Wednesday, April 22, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 22, 2020

Apr 22, 2020

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Earth Day 2020: Our favorite fun green cars in different, admittedly arbitrary categories

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2020 Porsche Taycan 4S First Drive | Forget 203 miles. We easily got 300

SANTA ANA, Calif. – I must admit that I was a bit nervous when I began my EV test loop in the 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S, the ink barely dry on its EPA range rating of 203 miles . I'd run this very same test some two months ago in a 2020 Porsche Taycan Tu…

Earth Day 2020: Looking forward to a cleaner, happier post-commuting world

This was the view on a recent 8 a.m. westbound crossing of the 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington in Seattle. Typically at 8 a.m., 7,000 vehicles would be on this bridge at once, and it normally carries 78,000 cars a day. Also in the photo: Impro…

Range Rover Evoque P300e and Land Rover Discovery Sport P300e PHEVs debut

After launching 48-volt mild hybrid versions of the Land Rover Discovery Sport and Range Rover Evoque last year , the iconic English off-road automaker goes all-in with the Discovery Sport P300e PHEV and Evoque P300e PHEV. Both share the Premium Trans…

Earth Day 2020: The Autoblog electric car buyer's guide

This wild rendering is a Koenigsegg-supervised student's design thesis

Imagined renderings without paths toward production typically don't make the cut here at Autoblog, but a sharp-looking exception to that rule has arrived courtesy of RAW Design House . The digital concept car was created as part of a graduation thesis…

Tesla now claims a 2.3-second 0-60 for the Model S Performance

Enthusiasts have been modding their cars for more performance basically since the dawn of the automobile's inception. For most of the history of four-wheeled vehicles, the only ways to cut a few tenths of a second off a 0-60 time involved some time w…

Hyundai Kona N sheds baggy camo, shows off beefy exhaust tips

The high-performance Hyundai Kona N has been spied in the wild yet again, this time with more form-fitting camouflage that gives us a better hint at what to expect from the Korean automaker's latest N model.  When we last saw "Kona the Destroyer ," i…

Refreshed Mercedes-AMG E63 caught on track in lighter camo

The revised Mercedes-AMG E63 sedan has been spotted wearing only minimal front-end camouflage as the unveiling of the high-performance variant inches ever closer.  While this prototype isn't completely undisguised, the scant covering on the nose lea…

The tire industry pushes back against evidence of plastic pollution

SINGAPORE — A growing body of scientific research linking tire wear to microplastic pollution, as well as increasing scrutiny from lawmakers in the European Union (EU), has led the $180 billion-a-year tire industry to fight back. The companies have …

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 21, 2020

Apr 21, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2020 BMW X7 M50i vs. 2020 BMW M760i Comparison Test | Bavaria's biggest and best

Sedans have long ruled the roost at the apex of luxury car lineups. BMW was no exception to this standard, as the 7 Series has historically been the biggest and most luxurious of all vehicles from Bavarian Motor Works. Perhaps you've heard, but thing…

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Porsche Taycan with two-wheel drive, smaller battery, lower price on the way

When Car interviewed Dr. Michael Steiner , the Porsche board member in charge of research and development, the exec told the magazine there's a two-wheel-drive Taycan on the way. "There will be a rear-wheel-drive model with a smaller battery to make i…

Ford Mustang hybrid with V8, AWD, in 2022: Exploring the latest theory

Every year for the past three years, the Ford Mustang hybrid has dumped a new load of grist into the rumormill, and this week, Autocar is reporting that the Blue Oval's electrified coupe will arrive with the next-generation model in 2022. Ford has g…

[VIDEO] Hyundai Veloster N welcomes multi-mode eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox

The eight speed twin-clutch transmission Hyundai has spent years perfecting has bolted from the barn inside the Veloster N. Officially named the N eight-speed wet dual-clutch, or N DCT, the gearbox employs electronic actuators for cog-swapping and we…

Q&A: Oil prices go negative ... what does that mean, exactly?

Private security contractors patrol the U.S. Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Bryan Mound, Texas. / Reuters NEW YORK — The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it, and we're running out of places to put it. …

Trump to consider halting Saudi oil imports to help ease U.S. glut

A wellhead on a fracking site leased by Oasis Petroleum in the Permian Basin oil production area near Wink, Texas. / Reuters WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration was considering the possibility of stoppi…

Chief engineer of the Tesla Model S says his new Lucid Air sedan is better

Peter Rawlinson did stints as Principal Engineer at Jaguar and Chief Engineer of Advanced Engineering at Lotus, earning a reputation that led to a phone call from Elon Musk asking if Rawlinson would take over as chief engineer of Tesla's WhiteStar pr…

2020 Lexus GS F Review & Video | Looking past the numbers

You don't hear much about the 2020 Lexus GS F. It's been out for a while now, the model having debuted for 2016 and the base GS sedan stretching all the way back to 2012. That's an awful lot of time for the automotive world to whiz by, especially in …

2021 Audi A3 packs 48-volt mild hybrid system, supposedly coupe-like styling

Details of the larger, more powerful, more technologically advanced 2021 Audi A3 sedan have been revealed. The new model, slated to hit European showrooms this summer, is new from the ground up and packs all-new tech and powertrains in a sleeker, roo…

Kawasaki's first electric motorcycle will get a four-speed manual transmission

Kawasaki confirmed its upcoming entry into the blossoming electric motorcycle segment will offer a manual transmission. Called Endeavor, the model is being developed with track use in mind, so engagement is key. The Japanese company is in the proces…