Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short, The Drive’s daily news roundup bringing you the biggest automotive headlines from around the world. Each item in The Downshift includes a link you can follow for the deeper story. Here’s your bulletin for Thursday, August 27, 2026. Hyundai has been teasing a new body-on-frame platform for pickups and SUVs for a while now, and CEO Jose Muñoz added fuel to the fire this week, saying that the company may export those vehicles to other markets from the U.S., where they are expected to be built. Hyundai clearly views ladder-frame vehicles as a significant growth driver in the coming years, though the volume of…
Hyundai Wants to Build Trucks in the US for the Whole World: TDS
