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What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for July 23, 2020

Jul 23, 2020

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Tesla Model Y First Drive | One of a kind

The Tesla Model 3 isn't just the planet's best-selling EV. It's a world dominator of Marvel proportions, whose 300,000 global sales in 2019 were nearly three times as many as China's BAIC EU-Series sedan, and more than four times as many as the Nissa…

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This 1988 E30 BMW M3 just sold for $250,000 on Bring a Trailer

Where is the line between love and madness? We may have just crossed it. An 8,000-mile 1988 E30 BMW M3 sold today at Bring a Trailer for $250,000. That's right, a quarter of a million dollars, to the penny. Now yes, it's a nice-looking car, done up …

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…

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 Ford Shelby GT500 Suspension Deep Dive

This is not my first encounter with a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 . I was once fortunate enough to lay hands on a spanking new 2103 Shelby GT500 for the express purpose of unleashing it on a cross-country road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles . That car …

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…

Porsche and Dodge lead JD Power's 2020 APEAL Study

This may sound obvious, but we'll say it anyway: if an automaker delivers exactly the ownership experience that buyers are looking for and have come to expect, they are going to score well in studies designed to measure a vehicle's appeal. That's why…

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…

Tesla sues rival Rivian, claims it poached employees, stole trade secrets

Tesla Inc. has accused Rivian Automotive  in a lawsuit of an "alarming pattern" of poaching its employees and stealing trade secrets. The world's leading electric-vehicle maker alleged that four of its former workers took highly sensitive proprietary…