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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 25, 2020

Mar 25, 2020

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2021 Ford Bronco Sport spied on the road mostly uncovered

While Ford's official Bronco reveal events have been postponed, that's not stopping development of it or its little cousin , the 2021 Ford Bronco Sport. It's not stopping spy photographers from catching those development cars, either. One of them got …

255-hp Toyota GR86 and other big news leaks in dealer presentation

Last month, Motor1 said it received information on Toyota and Lexus product plans for the next few years from an inside source who attended a dealer presentation. To protect the source, Motor1 didn't publish any slides or proof from that presentation…

2020 Land Rover Defender First Drive | Legend reborn

EASTNOR, England – Before setting out in this all-new 2020 Land Rover Defender , please allow me a few words about its legendary predecessor. After a terrible winter, the British summer of 1947 was one of the warmest on record. It was probably shirt-s…

Ram 1500 Rebel TRX reveals hood scoop-mounted marker lights

Now that the Ram 1500 Rebel TRX is testing with production bodywork , the company has been doing a thorough job of covering up the off-road super truck. But fortunately lights still show through the thick coverings, and we're finally able to see the t…

1998 BMW 740i with 158 miles on eBay is a bubble-wrapped time capsule

The Drive found a fascinating car listing on eBay's German site that, were the listing in the U.S., we'd expect to see on Bring A Trailer and bid up to BAT's altitude-sickness prices . The listing says that in September of 1997, a woman born in 1927 b…

Delivery drivers face coronavirus without sick pay, insurance, sanitizer

On his delivery route through Orange County, California, Joseph Alvarado made 153 stops one day last week for Amazon.com, touching the inside and outside of his van, more than 225 packages, and dozens of customers' doors and gates. In a global coron…

GM, Ford and FCA expected to extend coronavirus shutdown into April

U.S. automakers General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler are expected to extend their current shutdown in North America into the month of April as the fight to slow the spread of the coronavirus continues. At this point, the exact dates that Detroit's …

Driving the Porsche 911 Hybrid that Porsche won't make

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There's been a lot of recent talk flying around about the possibility of a factory-built Porsche 911 hybrid. But more recent comments from the higher-ups at Stuttgart seem to have thrown cold water on that possibility, at least …

2020 Toyota Camry Review & Buying Guide | High variety

The 2020 Toyota Camry is unlike any that have come before. True, this generation set a unique tone from the very beginning with its significantly enhanced driver involvement, interior quality and overall style. However, the 2020 model goes even furth…

Junkyard Gem: 1997 Volvo 850R Sedan

When I hit wrecking yards around the United States (and in Sweden ) in search of discarded examples of automotive history, I'm always on the lookout for interesting Volvos . I have documented plenty of doomed Amazons , 140s , 200s , and 700s over the year…

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 24, 2020

Mar 24, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

GM-Ventec coronavirus partnership aims to build 200,000 ventilators in Indiana

A Ventec employee works on final assembly of VOCSN ventilators at Ventec Life Systems, in Bothell, Washington. / Reuters DETROIT — General Motors and medical equipment maker Ventec are speeding up efforts under a partnership code-named "Proj…

Someone just paid $45,000 for this 1978 Ford Country Squire

For all the talk in the collector-car market of millennials and their Radwood rides, the oft-overlooked Generation X is still a force to be reckoned with. How else to explain this 1978 Ford Country Squire ringing the bell for $45,000 in its auction o…

Ford to make respirators, ventilators, face shields in coronavirus fight

Workers assemble medical face shields. Ford will lend its manufacturing might and design skills to help produce needed healthcare equipment for the fight against COVID-19 coronavirus, the company announced today. The automaker is working wi…

Listen to a twin-turbo 2020 Corvette built by Hennessey

Hennessey has built the first twin-turbo 2020 Chevy Corvette that we know of, and it's released a short video to let us listen to the fruits of its labor. To nobody's surprise, the turbocharged C8 sounds spectacular. In addition to the traditional me…

Elon Musk says Tesla bought ventilators in China for U.S. coronavirus patients

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the California-based automaker bought hospital ventilators in China and shipped them to the United States. The purchase comes as governments across the globe, including here in the U.S., appeal to automakers a…

2020 Hyundai Sonata Review & Buying Guide | Not the typical family sedan

The 2020 Hyundai Sonata is the latest generation of the Korean automaker's staple family sedan. Long known as a value entry, the Sonata has grown into a competitive player in the midsize segment thanks to a decade of serious effort from Hyundai, whic…

FCA to make 1 million face masks a month for North America coronavirus fight

MILAN, Italy — Italian-U.S. car giant Fiat Chrysler has confirmed plans to produce a million face masks a month and said it will distribute them to emergency services in North America to help the fight against coronavirus. FCA, which is also trying …

2021 Audi RS3 spy photos show 5-cylinder prototypes in winter testing

The Audi RS3 will return for the new generation of the German subcompact. As these spy shots reveal, Audi is well into development of the turbocharged five-cylinder hatchback and sedan, so if you think the best Audis are those with an odd cylinder co…

The City Sleeps: A look at empty NYC streets amid the coronavirus pandemic

According to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as of Sunday, March 22, nearly 2,000 New Yorkers have been hospitalized, and 114 have died. More than 15,000 have tested positive statewide. Some 9,000 of those are in New York City. In response, Cuomo announc…

Aston Martin confirms 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 for Valhalla

When the Aston Martin Valhalla hits the scene in 2022 (hopefully), it will be powered by an all-new 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 engine that will be fortified and electrified in a hybrid configuration that we don't yet know much about. Interestingly, As…