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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 8, 2020

Sep 08, 2020

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GM buys $2 billion stake in Nikola, will build Badger hydrogen-electric pickup

DETROIT — General Motors formed its second major electric vehicle partnership in less than a week, this time a $2 billion deal with startup Nikola. GM will take an 11% ownership stake in the Phoenix company and will engineer and build Nikola's Badge…

Honda Civic Hatchback gets slight price increase for 2021

After detailing the Type R Limited Edition, Honda has released pricing information for the 2021 Civic Hatchback. It's not making any major changes to the model, but it's slightly increasing prices across the board. The lineup consists of four trim l…

Porsche makes a strong case for pairing the 718's flat-six with an automatic

The high-performance variants of the 2021 Porsche 718 are fearlessly arguing that automatic transmissions and sports cars are not mutually exclusive. When ordered with two pedals, the GTS 4.0, GT4, and Spyder variants are quicker than their three-ped…

[VIDEO] Elon Musk takes the VW ID.3 for a spin: 'It's pretty good'

FRANKFURT — Volkswagen's Chief Executive Herbert Diess on Monday sought to quell speculation that the world's largest carmaker, which is on a mass production push for electric cars, has plans to develop deeper ties with startup rival Tesla. Diess me…

Production VW ID. Roomzz, likely to be ID.6, shown with thin disguise in spy photos

With the recent launch of the Volkswagen ID.3 and the imminent reveal of the ID.4 , VW's electric strategy is building momentum. That momentum will continue with the even bigger electric crossover shown in the spy photos above. It's the production ver…

This gorgeous 1950 Chevy Thriftmaster pickup is the latest Icon build

Icon is best known for its restored and re-engineered 4x4s, but the Chatsworth, California company is also heavily into vintage pickups. We were fortunate enough to drive a blue 1952 Chevrolet Thriftmaster not long ago, and now Icon has rolled out an…

Ineos Grenadier reveals scale and inspiration next to classic 4x4s

British chemical giant Ineos developed the Grenadier , its first car, as a no-nonsense off-roader that picks up where classic 4x4s left off. It proved its point by displaying a prototype next to some of the models that inspired it. Autoblog frantical…

100+ mph speeding tickets, traffic deaths spike nationwide: N.C. driver clocked at 187

Authorities in Four Oaks, N.C., said a man faces several charges after being arrested for hitting 187 mph on Interstate 95 over the Labor Day weekend. A state trooper tried to stop the driver Sunday after he sped through a work zone, TV …

Nissan Rogue Sport interior caught in new round of spy photos

The next-generation Nissan Qashqai (sold in the United States as the Rogue Sport) has been spied in the wild yet again, and this time our enterprising photographers managed to snag a few shots of the replacement crossover's interior. Much of the in…

Move aside robots, Tesla bets on aluminum casting

FRANKFURT/DETROIT — Robots are not efficient enough for Tesla's new car factory in Germany, which plans to replace hundreds of them with giant aluminum casting machines to build simpler chassis parts, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. …

Friday, September 4, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 4, 2020

Sep 04, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

Jeep Wrangler 4xe's hybrid powertrain: Could it be headed to other FCA products?

On its own, the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid is a big deal for the brand and the model line. It's the most powerful and most efficient Wrangler by significant margins, and it doesn't give up the off-road capability that makes the Wrangler so…

Watch Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1,500-hp dragster's eye-popping 8.27-second quarter-mile

Ford shocked enthusiasts when it unveiled an electric, Mustang-derived dragster with 1,400 horsepower. It finally let the model loose on a drag strip to find out how much time it takes to sprint through the quarter-mile. Developed jointly by the com…

Honda adds the outdoorsy Trail 125 to its motorcycle lineup for 2021

Honda confirmed the Hunter Cub CT125 it introduced in March 2020 will be sold in the United States, where it will be called the Trail 125. It's an evolution of the Super Cub C125 upgraded to comfortably wander off the pavement. Part of the brand's M…

Labor Day is the third-deadliest holiday for driving — and this one could be worse

Summer is the deadliest season for American drivers, and Labor Day is the third deadliest holiday overall on U.S. roads, a study cautions. In a typical year, more than 440 fatal crashes will occur over the end-of-summer holiday. The study conducted …

2021 Subaru Impreza gets new driving modes for a mild price increase

Subaru has announced pricing information for the 2021 Impreza. It costs a little bit more than the outgoing 2020 model, but some trim levels gain a new feature named SI-Drive that adds two driving modes. Pricing for the 2021 Impreza sedan, the compa…

Volkswagen ID.4 EV interior: screens and touch-sensitivity

The reveal of the Volkswagen ID.4 , the first member of VW's new family of battery-powered vehicles slated to come to the U.S., is getting closer. Before we see the exterior of the crossover EV later this month, Volkswagen is giving us a preview of th…

Gordon Murray Automotive T.50s revealed as track-only, even more extreme T.50

It's been one month since the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 was fully revealed. We're still reeling from learning about how stupendous it is, but Gordon Murray has gone and one upped himself again today. In addition to the road-going T.50, there will…

The Ford Expedition is a comfortable road trip vehicle — here's how I'd make it better

Autoblog may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability is subject to change. Growing up taking long, sometimes arduous road trips from Detroit, Michigan to locations like Maine, Florida and Montana, we got …

Dodge expands Challenger Widebody range to include Shaker and T/A 392 models

Dodge announced early Friday that it has added two new Challenger Widebody variants to its lineup: Starting now, you can get that big ol' booty with a little extra shake, and "T/A" now stands for ... no, sorry, I'm being told it in fact still stands …