Standard for all ’22 Enclave trims is Buick Driver Confidence Plus, a suite of nine standard active safety features. Only rear park assist was standard on the previous Enclave, Buick says.

Pricing will start under $20,000 for the Maverick, which is being assembled in Hermosillo, Mexico, comes standard with a hybrid 4-cyl. powertrain and goes on sale this fall with a 4.5-ft. bed, four doors and room for five occupants.

All three new BMW BEVs will go on sale in the first quarter of 2022. The iX sports activity vehicle has an MSRP of $83,200, while the i4 eDrive40 starts at $55,400 and the i4 M50 at $65,900. And the iX M60 will arrive with more than 600 hp.

General Motors signs a memorandum of understanding with Honda that increases cooperation in R&D, purchasing, connected services and battery and vehicle development. GM will be able to draw on Honda’s expertise to maintain its lineup of ICE vehicles.

The companies announce they have signed a patent licensing agreement under which Nokia licenses mobile telecommunications technology to Daimler and receives payment in return. The parties have agreed to settle all pending litigation.

Toyota’s C-HR has struggled to keep pace in the booming Small CUV segment, lagging well behind the Subaru Crosstrek, Nissan Kicks, Kia Sportage, Chevy Trailblazer, Ford Bronco Sport, Honda HR-V, Hyundai Tucson and Jeep Compass.

In 2018, Jaguar began offering a 2.0L turbo-4, which accounted for 39% of sales in 2020, making it the most popular engine offered alongside the 3.0L V-6 (36% of sales) and 5.0L V-8 (25% of sales), according to Wards Intelligence data.

The all-wheel-drive i4 M50 takes performance honors. It gets two electric motors, one on the front axle with 255 hp and another at the rear with 308-hp. Together they develop a combined system output of 536 hp and 586 lb.-ft. of torque.

Hiring a new software engineering team to build a software infrastructure from scratch is less cost-effective and more time-consuming than working with a software partner who can get OEMs ramped up quickly, which is key in the race to digitizing...