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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 10, 2020

Mar 10, 2020

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2021 Ford Bronco seemingly revealed in both 2- and 4-door guise

Are you tired of reading about the 2021 Ford Bronco? Well, you'll have to bear with us just a little while longer, as the leaks just keep on coming. Late Monday, photos of both a production-line car and a styling buck came squirting out of just abo…

Here are the cars the presidential candidates drive

Michigan is the largest of the six states holding primary elections on Tuesday, so as the nominating contest for the presidential election touches down in the home of the U.S. auto industry, we decided to check in on what kind of cars the candidates …

2020 Jaguar XE P300 R-Dynamic S Drivers' Notes | A divisive sport sedan

The 2020 Jaguar XE in P300 R-Dynamic S trim is the quickest and most aggressively styled version of the XE available after its 2020 update. We lost the characterful and punchy supercharged V6 (and diesel ), and in its place we found two turbocharged f…

2020 Tesla Model Y becomes Tesla's millionth car

Tesla reached a major milestone this week with the production of its millionth car, a 2020 Tesla Model Y . Elon Musk shared the moment on his Twitter feed with photos of the car and a big group of Tesla employees. Looking closely, it appears to be Pe…

Cadillac Celestiq electric sedan could top $200,000

General Motors teased a slew of new electric vehicles last week at a media event where cameras weren't allowed, and now there's more news about the Celestiq, one of the two EVs in the pipeline for Cadillac . Reports suggest it won't come cheap and wil…

[UPDATE] Cadillac Blackwing gets ticket to Italy, to go to work in a supercar

UPDATE: It seems MAT's belief it had secured a supply of Cadillac's 4.2-liter Blackwing V8 was premature, and based on a handshake deal before GM sold its Turin engine center to Italy's Punch Group. Shortly after Hagerty ran the story, GM sent a stat…

Electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class only 'a few years' away

CarAdvice spoke to Daimler CEO Olla Källenius about electrification of the Mercedes-Benz lineup, the G-Class taking the same outsized place in the conversation that it has in the Mercedes lineup. The automaker honcho told the outlet, "The G-Wagen tra…

2020 Lincoln MKZ gets price and trim changes, new packages

The Lincoln MKZ doesn't have much longer to live, slated to meet the executioner later this year. The team in charge isn't letting the brand's penultimate sedan die unloved, Ford Authority reporting a raft of cosmetic changes and packages that can se…

2021 Mercedes-Benz Metris takes some of the guesswork out of driving a van

Mercedes-Benz's van-building division introduced a comprehensively updated Vito that gains better in-car technology, new turbodiesel engines and, in some markets, an available electric powertrain. The American-spec model, which is known as the Metris…

Plans for electric Porsche 718 dragged down by battery weight

Porsche hasn't decided yet if there will be battery-electric versions of the 718 Cayman and Boxster. According to a report in September last year , the German sports car maker had intended to make a decision by this September. An update on the situati…

Monday, March 9, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 9, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2021 Ford Bronco Sport shown completely undisguised in leaked photos

Photos of the 2021 Ford Bronco Sport — widely referred to as the "Baby Bronco" — have leaked, revealing the new Jeep Renegade competitor in all of its sheetmetal glory. These leaked photographs come our way courtesy of BroncoSportForum.com and appe…

How this father and son's new electric turbine could revolutionize electric cars

In the past two years, companies have promised electric motors producing far more torque density, measured in kilowatts per kilogram. Avid said its makes "one of the highest usable power and torque densities of any electric vehicle motor available o…

2022 Hyundai Kona N spied with big brakes, big wheels, big exhaust

What Albert Biermann wants, he gets. A couple of years ago, he reportedly wanted to make a Hyundai Kona N , and now one of our spy photographers has caught one testing in the snow. Though it's well-covered, it can't hide some obvious performance-orien…

Ford shows its dealers the sub-Ranger pickup it hopes will replace sedans

Ford is moving forward with its plan to release so-called white-space vehicles that fill the void left by cars like the Fiesta and the Focus. It recently showed one of these models, a sub-Ranger pickup truck, to its top dealers. While photography wa…

Possible 2021 Ford Bronco exterior paint palette leaks

The Bronco6G forum paid a visit to the Automotive Touchup website and came away with the color palette — or at least part of it — for the 2021 Ford Bronco. Automotive Touchup, in the process of advertising colors to repair that paint on a new Bronco,…

1970 Mustang Boss 302 racer and matching transport truck relive the glory days of Trans Am

It's hard to imagine you wouldn't have the coolest setup at pretty much any vintage racing event or car show if you showed up with this duo: a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans-Am racer replica and matching Ford C-800 cab-over transport truck. The thr…

2021 Honda Odyssey ages gracefully with midlife refresh

The 2021 Honda Odyssey is getting its midlife refresh and biggest update since it was totally redesigned for the 2018 model year . Honda says we'll receive more information and photos at the New York Auto Show, but the preview today is pretty comprehe…

BMW shelves iX3 electric crossover plans for America

The 2021 BMW iX3 is not coming to the U.S. right now. A new report from Automotive News stated as much, but the news was also tucked deep within the BMW i4 Concept press release from Geneva. We got in touch with BMW representatives in the U.S. to con…

[VIDEO] Take a closer look at the Bentley Bacalar with Top Gear

We haven't returned to the Golden Age of coachbuilding yet — meaning the the century-old, Roaring Twenties process of purchasing a rolling chassis from a manufacturer and delivering it to a design house for one-of-a-kind bodywork. Assuming such artis…

My Uber driver had an accident — What should I do now?

With more than a million Uber drivers on American roads every day, there are accidents involving Uber drivers pretty much every hour of every day. As such, it's a good idea to have a basic awareness of the legal and insurance issues that will affect …