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Monday, September 14, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 14, 2020

Sep 14, 2020

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2020 Acura NSX Road Test | The cerebral supercar

The 2020 Acura NSX is the kind of car you're pumped to drive. You think about it the night before. You read up on it. You tell your friends and family. You notice passers-by admiring it in the driveway. They try to be sly. Some gawk. There's anticipa…

2021 Ford Ranger Tremor brings extra off-road capability and style

There are oodles of ways to configure an off-road-ready 2021 Ford Ranger, thanks to many different Ford Performance parts , kits and stage packages . And now there's yet another option in the Ranger Tremor, which packs plenty of choice upgrades in a tr…

Supercharged, 810-hp carbon fiber Shelby GT500CR takes a year to build, costs $300K

Classic Recreations has unveiled a limited-edition, resto-modded Mustang that looks like it raced right out of a Hot Wheels catalog. It features a carbon fiber body, and it's powered by a supercharged V8 engine. Wisconsin-based SpeedKore, which is k…

Ford says emissions regulations will keep a V8 out of the Bronco

Ford doused cold water on the rumors claiming the born-again Bronco will sooner or later gain an optional V8 engine. While an eight-cylinder might fit, the company needs to keep the SUV's CO2 emissions in check. "We have to manage the CO2 implicatio…

Rivian R1T faces first competitive test in Rebelle Rally

Not long ago, the Rivian R1T electric pickup engaged in a very public bit of development testing as a support vehicle for "Long Way Up " — the trip Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman took on Harley Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycles from Ushuaia, A…

Oregon wildfires melt vehicles, blacken driveways

PHOENIX, Ore. — Matt Manson stared at the burned-out corpse of his pickup truck on Friday, which sat on a blackened driveway in front of a smoldering pile of rubble that once was his house. Like other residents of the small agricultural town of Phoe…

Ford Expedition will enter 2021 with more standard and optional features

Ford's biggest SUV, the eight-seater Expedition , will enter the 2021 model year with a longer list of standard and optional features. The extra content will help it fend off four new SUVs from General Motors. Motorists in the market for the long-whe…

Aston Martin AMR-C01 is an Aston you can drive in your living room

Aston Martin has made a lot of amazing cars over the decades. But none of them have been able to be driven inside a house. That sort of changes now, as Aston Martin has collaborated with driving simulator company Curv to create the AMR-C01 simulator …

Junkyard Gem: 1973 Mercedes-Benz 280C

Car shoppers seeking a slick-looking-yet-sensible luxury coupe in 1973 had plenty of choices from the Motor City, including the Pontiac LeMans , the Mercury Montego GT , and the Plymouth Satellite . Price tags on those machines started at $2,920, $2,926…

This is the sketch that became the '75–'76 Chevy Caprice

It's always interesting to see the initial design sketch for a production car, as it takes a familiar-to-us form and shows the idealized version of that car, the designer's blue-sky dream before it went through the mill of production feasibility, mar…

Friday, September 11, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 11, 2020

Sep 11, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2020 Mil-Spec Ford F-150 First Drive | When a Raptor isn't big enough

Over the past few years, automakers have discovered that people love high-performance off-road pickup trucks. The Ford F-150 Raptor really kick-started the trend, with the Chevy Colorado ZR2 , and now the Ram 1500 TRX following. Off-road-oriented trim…

2020 Chevrolet Corvette Luggage Test | What can't the C8 do?

Luggage testing a mid-engine sports car or supercar can be a worthless endeavor. In many cases, the trunk is just too small for a proper suitcase. But the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette isn't your average mid-engine sports car. Corvette owners have had a s…

Mercedes-Benz EQS spy photos reveal more of its S-Class-inspired interior

We've known for a little while now that the upcoming all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQS would take some inspiration from the company's newly unveiled flagship S-Class . That's understandable considering the EQS borrows a letter from the distinguished seda…

You can now campaign the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R on iRacing

The mid-engine 2020 Chevrolet Corvette may still be rare in the wild, but race sim fans can take the C8.R race car for a spin in iRacing starting this week. Dedicated racers can purchase and campaign GM's latest world-class GT Le Mans racer in the iR…

BMW M4 spied with wild stacked center exhaust, could be a GTS

The standard (and still yet-to-be-revealed) BMW M4 has a relatively normal quad-tipped exhaust with twin pipes on each side of the bumper. The prototype we're looking at here is totally different, as it features a stacked, center-exit quad exhaust de…

Lucid Air's modular powertrain opens up serious performance possibilities

The Lucid Air sedan is an impressive, high-end luxury electric car with an astounding 1,080 horsepower between 465 and 503 miles of range in its top Dream Edition spec, but thanks to the company's trick powertrain engineering, that figure may just be…

Audi Q4 Sportback E-Tron caught in fresh spy photos

Audi's new Q4 Sportback E-Tron has been spied in the wild. This slick-back coupe-style electric crossover is the sawed-off version of the standard Q4 E-Tron model, and they represent expansion of Audi's electric nameplate downward from the standard E…

Cadillac CT4 and CT5 get meaningful updates for 2021

It's common for vehicles to get an update here or there in between full redesigns every five or six years, but the changes being made for the 2021 Cadillac CT4 and CT5, each just introduced last year, represent more than just a little nip and tuck. F…

2021 Honda Passport adds standard Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

The Honda Passport enters its third year as the brand's midsize two-row SUV entrant. For 2021, the Passport sees prices climb by a few hundred dollars, but the base trim at least has additional content for the extra money. Prices rise by $625 for th…

Sailing makes a comeback in wind-powered car carrier

STOCKHOLM — A Swedish consortium aims to launch commercially by 2025 a wind-driven car carrier that will emit 90% less carbon dioxide than a conventional roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo ship, it said on Thursday. The 200-meter-long carrier will have a…