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Jessi Combs' record attempt to be submitted for Guinness World Record, 2020 Hyundai Venue First Drive Review | Small, with a big heart, As GM strike enters its second week, here's where things stand and more...

Sep 23, 2019

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Jessi Combs' record attempt to be submitted for Guinness World Record

LOS ANGELES — Jessi Combs' attempt to set the record for fastest woman on earth will be submitted for a Guinness World Record at 531.889 mph, it was announced Saturday evening during an event held in her honor at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Combs…

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2020 Hyundai Venue First Drive Review | Small, with a big heart

SUNSHINE COAST, Australia — When your country is the size of the continental United States, but is home to fewer people than Texas, you're going to have lots of wide-open spaces. That's why Australia is the perfect place to wind out your McLaren Senn…

As GM strike enters its second week, here's where things stand

NEW YORK — The strike against General Motors by 49,000 United Auto Workers entered its second week Monday with progress reported in negotiations but no clear end in sight. Bargainers met all weekend and returned to talks Monday morning as the strike…

Mercedes-AMG GT R Black Series spied with ferocious front fascia

Last month, one of our spy photographers caught a Mercedes-AMG GT R sporting a radical new hood that suggested a Black Series variant was on the way. Another GT R has been spied with the same hood, but also even more exterior changes that seem to con…

Jaguar F-Type's next generation could be mid-engined

Jaguar's heritage is built on sports cars powered by a big, front-mounted engine covered by a long hood. The F-Type perfectly fits into this mold, but the company is ready and willing to set tradition aside in order to inject more performance into it…


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Hyundai develops an airbag to protect you from your passenger, and vice versa

In modern cars, we're protected on nearly every side by airbags . Even our knees get them, though their effectiveness is questionable . But Hyundai discovered there's still an area in which we're not protected , and that's the area between the driver an…

Lexus sails the seas in luxury with its first-ever yacht

Lexus is taking its pursuit of luxury lifestyle offshore with a production version of its LY 650 yacht, revealed in Boca Raton last week. Now one can have an oceangoing Lexus to go with the LC 500 parked in the garage. Based on its Sport Yacht Conce…

Lamborghini Sian's supercapacitor hybrid system explained by company's CTO

"We are a game-changer and a provocateur," Lamborghini's CTO, Maurizio Reggiani told Engadget . The automaker has a long history of making waves with traffic-stopping designs and more recently, innovative tech . At last week's Frankfurt Motor Show , the…

Jeep Wrangler investigated by NHTSA for bad frame welds, steering problems

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into thousands of Jeep Wranglers made during the 2018 and 2019 model years. The agency wants to determine whether early examples of the current, JL-generation off-roader s…

[VIDEO] 'Autoblog off the Clock' | The birth of a Gladiator

Autoblog Off The Clock is an inside look at the automotive industry and the people who make it happen. Each episode we sit down with industry movers and shakers. We pour a couple of beers and let the stories fly. How did they get into the biz? What m…