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Sep 08, 2020

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GM buys $2 billion stake in Nikola, will build Badger hydrogen-electric pickup

DETROIT — General Motors formed its second major electric vehicle partnership in less than a week, this time a $2 billion deal with startup Nikola. GM will take an 11% ownership stake in the Phoenix company and will engineer and build Nikola's Badge…

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Honda Civic Hatchback gets slight price increase for 2021

After detailing the Type R Limited Edition, Honda has released pricing information for the 2021 Civic Hatchback. It's not making any major changes to the model, but it's slightly increasing prices across the board. The lineup consists of four trim l…

Porsche makes a strong case for pairing the 718's flat-six with an automatic

The high-performance variants of the 2021 Porsche 718 are fearlessly arguing that automatic transmissions and sports cars are not mutually exclusive. When ordered with two pedals, the GTS 4.0, GT4, and Spyder variants are quicker than their three-ped…

[VIDEO] Elon Musk takes the VW ID.3 for a spin: 'It's pretty good'

FRANKFURT — Volkswagen's Chief Executive Herbert Diess on Monday sought to quell speculation that the world's largest carmaker, which is on a mass production push for electric cars, has plans to develop deeper ties with startup rival Tesla. Diess me…

Production VW ID. Roomzz, likely to be ID.6, shown with thin disguise in spy photos

With the recent launch of the Volkswagen ID.3 and the imminent reveal of the ID.4 , VW's electric strategy is building momentum. That momentum will continue with the even bigger electric crossover shown in the spy photos above. It's the production ver…

This gorgeous 1950 Chevy Thriftmaster pickup is the latest Icon build

Icon is best known for its restored and re-engineered 4x4s, but the Chatsworth, California company is also heavily into vintage pickups. We were fortunate enough to drive a blue 1952 Chevrolet Thriftmaster not long ago, and now Icon has rolled out an…

Ineos Grenadier reveals scale and inspiration next to classic 4x4s

British chemical giant Ineos developed the Grenadier , its first car, as a no-nonsense off-roader that picks up where classic 4x4s left off. It proved its point by displaying a prototype next to some of the models that inspired it. Autoblog frantical…

100+ mph speeding tickets, traffic deaths spike nationwide: N.C. driver clocked at 187

Authorities in Four Oaks, N.C., said a man faces several charges after being arrested for hitting 187 mph on Interstate 95 over the Labor Day weekend. A state trooper tried to stop the driver Sunday after he sped through a work zone, TV …

Nissan Rogue Sport interior caught in new round of spy photos

The next-generation Nissan Qashqai (sold in the United States as the Rogue Sport) has been spied in the wild yet again, and this time our enterprising photographers managed to snag a few shots of the replacement crossover's interior.  Much of the in…

Move aside robots, Tesla bets on aluminum casting

FRANKFURT/DETROIT — Robots are not efficient enough for Tesla's new car factory in Germany, which plans to replace hundreds of them with giant aluminum casting machines to build simpler chassis parts, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. …