Best Shots: What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 17, 2019

Sep 17, 2019

Top Stories of the Day

2020 Ford Escape First Drive Review | A renewed Focus

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The all-new 2020 Ford Escape comes at an interesting time for Ford. By dropping its sedan and hatchback lines in the U.S., Ford is hoping (and frankly, betting) that its lineup of completely re-conceived crossovers and SUVs, like th…

2020 McLaren GT First Drive Review | Grand touring the McLaren way

ST. ANDRÉ LES ALPES, France — The roads snaking through these ragged mountain ranges are dubbed the Route Napoléon after the French ruler's treacherous journey from the Côte d'Azur through the French Alps in 1815. The asphalt ribbon squiggles over, a…

2019 Goodwood Revival paddock mega gallery | Timeless speed

CHICHESTER, England — There is not a racetrack paddock in the world to rival the collection of cars found at Goodwood Revival . Priceless, classic race cars are everywhere, and there's no one to keep you from walking right up to them. The access to th…

Reaction on the UAW picket line in Detroit: 'We want the company to be successful'

DETROIT — A festive mood at the picket line belied serious issues that have driven a wedge between the United Auto Workers and General Motors, resulting in the first national strike in 12 years. More than 49,000 GM union workers walked out Sunday nig…

Electric truck, $7 billion investment: What's in GM's pledge in UAW talks

DETROIT — An all-electric pickup truck and an advanced battery system will be part of the $7 billion that General Motors has pledged to invest in the United States as parts of contract talks with the United Auto Workers. The automaker and the union …

Ford announces new research and engineering center in Dearborn

Ford outlined plans to completely reinvent the research and engineering center it operates close to its global headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. The company hopes the new campus will allow its engineers to bring products and technologies to the mar…

Tesla Model S shows signs of beating Porsche Taycan's Nurburgring record

Tesla is ramping up its Nürburgring testing in pursuit of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S's record , and it seems to be right on track. One of our spy photographers caught a second Tesla Model S testing there, and he did a bit of unofficial stopwatch timin…

2019 Jeep Cherokee gets IIHS Top Safety Pick rating

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has named the Jeep Cherokee a Top Safety Pick for 2019 models built after April of this year that are equipped with front crash prevention technology and high-beam assist on the LED projector headlights, bot…

Is Ford's Australian division developing America's Focus-based trucklet?

Ford's Australian arm no longer builds its own cars, but it still has the ability to develop the products it's better versed in than other divisions. It's secretly working on a Focus-based pickup , according to a recent report, and we think the model …

Elon Musk says 'pedo man' didn't mean what people thought it meant

Elon Musk on Monday said he did not intend to accuse a British diver of pedophilia by branding him a "pedo guy" on Twitter, as the Tesla chief executive sought to dismiss a defamation lawsuit. Musk posted the tweet, for which he later apologized, af…

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 17, 2019

Top Stories of the Day