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Monday, September 23, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 23, 2019

Sep 23, 2019

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Jessi Combs' record attempt to be submitted for Guinness World Record

LOS ANGELES — Jessi Combs' attempt to set the record for fastest woman on earth will be submitted for a Guinness World Record at 531.889 mph, it was announced Saturday evening during an event held in her honor at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Combs…

2020 Hyundai Venue First Drive Review | Small, with a big heart

SUNSHINE COAST, Australia — When your country is the size of the continental United States, but is home to fewer people than Texas, you're going to have lots of wide-open spaces. That's why Australia is the perfect place to wind out your McLaren Senn…

As GM strike enters its second week, here's where things stand

NEW YORK — The strike against General Motors by 49,000 United Auto Workers entered its second week Monday with progress reported in negotiations but no clear end in sight. Bargainers met all weekend and returned to talks Monday morning as the strike…

Mercedes-AMG GT R Black Series spied with ferocious front fascia

Last month, one of our spy photographers caught a Mercedes-AMG GT R sporting a radical new hood that suggested a Black Series variant was on the way. Another GT R has been spied with the same hood, but also even more exterior changes that seem to con…

Jaguar F-Type's next generation could be mid-engined

Jaguar's heritage is built on sports cars powered by a big, front-mounted engine covered by a long hood. The F-Type perfectly fits into this mold, but the company is ready and willing to set tradition aside in order to inject more performance into it…

Hyundai develops an airbag to protect you from your passenger, and vice versa

In modern cars, we're protected on nearly every side by airbags . Even our knees get them, though their effectiveness is questionable . But Hyundai discovered there's still an area in which we're not protected , and that's the area between the driver an…

Lexus sails the seas in luxury with its first-ever yacht

Lexus is taking its pursuit of luxury lifestyle offshore with a production version of its LY 650 yacht, revealed in Boca Raton last week. Now one can have an oceangoing Lexus to go with the LC 500 parked in the garage. Based on its Sport Yacht Conce…

Lamborghini Sian's supercapacitor hybrid system explained by company's CTO

"We are a game-changer and a provocateur," Lamborghini's CTO, Maurizio Reggiani told Engadget . The automaker has a long history of making waves with traffic-stopping designs and more recently, innovative tech . At last week's Frankfurt Motor Show , the…

Jeep Wrangler investigated by NHTSA for bad frame welds, steering problems

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into thousands of Jeep Wranglers made during the 2018 and 2019 model years. The agency wants to determine whether early examples of the current, JL-generation off-roader s…

[VIDEO] 'Autoblog off the Clock' | The birth of a Gladiator

Autoblog Off The Clock is an inside look at the automotive industry and the people who make it happen. Each episode we sit down with industry movers and shakers. We pour a couple of beers and let the stories fly. How did they get into the biz? What m…

Friday, September 20, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for September 20, 2019

Sep 20, 2019

Top Stories of the Day

2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package First Drive | Get hep to the HPP

SAUSALITO, Calif. — For some muscle-car fans, a four-cylinder Mustang will always be like ordering the green salad at a steakhouse. But the 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package is really more like the Impossible Burger that's winning c…

2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package vs 2019 Chevy Camaro 1LE | How they compare on paper

Though cars like the Shelby GT500 and Camaro ZL1 1LE get the big headlines, both Ford and Chevy have more affordable performance offerings. The latest is the (deep breath) 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package . Like the previous EcoBoos…

Tesla is confident it can beat Porsche's Nurburgring time — but not this month

The rumors claiming Tesla would try setting a Nürburgring record for production electric cars on Sept. 21 were false. Posting on its official Twitter account, the company confirmed its team has gone back to California in order to return to the drawin…

Watch a Porsche Taycan lapping a Tesla Model S prototype on the Nurburgring

With the Porsche Taycan about to compete with Tesla in the marketplace, Elon Musk has decided to compete with Zuffenhausen's finest on the track. After a Taycan Turbo set a record for fastest EV around the Nürburgring Nordschleife i…

Amazon's 100,000-van order is just the latest jolt of success for Rivian

DETROIT — Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive got a big boost from one of its investors on Thursday when Amazon.com announced it was ordering 100,000 electric delivery vans. Before Rivian has even begun commercial production at its factory in…

AP Fact Check: Trump team's distortions on fuel economy rules

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announce the Trump administration would revoke California's decades-old right to set its own fuel economy standards, with Wheeler saying, "Federalism does not mean that one sta…

GM's $7 billion offer to UAW reportedly would add more lower-paying jobs

DETROIT — A General Motors offer to invest $7 billion in U.S. facilities includes $2 billion from joint ventures and suppliers for new plants that would pay workers less than the top union wage, a person briefed on the matter said. The offer is a ma…

Woman puts injured bobcat in car — next to her toddler

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Officials have issued a warning after a Colorado Springs woman put an injured bobcat in her car, inches from where her child was in a safety seat: Don't pick up wildlife. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Bill Vogrin sa…

2020 Hyundai Palisade | How much fits behind the third row?

The 2020 Hyundai Palisade has 18 cubic-feet of space behind its raised third-row seat. That's more than nearly all of its three-row crossover competitors, but what exactly does that translate to in terms of actual luggage? Hyundai plopped in a gigant…

Thieves smash classic Mustang into store to steal PlayStations

Thieves in Athens, Greece, have done something less than intelligible. According to reports from the Athens Voice , linked to by Driven , and Proto Thema , several miscreants used a restored 1967 Ford Mustang as a battering ram to gain entry to an elect…