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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 8, 2020

Apr 08, 2020

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Geico joins Allstate, offers 15% insurance credit as coronavirus cuts driving

Geico will offer about $2.5 billion of credits to its 19 million auto and motorcycle policyholders, reflecting the decline in driving and therefore car crashes stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. The insurer, part of billionaire Warren Buffett's …

2021 Lexus LC gets modest updates including less weight, new colors

The Lexus LC is already one of our favorite cars , and the 2021 Lexus LC aims to be even a little better. The luxury automaker has made a number of minor changes to the suspension, infotainment and color schemes. Starting under the skin, Lexus found …

Mercedes-Benz 600's restomod took seven years and $3.2 million

Mercedes-Benz's Classic division received an unusual request in 2007. An enthusiast from Germany wanted to turn a 1975 600 into a Maybach, and the person had a wallet thick enough to cover cost of the unprecedented conversion. The company accepted th…

Gemballa Mirage GT supercar driver arrested in massive NYC wreck

Police arrested the driver of Gemballa Mirage GT — an ultra-rare exotic based on the Porsche Carrera GT — after it struck several other vehicles and left a trail of destruction on 11th Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan Tuesday mo…

2020 Chevy Corvette Z51 wrecked less than 24 hours after delivery

Writer's note: explicit language in video and Facebook posts As the owner of this car joked in the video below, there's a new option for the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8. It's called the 24-Hour Smash Package, and a man who identifies as June Bug is t…

Kia Telluride takes World Car of the Year honors

The Kia Telluride has been named 2020 World Car of the Year , an award that recognizes the most significant new-vehicle introduction as determined by an international jury of automotive journalist judges. The Telluride adds to its string of honors by …

GM awarded $489.4M federal contract to build ventilators for coronavirus

The federal government will pay General Motors $489.4 million to build ventilators to treat coronavirus victims in a new contract under the Defense Production Act announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It's the late…

Possible Porsche Cayenne Coupe GT spied, plus exhaust note clip

Here's our second sighting of what might be the ultra high performance Porsche Cayenne Coupe GT. We wrote about the possibility of the car's existence nearly a year ago, and the first spy photos surfaced at the beginning of this year. Just like befo…

2020 Mini Clubman John Cooper Works First Drive | Personality at a price

An abundance of power isn't typically associated with products named Mini Cooper. Even the John Cooper Works (JCW) editions have most recently been making do with 228 horsepower from their turbocharged four-cylinder engines. That's plenty to feel qui…

16 things I learned about the Isuzu VehiCROSS

There are plenty of cars I remember existing, but actually know very little about due to the passage of time or just not particularly caring when they were new. Take the Isuzu VehiCROSS, which I fondly recall as this wackadoo off-roader from the late…

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 7, 2020

Apr 07, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2020 Audi RS6-R by ABT adds 100 horsepower and more visual flair

With 591 horsepower and a wider, meaner body, few people would call the 2020 Audi RS 6 station wagon understated. But for those few, ABT Sportsline has a solution in the RS6-R . The tuned-up wagon brings more bark with body updates, and more bite in m…

Polestar Precept's design influenced by technology and a bit of Volvo flair

Polestar's first two models, the 1 and the 2 , started life as Volvo concept cars. What's next? The answer, according to the company's design boss, is the Precept concept. It might not reach production as-is, but Autoblog learned it ushers in the desi…

Can't wait for the new Bronco? This 1992 example for sale on eBay comes close

With an endless parade of spy photos, it's starting to seem as if the new Ford Bronco is never going to get here. For those who have grown tired of waiting, this last-generation full-size Bronco up for auction right now on eBay might fit the bill. Su…

3,500 rental cars burn in 18-hour Florida airport fire

As reported by CNN and the Fort Myers News-Press , a fire in a grassy lot near the Southwest Florida International Airport consumed more than 3,500 parked rental vehicles last Friday, April 3. Nobody was injured, and the airport was undamaged, but the…

[VIDEO] Lordstown Endurance electric pickup mule undergoing testing

Lordstown Motors is doing all it can to stick to the rollout schedule for its battery-electric Endurance pickup. Last month, the startup invited a small group of media to its new production facility in Lordstown, Ohio, to poke around the truck's inte…

2020 Hyundai Sonata Infotainment Driveway Test Video | 'E aho laula'

As a wise man in a Pontiac commercial once said, "E aho laula." And indeed, when it comes to touchscreen interfaces, it's becoming increasingly obvious that "wider is better." Luxury brands were the first to offer the format and its benefits, which m…

2020 Ford F-150s, Rangers, Expeditions recalled for rollaway risk

Ford announced a safety-related recall that applies to 55,158 examples of the Ranger, the F-150, and the Expedition registered in the United States. The vehicles included in the campaign could roll away when parked. The company explained the clip th…

McLaren 765LT: How the limited-edition longtail got its $385,000 price

The McLaren 720S starts at $299,000 in the U.S. before the $2,500 destination charge that takes a buyer over the hump to $301,500. McLaren has announced the new, limited edition 765LT will start at $385,000 before destination and any other fees, a nu…

Nissan laying off 10,000 workers, Honda putting thousands more on leave

Nissan is laying off about 10,000 workers in the U.S. as its plants sit idle. These layoffs will largely affect folks who worked at plants in Tennessee and Mississippi, according to a report by Nikkei . As of now, Nissan has announced plant shutdown…

2020 Nissan Titan Pro-4X Second Drive | More Rebel than Rogue

The 2020 Nissan Titan Pro-4X takes the newly refreshed Titan full-sized pickup, adds some kit to give it some off-road grit, as well as a cosmetic treatment to give it a sporty look inside and out. It's not for everybody. Sales lag far behind the Det…