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2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport enters the two-row fray

About a year and a half after the concept was revealed , the 2020 Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport has been unveiled in production form. It looks quite a bit like the concept, and is pretty much what you would expect of a shortened Atlas . It has a more ag…

GM appeals directly to UAW workers: 'The strike has been hard on you, your families ...'

DETROIT — General Motors took the unusual step of appealing directly to employees in a blog post on Friday that laid out the terms of its latest offer aimed at ending a monthlong strike. While emphasizing GM's commitment to the collective bargaining…

Chevy Corvette C8.R race car revealed with a new 5.5-liter engine

Last week, the 2020 Chevy Corvette C8.R race car made a surprise debut alongside the new C8 convertible . Now the company has finally provided some details on what makes it tick. And the first thing you should know is that it does not use the 6.2-lite…

2021 Toyota Mirai goes from ugly duckling to graceful swan

Although the current Toyota Mirai is only sold in California, the company chose Greensboro, North Carolina to unveil the second generation of the hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered sedan. Greensboro. Get it? The 2021 Toyota Mirai was also unveiled around the…

2021 Toyota RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid announced for L.A. Auto Show

The compact to midsize crossover segment is getting a host of fresh hybrids including the completely redesigned Ford Escape Hybrid and the new-for-America Honda CR-V Hybrid . Toyota already had a RAV4 Hybrid , so it's one-upping the competition with th…

BMW won't backpedal on controversial design language

BMW will continue following the polarizing design path blazed by cars like the X7 , the facelifted 7 Series , and the Concept 4 Series Coupe unveiled recently in Frankfurt. The German company's head stylist explained his job is to ensure its design lan…

BMW of South Africa fully restores rare, home-grown 530 MLE

In the 1970s, BMW gave its burgeoning South African division the freedom to develop market-specific products in order to beat rival Mercedes-Benz. And so 227 units of a track-bred sedan named 530 Motorsport Limited Edition (MLE) were consequently mad…

Lunaz electrifying classic cars with coachbuilt, millimeter precision

One day last year, as David Lorenz waited by the side of the road for repair help with his classic car, he had an idea: Why not update all of that ancient mechanical "character" with a modern electric drivetrain? That would give an owner the beauty o…

2019 Ford SEMA builds feature off-road-ready Rangers and wild Transit Vans

The Ford Ranger is the Blue Oval's golden boy for 2019, so it only makes sense that there are six Rangers coming to SEMA. Most of them are off-road builds with light-to-heavy modifications, but one of the tuners went the other way with a Ranger. Two…

Watch boxer Errol Spence cartwheel Ferrari in injury crash

DALLAS — Welterweight boxing champion Errol Spence crashed a speeding Ferrari in Dallas early Thursday and was badly injured but is expected to survive, police said. The crash happened just before 3 a.m., when Spence's Ferrari crossed a median into …

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