Friday, October 25, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for October 25, 2019

2019 Tokyo Motor Show Mega Photo Gallery | EVs and kei cars rule, All-new Volkswagen Golf is an evolution outside, revolution inside, Watch speeding driver, on course to hit family with stroller, get T-boned at last second and more...

Oct 25, 2019

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2019 Tokyo Motor Show Mega Photo Gallery | EVs and kei cars rule

TOKYO — The 2019 Tokyo Motor Show was once again held at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center, but most of the sights inside were quite small. Most automakers were revealing production and concept cars smaller than the average Honda Civic. Electric …

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All-new Volkswagen Golf is an evolution outside, revolution inside

This is the all-new, eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf, and while its world premiere would have received undivided attention in the past, the Golf must now share its fame. That's because VW almost simultaneously launched the ID.3, the electric car of…

Watch speeding driver, on course to hit family with stroller, get T-boned at last second

A family trying to cross a busy intersection with their baby in a stroller at night may have the stars to thank after a drunk driver who looked certain to plow into them after blowing through a red light was T-boned at the last second by an oncoming …

Sen. Schumer proposes $462 billion national car swap — gas for electric

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is moving Democrats' climate talk to where the rubber meets the road, proposing a $462 billion trade-in program to get millions of Americans out of climate-damaging gas vehicles and into electric or h…

[VIDEO] Jaguar unveils Vision Gran Turismo electric race car for 'Gran Turismo Sport'

We've driven some hot Jaguars, one of our favorites being the deliciously fast, all-electric I-Pace. Unfortunately, that car costs around $70,000 to start. Too rich for your blood? Jaguar has designed an all-electric race car specifically for PlaySta…


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2019 Tokyo Motor Show Editors' Picks

This year's Tokyo Motor Show was full of interesting vehicles, but one car ran away with our best-in-show award.

Woman, 81, was trapped in a partially submerged VW Golf for hours

An 81-year-old woman spent hours in the water early Thursday at the Higel Marine Park near Venice, Fla., and it wasn't some re-creation of her teenage night swimming years. She was trapped in her partially submerged Volkswagen Golf before a passing k…

Ford teases Mustang-inspired EV crossover ahead of Nov. 17 debut

The steady drumbeat of hype for Ford 's forthcoming Mustang -inspired battery-electric crossover continues, with the Dearborn automaker releasing a new teaser video and darkened sketch that give us arguably our best look yet at what will be Ford's firs…

Tesla overtakes GM as most valuable U.S. automaker — and short sellers get burned

Tesla shares soared 17% on Thursday after the electric carmaker surprised Wall Street by delivering on Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's promise of a profit in the third quarter, even as doubts remained about its long-term prospects. Trading at $2…

Subaru WRX STI EJ20 Final Edition a Japan-only goodbye

Just before Subaru stopped selling the WRX STI in the UK and Continental Europe, the automaker released 150 examples of a WRX STI Final Edition for the UK . Now that the Japanese-market WRX STI is about to give up its 2.0-liter EJ20 flat-four engine, …

Thursday, October 24, 2019

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for October 24, 2019

2019 Porsche GT3 meets its family on a California road trip, Bollinger prices its B1 and B2 electric trucks, Check out the Ford Super Duty lineup rolling into SEMA 2019 and more...

Oct 24, 2019

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2019 Porsche GT3 meets its family on a California road trip

OJAI, Calif. — California State Route 33 north of Ojai is a truly wonderful stretch of asphalt that crests a mountain range in Los Padres National Forest in Ventura County north of Los Angeles. Its miles of curving canyon roads contain plenty of shar…

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Bollinger prices its B1 and B2 electric trucks

Bollinger Motors , which recently unveiled its electric B1 four-door sport utility truck and B2 pickup, has now attached a price tag to the pair of rugged EVs. They'll have an MSRP of $125,000. So what do you get for that price? They're both Class 3 …

Check out the Ford Super Duty lineup rolling into SEMA 2019

Ford has already showed us the Rangers and SUVs of its 2019 SEMA lineup , and today we get to see the Super Duty agenda. There are five Super Duty trucks in total, and their packaging/modifications range greatly. Various upgrades are coming to the 20…

This Nissan Leaf has 501 pound-feet of torque and AWD, previewing future Nissan EVs

The electric Nissan Ariya Concept made its big debut at the Tokyo Motor Show a couple of days ago, but the electric news spout from Nissan isn't done flowing yet. Behold: an all-wheel drive twin-motor Nissan Leaf . It has 304 horsepower and a stonking…

Rats can drive tiny cars, and they find it relaxing, scientists say

We now have an answer to the age-old question of whether rats can learn to drive a vehicle, and the result is a resounding yes. What's more, the vermin even seem to find the whole endeavor relaxing. Researchers at the University of Richmond in Virgi…


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2020 Ducati Streetfighter V4 packs 208 hp in a 400-lb package

Over a thousand attendees wildly cheered as Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali unveiled the 2020 Streetfighter V4, a racing-inspired motorcycle that weighs less than a Chevrolet big-block engine yet packs more power than a Subaru BRZ . It's revving proof …

Ducati Panigale V2 joins revised V4, Multistrada and Diavel

RIMINI, Italy — Ducati doesn't just have customers; it has fans, followers, and worshippers. Your next-door neighbors might have bought a Toyota RAV4 because it's safe and it gets good fuel economy, or because they got a killer deal on it, but no on…

Lawsuit blames Tesla motorized door handles for death of driver stuck in burning car

Tesla is facing a wrongful death lawsuit in Broward Country, Florida, claiming that the motorized door handles on the Tesla Model S prevented the rescue of the driver of the car who died after a crash. Bloomberg initially reported the news. The cras…

Tesla posts surprise quarterly profit, sets deliveries record

Tesla posted a surprise quarterly profit on Wednesday, making good on Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's promise, and said it was "highly confident" in exceeding its target of delivering more than 360,000 cars this year. Shares of the company shot …

TV reporter fired after climbing on cars live at auto show

TV news is no stranger to using stunts to attract eyeballs — think reporters struggling to do standups in roaring hurricanes and pouring rain — but this will make enthusiasts and automotive journalists cringe. It's a live segment that happened Sunda…