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Thursday, April 30, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 30, 2020

Apr 30, 2020

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2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid Second Drive | Batteries are better

The marriage seems so right you wonder what took so long. Honda's hybrid powertrain is excellent and the CR-V is its best-selling model, yet the 2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid is only just arriving in dealers now. That's four years after this current CR-V ge…

Ken Block's next project is the Hoonifox: the ultimate Fox Body Ford Mustang

First there was the '60s Ford Mustang Hoonicorn, then the '70s Ford F-150 Hoonitruck . Now Ken Block is tackling the 1980s with his next project, the Hoonifox. It's based on the Fox Body Ford Mustang, and it's just as outrageous as its predecessors, e…

McLaren Speedtail reveals its hybrid powertrain secrets, and of course it's impressive

Until now, McLaren has been keeping secrets about its three-seat Speedtail hypercar . We've known it's packing a hybrid powertrain that produces a combined 1,055 horsepower and 848 pound-feet of torque, but that's about it. Today, McLaren is spilling …

2020 Mazda MX-5 Miata Suspension Deep Dive

Full disclosure: I'm a longtime Miata fan. And by longtime I mean since mid-1989, the year I obtained, through a series of fortunate connections, one of the three original Chicago auto show display cars . But this was no blatant attempt to butter up a…

2021 GMC Canyon Denali shows its new grille

GMC showed us its new 2021 Canyon AT4 pickup at the beginning of the year. We got a few details on the "more upmarket" top-tier Denali trim coming next year, but we've been missing good photos of the article until now. The more upmarket part rings tr…

What the Autoblog staff drives: the ultimate editors' picks

Autoblog editors share what cars they actually own and what they like and dislike about them.

Ford applies to trademark term 'Lincoln eGlide'

There's an epilogue to Ford's recent announcement that it's giving up on a battery-electric Lincoln co-developed with Rivian. The MachEClub forum discovered that just a week ago, Ford applied with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the…

2020 E-Tron Sportback becomes Audi's most expensive electric car

Audi released pricing information for the 2020 E-Tron Sportback, a swoopier version of the standard E-Tron that inaugurates several powertrain improvements. The fastback-like model made its debut in late 2019 . The electric Sportback will carry a bas…

Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA heritage liveries revealed, and here's what it will cost

Alfa Romeo created the Giulia GTA as a tribute to one of its most successful race cars, and the connection between the two models won't stop at the nameplate. Buyers will have the chance to order their hot-rodded sedan in one of several heritage-lace…

Toyota Prius 20th Anniversary Edition coming for 2021

This week, Toyota celebrated selling more than 15 million hybrids worldwide since 1997, 5 million of them in the past three years. It really began in 1993 , when Toyota decided to develop a car that would be kinder on the environment. The car those en…

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for April 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

Refreshed BMW 5 Series and BMW iX3 photos leak

BMWBlog gets the credit for a couple of images of the 2021 BMW 5 Series smuggled out of a press shoot folder, during what the site calls "BMW's leak week" — it's only Wednesday, and what looks like a 2 Series , plus the iX3, have gained public exposur…

2019 Subaru STI S209 Drivers' Notes | An old-school sports sedan unites two of our editors

The 2019 Subaru STI S209 is peak Subaru for America. It's the most powerful and most expensive vehicle with the Subaru badge on it, and there will only ever be 209 of them sold. It's put together in STI's small shop in Kiryu, Japan, where workers bui…

2020 Acura TLX PMC Edition Driveway Test | Shine bright like a ... ruby

Valencia Red Pearl. That's the story with the 2020 Acura TLX PMC Edition. We got to see this limited edition TLX sedan at the New York Auto Show last year, but now it's in my driveway. The show lights don't do this paint justice. The setting sun refl…

Hondata's Honda Civic Type R fuel system upgrade lays groundwork for big power gains

The current generation Honda Civic Type R isn't a slow car by any means with 306 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. But there are always people who want to go faster, and Hondata 's new fuel system upgrade can help Type R owners go faster, or ev…

Live the '70s dream with this custom Chevy van on eBay

The 1970s was a special time when customized vans were all the rage. This 1975 Chevrolet G10 panel van is a fitting homage to the era, from the wild flames-over-metal-flake paint job, to the side pipes, to the chrome Cragar wheels. But most of all, i…

BMW i8 M with M1 looks and rumored 600 hp coming in 2023

Forty-two years after its introduction, the BMW M1 still has a more enticing spec sheet than many sports cars today: Mid-engined 3.5-liter straight-six with 273 horsepower and 243 pound-feet of torque, five-speed manual transmission, rear-wheel drive…

Luc Donckerwolke steps down as head of Hyundai Group design

Automotive News got hold of "an internal note" declaring that Hyundai Group design chief Luc Donckerwolke is stepping down today for "personal reasons." After ex-Volkswagen Group pen Peter Schreyer took over Kia design in 2006 and began the South Kor…

Elon Musk calls to re-open America; Tesla investors seem less bothered

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to twitter Tuesday night to call for the re-opening of America, joining calls from protest groups and business owners alike to re-start the economy in the wake of the initial spike in novel coronavirus cases. FREE AMERICA…

McLaren recalls Senna and several other models over potential fire risk

McLaren is recalling multiple models due to a potential fire risk. The models in question include the 2016-2020 720S , 2019 Senna , 2020 GT and 2017-2019 570GT . In total, that amounts to 2,763 cars. The Senna being part of this recall caught our eye, …