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Monday, April 20, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 20, 2020

Apr 20, 2020

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2021 Ford Bronco Sport interior revealed in new spy photos

The delayed 2021 Ford Bronco Sport, aka the "Baby Bronco," was caught in the wild with its interior undisguised this week, giving us our first good look at what to expect from the interior of Ford's compact off-road variant. Two key details emerge …

2021 Audi RS 3 spied with big blistered fenders

The 2021 Audi RS 3 hot hatch has been caught by one of our spy photographers again . This time it's sporting less camouflage, but it also has what appears to be a fully production-ready body. That means there are some tantalizing new details to view. …

2020 Hyundai Sonatas with Remote Smart Parking feature to be recalled

Hyundai is recalling 2020 Sonatas with the Remote Smart Parking Assistant feature. You may know it as "Smaht Pahk" from the highly-publicized celebrity-filled Super Bowl ads . Hyundai says there's an error in the software, and it's recalling 11,870 ve…

World's only 1964 Pontiac XP-833 Banshee coupe for sale by Kia dealer

It seems like there has been a spate of especially odd car sales in the first part of this especially odd year, from the numerous barn finds and homebrew specials to the time capsule cars — like the BMW wrapped in a protective bubble for 23 years. Na…

Toyota Corolla hot hatch stand-in for GR Yaris to make 257 horsepower

The past few months have been full of lust and clamoring for a U.S. version of the Toyota GR Yaris that debuted at this year's Tokyo Auto Salon for markets including Japan and Europe. Platform differences between our Yaris and the overseas model prev…

Hyundai Veloster N getting 2.5-liter turbo with 300 horsepower?

Looks like the pieces from the rumormill continue to come together around the Hyundai Veloster N. In 2018, Korean outlet Motorgraph wrote that Hyundai was working on a Theta III engine for front- and rear-wheel drive, and mid-engine applications. The…

Ferrari Portofino spy shots show refreshed front end

One of our spy photographers shared photos of a Ferrari Portofino prototype that has reappeared being tested on the road. While the photographer first suspected it could have been a test mule for the Roma , we believe it's a prototype for a refreshed …

Restoring this long-lost 1951 Lancia Aurelia prototype race car took 4,000 hours

Introduced in 1950, the innovative Aurelia is one of the most sought-after Lancia models made after World War II. Collectors pay a premium for cars with a documented racing history, and one-offs built as in-house experiments are fascinating, so it's …

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Top 10 brands with the lowest repair cost to fix a check engine light

A check engine light can be caused by a number of issues, some minor and inexpensive and others potentially catastrophic. See which brands have the lowest average repair costs here.

Friday, April 17, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 17, 2020

Apr 17, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

How we'd build our Ferrari Roma

The Ferrari Roma configurator is live, so we decided to devote a few minutes to provide important consumer advice to those considering this sexy automobile. As a refresher, the Roma is Ferrari's sexy new grand tourer packing a 3.9-liter twin-turbo…

2021 Nissan Rogue allegedly shown unadorned in leaked images

Nissan has already re-affirmed its commitment to launching an all-new version of its venerable Rogue crossover this fall, and new images purporting to be that vehicle have surfaced on a French web forum, giving us our best look yet at the automaker's…

Piper private plane neatly lands in middle lane of Quebec highway

Quebec law prohibits motorists from passing on the right. There's nothing in the rule book about overtaking from above, especially if you're aboard a small plane experiencing engine trouble and you need a place to land. It's in these circumstances th…

2020 Mini Countryman Review & Buying Guide | The big Mini is still fun

The 2020 Mini Countryman manages to keep most of the fun character of the regular Mini Hardtop, but with the practicality and style of a small crossover. How small, though? It's definitely among what we'd classify as subcompact models, but given its …

Lego's first Ducati kit is a Panigale V4 R with a functional gearbox

Ducati is no longer absent from the list of vehicles you can build using Lego bricks. Denmark's toy giant teamed up with the Bologna-based motorcycle builder to add a Panigale V4 R to its advanced Technic line. The first brick reproduction of a Duca…

The BMW M340i xDrive does 0-60 in 4.1 seconds. Here's what it sounds like

The 2020 BMW M340i features some staggering numbers. Its turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six produces 382 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque, and when graced with the added traction of xDrive all-wheel drive, it'll go from zero to 60 mph in a stag…

Mini bootleg Dodge Tomahawk is the coolest pocket bike of them all

Through Chinese retail website Alibaba , a company called Trumki is selling a knockoff version of the uber-cool Dodge Tomahawk motorcycle concept that shocked crowds at the 2003 Detroit Auto Show. It's marketed as the "2019 New Electric Dodge Tomahawk…

McLaren hybrid sports series prototype spied, possible 570S successor

McLaren has repeatedly said it plans to go hybrid with all of its vehicles in the future. The latest rumors out of Britain point at plans to reveal the first of this new hybrid lineup sometime this year. This heavily camouflaged prototype could be th…

2020 BMW 3 Series Luggage Test | The ultimate packing machine?

It has been well documented that the 2020 BMW 3 Series has grown considerably, approaching the dimensions of the 5 Series from 20 years ago. While there has been much kvetching about the ramifications of that from a performance and driving dynamics s…

Junkyard Gem: 1995 Ford F-150 graffiti truck

I've documented quite a few doomed art cars, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, as I've prowled junkyards for interesting bits of automotive history . First I captured the Groovalicious Purple Princess of Peace Ford Taurus wagon, and since that tim…