Ford Recalls Nearly 102,000 Taurus Sedans for Door Trim
Ford is recalling nearly 102,000 examples from the last generation of its Taurus sedan over an issue with certain door trim, which may detach.
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Affected vehicles include model-year 2016-19 Taurus sedans. During vehicle assembly, the adhesion of the B-pillar trim applique may have been incomplete. As a result, the trim may separate from the top of the front doors when entering or exiting the vehicle, and drivers may hear wind noise or rattling while the vehicle is in motion. If the B-pillar trim applique detaches while the vehicle is in motion, it could become a road hazard, increasing the risk of a crash.
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To resolve the issue, dealers will inspect the trim and repair or replace it, as necessary, for free. Interim letters notifying owners of the issue are expected to be mailed Sept. 22; a second letter will be sent out once the final remedy is available, which Ford anticipates will be sometime in December. Those with further questions can contact the automaker at 866-436-7332 (Ford’s number for this recall is 25S91), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s vehicle-safety hotline at 888-327-4236, or visit its website to check your vehicle identification number and learn more.
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How Much Is the 2026 Toyota Corolla Cross?
By Robert Duffer
September 19, 2025
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Key Points:
- Slight updates and more available options to the 2026 Toyota Corolla Cross result in a price bump of $500 over the 2025 model.
- Hybrid models cost about $2,000-$3,000 more than similarly equipped gas-only models, making them a good value for shoppers intent on all-wheel drive.
- The 2026 Corolla Cross starts at $26,085 (all prices include a $1,450 destination fee); AWD adds $1,300.
The 2026 Toyota Corolla Cross and Corolla Cross Hybrid sport new front ends and more available options, as well as a price hike of $500. The small SUV with front-wheel drive starts at $26,085 (all prices include a $1,450 destination fee), while hybrid versions with standard all-wheel drive start at $30,445.
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What’s New?
Not to be confused with the Corolla compact sedan and hatchback, Toyota’s smallest SUV sports new grille designs that differentiate the Corolla Cross gas model and the Corolla Cross Hybrid. The former has wider spacing, whereas the hybrid has a more compact mesh design in line with other electrified vehicles in Toyota’s lineup.
Inside, a 10.5-inch touchscreen is available over the standard 8-inch display, and a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster is now optional. A Cold Weather Package that includes heated front seats and a heated steering wheel are available throughout the AWD lineup; it’s standard on AWD XLE and hybrid XSE trim levels. A new Portobello interior color and a new exterior color, Cavalry Blue, can be had, and Toyota also updated the wheel designs available on certain trims. The Nightshade Edition offered for 2025 is not on the docket so far for 2026.
Pricing and Release Date
The 2026 Toyota Corolla Cross and Corolla Cross Hybrid are on sale now; the model-year 2025 prices are in parenthesis. AWD adds $1,300 to L and LE trim levels on the gas-only Corolla Cross; it’s $1,450 on XLE.
Corolla Cross
- L: $26,085 ($25,585)
- LE: $28,415 ($27,915)
- XLE: $31,010 ($29,810)
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- S: $30,445 ($29,945)
- SE: $31,765 ($31,265)
- XSE: $34,480 ($33,130)
Safety Features and Trim Levels
All 2026 Corolla Cross models come with Toyota Safety Sense 3.0, which includes forward collision warning with pedestrian detection, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning with steering assist, lane-centering steering, road-sign recognition and automatic high beams.
The entry-level Corolla Cross L rides on 17-inch steel wheels and has cloth upholstery, manually adjustable front seats, two USB-C ports, a 7-inch digital instrument cluster, and an 8-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
The LE trim adds blind spot monitors, rear cross-traffic alert and 17-inch alloy wheels. It also comes with two USB-C ports for rear passengers, keyless entry and start, automatic climate control and wireless phone charging.
The well-equipped XLE sports 18-inch wheels, front and rear parking sensors, and LED daytime running lights and foglamps. It sheds its budget-car persona with synthetic leather upholstery, a power-adjustable driver’s seat, heated front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control and the 10.5-inch touchscreen with a satellite radio trial.
The Corolla Cross Hybrid embraces the S badging that suggests “Sport” throughout Toyota’s lineup, but the features are the same as the gas-only Corolla Cross. So the hybrid S, SE and XSE correlate to the L, LE, and XLE trims listed above.
