Tuesday, November 3, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for November 3, 2020

Nov 03, 2020

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Ford GT Road Test | Driving is believing

I finally got to drive the latest Ford GT. And everywhere I went, people were just as excited as me to see one – on the road, not on auction stages where the Faberge-rare Ford has Driving Ford's 660-horsepower, 216-mph missile in New York was like …

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Union leader outs Ford's plan to launch a 6.8-liter engine

Ford is pouring a significant amount of money into the development of electric powertrains, but it's not ready to consign internal combustion technology to the pantheon of automotive history. Canadian union Unifor announced the Blue Oval will soon bu…

Citroën takes Polestar to court over logo dispute

What does the plug-in hybrid Polestar 1 have in common with the humble Citroën 2CV? Very little, at first glance, but lawyers representing the French carmaker took Volvo's upmarket off-shoot to court over a logo dispute. Citroën has used its double-…

Toyota's SEMA 2020 themes are overlanding and drifting

Toyota has been for years one of the biggest OEM supporters of SEMA, the aftermarket advocacy group and show organizer. The SEMA Show has been canceled this year (because 2020) but that doesn't mean the parade of wildly customized cars has ceased. In…

GMC Hummer EV could have had the Chevrolet Avalanche's Midgate

One of the many rumors swirling around the GMC Hummer EV claimed the truck would resurrect the Midgate inaugurated by the original Chevrolet Avalanche. Although we now know there's no way to fully knock down the partition between the cab and the carg…

2021 Dodge Charger Review | A true American muscle sedan

The 2021 Dodge Charger is a big-boned relic from America's past where full-size sedans and large displacement engines reigned. Fairly normal-to-drive V6 versions aim to be stylish and utilitarian, whereas the SRT variants will rip your head off and f…

Toyota teases Tacoma with matching Tacoma overlanding trailer

Toyota is teasing an overlanding trailer for the Tacoma called the Sport Trailer. You might notice that it bears a striking resemblance to the Tacoma itself, or at least the back half of it. Toyota has shown us one overlanding concept for SEMA alread…

Jeep Gladiator Top Dog Concept will let you cook hot dogs anywhere you want

Jeep just put together the mountain biking enthusiast's dream off-roading truck. It's called the Jeep Gladiator Top Dog Concept, and it essentially takes a huge number of off-the-shelf Jeep Performance Parts (JPP) and slaps them on a single Gladiator…

Ford won't follow GMC, Tesla, others into six-digit EV territory

Ford hasn't publicly announced how much it will charge for the electric version of the 14th-generation F-150, but it confirmed the truck won't land in the same price bracket as the recently-introduced GMC Hummer EV. Jim Farley, the company's new CEO ,…

Toyota teases Sport Roof-equipped Supra Heritage Edition

Way, way back in 2019 when SEMA was still a physical show, Toyota showed us a concept called the Supra Heritage Edition . The goal was to evoke the look of the beloved fourth-generation 1994-98 Supra on the fifth-gen 2020 GR Supra with the addition of…