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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

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

Mar 11, 2020

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2- and 4-door 2021 Ford Bronco leaked again in clearest photos yet

Clearer photos of the 2021 Ford Bronco made their way onto social media Tuesday night, giving us our best look yet at what Ford has in store for its revived 4x4. Photos of the production-spec off-roader have been slipping out of just about every cr…

2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S spied with ducktail spoiler

Fans of classic 911s and 911 designs have reason to be excited. One of our spy photographers caught a 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S testing in the snow, and it features a prominent ducktail rear spoiler. This is a distinctly different spoiler from the low…

2020 Jeep Wrangler Review & Buying Guide | Go anywhere many ways

The 2020 Jeep Wrangler's Sky Power Top option is the roof to get

If you're interested in buying a 2020 Jeep Wrangler , you've probably pondered which roof to get: the standard Sunrider soft top or the three-piece Freedom hard top. My answer: neither. The Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon we tested recently came equipped…

[VIDEO] Hyundai teases next-gen 2021 Elantra with 'Parametric Dynamics' design

We're not sure what we find more compelling about the teaser for the seventh-generation, 2021 Hyundai Elantra — Hyundai claiming this one "returns to its sport sedan roots," or the "Parametric Dynamics" design language that's resulted in a distinctiv…

2020 Ford Escape Titanium Drivers' Notes | An expensive athlete

The 2020 Ford Escape is completely new this year, riding on a new platform and featuring a heavily revised design both inside and out. The new Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid models are intriguing, but Ford is also happy to bring the power with a 2.0-liter…

German tuner Gemballa building Porsche 911 monster truck mutant mash-up

German tuner Gemballa released sketches of a Porsche 911 put on seriously tall stilts that it plans to bring to production. Called Avalanche 4x4, and presumably named after the snow cascade rather than the versatile Chevrolet truck, the model will la…

RUF SCR first production car is bad and plaid

RUF made a splash this week when it debuted a lifted Western-themed rally-type sports car called the Rodeo , but for now, it's only a concept. In its shadow, however, RUF showed a car that is actually available for purchase. The beautiful green sculpt…

BMW is putting the i8 out to pasture in April

BMW announced it will end production of the i8, which is available as a coupe and as a roadster, after a six-year production run. The model had a formative influence on current and future members of the company's range. The i8 started life as a wild…

Biden gets into heated exchange with Michigan auto worker over guns

DETROIT — U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden on Tuesday angrily turned on an auto worker at a campaign stop when questioned whether he was going to take away people's guns. "You're full of shit," Biden told the man who accused him o…

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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

Mar 10, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2021 Ford Bronco seemingly revealed in both 2- and 4-door guise

Are you tired of reading about the 2021 Ford Bronco? Well, you'll have to bear with us just a little while longer, as the leaks just keep on coming. Late Monday, photos of both a production-line car and a styling buck came squirting out of just abo…

Here are the cars the presidential candidates drive

Michigan is the largest of the six states holding primary elections on Tuesday, so as the nominating contest for the presidential election touches down in the home of the U.S. auto industry, we decided to check in on what kind of cars the candidates …

2020 Jaguar XE P300 R-Dynamic S Drivers' Notes | A divisive sport sedan

The 2020 Jaguar XE in P300 R-Dynamic S trim is the quickest and most aggressively styled version of the XE available after its 2020 update. We lost the characterful and punchy supercharged V6 (and diesel ), and in its place we found two turbocharged f…

2020 Tesla Model Y becomes Tesla's millionth car

Tesla reached a major milestone this week with the production of its millionth car, a 2020 Tesla Model Y . Elon Musk shared the moment on his Twitter feed with photos of the car and a big group of Tesla employees. Looking closely, it appears to be Pe…

Cadillac Celestiq electric sedan could top $200,000

General Motors teased a slew of new electric vehicles last week at a media event where cameras weren't allowed, and now there's more news about the Celestiq, one of the two EVs in the pipeline for Cadillac . Reports suggest it won't come cheap and wil…

[UPDATE] Cadillac Blackwing gets ticket to Italy, to go to work in a supercar

UPDATE: It seems MAT's belief it had secured a supply of Cadillac's 4.2-liter Blackwing V8 was premature, and based on a handshake deal before GM sold its Turin engine center to Italy's Punch Group. Shortly after Hagerty ran the story, GM sent a stat…

Electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class only 'a few years' away

CarAdvice spoke to Daimler CEO Olla Källenius about electrification of the Mercedes-Benz lineup, the G-Class taking the same outsized place in the conversation that it has in the Mercedes lineup. The automaker honcho told the outlet, "The G-Wagen tra…

2020 Lincoln MKZ gets price and trim changes, new packages

The Lincoln MKZ doesn't have much longer to live, slated to meet the executioner later this year. The team in charge isn't letting the brand's penultimate sedan die unloved, Ford Authority reporting a raft of cosmetic changes and packages that can se…

2021 Mercedes-Benz Metris takes some of the guesswork out of driving a van

Mercedes-Benz's van-building division introduced a comprehensively updated Vito that gains better in-car technology, new turbodiesel engines and, in some markets, an available electric powertrain. The American-spec model, which is known as the Metris…

Plans for electric Porsche 718 dragged down by battery weight

Porsche hasn't decided yet if there will be battery-electric versions of the 718 Cayman and Boxster. According to a report in September last year , the German sports car maker had intended to make a decision by this September. An update on the situati…

Monday, March 9, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 9, 2020

Mar 09, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2021 Ford Bronco Sport shown completely undisguised in leaked photos

