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Geico joins Allstate, offers 15% insurance credit as coronavirus cuts driving

Geico will offer about $2.5 billion of credits to its 19 million auto and motorcycle policyholders, reflecting the decline in driving and therefore car crashes stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. The insurer, part of billionaire Warren Buffett's …

2021 Lexus LC gets modest updates including less weight, new colors

The Lexus LC is already one of our favorite cars , and the 2021 Lexus LC aims to be even a little better. The luxury automaker has made a number of minor changes to the suspension, infotainment and color schemes. Starting under the skin, Lexus found …

Mercedes-Benz 600's restomod took seven years and $3.2 million

Mercedes-Benz's Classic division received an unusual request in 2007. An enthusiast from Germany wanted to turn a 1975 600 into a Maybach, and the person had a wallet thick enough to cover cost of the unprecedented conversion. The company accepted th…

Gemballa Mirage GT supercar driver arrested in massive NYC wreck

Police arrested the driver of Gemballa Mirage GT — an ultra-rare exotic based on the Porsche Carrera GT — after it struck several other vehicles and left a trail of destruction on 11th Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan Tuesday mo…

2020 Chevy Corvette Z51 wrecked less than 24 hours after delivery

Writer's note: explicit language in video and Facebook posts As the owner of this car joked in the video below, there's a new option for the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8. It's called the 24-Hour Smash Package, and a man who identifies as June Bug is t…

Kia Telluride takes World Car of the Year honors

The Kia Telluride has been named 2020 World Car of the Year , an award that recognizes the most significant new-vehicle introduction as determined by an international jury of automotive journalist judges. The Telluride adds to its string of honors by …

GM awarded $489.4M federal contract to build ventilators for coronavirus

The federal government will pay General Motors $489.4 million to build ventilators to treat coronavirus victims in a new contract under the Defense Production Act announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It's the late…

Possible Porsche Cayenne Coupe GT spied, plus exhaust note clip

Here's our second sighting of what might be the ultra high performance Porsche Cayenne Coupe GT. We wrote about the possibility of the car's existence nearly a year ago, and the first spy photos surfaced at the beginning of this year. Just like befo…

2020 Mini Clubman John Cooper Works First Drive | Personality at a price

An abundance of power isn't typically associated with products named Mini Cooper. Even the John Cooper Works (JCW) editions have most recently been making do with 228 horsepower from their turbocharged four-cylinder engines. That's plenty to feel qui…

16 things I learned about the Isuzu VehiCROSS

There are plenty of cars I remember existing, but actually know very little about due to the passage of time or just not particularly caring when they were new. Take the Isuzu VehiCROSS, which I fondly recall as this wackadoo off-roader from the late…

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What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 8, 2020

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