Thursday, December 17, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for December 17, 2020

Dec 17, 2020

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2021 Honda Civic Type R Limited Edition First Drive | Yellow but definitely not mellow

It seems like only yesterday that the Honda Civic Type R arrived with great fanfare to U.S. shores in 2017. That's probably because we had waited so long – 20 years since the original Civic Type R's introduction in 1997 – for the hi-po Honda to come …

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Ho, Ho, Bronco! Santa checks out the Ford Bronco. Again.

More so than just about any other new car this year, the Ford Bronco has captured the public's attention, and that apparently includes the attention of Santa Claus. It seems Saint Nick has a history with Ford's seminal SUV. The black-and-white pic…

2021 Audi Q5 First Drive | Mid-cycle retrofit

Audi's volume seller hasn't been playing with a full deck. You see, the Q5 was redesigned before Audi introduced its latest MIB 3 infotainment system and updated design language that features angrier grilles differentiated by model and accented in ma…

Pagani Huayra Tricolore celebrates Italian Air Force aerobatic team with aeronautic features

The Italian Air Force's aerobatic team, known as the Frecce Tricolori, is celebrating its 60th anniversary next year. To celebrate, Pagani has created the Huayra Tricolore, a very limited-edition variant of the open-top Huayra supercar. Only three wi…

2021 Nissan Armada First Drive | Getting with the times

The 2021 Nissan Armada is the first product in the United States to wear the Nissan brand's new badge . It's a modern and sleek-looking logo, and it's well-suited to the properly sorted and genuinely impressive new vehicles Nissan recently launched. T…

Ram begins building 2021 1500 TRX, saves the first truck for charity auction

Ram has launched series production of the 1500 TRX in its Sterling Heights, Michigan, factory. The first 702 trucks off the line will be Launch Edition models, and they're all spoken for, but VIN #001 is headed for auction. Introduced earlier in 202…

Mercedes-Benz prices new 2021 S-Class, splits range into three lines

Mercedes-Benz released pricing details for the new 2021 S-Class unveiled earlier in 2020 . It's jam-packed with comfort and luxury features, which partially explains why it's comfortably more expensive than its predecessor. For the first time, buyers…

2021 Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia get revamped trims and pricing

After a major interior and infotainment update last year, the 2021 Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia get a more mild update consisting of a smaller trim lineup and a couple of extra features for some trims. The update also includes small price increases …

Chevy adds Equinox RS trim and a pair of Traverse special editions to lineup

Chevrolet is continuing its dive into special edition appearance packages with some new offerings for the 2022 Chevy Equinox and 2021 Chevy Traverse. The motivation? Sales. Customers are buying the trims that look sportier, even if they aren't any sp…

Jennifer Granholm, Biden's expected Energy Department pick, could lead charge on electric cars

WASHINGTON/DETROIT — When Jennifer Granholm was governor of auto-manufacturing Michigan, she led a charge that secured a whopping $1.35 billion in federal funding for companies to make electric cars and batteries in her state. As President-elect Joe…