Photos of the 2021 Ford Bronco Sport — widely referred to as the "Baby Bronco" — have leaked, revealing the new Jeep Renegade competitor in all of its sheetmetal glory. These leaked photographs come our way courtesy of BroncoSportForum.com and appe…

How this father and son's new electric turbine could revolutionize electric cars

In the past two years, companies have promised electric motors producing far more torque density, measured in kilowatts per kilogram. Avid said its makes "one of the highest usable power and torque densities of any electric vehicle motor available o…

2022 Hyundai Kona N spied with big brakes, big wheels, big exhaust

What Albert Biermann wants, he gets. A couple of years ago, he reportedly wanted to make a Hyundai Kona N , and now one of our spy photographers has caught one testing in the snow. Though it's well-covered, it can't hide some obvious performance-orien…

Ford shows its dealers the sub-Ranger pickup it hopes will replace sedans

Ford is moving forward with its plan to release so-called white-space vehicles that fill the void left by cars like the Fiesta and the Focus. It recently showed one of these models, a sub-Ranger pickup truck, to its top dealers. While photography wa…

Possible 2021 Ford Bronco exterior paint palette leaks

The Bronco6G forum paid a visit to the Automotive Touchup website and came away with the color palette — or at least part of it — for the 2021 Ford Bronco. Automotive Touchup, in the process of advertising colors to repair that paint on a new Bronco,…

1970 Mustang Boss 302 racer and matching transport truck relive the glory days of Trans Am

It's hard to imagine you wouldn't have the coolest setup at pretty much any vintage racing event or car show if you showed up with this duo: a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Trans-Am racer replica and matching Ford C-800 cab-over transport truck. The thr…

2021 Honda Odyssey ages gracefully with midlife refresh

The 2021 Honda Odyssey is getting its midlife refresh and biggest update since it was totally redesigned for the 2018 model year . Honda says we'll receive more information and photos at the New York Auto Show, but the preview today is pretty comprehe…

BMW shelves iX3 electric crossover plans for America

The 2021 BMW iX3 is not coming to the U.S. right now. A new report from Automotive News stated as much, but the news was also tucked deep within the BMW i4 Concept press release from Geneva. We got in touch with BMW representatives in the U.S. to con…

[VIDEO] Take a closer look at the Bentley Bacalar with Top Gear

We haven't returned to the Golden Age of coachbuilding yet — meaning the the century-old, Roaring Twenties process of purchasing a rolling chassis from a manufacturer and delivering it to a design house for one-of-a-kind bodywork. Assuming such artis…

My Uber driver had an accident — What should I do now?

With more than a million Uber drivers on American roads every day, there are accidents involving Uber drivers pretty much every hour of every day. As such, it's a good idea to have a basic awareness of the legal and insurance issues that will affect …

Friday, March 6, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for March 6, 2020

Mar 06, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2021 Ford Bronco spied undisguised with roof off

The folks at Bronco6G have come to us once again with some big deal Bronco info. They shared a photo that an obviously nameless person took of the back side of what looks like a new Bronco either in a factory or in a Ford garage, and it's in close to…

Koenigsegg's Jesko Absolut can hit 330 mph, according to simulations

Chasing speed records is falling out of vogue. Bugatti announced it would stop trying to go faster after it broke the 300-mph barrier , and Koenigsegg presented the Jesko Absolut as the fastest series-produced car it will ever make. While it hasn't pu…

Used Ford Mustang Shelby GT350s are starting to get affordable

Used Ford Mustang Shelby GT350s are finally dropping into the $30,000-$40,000 range, folks. Of course, depreciation itself isn't news. Pretty much every car depreciates after it leaves the dealer lot. This is more of a public service announcement for…

2020 Honda CR-V vs 2020 Toyota RAV4 Luggage Test | Family-mobile cargo smackdown!

For those waiting oh-so-patiently last Friday for the week's luggage test , I must apologize. It never came. Alas, there was a reason, and it was to take advantage this week of having two competitor crossovers in back-to-back weeks. And they're not ju…

Seattle-area Toyota dealer closes after worker tests positive for coronavirus

The coronavirus that delivers the illness known as COVID-19 is affecting all parts of the automotive industry. For Toyota specifically, the outbreak has caused concern about the manufacturing and supply chain in Japan, and it's also put a spotlight o…

Pickup trucks ranked by their likelihood to pass 200,000 miles

These are the pickup trucks that are the most likely to reach 200,000 miles. The top three trucks all come from Japan.

Ford Focus, Fiesta owners with faulty transmission get new compensation deal

Owners of Ford Fiesta and Focus models with the company's problematic PowerShift automatic transmission will be eligible for vehicle buybacks and for cash compensation, according to a new settlement. As reported by the Detroit Free Press , depending o…

David Brown's newest Mini Remastered is a tribute to James Bond's Lotus Esprit

England-based David Brown Automotive introduced a one-off version of its restomodded Mini Remastered built as a tribute to the Lotus Esprit Turbo driven by James Bond. It's a unique, unabashedly British creation that shares very few parts with the ci…

Aston Martin developing TT hybrid V6 to replace AMG-sourced V8

We knew that Aston Martin is working on a twin-turbo 3.0-liter V6 hybrid that will fit into the forthcoming mid-engined Valhalla (pictured) and Vanquish sports cars . Car and Driver spoke to Aston Martin boss Andy Palmer, who explained that the engine…

2020 Indian Motorcycle Scout Bobber Sixty lets you murder out for less

Indian Motorcycle's newest model, unveiled Thursday, is the 2020 Scout Bobber Sixty, a stripped-down, more lightweight and less expensive version of its popular Scout Bobber. The biggest differences from the Scout Bobber are a smaller engine — 999 c…