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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for August 25, 2020

Aug 25, 2020

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2022 Hyundai Elantra N spy photos show big brakes, big-ish wing

With the fully redesigned 2021 Hyundai Elantra sedan , the Korean car company is giving it a new performance focus. It's starting with an N Line turbo model this year , and based on these spy photos, there's a full-fledged N coming after. Even with the…

Jeep previews 2022 Grand Wagoneer again — plus the plug-in hybrid Wrangler 4xe

Jeep will soon expand its lineup by resurrecting the Grand Wagoneer nameplate and taking the Wrangler into plug-in hybrid territory for the first time. It released two short videos to preview both models. Posted on Twitter, the 15-second Grand Wagon…

What's hiding beneath this mystery BMW M8 mule?

Spy photos of a mystery BMW M8 mule being tested at the Nürburgring could be our first glance at BMW's rumored 600-horsepower plug-in hybrid. The demise of BMW's mid-engine i8 plug-in hybrid with no news of a direct replacement led us to wonder what …

2002 Mazda MX-5 Miata powered by a Jaguar-sourced V6 for sale

Cars & Bids, a relatively new site that specializes in auctioning modern enthusiast cars, is selling a 2002 Mazda MX-5 Miata. While that's hardly unusual, this example lost its four-cylinder engine and gained a Jaguar-sourced V6. Pulling a 3.0-l…

This is McLaren's new carbon fiber tub it will use for future hybrid supercars

Look! It's a big hunk of carbon fiber! Specifically, it's McLaren's new hunk of carbon fiber, and it's high tech to the max. McLaren says this new structure will be the basis of all hybrid supercars it produces in the future, with the first of those …

2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S has more performance, and it'll cost you more, too

The 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S Coupe brings a lot of improvements over its predecessor, especially with performance. But those improvements will cost you. The new model starts at $117,050 with destination charge. That's just over $3,000 more than the…

Scout Kenai truck camper completes the lightweight trio

Scout Campers plans to make its name with lightweight luxury pickup campers packaging thoughtful amenities and innovative solutions for the everyday needs during a bug-out. The new brand started with its mid-sized Olympic, followed that with the comp…

Elon Musk hints of jump in battery capacity ahead of Tesla Battery Day

SEOUL — Tesla Inc's chief executive Elon Musk has suggested the U.S. electric carmaker may be able to mass produce longer-life batteries with 50% more energy density in three to four years. "400 Wh/kg *with* high cycle life, produced in volume (not …

YouTuber built his own DIY version of Tesla's Cyberquad

Remember the ridiculous unveiling of Tesla's fabled Cybertruck ? The one where the truck's "Armor Glass" windows were broken in a demo gone wrong? You may also remember that Tesla announced a "Cyberquad" as a sort of accessory to go with the truck. It…

Porsche Drive subscription service expands, adds new tiers

Porsche announced early Tuesday that its subscription service, now dubbed "Porsche Drive," is getting an overhaul. Soon, customers in Los Angeles will be able to join the multi-vehicle subscription service Porsche started back in November 2017 with a…

Monday, August 24, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for August 24, 2020

Aug 24, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

Ford F-150's FX4 off-road package: $100 more buys you a key new feature

Ford's new, 14th-generation F-150 will reach showrooms in fall 2020 as a 2021 model, and information about the trim level hierarchy is beginning to emerge. Leaked documents confirm the off-road-oriented FX4 package will return, unsurprisingly, and it…

2020 Buick Encore GX First Drive | Bringing serenity to the subcompact market

With Buick seeing sales success in our crossover-crazed world, it's no wonder the company is adding to its crossover lineup with the 2020 Buick Encore GX . It sits just above the existing Encore , and it offers more space and new turbocharged engines f…

Indy 500 Mega Gallery | The Greatest Spectacle in Racing with no fans

Takuma Sato took the checkered flag at the 104th Indianapolis 500 this year. It's the second time Sato has won The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, but this time he did it without a single fan in the grandstands. There was some waffling on whether fan…

2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class bringing powerful engines and heaps of tech to U.S.

Mercedes-Benz hosted media for ride-alongs in the 2021 W223 S-Class, and the initial write-ups indicate it could take six months to figure out everything Stuttgart engineers put into the best-selling full-size luxury sedan. The least complex aspect i…

Leaked patent images reveal Russia's take on the Rolls-Royce Cullinan

Russia's upcoming entry into the booming mega-luxury SUV segment has been revealed ahead of schedule by leaked patent images. It's made by Aurus, the firm founded to develop president Vladimir Putin's limousine. Ostensibly aimed at the Bentley Benta…

Active Wheel Alignment System adjusts caster, camber, and toe on-the-fly

Wheel alignment is an exact science, but a one-size-fits-all exact science. Camber, caster, and toe can't be changed once the technicians have finished their work beyond what the suspension provides. Thanks to a piece in New Atlas via Motor1 , we know…

Harley-Davidson Bronx definitely delayed, may be canceled

Late last year, Harley-Davidson took its new Bronx naked streetfighter to Milan's EICMA show. The middleweight bike's frame cradled Harley's new liquid-cooled Revolution Max V-twin engine in the smaller 975-cc displacement, promising more than 115 ho…

Lucid SUV may have been spotted on a film shoot in Northern California

Earlier this month, Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson told Green Car Reports , "I can confirm that we're doing an SUV off the Air platform," and that the nascent automaker has already finished a road-worthy prototype. Deliveries of the Air sedan start …

2021 Chevrolet Silverado could lift tow ratings for 2.7T and 3.0

There are a bunch of detail changes coming to the 2021 Chevrolet Silverado, and it appears the most useful change is the one we understand the least. GM-Trucks reports that GM's August Consensus Report sent to dealers included a full page of imminent…

Ford rumored to be working on a multifunction tailgate

In July, after the debut of the 2021 Ford F-150, Ford Authority asked the automaker why the 14th-generation pickup didn't get a multifunction tailgate. F-150 engineering manager Dawn Piechocki told FA that customer feedback indicated F-150 buyers wer…