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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for May 19, 2020

May 19, 2020

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2021 Genesis G80 priced far below its luxury sedan competitors

The 2021 Genesis G80 is a stunning luxury sedan, far outpacing the looks of the outgoing G80 , and now we have pricing to go along with all the other details learned at the launch. A base G80 will start at $48,725 after tacking on the $1,025 destinati…

RV rental bookings skyrocket by 650% ahead of summer travel season

As states began locking down to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, RV tourism companies took the same punishment as the rest of the travel industry, only rescuing a bit of business by renting to governments , utilities and healthcare workers…

Buy this one-off 428 four-speed '67 Ford Country Squire

What is the late-'60s car guy to do when you really want a muscle car but family needs demand a station wagon? For one Ford enthusiast in Ohio, the answer was to order a 1967 Country Squire, upfitted with the 428-cubic-inch 4-bbl V8, a four-speed flo…

Porsche explains why the 911 will receive much bigger engines in 2026

Porsche recently spent millions of dollars downsizing its range of engines, yet new regulations scheduled to come into effect across Europe in 2026 will force it to upsize once again. One of the company's top engineers predicted the next round of eng…

Watch as U.S. auto industry springs back to life after lockdown

WARREN, Michigan — The Detroit Three automakers and their suppliers began restarting assembly lines on Monday after a two-month coronavirus lockdown in a slow revival of a sector that employs nearly 1 million people in the United States. On a chilly…

2020 Honda Civic Type R has a surprisingly quiet exhaust

Of all the sporty compact cars out there, the 2020 Honda Civic Type R would seem to be the one that would have the most obnoxious exhaust note. It has oodles of scoops and vents, a towering rear wing and fat fender flares. And yet, as we discovered i…

[VIDEO] 2021 Toyota Supra dyno run reveals more power and torque than advertised

In June last year, two Toyota Supras ended up on dynos courtesy of a Motor Trend run in Southern California and a Car and Driver tilt in Michigan. Both Supras put down more power at the wheels than Toyota rated them at the crank. This took no one by …

BMW Alpina XB7 debuts as the closest thing you can get to an X7 M

Transporting seven (or, optionally, six) people in a serious hurry is the mission of the first Alpina version of the BMW X7. The 2021 BMW Alpina XB7, as it's known, is the first Alpina SUV sold in the United States (an Alpina version of the X3 is ava…

2020 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Road Test | AWD for all-year smiles

There is always going to be a better Porsche 911 . Yet, that fact is hard to care about when in the driver's seat of any variant on the performance ladder, because every single one of them is enchanting to drive. This time, it's the 2020 Porsche 911 C…

Raptor-powered Ford Ranger Thunder is ready to rumble in Europe

Ford Europe announced today the launch of the Ford Ranger Thunder, a limited-edition variant of the popular midsize pickup truck. Scheduled to release strictly in Europe, the Thunder will feature distinct visual accents and a power upgrade and will b…

Monday, May 18, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for May 18, 2020

May 18, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2021 Toyota Sienna breaks cover as a stylish, hybrid minivan

There's a new minivan on the block. It's the 2021 Toyota Sienna, and the van is totally new from the ground up. Toyota hasn't given us a fresh new Sienna since the current-generation hit the roads for the 2011 model year, so this one is a long time c…

2021 Toyota Venza debuts as a hybrid-only high-fashion crossover

The Toyota Venza is back, but it's not the same Venture Monza vehicle it was when Toyota discontinued the car-like crossover after the 2015 model year. Instead, the 2021 Toyota Venza is much more SUV-like, and it's only going to be sold in hybrid for…

2021 Toyota Venza vs midsize crossovers: How they compare on paper

The revived 2021 Toyota Venza is merely the latest in a steady flow of newcomers to the growing midsize crossover segment. Toyota's entry into this crowded — but somewhat narrowly defined — midsize two-row class comes out of left field, for better or…

2021 Porsche 911 Targa officially unveiled

The slow, steady drumbeat of the 992-generation of Porsche 911 continues. We already have the Carrera, Carrera S and their all-wheel-drive counterparts in fixed-roof and convertible guise. Most recently, Porsche unveiled the Turbo S . Now we've got a …

2020 Mazda MX-5 Miata RF Automatic Road Test | Cue the sad trombone

Somewhere in Hiroshima, a parade of nearly finished Miatas glides along a track waiting to receive their beating hearts, the powertrains that'll let them ply their road-carving talents the world over. One – let's call him Fred – is eager to begin his…

Now's your chance to buy Lotus founder Colin Chapman's 1981 Turbo Esprit

Lotus founder and Chairman Colin Chapman's former 1981 Turbo Esprit Series 3 sports car is for sale, and it looks fantastic in its metallic silver exterior imprinted with "turbo esprit" on both sides and the bonnet, and contrasting red leather interi…

2021 Ford Bronco and Mach-E production pushed back two months

The Big Three planned to resume domestic manufacturing today after the enforced hiatus and, with all hope, can begin piecing together firm timelines for many delayed orders of business. A couple of days ago, a leaked bulletin showed Ford waiting to o…

Basic configurator for 2021 Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon slips online

TFLnow discovered basic configurators for the 2021 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon are already online at GM's site for employee discounts . These aren't the fully-featured whiz-bang configurators that will show on the retail websites soon, but they …

Dyson finally unveils its cancelled electric car

Having famously killed off its electric car project back in October, Dyson's automobile remained a mystery to most, with insiders telling Engadget that only a handful of engineers had seen a working prototype somewhere in Wiltshire . But yesterday, th…

Junkyard Gem: 1983 Honda Accord Sedan with 411,794 Miles

I've learned that finding discarded vehicles with astronomical figures showing on their odometers can be very difficult. Most manufacturers stuck with five-digit odometers well into the 1980s and even the 1990s, which rules out a majority of potentia…