This Car Pod: Kia Soul Dead, Hyundai Truck, Tesla Profits, JLR Back, & Supercar Theories

Automotive News and Market Shifts

• 💀 The Kia Soul is being discontinued due to declining sales and the market's shift towards SUVs.
• 🚚 Hyundai is developing an in-house, mid-size, body-on-frame pickup truck for the US market, expected by the end of the decade.
• 📈 Tesla reported a record Q3 profit, partly due to subsidy pull-forwards, and is rolling out cheaper base models with fewer features.
• 🏭 Jaguar Land Rover has resumed production after a cyberattack, starting with engine and battery assembly plants.

Supercar Concepts and Collections

• 🚀 A new Lamborghini "Manifesto" concept teases potential future limited-production models, possibly off-road focused.
• 🏎️ The LM002 is discussed as a potential worst-named car, while Lamborghini's head of sales and marketing suggests more off-road supercars are planned.
• 💡 A theory is proposed that Lamborghini supercars ( a Murciélago, Countach, Diablo, Miura) will one day be valued similarly to Ferrari equivalents, focusing on V12, gated manual models.
• 🚗 The Ferrari supercar collecting world is considered