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Thursday, April 9, 2020

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

Apr 09, 2020

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Koenigsegg Gemera and Jesko Absolut strut on the supercar maker's runway

The world seems like a pretty terrible place right now, but there are good things in it, like the two monster Koenigsegg supercars the company revealed a month ago. The Koenigsegg Gemera four-door supercar and the Jesko Absolut high-speed hypercar we…

Automakers ready to get plants running again with coronavirus precautions

MILAN/DETROIT — Global automakers reeling from the coronavirus pandemic are accelerating efforts to restart factories from Wuhan to Maranello to Michigan, using safety protocols developed for China and U.S. ventilator production operations launched i…

[VIDEO] 'Race Motion' videos capture gnarliest jumps and hardest landings of off-road racing

Even if you're not a die-hard fan of off-road racing, you're probably a fan of seeing purpose-built machines being used at (and beyond) their design limitations, especially if that means bad-ass trucks flying off sweet, sweet jumps. "Go into the wo…

General Patton's Dodge WC57 Command Car headed to auction

Indiana will see some excellent vintage metal on several auction blocks this summer. Mecum Auctions has the 1965 Pontiac GeeTO Tiger and 1963 Shelby Cobra that was a Ford demonstrator planned for in Indiana in late June. Two weeks before that, and as…

Pontiac Aztek rises from the ashes of infamy in Firebird Trans Am guise

What if the Pontiac Aztek , one of the most widely ridiculed vehicles ever built, was reimagined with a little flair from one of the former brand's more legendary cars? Well, it turns out that someone not only came up with that idea, but followed up …

2020 Volvo S60 Review & Buying Guide | Luxury, tech and efficiency with lots of style

Without a flagship luxury badge on its nose, the 2020 Volvo S60 is often overlooked among European luxury cars, but its luxury credentials make it worthy of serious consideration. While the S60 may not have the same cachet as Europe's better-recogniz…

Watch a 50-ton rotator truck pull a Ford Mustang Boss 302 out of a canyon

Going for a spirited drive on the Angeles Crest Highway is a blast, but the slightest error can send you, yours, and your prized possession into the landscape. That's how a Ford Mustang Boss 302 ended up about 400 feet below the road, and a video pub…

Vyrus unveils Alyen 988, 'essence of an artistic concept' from another world

At one point in time, Italian motorcycle shop Vyrus was home to the most powerful production motorcycle in the world, the 987 C3 4V . That bike was powered by a Ducati-sourced 1,198-cc supercharged V-twin engine that made a claimed 211 horsepower. Ten…

2020 Hyundai Sonata Safety Tech Driveway Test | Excellence in abundance

Hyundai offers one of the most comprehensive suites of standard driver assistance and safety tech features on the market, but just as importantly, those features are extremely well executed. Although I got to experience them far more during a road tr…

1986 Honda Accord AeroDeck is one sweet shooting brake, and it's for sale

Attention to Honda and longroof fans alike. And frankly, anyone who is into the rad era of automobiles. There is a 1986 Honda Accord AeroDeck for sale on Bring a Trailer right now, and it's very much rad. For the uninitiated, the Accord AeroDeck is…

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

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

Apr 08, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

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…