Links We Like October 10 2024

Car companies are slurping your data (who knew?), me on the radio talking about that and making people mad, hot hatch rivals shake hands on track, a new VW camper is out, more utes going PHEV and a gorgeous new French electric hatchback

Just over a year after the Mozilla Foundation's landmark report into catastrophic data privacy issues in the automotive sector, Australia's Choice magazine had a bit of a look and a prod to see what car companies are doing with your personal data.

It's...not great.

Drive one of these car brands? This is how much data they’re tracking | CHOICE

We compare the privacy policies of Australia’s biggest selling car brands to see how they track and monitor drivers.

CHOICE AustraliaJarni Blakkarly

And here's me with the ABC's Kat Feeney on ABC Radio Brisbane being cranky about it at 1h50m. But hopefully also adding a bit of reason.

Afternoons - ABC listen

Be entertained, informed and given plenty of food for thought as you navigate the school pick up.

ABC listenBrought to you byABC BRISBANEPresented byKatherine Feeney

Toyota's Gazoo Racing and Hyundai's N will hold a combined event in South Korea. That sounds like a lot of fun and kind of makes perverse sense. Toyota is not at all big on the peninsula so why not show folks how the Japanese do things.

Hyundai N and Toyota GR join forces on performance-car festival, track day

The performance arms of the two car makers will combine for a multi-brand event in South Korea.

DriveDamion Smy

I love the VW Transporter and its variants more than is absolutely right and proper. I reviewed a California Beach camper for WhichCar a couple of years back and just didn't stop grinning.

Now there's a new one and CarThrottle's Mike Bartholomew is all over it.

The New VW California Is Your £63k Mobile Studio Apartment

UK pricing has been revealed for the latest version of VW’s massively successful camper, with top versions costing upwards of £80k

CarThrottleMike Bartholomew

Australian EV site EVCentral has a good round-up of last month's sales figures and news of the Triton and Navara going plug-in hybrid.

https://evcentral.com.au/are-diesels-days-numbered-all-new-mitsubishi-triton-and-nissan-navara-to-score-plug-in-hybrid-petrol-powertrains-as-toyota-rav4-hybrid-outsells-hilux-and-ford-ranger-in-australia/

Aaaand to finish off, another iconic French city car is rebooted as an EV, the Renault Twingo. Ginny Buckley of Electrifying takes you through the concept car.

And that's it for Links We Like for another day. If you spot anything cool, let me know!