u2019t be surprised if at some point [Porsche engineers] come up with a solution.\u201d [Road & Track<\/a>]<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc02 On that subject, if you\u2019re a Lamborghini collector who is waiting for Sant\u2019Agata to jump on the manual bandwagon that so many other high-end automakers have, you probably shouldn\u2019t hold your breath. CEO Stephan Winklemann said in Monterey over the weekend that manuals are \u201cmostly for collectibles, and today we don\u2019t have any plans\u201d to offer a three-pedal car. [CarBuzz<\/a>]<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8 Toyota is recalling its still very new bZ Woodland battery-powered SUV\/wagon due to the risk of an electric short that could disengage electronic stability control and illuminate the brake lights at the same time, even if the brakes are not being used. [Autoblog<\/a>]<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd11 Ferrari Luce \u201cChassis 0\u201d clad in a bespoke white paint job sold at a charity auction in Monterey over the weekend for $40 million, proving that no matter how deeply some very vocal people hate something, there will always be someone out there willing to throw titanic amounts of money at it. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc1 Weekend race winners:<\/p>\n NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Richmond:\u00a0Kayden Honeycutt for Tricon Garage<\/p>\n NASCAR Cup Series at Richmond:\u00a0Joey Logano for Team Penske<\/p>\n IndyCar at Ontario:\u00a0Marcus Ericsson for Andretti Global<\/p>\n Got a tip or feedback for TDS? Reach out to tips@thedrive.com<\/p>\n Backed by a decade of covering cars and consumer tech, Adam Ismail is a Senior Editor at The Drive, focused on curating and producing the site\u2019s slate of daily stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13129],"tags":[21450,13572,12112,13317],"class_list":["post-66228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stellantis","tag-cherokee","tag-jeep","tag-stellantis","tag-suv-crossover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}