Powertrain Specs and MPG
The Corolla Cross’s gas engine is a 2.0-liter four-cylinder that makes 169 horsepower and 151 pounds-feet of torque; it’s paired with a continuously variable automatic transmission. FWD is standard, and AWD is available. Toyota expects the 2025 model’s EPA ratings of 31/33/32 mpg city/highway/combined to carry over for 2026; same with the AWD version, which was rated at 29/31/30 mpg.
Every Corolla Cross Hybrid is AWD, as one electric motor helps drive the front wheels and another powers the rear wheels when needed. A third motor starts the engine and acts as a generator to charge the battery. Also employing a 2.0-liter four-cylinder, the hybrid generates a total of 196 hp and was rated at 45/38/42 mpg for 2025.
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By Conner Golden
September 12, 2025
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How Much Does the 2026 Nissan Leaf Cost?
- When it goes on sale later in the fall, the Nissan Leaf S+ trim level will start at $31,485 (including destination), making it the most affordable electric vehicle on the American market, beating out the Hyundai Kona Electric and Chevrolet Equinox EV.
How Does the 2026 Nissan Leaf Compare With Other Electric SUVs?
- Against the Equinox EV and Kona, the 2026 Leaf falls between them in charging, range and performance but beats both on price. It’s also one of the smaller electric SUVs available, with a footprint that’s closer to subcompact than compact.
It’s 2025 — electric vehicles are no longer novel. Folks don’t buy EVs just because they’re electric, and they especially won’t slide in the seat if there’s still a whiff of the dorky EV of yesteryear that carried a trunk brimming with cultural baggage. The Nissan Leaf? Oh, that’s one of the original EVs, right down to its dowdy hatch appearance and interior that managed to be boring, funky and outdated all at the same time.
Mind you, I’m talking the first- and second-generation Leaf, the latter replaced for the 2026 model year with the third gen of Nissan’s electric bread and butter. I’d never accuse the latest Leaf of being granola, as its scaled-up, sleekened exterior and genuine stylistic flair indicates it ain’t your weird aunt’s EV anymore.
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Even before you set butt to seat, you can tell Nissan spent considerable effort to distance the redesigned 2026 Leaf from both its immediate ancestors and the workaday Nissan lineup as a whole. The minimalist interior offers a mature, measured translation of the familiar funky-futuristic design language found on so many EVs, surprisingly taking more inspiration from the current Nissan Murano than the Ariya, Nissan’s other electric SUV.
It’s a sharp-looking space to match the Leaf’s fastback exterior, which is a clear attempt to capture the enduring popularity of the SUV-style “coupe.” Emphasis there is on “SUV,” as the Leaf sheds its familiar compact-hatch skin for that of a (slightly) lifted, cladded crossover, an identity shift that slots right in with what’s popular among U.S. consumers.
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How Big Is the 2026 Nissan Leaf?
It’s a crossover, but quite a compact one. At Nissan’s first-drive event for automotive media, my Leaf test vehicle was loaded with three people, with Cars.com’s 6-foot-tall videographer sitting behind my 5-foot-11-inch frame as I rode shotgun to my drive partner. (Cars.com pays for its own travel and lodging when attending such manufacturer-sponsored events.) This arrangement required that I scoot the front passenger seat relatively far forward so as to not crush my colleague’s legs. The happy medium found my legs moderately bent against the slanted passenger footwell, with my knee resting against the hard edge of the protruding panel on the dash for the push-button gear selector.
Comparing manufacturer-listed interior dimensions between the new and previous Leaf tells the full story. For the new car, front legroom remains nearly unchanged, with an extra 0.3 inch, but it cuts a substantial 1.7 inches from rear legroom that, in turn, leeches space from the front as passengers compensate. Checking over exterior dimensions reveals more shrinkage, with the 2026 Leaf actually cutting 0.4 inch from the wheelbase and 3 inches from the overall length. Nissan-measured cargo space of 20 cubic feet behind the backseat is slightly less than it was before, but maximum cargo capacity with the backseat folded blooms by 25.5 cubic feet to 55.5.
2026 Nissan Leaf, rear angle | Cars.com photo by Conner Golden
It gets stranger the more you compare. The new Leaf is wider than the old hatch but is both shorter in height and ground clearance. That’s no typo: If you plan on tackling the Rubicon, perhaps spring for a last-gen Leaf and its additional 0.6 inch of ground clearance over the new model’s 5.3 inches. (Editor’s note: Don’t take any Leaf on the Rubicon Trail.)
What Is the 2026 Nissan Leaf’s Interior Like?
