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Thursday, March 5, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 5, 2020

Mar 05, 2020

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2020 Geneva Motor Show Mega Photo Gallery | The auto show that wasn't

The 2020 Geneva Motor Show didn't take place in Geneva this year. Instead, it played on computer screens across the world. Most of the car companies that would have debuted cars at the show decided to host livestream reveals of their own. That means …

2021 Genesis G80 takes its luxury credentials upmarket

This far sharper, third-generation 2021 Genesis G80 midsized sedan could be the one to break through the luxury glass ceiling. The G80 was already a handsome four-door with responsive handling and noteworthy luxury touches. Design-wise, in joining th…

2020 Honda CR-V Touring Review | Road-tripping Honda's jack of all trades

Over the past two decades, the Honda CR-V has embodied Honda's reputation for building durable, comfortable and user-friendly family cars that don't require a ton of unscheduled attention (aside from a brief hiccup with transmission reliability). As …

2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S First Drive | Behold, the 603-horsepower spa

LOS ANGELES – When the Mercedes-Benz ML55 AMG debuted at the turn of the century, it seemed like an anomaly. The hot-rodded SUV raised the question, what was it for? Its sport suspension limited its on-road comfort, and for outright speed it made mor…

Cadillac Celestiq, Lyriq, Hummer, other future GM electric cars: Here's everything we saw at 'EV Day'

WARREN, Mich. — Today, General Motors held an "EV Day" event at its Warren, Michigan, campus to present its new "Ultium" battery technology , modular electric vehicle architecture and soon-to-come electric vehicles . Unfortunately, we were forbidden fr…

Electric Jaguar XJ spied testing at high speed on frozen roads

The image gallery above represents our best look yet of the soon-to-be-reborn Jaguar XJ. Unlike the sedan's first 50 or so years, this one is electric, which makes sense considering the original mission statement for Jag's flagship people hauler was …

'The Batman' will introduce a new, hot rod Batmobile

We've gotten our first look at the new Batmobile today care of "The Batman" director Matt Reeves, who shared the latest incarnation of the iconic comic and movie car on Twitter in a series of polished promotional photos showing off a muscular, retro-…

Porsche's brightest minds clash over whether the sacred 911 should go hybrid

The emblematic Porsche 911 hasn't adopted electrification yet in spite of the endless rumors claiming it would. The current-generation model (pictured) was developed with zero-emissions powertrains in mind, and prototypes are being tested around the …

Why Jaguar Land Rover's Havn ride-hailing service sounds nicer than Uber or Lyft

Havn is a new app-based ride-hailing service that has launched in London, and promises a more upscale experience than Uber, Lyft, or the city's characteristic black cabs. Havn is backed financially by Jaguar Land Rover, and it exclusively uses Jaguar…

Roland Gumpert Nathalie is a methanol fuel-cell supercar because why not

Roland Gumpert launched his Apollo more than 10 years ago, eventually losing his fearsome coupe to insolvency and Consolidated Ideal TeamVentures . Gumpert, however, was working on more models, one of them called the Explosion , shown in Geneva in 2014…

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 4, 2020

Mar 04, 2020

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The Koenigsegg Gemera has a floating, spinning camera on its dashboard

The Koenigsegg Gemera , a clean-sheet four-seat performance hybrid, debuted this week and instantly became one of the most stunning debuts of the year. But with all the hullabaloo about the two extra seats and the trick engine setup, most people overl…

2021 Ford Bronco details emerge on what that seventh gear is for

Magna Powertrain, formerly known as transmission-maker Getrag, posted a spec sheet on its Getrag-Ford site that laid out a few specs on the 5/6/7MTI550 gearbox. The "5/6/7" indicates the number of potential gears. This is the same gearbox that Bozi T…

Aston Martin V12 Speedster is a $950,000 exotic dream that's wild as the wind

The roofless, windshield-less, ultra-rare, ultra-expensive supercar space is getting busy. We had the Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 ; then we got the McLaren Elva , and now the Aston Martin V12 Speedster is joining the ranks. McLaren will let you add a win…

Porsche working on a lightweight 911 Turbo

With the 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S , Porsche copied the launch template it laid out for the Carrera, debuting the hotter S model first. The head of the carmaker's 911 product line, Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser, explained the launch cadence to Auto Expres…

2021 Audi E-Tron GT spied looking just like the concept

Despite having seen the concept over a year ago in L.A., and even driving it , it's a bit surprising that this is the first time one of our spy photographers has caught a glimpse of the Audi E-Tron GT. Even though it has been a long wait, fans of the …

[VIDEO] Tesla unleashes Model 3 Track Mode V2 update, even Track Package parts

Tesla just dropped two performance-minded upgrades for the Model 3 Performance with the Performance Upgrade, one of them a software update, the other actual bolt-on performance parts. Owners will shortly have Track Mode V2 uploaded over-the-air to th…

2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport First Drive | More and less of a good thing

VANCOUVER, B.C. – You can never have too many SUVs, right? Certainly seems that way considering that more than half of new vehicle sales are going to them, and it's a trend that Volkswagen is seeing in its own lineup, where take-rate percentages are …

Ford Transit electric commercial vans coming to U.S. and Canada for 2022

In this age of Amazon, delivery to your door has become the biggest of businesses, and delivery by any means, from piece-workers' personal vehicles to USPS postal trucks to, someday, pizza robots — but most especially, delivery by cargo vans. Amazon …

Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport: born to speed (and drift) through the twisties

Bugatti made automotive history in 2019 when it built a long-tail variant of the Chiron that was still accelerating when it smashed through the 300-mph barrier . With the speed record broken and set, the French company wants to prove it also knows a t…

Car sales in China fall 80% in February on coronavirus epidemic

BEIJING — Passenger car retail sales in China, the world's biggest auto market, fell 80% in February because of the coronavirus epidemic, one of the country's industry associations said on Wednesday. The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said i…