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2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package First Drive | Get hep to the HPP, 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package vs 2019 Chevy Camaro 1LE | How they compare on paper, Tesla is confident it can beat Porsche's Nurburgring time — but not this month and more...

Sep 20, 2019

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2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package First Drive | Get hep to the HPP

SAUSALITO, Calif. — For some muscle-car fans, a four-cylinder Mustang will always be like ordering the green salad at a steakhouse. But the 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package is really more like the Impossible Burger that's winning c…

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2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package vs 2019 Chevy Camaro 1LE | How they compare on paper

Though cars like the Shelby GT500 and Camaro ZL1 1LE get the big headlines, both Ford and Chevy have more affordable performance offerings. The latest is the (deep breath) 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package . Like the previous EcoBoos…

Tesla is confident it can beat Porsche's Nurburgring time — but not this month

The rumors claiming Tesla would try setting a Nürburgring record for production electric cars on Sept. 21 were false. Posting on its official Twitter account, the company confirmed its team has gone back to California in order to return to the drawin…

Watch a Porsche Taycan lapping a Tesla Model S prototype on the Nurburgring

With the Porsche Taycan about to compete with Tesla in the marketplace, Elon Musk has decided to compete with Zuffenhausen's finest on the track. After a Taycan Turbo set a record for fastest EV around the Nürburgring Nordschleife i…

Amazon's 100,000-van order is just the latest jolt of success for Rivian

DETROIT — Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive got a big boost from one of its investors on Thursday when Amazon.com announced it was ordering 100,000 electric delivery vans. Before Rivian has even begun commercial production at its factory in…


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AP Fact Check: Trump team's distortions on fuel economy rules

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announce the Trump administration would revoke California's decades-old right to set its own fuel economy standards, with Wheeler saying, "Federalism does not mean that one sta…

GM's $7 billion offer to UAW reportedly would add more lower-paying jobs

DETROIT — A General Motors offer to invest $7 billion in U.S. facilities includes $2 billion from joint ventures and suppliers for new plants that would pay workers less than the top union wage, a person briefed on the matter said. The offer is a ma…

Woman puts injured bobcat in car — next to her toddler

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Officials have issued a warning after a Colorado Springs woman put an injured bobcat in her car, inches from where her child was in a safety seat: Don't pick up wildlife. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Bill Vogrin sa…

2020 Hyundai Palisade | How much fits behind the third row?

The 2020 Hyundai Palisade has 18 cubic-feet of space behind its raised third-row seat. That's more than nearly all of its three-row crossover competitors, but what exactly does that translate to in terms of actual luggage? Hyundai plopped in a gigant…

Thieves smash classic Mustang into store to steal PlayStations

Thieves in Athens, Greece, have done something less than intelligible. According to reports from the Athens Voice , linked to by Driven , and Proto Thema , several miscreants used a restored 1967 Ford Mustang as a battering ram to gain entry to an elect…