Materials are the biggest conversation piece here; frosted plastic dash trim and controls give way to a neat textile panel that runs the perimeter of the cabin, lending a flat, matte appearance to the interior that’s a welcome change from gloss-black and faux carbon-fiber surfaces. Top-of-the-line Platinum+ grade features include heated seats and steering wheel, a 10-speaker Bose sound system, a wireless device charger, a head-up display, rain-sensing wipers and a hands-free power liftgate.
Dual 14.3-inch driver and infotainment displays arrive at the second-from-the-top SV+ trim, and they’re both responsive and high-fidelity — ditto for the current iteration of the NissanConnect infotainment system. It’s worth mentioning that some of the Leaf’s most practical goodies are reserved for the higher trims, including Google Built-In infotainment tech with route planning, a heat pump and a vehicle-to-load outlet in the cargo area.
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How Does the 2026 Nissan Leaf Drive?
You’d think that this ground-huggin’ stance and new rakish profile indicates the new Leaf is some manner of electro hot hatch, but you’d be dead wrong. Out on some moderately snaked California mountain roads, the 2026 Leaf was remarkably uncomposed, with a weird amount of squirminess and continued rebound from the suspension over bumps. Slow steering and an incongruously firm ride combined with those body motions for a noxious carsickness concoction that had all three of us separately remarking at just how jostling the ride can be over pavement that really didn’t seem that broken or undulating.
It can’t corner or coddle worth a darn, but you can ignore everything — everything — mentioned above if you restrict the third-gen Leaf to urban surface streets or arrow-straight highways. Through the short portions of downtown San Diego and its network of wide interstates, the Leaf was utterly and entirely acceptable from a ride quality perspective, only returning a bit of squiggle through slow road dips and over speed bumps.
Stay away from the countryside, I guess. On the other end of the spectrum, the Leaf’s brake blend — or the balance between purely regenerative resistance and the physical brakes — is well tuned. All four levels of regen braking were both usable and effective, and while Nissan’s max e-Step regen mode isn’t quite one-pedal driving, it wicks away a significant amount of speed before tapering and eventually disengaging around 5-6 mph.
2026 Nissan Leaf, wheel | Cars.com photo by Conner Golden
How Much Power Does the 2026 Nissan Leaf Have?
Power and performance from the single front-mounted electric motor is more impressive than its 214 horsepower and 261 pounds-feet of torque might indicate. Even with three dudes and a load of camera gear, the electric drivetrain’s insta-torque was more than enough for safe passing and highway merging. My test vehicle was a top-of-the-line Platinum+ grade, which comes with the more powerful motor and larger battery that most trims have; stick with the basest-of-base S grade, and power drops to 174 hp and 254 pounds-feet.
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How Fast Does the 2026 Nissan Leaf Charge?
There are dual charge ports — a J1772-style port that supports Level 2 charging and a Tesla-style North American Charging Standard port that supports DC fast-charging at up to 150 kilowatts. Under ideal conditions, road trippers can expect to juice the Leaf from 10% to 80% in 35 minutes, according to Nissan, but make sure you pick the right trim for your needs, as range varies greatly. For now, Nissan only has range estimates for the bigger 75-kilowatt-hour battery that goes in every trim save the base S, with the S+ offering 303 miles of range, 288 miles for the SV+ and the heaviest Platinum+ having a still-solid 259 miles.
1 / 252026 Nissan Leaf, dashboard controls | Cars.com photo by Conner Golden
But here’s the best part: As of this writing, the 2026 Leaf is still the most affordable EV available on the U.S market. As previously mentioned, the S+ lands at $31,485 (including destination), undercutting both the Hyundai Kona Electric and Chevrolet Equinox EV as the bargain champion, with the as-of-yet-unrevealed Leaf S presumably coming in around the $29,000 or $30,000 mark. The new Leaf is a no-brainer at its low-to-middle pricing, but the value proposition becomes foggy as you reach the $40,000 mark with a top trim.
It ain’t perfect, but this third-generation Leaf slingshots Nissan’s O.G. EV into the modern electric era while still retaining the affordability that made the nameplate so well liked in the first place. Look for your local Nissan dealer to stock them sometime later in the fall, but just make sure you absolutely, positively don’t have a curvy road on your morning commute.
Cars.com’s Editorial department is your source for automotive news and reviews. In line with Cars.com’s long-standing ethics policy, editors and reviewers don’t accept gifts or free trips from automakers. The Editorial department is independent of Cars.com’s advertising, sales and sponsored content departments.
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Conner Golden joined Cars.com in 2023 as an experienced writer and editor with almost a decade of content creation and management in the automotive and tech industries. He lives in the Los Angeles area.
