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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for January 21, 2020

Jan 21, 2020

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2020 Ford Super Duty First Drive Review | Big truck, bigger numbers

The numbers make you shake your head. Possibly laugh. They definitely get your attention. The 2020 Ford F-Series Super Duty, be it the F-250 or F-350, can be optioned with a revised version of the 6.7-liter PowerStroke V8 diesel engine that now produ…

Paul Walker collection pulls in more than $2.3M at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale

No fewer than 21 two- and four-wheeled vehicles from the personal collection of the late "Fast & Furious" franchise star Paul Walker crossed the auction block at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale last week, bringing in more than $2.3 million combined, l…

Top 5 most expensive cars at the 2020 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction

Hundreds of vehicles saw their few seconds in the auction spotlight over the past week at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, and we have a short list of the top five most expensive to sell.

Ferris Bueller Ferrari 250 GT California replica sells for $396,000

Amazon pledges 10,000 electric delivery rickshaws starting this year

Amazon CEO and mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos took a trip to India this past week in order to attend a small-business conference and meet with several small-business owners, among other corporate errands. During his time, Bezos announced that Amazon pla…

Volvo vows to give away cars if there's a safety during the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is this Sunday, February 2, 2020, and that only means one thing for those not impressed by absurd feats of athleticism: The ads are coming. Volvo is the first to kick things off before the big game with the announcement of Safety Sunda…

Unrestored, 21k-mile 1971 Datsun 240Z looks showroom fresh

This jaw-dropping 1971 Datsun 240Z has just rolled onto the proverbial block at Bring a Trailer , and it's hard to imagine that it won't end up setting a record price for a first-generation Z. First of all, we have to take a moment to appreciate the …

Tesla rebuffs NHTSA, says it has no unintended acceleration problem

Tesla said on Monday there was no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, as it responded to a petition to a U.S. safety regulator to investigate and recall around 500,000 of the company's electric cars over the alleged defect. On Friday, the Natio…

Tesla city car sketched for a recruitment ad in China

When Tesla announced the opening of a Chinese R&D and design center earlier this month, the company also put out advertisements on its official WeChat account to recruit designers. The posters for recruiting car designers featured illustrations o…

VW's ID.4 electric crossover will debut at the New York Auto Show in April

The Volkswagen ID.3 may have kicked off the brand's global electrification offensive, but it's the ID.4 that will initially carry the banner here in the United States. We've already seen the swoopy crossover in spy shots in what looks to be close-to-…

Monday, January 20, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for January 20, 2020

Jan 20, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2020 Mercedes-Benz E 450 Wagon Review | The connoisseur's choice

Buying a station wagon in the United States is an exceedingly niche thing to do – especially if that wagon isn't a Subaru Outback. The numbers are bleak : JD Power says that wagons made up just 1.4% of overall vehicle sales in 2018, the vast majority …

First production C8 Chevy Corvette brings $3 million at Barrett-Jackson

Auctioning off the first production model of a new performance car for charity has become accepted practice, so it's not too surprising that the first saleable 2020 C8 Chevrolet Corvette would cross the auction block, and do so at the Barrett-Jackson…

[VIDEO] Redesigned 2020 Mahindar Roxor is here for $16,999

Roxor has been duking it out with Fiat Chrysler over intellectual property issues tracing their roots back to 2009. The short story is that FCA believed the Mahindra Roxor too closely resembled the Jeep CJ-7. After a lengthy spell in court, last Nove…

Hybrid tech to headline Land Rover Discovery's mid-cycle update

Land Rover is preparing to give the Discovery a mid-cycle update that puts a strong emphasis on fuel efficiency. The family-friendly off-roader will allegedly break cover by the end of 2020 with hybrid technology under the hood. According to British…

Subaru plans to sell only electric cars by the middle of the 2030s

Nipping infinite rumors in the bud, Subaru confirmed the Outback , the Forester , the BRZ , the WRX STI , and every other car it makes will go electric or disappear by the middle of the 2030s. The Japanese automaker announced it plans to kick gasoline-po…

2020 Chevrolet Blazer receives a smattering of changes

The big change for the 2020 Chevrolet Blazer is the addition of the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder with 230 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. It comes standard on the middle 2LT and 3LT trims. GM Authority has outlined a host of further …

General Motors has tried to cast Hummer in a greener light before

Rumors claim General Motors will resurrect the Hummer name on an electric pickup truck by 2022, and GM allegedly will preview the model with an ad starring basketball star LeBron James during the 2020 Super Bowl. If accurate, the move would represent…

Lexus designers create lunar transport concepts

NASA is working to put human back on the moon by 2024, the idea being to use it as a way station for the eventual colonization of Mars. Since those humans won't want to moonwalk everywhere, they'll need new transportation — the battery-electric Lunar…

Laffite G-Tec X-Road is the second coming of the Zarooq SandRacer

At the 2015 Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix, an outfit called Zarooq Motors introduced the SandRacer 500GT , a high-speed dune runner with a 300-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 mounted in the middle. The SandRacer was meant to be a limited edition that formed…

Toyota to move Tacoma assembly to Mexico as part of massive North American production shift

Toyota announced Friday it will move production of its mid-size Tacoma pickup from the United States to Mexico as it adjusts production strategies around North America to better consolidate vehicles built on shared architecture. This move will make …