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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 11, 2020

Mar 11, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2- and 4-door 2021 Ford Bronco leaked again in clearest photos yet

Clearer photos of the 2021 Ford Bronco made their way onto social media Tuesday night, giving us our best look yet at what Ford has in store for its revived 4x4. Photos of the production-spec off-roader have been slipping out of just about every cr…

2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S spied with ducktail spoiler

Fans of classic 911s and 911 designs have reason to be excited. One of our spy photographers caught a 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S testing in the snow, and it features a prominent ducktail rear spoiler. This is a distinctly different spoiler from the low…

2020 Jeep Wrangler Review & Buying Guide | Go anywhere many ways

The 2020 Jeep Wrangler's Sky Power Top option is the roof to get

If you're interested in buying a 2020 Jeep Wrangler , you've probably pondered which roof to get: the standard Sunrider soft top or the three-piece Freedom hard top. My answer: neither. The Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon we tested recently came equipped…

[VIDEO] Hyundai teases next-gen 2021 Elantra with 'Parametric Dynamics' design

We're not sure what we find more compelling about the teaser for the seventh-generation, 2021 Hyundai Elantra — Hyundai claiming this one "returns to its sport sedan roots," or the "Parametric Dynamics" design language that's resulted in a distinctiv…

2020 Ford Escape Titanium Drivers' Notes | An expensive athlete

The 2020 Ford Escape is completely new this year, riding on a new platform and featuring a heavily revised design both inside and out. The new Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid models are intriguing, but Ford is also happy to bring the power with a 2.0-liter…

German tuner Gemballa building Porsche 911 monster truck mutant mash-up

German tuner Gemballa released sketches of a Porsche 911 put on seriously tall stilts that it plans to bring to production. Called Avalanche 4x4, and presumably named after the snow cascade rather than the versatile Chevrolet truck, the model will la…

RUF SCR first production car is bad and plaid

RUF made a splash this week when it debuted a lifted Western-themed rally-type sports car called the Rodeo , but for now, it's only a concept. In its shadow, however, RUF showed a car that is actually available for purchase. The beautiful green sculpt…

BMW is putting the i8 out to pasture in April

BMW announced it will end production of the i8, which is available as a coupe and as a roadster, after a six-year production run. The model had a formative influence on current and future members of the company's range. The i8 started life as a wild…

Biden gets into heated exchange with Michigan auto worker over guns

DETROIT — U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden on Tuesday angrily turned on an auto worker at a campaign stop when questioned whether he was going to take away people's guns. "You're full of shit," Biden told the man who accused him o…

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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

Mar 10, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

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…