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2021 Toyota Venza First Drive | It's back!

The Venza is back. The lifted, wagon-esque crossover that disappeared five years ago was weird, but in a good way, forging its own path by walking a fine line between car and crossover. Yet it also never caught on and was discontinued without being r…

Toyota hybrid crossover comparison | How the Venza, RAV4 Hybrid and Highlander compare on paper

Now that the 2021 Toyota Venza is here, Toyota has nearly as many hybrid crossovers as it does cars. Not only that, but all three hybrid crossovers — Venza, RAV4 Hybrid and Highlander Hybrid — are shockingly similar to each other. To sort out the dif…

2021 Ford F-150 starts at $30,635, according to early dealer guide

The usual culprit has pulled off its usual caper — that being CarsDirect getting a look at an early dealer guide and passing on the particulars we're after, this time the pricing for the 2021 Ford F-150. We're told base price for the entry-level two-…

Next Subaru WRX STI could get 400-hp from a 2.4-liter boxer

Yet another report puts Subaru's FA24 2.4-liter boxer four-cylinder in the next-generation WRX and WRX STI. Not only that, the story in Japan's Car Sensor magazine (translated ) seconds a Forbes report from February of this year that the hardest-core …

2020 GMC Sierra 1500 Interior Driveway Test | Still lagging behind

GM has caught nothing but grief for the interiors of its full-size pickups since they were redesigned. Some of it is about perspective. Ram blew everybody away with the new 1500's interior, but it's not like the Ford F-150 is embarrassed by it. Chevy…

Tesla stock volatile ahead of quarterly report, possible S&P 500 entry

Tesla shares extended their recent rally on Wednesday ahead of a quarterly report from the electric car maker that might clear the way for it to join the S&P 500 and attract over $40 billion in new demand for the stock. Investors watching the co…

Elon Musk qualifies for another fat payday: $2.1 billion

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk qualified on Tuesday for a payout worth an unprecedented $2.1 billion, his second jackpot since May from the electric car maker following its massive stock surge. Tesla's stock was down 3% in afternoon trading, erodi…

2021 Ford Bronco First Edition production run doubled — and it's still sold out

On the same night the 2021 Ford Bronco was revealed and the reservation site launched, the one-year-only First Edition sold out . That was 3,500 vehicles reserved in one evening. Obviously demand was high, so Ford saw fit to go ahead and double produc…

Jeep Wrangler 392 prototype spotted on the open road

A week after the reveal of the Jeep Wrangler 392 concept and reports of prototypes running around, we're getting our first look at one. While this Jeep Wrangler Unlimited doesn't look particularly exceptional, and it's strangely wearing Florida licen…

Here's your chance to own a 7.0-liter V8-powered, stick-shifted Cadillac Catera

Cadillac never stuffed a V8 engine into the Catera, the entry-level model it sold in the United States from 1997 to 2001, so American tuner Lingenfelter stepped in and offered to perform the conversion. One of the few cars it dropped an eight-cylinde…

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What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for July 22, 2020

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