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What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 29, 2021

Mar 29, 2021

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2021 Toyota Sienna vs 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid | Full comparison test

Shopping for a new car or SUV can be difficult due to the sheer number of choices. Which brand do you start with, which do you skip and are you missing something worthwhile? Thankfully, the minivan segment is much simpler. There are effectively only …

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Mercedes-Benz EQS Interior Deep Dive | Screens, sounds and scents galore

Mercedes-Benz is giving us part of the EQS picture today by revealing the interior design and dropping a few intriguing details on the exterior. The headline is what you're looking at above. That dash, termed the "Hyperscreen" by Mercedes, is the key…

2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS shows its standard interior without the giant Hyperscreen

Mercedes-Benz only showed us photos of the Hyperscreen interior when it revealed the inside of the EQS to us over the weekend . However, today there are photos of the standard interior available on the company's website (h/t Motor1 ). You'll see a gal…

2022 GMC Hummer EV No. 001 at Barrett-Jackson brings $2.5 million

This year's Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., played host to a bunch of the first examples of hot new cars: VIN No. 001 of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV , 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing and CT4-V Blackwing , 2021 Ford Bronco , 2021 Ford Mustang Mach…

Hyundai, Kia, Genesis Highway Driving Assist Review | Smooth as it gets

There are scads of driving assistants and semi-autonomous systems available on cars these days. Some of them are excellent, while others can be downright irritating. You can assess them by a range of qualities, but one of the best ways of judging a d…

Driving the Toyota Tacoma, BMW 430i and Chevy Corvette Convertible | Autoblog Podcast #671

In this week's Autoblog Podcast , Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by West Coast Editor James Riswick and Road Test Editor Zac Palmer . First, they talk about driving the Toyota Tacoma TRD Off-Road (equipped with a TRD Lift Kit), Mini Cooper S H…

Genesis again hints that it is working on an EV sports coupe

Hyundai-owned Genesis released a short video to preview a concept car that looks like a followup to the gorgeous Essentia introduced in New York in 2017. It's an electric coupe that might reach production in the near future. Although the teaser leav…

This stick-shift '94 BMW 7 Series is an absolute trip

It's obviously quite common for smaller, cheaper cars to be done up in the fancier equipment and interior trappings of bigger, more expensive cars. However, you really don't expect to see the opposite. And for car enthusiasts of a certain age, who ha…

Lotus hops into Extreme E with Jenson Button ahead of first race weekend

The Extreme E racing series is filling out with a host of interesting names, and Lotus is the latest manufacturer to join the fray. Lotus is hopping in as technical partner to the Jenson Button Extreme E team, making it quite the British powerhouse. …

Junkyard Gem: 2009 Pontiac G3

Things weren't looking so rosy for Pontiac Division in late 2008, as The General had troubles of its own that culminated in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June of 2009. Meanwhile, the Solstice and G8 had failed to revive Pontiac's youthful "excitement" ima…