Friday, February 14, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for February 14, 2020

Feb 14, 2020

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The next 992 Porsche 911 GTS spied in spectacular green paint

At this point, we've seen a whole lot of different 992 generation Porsche 911s. However, we're still missing all the extra spicy versions. One of those is the 911 GTS, which, to keep the metaphor rolling, is a medium spice level Porsche 911. Porsche …

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The $5M track-focused Pagani Imola isn't supposed to be elegant

The Pagani Imola , a track-focused version of the Pagani Huayra, first broke cover in September, 2019, at an event, but official information was nowhere to be found. It took a few months, but today, Pagani released the first batch of real images and g…

This nearly new 1990 Nissan 300ZX Twin-Turbo is going up for auction

The current Nissan 370Z has been on life support for a while now, but interest in classic Z cars remains strong. Witness the mind-bending price recently achieved for a pristine 1971 240Z that sold last month on Bring a Trailer. After the first-genera…

Rimac will help Kia turn the Imagine concept into a high-performance flagship

The segment-bending Imagine concept Kia unveiled at the 2019 Geneva auto show will spawn a high-performance flagship in 2021. Rimac, which Kia and Hyundai jointly invested in , will help bring it to the market. "This car will have a significant effec…

2020 Volvo V60 Cross Country Luggage Test | Why yes, a wagon can hold more

As scheduling would have it, the 2020 Volvo V60 Cross Country ended up overlapping for a day with the 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 that was previously featured here on Luggage Test Friday. It provided a perfect opportunity to test a common perception a…


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Hyundai Prophecy concept for Geneva foretells company's next design language

The star of Hyundai's display at the 2020 Geneva Motor Show will be a stylish electric concept named Prophecy. The swoopy, low-slung sedan will preview the direction the firm's design language will take in the coming years. While the Prophecy remain…

Volvo Trucks VNR Electric First Drive Review | Hauling goods goes green

Climbing up into the big rig and settling in behind its massive steering wheel dials up childhood fantasies fueled by Hollywood. Just for a moment it's the 1970s and we're hauling a load of Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta. A black Trans Am running bl…

Kanye West's Russian ATVs invade Chicago to deliver new shoe to kids

Welcome to 2020, where famous musicians make shoes and deliver them to kids with giant Russian off-road vehicles. Yes, you read all that correctly. As you can see in the photo above, posted to Twitter by Kanye West's shoe brand's official account , gi…

2020 Chicago Auto Show and more | Autoblog Podcast #614

In this week's Autoblog Podcast , Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by News Editor Joel Stocksdale and Road Test Editor Zac Palmer. The big event they're discussing this week is the 2020 Chicago Auto Show. They run down the big reveals and inter…

[VIDEO] Czinger preparing 21C hybrid hypercar for Geneva debut

Kevin Czinger — with a silent C — has spent the past 11 years that we know of trying out various automotive concepts in Southern California. The Yale Law School graduate who built hot rods as a youth in Cleveland co-founded Coda Automotive in 2009, w…