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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for May 26, 2020

May 26, 2020

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Carbon fiber 1967 Shelby GT500 cooked up by Classic Recreations and Speedkore

What we have here is like a SEMA build offered to the general public. Oklahoma's Classic Recreations, known for officially sanctioned continuation builds of early Ford Mustangs, wanted to do a carbon-fiber-bodied version of its 1967 and 1968 Shelby G…

Hyundai teases coming Santa Fe with intense front fascia

In February, South Korea's KKS Studio rendered a facelifted Hyundai Santa Fe based on spy shots of prototypes spotted around that country. The image showed a full-width grille, thick in the middle and pinched under the headlights, anchored at the edg…

2020 Porsche 911 Luggage Test | Keep the suitcases coming

A Porsche 911 might not be the first choice when it comes to packing in a bunch of luggage — the Macan and Cayenne are your pack mule options — but don't let its sports car shape fool you. The 2+2 rear-engined track scalpel is surprisingly able at fi…

Next-gen Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class spied for the first time

The Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class may have just been updated for the 2020 model year, but a completely fresh crossover is already on the horizon. Mercedes' hot-selling compact crossover hasn't been spied in its next-gen form before, so these spy shots are …

Mercedes-AMG G-Class 4x4 Squared is coming back for a second generation

The beefiest, brawniest AMG model is making a comeback. Spy shots reveal that there will be a second-generation Mercedes-AMG G-Class 4x4² . It follows closely in the footsteps of the previous gargantuan G-Wagen, but there is one particularly major cha…

2020 Ford Edge ST-Line is for appearances only

The Ford Edge lineup is expanding for the 2020 model year with the introduction of the new Edge ST-Line. Unlike the performance-minded Edge ST, the ST-Line will essentially be equipped with a styling and features package that provides no actual sport…

Dodge closes Caravan order books at the end of this month

After being introduced as the Dodge Caravan in 1983 , after debuting a long wheelbase Grand Caravan in 1987, after entering its fifth generation in 2007 and going almost unchanged since then to become the oldest minivan in the segment, after being pub…

Lock your cars! Vehicle thefts and car prowls spike in coronavirus pandemic

LOS ANGELES — The coronavirus hasn't been kind to car owners. With more people than ever staying home to lessen the spread of the virus, their sedans, pickup trucks and SUVs are parked unattended on the streets, making them easy targets for opportun…

Formula E driver disqualified for getting a ringer to race for him

LONDON — Audi Formula E driver Daniel Abt was disqualified and ordered to pay 10,000 euros ($10,900.00) to charity on Sunday for getting a professional gamer to compete under his name in an official esports race. The German, who apologized f…

This ice cream truck dispenses only 'metal music and disappointment'

Here's a story that seems tailor-made for our season of discontent under the heavy thumb of the coronavirus pandemic. It's about a guy in Minneapolis who drives a black ice cream truck. It plays the familiar ice-cream truck jingle, but it also blares…

Friday, May 22, 2020

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

May 22, 2020

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2022 Honda Civic next generation spied in Type R form

Last year, we learned that Honda would be wrapping up production of the Honda Civic hatchback in the U.K. in 2021 , and production would move to North America for the next generation . This meant that we were probably only a couple of years away from a…

1954 VW Beetle hides a supercharged secret

Yes, you read that correctly, this 1954 Volkswagen Beetle is supercharged. And, while it is a hot-rodded Bug, it's a period-correct hot-rodded Bug. And it can be yours, as it's up for auction at BringATrailer.com . It retains the same 1.2-liter air-c…

What we'd buy in 1985 (if extremely rich and nutty): the Aston Martin Lagonda

The Barn Miami, a Florida specialty dealer in unique and exotic cars, has just listed this 9,000-mile, two-owner, 1985 Aston Martin Lagonda . Priced at $75,000, it seemingly represents not only a bargain (original list price was $150,000, or around $3…

Thwart your most resolute enemies in the armored, 789-hp Brabus Invicto

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you determined, formidably armed enemies, invest in an armored Mercedes-Benz G-Class built by tuner Brabus to withstand grenade attacks, among other assaults. The company explained it develo…

2021 Ford Bronco spy shots confirm details from leaked images

With the 2021 Ford Bronco reveal and production delayed by a few months in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, we're still left hungry for morsels on the off-road SUV. Today's Bronco snack comes in the form of spy photos showing a minimally camouflag…

Win a McLaren GT and $20,000 cold hard cash

There are certain moments in life you remember forever. The first time you met your spouse, your first car, your first dog, and for me, the first time I ever tracked a McLaren. It was a sunny day at M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, and while the vi…

Michigan floods from breached dams consume Pontiac Fiero collection

"We've never had an event like this," Michigan's city manager Brad Kaye said in a Detroit News story. "What we're looking at is an event that is the equivalent of a 500-year flood." Kaye is referencing the catastrophic flood that occurred in central …

Triumph Scrambler 1200 Bond Edition is one assassinated out bike

The latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, was supposed to come out a month ago . I guarantee that I would've seen it at least twice by now, which means I definitely would've been able to add at least some insight about how cool or underutilized this…

2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio exhaust is just as good as you hoped

Alfa Romeos, especially the fast ones, are car enthusiast darlings. As such, you likely already know that the 2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio has a Ferrari-derived twin-turbo V6 making 505 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque. What you may no…

[VIDEO] 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB 250 AMG Line Design Walkaround

We've gotten our hands on the 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB crossover a couple of times now, and in each instance we've found new ways to appreciate it . Not only does it offer more space than the GLA with which it shares most of its fundamentals, but it als…