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Friday, December 20, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for December 20, 2019

Dec 20, 2019

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Here are all the vehicles sold by the 12 brands of the Fiat Chrysler PSA merger

Whether or not the formal merger between Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler and European conglomerate PSA Group means the return of Peugeot to the U.S., one thing's for certain: The combined company will have a truckload of different brands. S…

250-hp Toyota Yaris GR looks like one of 2020's wildest cars

One of the most exciting cars due out in 2020 is a Toyota Yaris. It's not a run-of-the-mill econobox , though. It's a full-blown, street-legal rally machine that channels the Celica GT-Four's spirit. Named Yaris GR, Toyota's newest pocket rocket shar…

Russell Built Fabrications off-road Porsche 911 is epic in these photos

Just before the SEMA show we heard about ex-Singer fabricator TJ Russell whipping up his first solo creation, a safari-type Porsche 911 based on the 964 series . We got photos of the jacked-up jumper on the SEMA show floor, but those images couldn't s…

Last 991-gen Porsche 911 rolls off the assembly line

The sun has set on the seventh generation of Porsche's iconic 911 sports car, as the final 991-generation model has rolled off the assembly line. The final tally for the seventh-generation 911 is 233,540 examples, the last of which is a silver Speeds…

2020 Toyota Highlander vs other 3-row crossovers: There can only be one!

We've done quite a few spec comparison posts involving three-row family crossovers , and when included, the Toyota Highlander has always been the runt of the group. While the rest increasingly seemed to be benchmarking each other toward greater girth,…

A conversation with Robert Bollinger of Bollinger Motors | Autoblog Podcast #608

In this week's Autoblog Podcast , Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore and Senior Editor, Green, John Beltz Snyder visit Bollinger Motors to speak with the startup's CEO and founder Robert Bollinger. We talk about the B1 and B2 electric trucks , and Bollinger…

[VIDEO] Watch this GMC pickup crash through a wall into a Florida airport terminal

A man in Florida has been accused of driving his pickup truck through airport grounds and through a wall into the airport's baggage area. It is unclear whether or not the incident was on purpose or an accident, but the shocking scene was captured by …

2020 Audi Q3 Review & Buying Guide | Relative value

There are plenty of non-luxury compact SUVs that when fully loaded are priced right around where the 2020 Audi Q3 begins. This, despite it being smaller and less equipped than the range-topping Mazda CX-5's and Honda CR-V's of the world. To some, tha…

Mercedes-AMGs could be hard to come by under 2020 EU emission rules

Automakers that sell cars in Europe are facing what the Financial Times called the "carbon crunch" next year. In 2020, carmakers will pay fines to European regulators if their fleetwide CO2 emissions exceed a certain number. The number is different f…

You can own this motorcycle-engined road 'rocket'

It's a car, it's a plane, it's a motorcycle, it's street-legal, and it could be yours.This weird mashup is available now on eBay . Designed by aircraft engineer Jim Bede, the vehicle initially was known as the Litestar Autocycle, but the the name cha…

Thursday, December 19, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for December 19, 2019

Dec 19, 2019

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As GM readies Alexa convenience for vehicles, we ponder its dark side

SEATTLE — On the 30th floor of Amazon's glass tower, in a room with a breathtaking view of downtown Seattle, there's a beautiful bed that nobody sleeps in. It's near a kitchen nobody cooks in, a living room couch that no one crashes on, a kitchen tab…

Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Heritage Edition celebrates 55 years of fast Mustangs

The high-end racing efforts executed by the partnership between Ford and Carroll Shelby were recently highlighted in "Ford v Ferrari," but the Ford GT40 Le Mans winner and its progeny weren't the only cars born of that relationship. In 1965, famed …

California dealer asking $169,999 for 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500

Ford Authority ran a piece on Koons Ford, a dealer in Sterling, Virginia, advertising a 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 for $145,890 . Based on listed options like the carbon fiber track package, technology package, and $10,000 painted stripes, FA play…

$40 million Jeep Experience museum opening in Toledo, Ohio

Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is helping a nonprofit organization open a Jeep museum in Toledo, Ohio. Called The Jeep Experience, the $40 million museum is expected to open its doors in 2022. Jeep has manufactured its off-roaders in Toledo since t…

[VIDEO] Apparently it's not too hard to make a knock-off Cybertruck

If copying is the highest form of flattery, the Tesla Cybertruck must be feeling pretty peachy at this moment in time. Regardless of all the hullabaloo about its design , the thing certainly has captured the world's attention. Not only did it garner a…

Tesla Model 3 owners can go quicker with a click

Is a half-second improvement in 0-60 time worth $2,000? Tesla reckons it is, and if you agree — and you happen to be the proud owner of a dual-motor Model 3 — then you're in luck. Tesla's updated companion app now offers dual-motor Model 3 owners t…

You can own this motorcycle-engined road 'rocket'

2020 Toyota Highlander and Highlander Hybrid First Drive Review | Mass appeal on wheels

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — What do you get when you try to please everyone? Generally something adequate and inoffensive. In the midsize crossover segment, that'd be something like the third-generation Toyota Highlander that's been around since 2013. Now, …

2020 Honda Passport Review & Buying Guide | Great success, minimal effort

Sometimes great success comes with minimal effort. Most cars and SUVs share their mechanical underpinnings with various other vehicles from within their brand, but they look so different that you'd have to be a car geek like us to know. The 2020 Hond…

Honda Civic Hatchback Luggage Test | A different kind of hatch

An indelible part of any hot hatch is its ability to be a practical daily driver as well as a fun plaything. The Honda Civic Type R definitely lives up to its practical end of the bargain as you're about to see, but its cargo area is shared with ever…