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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

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

Nov 11, 2020

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BMW iNext is actually the iX, coming in 2022 with 500 horsepower and 300-mile range

It has been two years since we got our first look at BMW's new, electric-only crossover, then called the iNext . It featured a unique shape and bold styling designed specifically for an EV platform. Now we get a look at the nearly finished product, th…

2021 Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S sets new Nurburgring record at 7:27.8

Mercedes-Benz has reclaimed the title of fastest luxury four-door around the Nürburgring yet again with the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S, blitzing around the circuit in just 7:27.800. Unlike the insanely quick two-door model, which puts a priority on …

Amazon delivery driver drives onto golf course, wedges van under a tunnel

Photo Credit: Bill Offer, Boulder Pointe Golf Club Looks like Amazon drivers will literally deliver your packages wherever you tell them to. Common sense be damned, they're going to follow the navigation system no matter what. At least, that…

Audi RS 6 GTO concept paints its wagon in an homage to 90 Quattro IMSA GTO racer

The Audi RS 6 Avant , with its 591-horsepower twin-turbo V8, wide bodywork, and 3.6-second 0-60 time, is already one racy station wagon. The RS 6 GTO concept, however, makes it considerably racier. This special one-off is designed to commemorate the A…

2021 Ram 2500 Power Wagon 75th Anniversary Edition celebrates the military-derived original

The Ram Power Wagon has made a name for itself in this century as the ultimate heavy-duty off-road pickup truck. But the name has a much longer history than that. The first Power Wagon went on sale in 1945, and was based on large military trucks buil…

Lexus makes the LS more comfortable, smarter and even quieter for 2021

Lexus introduced an updated version of the LS , its flagship sedan, earlier in 2020, but it left out details about the American-spec model. As expected, it announced our version of the car will get several improvements for 2021. Now in its fifth gene…

Spy photos reveal mystery Ferrari prototype

European spies caught a mystery Ferrari hypercar mule testing on public roads this week. This prototype, which is based on a LaFerrari, seems to indicate that Ferrari is working on a successor. Though it may not seem like that long ago, it has been …

2021 GMC Canyon AT4 Road Test | The everyday tool

Bold take: The GMC Canyon is the most well-rounded midsize truck. Admittedly, "well-rounded" is a lukewarm compliment, but the Canyon does nearly everything well. It is not the flashiest, which is undeniably the Jeep Gladiator. Or the most comfortabl…

Porsche's mysterious three-seater looks more like the Apple Car than like a 911

Porsche's secret warehouse near Stuttgart, Germany, is full of fascinating one-offs and what-ifs , but one of the German company's most unusual cars to date is hiding deep inside its design studio. It released a sketch that shows a never-before-seen t…

BMW's electrified wingsuit turns people into motorized flying squirrels

BMW found a creative way to showcase its expertise in electrification. Its i division teamed up with its Designworks studio and intrepid stuntman Peter Salzmann to develop, build and test an electric wingsuit. Designing the device, which the German …

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for November 10, 2020

Nov 10, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2021 Honda Accord Hybrid First Drive | Still at the mountaintop

We won't bury the lede. The 2021 Honda Accord is still a stupendous sedan and arguably the best in its segment. The car was completely revamped for 2018 , and none of its competition have overtaken it since. Some among us will contend that the Mazda6 …

Nissan thinks its new Rogue is so good it's putting RAV4s in dealers to prove it

Nissan is so confident in its all-new 2021 Rogue that it's bringing the best-selling Toyota RAV4 into its dealerships for customers to more easily cross-shop them side-by-side. Put up or shut up, as they say. According to a report in Automotive News…

Audi Q4 E-Tron interior partially shown in spy photos

The upcoming Audi Q4 E-Tron and its Sportback cousin have been spied once again. Though the exterior photos don't reveal much, we finally get a look at the production interior. It's closely based on the concept design . Comparing the concept with thi…

Mercedes-Benz Weekender gets a name change, is now the Metris Getaway

Here's your daily dose of confusion. Mercedes-Benz has quietly changed the name of the Weekender to the Metris Getaway. We suspected something was off when Mercedes put out a press release for a camper van named the Metris Getaway that looked identi…

2021 Land Rover Discovery debuts with new turbo inline-six and big tech improvements

The 2021 Land Rover Discovery is here, and it looks a whole lot like the 2020 Discovery on the outside . Dig a little deeper, and you'll quickly discover (see what we did there?) the updates Land Rover gave its three-row SUV for the model's mid-cycle …

Ford Mustang Mach-E platform will be used for another electric vehicle

Ford is embarking on an electrified hiring and spending spree. We'll get to those details in a moment, but first we'll go over the vehicles all these workers will build, including one surprise. "An additional electrified vehicle" that "will share a …

Meyers Manx company sold to new owners for the first time, and the future looks bright

The Meyers Manx company has found new ownership for the first time. Bruce Meyers, now 94 years old, has officially sold his decades-old company to an investment firm called Trousdale Ventures. Bruce (pictured above) ran the company with his wife, Win…

Subaru BRZ next generation will be sold in U.S. but maybe nowhere else

A new reports says that Subaru has "no plans" to launch its upcoming second-generation BRZ in Europe. If true, that means the 100-unit Final Edition announced earlier this year for the German market is truly the final edition for the Old World. Furt…

Apparent Mercedes G-Class 4x4 Squared prototype caught in new spy photos

Yet another high-riding Mercedes-Benz G-Class prototype has been caught in the wild by spy photographers in Europe, giving us another taste of what Stuttgart has in store for the new generation of the venerable G-Wagen. This is the second time we've…

This $500 Out Run arcade cabinet relives 1980s 8-bit racing

If you were into cars in the 1980s, chances are you dropped more than a few quarters into Sega's classic Out Run arcade game, in which you race across the country in a custom convertible Ferrari Testarossa. That experience can now be recaptured with …