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2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid Second Drive | Batteries are better

The marriage seems so right you wonder what took so long. Honda's hybrid powertrain is excellent and the CR-V is its best-selling model, yet the 2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid is only just arriving in dealers now. That's four years after this current CR-V ge…

Ken Block's next project is the Hoonifox: the ultimate Fox Body Ford Mustang

First there was the '60s Ford Mustang Hoonicorn, then the '70s Ford F-150 Hoonitruck . Now Ken Block is tackling the 1980s with his next project, the Hoonifox. It's based on the Fox Body Ford Mustang, and it's just as outrageous as its predecessors, e…

McLaren Speedtail reveals its hybrid powertrain secrets, and of course it's impressive

Until now, McLaren has been keeping secrets about its three-seat Speedtail hypercar . We've known it's packing a hybrid powertrain that produces a combined 1,055 horsepower and 848 pound-feet of torque, but that's about it. Today, McLaren is spilling …

2020 Mazda MX-5 Miata Suspension Deep Dive

Full disclosure: I'm a longtime Miata fan. And by longtime I mean since mid-1989, the year I obtained, through a series of fortunate connections, one of the three original Chicago auto show display cars . But this was no blatant attempt to butter up a…

2021 GMC Canyon Denali shows its new grille

GMC showed us its new 2021 Canyon AT4 pickup at the beginning of the year. We got a few details on the "more upmarket" top-tier Denali trim coming next year, but we've been missing good photos of the article until now. The more upmarket part rings tr…

What the Autoblog staff drives: the ultimate editors' picks

Autoblog editors share what cars they actually own and what they like and dislike about them.

Ford applies to trademark term 'Lincoln eGlide'

There's an epilogue to Ford's recent announcement that it's giving up on a battery-electric Lincoln co-developed with Rivian. The MachEClub forum discovered that just a week ago, Ford applied with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the…

2020 E-Tron Sportback becomes Audi's most expensive electric car

Audi released pricing information for the 2020 E-Tron Sportback, a swoopier version of the standard E-Tron that inaugurates several powertrain improvements. The fastback-like model made its debut in late 2019 . The electric Sportback will carry a bas…

Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA heritage liveries revealed, and here's what it will cost

Alfa Romeo created the Giulia GTA as a tribute to one of its most successful race cars, and the connection between the two models won't stop at the nameplate. Buyers will have the chance to order their hot-rodded sedan in one of several heritage-lace…

Toyota Prius 20th Anniversary Edition coming for 2021

This week, Toyota celebrated selling more than 15 million hybrids worldwide since 1997, 5 million of them in the past three years. It really began in 1993 , when Toyota decided to develop a car that would be kinder on the environment. The car those en…

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What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 30, 2020

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