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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020

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2021 Chevy Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle revealed with slew of upgrades

The 2021 Chevy Tahoe has had a complete redesign , revealed just a few months ago. Now Chevy is showing off the police versions , known as Tahoe Police Pursuit Vehicle (PPV) in road-going form and the Tahoe Special Service Vehicle (SSV) for off-road an…

Porsche Infotainment Review | Fast and clean, just like the rest of the cars

The infotainment system on a Porsche, especially a 911 , is one of the last concerns we have. That big screen in the dash is hard to care about when there's a lovely twin-turbocharged flat-six behind us and an open stretch of road ahead. But sports ca…

2019 Subaru Forester vs. 2020 Honda CR-V Car Seat Test | If we're picking sides ...

We've had our long-term 2019 Subaru Forester Touring for some time now, and I've had my large son's car seat in it — and out of it, and back in it — a fair number of times. Installing a car seat over and over is a pain, but the Forester is actually a…

2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E to get over-the-air updates

Ford's upcoming all-electric performance crossover, the Mustang Mach-E , is an exciting product that could be a game-changer for Ford. While we were initially skeptical of the name, we're already sold on its looks, and the details about its electric p…

Verge TS electric motorcycle has 737 lb-ft of torque, hub-less rear wheel

Finland-based Verge detailed an electric motorcycle named TS with a head-turning design and a jaw-dropping specifications sheet. It's cheaper than the Harley-Davidson LiveWire but not quite as quick to 60 mph. Verge — which was known as RMK Vehicles…

2022 Mercedes-Benz S-Class sheds most of its camouflage on Instagram

Mercedes-Benz hasn't finished testing the next-generation S-Class yet, but a batch of spy shots published on Instagram have revealed the sedan well ahead of schedule. Its exterior styling falls in line with the company's current design language, whil…

Hyundai 45 EV prototype sheds camo, sprouts cage in new spy photos

Hyundai's upcoming all-electric 45 was spotted in Germany wearing substantially less camouflage than in previous incarnations as the new green hatchback underwent performance testing. While the body-hugging vinyl wrap shows off the 45's pop-out doo…

2021 Kia Seltos Review & Buying Guide | Low-cost fashion and function

The 2021 Kia Seltos proves you don't have to spend a lot of money for both function and fashion. Its price and exterior dimensions fall in between the subcompact and compact SUV segments, yet it boasts more interior volume than is expected and an abu…

Americans weary of coronavirus lockdown getting back on the road

Cars on Interstate 40/85 in Mebane, N.C., Monday, May 11. Americans are slowly getting back on the road after hunkering down amid the cornonavirus pandemic, though driving still is well below normal. / AP OAK PARK, Illinois — Americans are s…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk defies lockdown, restarts factory, says he's manning the front lines

FREMONT, Calif. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter Monday that the company has restarted its California factory in violation of local government orders. In the afternoon tweet, Musk wrote that he would be on the assembly line and asked that …

Monday, May 11, 2020

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

May 11, 2020

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Tesla sues Alameda County over virus factory closure, threatens to leave

Tesla sued local authorities in California on Saturday as the electric carmaker pushed to re-open its factory there and Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened to move Tesla's headquarters and future programs from the state to Texas or Nevada. Musk has…

Subaru's new, more powerful Crosstrek is nearly as efficient as the existing model

Subaru quietly confirmed the Crosstrek will receive a bigger, more powerful 2.5-liter flat-four engine for the 2021 model year. It hasn't released technical details yet, and it kept its silence when Autoblog reached out for more information, but fuel…

Next-gen Hyundai Tucson reveals its production lights in new spy photos

The next-generation Hyundai Tucson continues to be spied out and about looking closer to production each time. This round of spy shots brings us our first look at the crossover's production lights, and they sure are funky. Our attention is drawn to …

2021 Chevy Camaro will get two Wild Cherry Design Packages

March brought the first tranche of information on what's in store for the 2021 Chevrolet Camaro . This includes expanded availability of the $4,500 Track Performance Package, the 10-speed automatic becoming an option on the Track pack, Android Auto an…

2021 Kia Seltos SX Turbo Design Driveway Test

As we showed last week , the new 2021 Kia Seltos provides an impressive amount of cargo space for its size and price point. It also has useful storage for small items up front and plenty of comfortable passenger space throughout. When this functionali…

Toyota Prius 2020 Edition marks 20 years of sipping fuel with sportier looks

Toyota is marking the 20th anniversary of its groundbreaking Prius hybrid by officially announcing a sportier-looking commemorative edition of the car called the Prius 2020 Edition. It'll be a 2021 model, and Toyota will limit production to 2,020 uni…

2024 Volvo XC100 Recharge to be Volvo's first foray into crossover coupes

Volvo reportedly has plans to launch an electric crossover coupe called the XC100 Recharge for the 2024 model year. A new report from Motor Trend spills some details, but doesn't cite anybody within Volvo as the source of information. Therefore, we'l…

Michael Jordan's cars showcased in 'The Last Dance' documentary

After the masses begged and pleaded for an early release, ESPN finally unlocked the doors to the biggest production in company history last month. Episodes 1 and 2 of The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary special about Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bul…

[VIDEO] Watching a 2010 Dodge Challenger become a Plymouth GTX is a restomod education

We cover a lot of restomods, many of them one-off SEMA show cars and low-volume builds from professional shops that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Autoevolution tells the story of Steve Mirabelli, who creates Mopar restomods as a hobby wh…

2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid Coupe Road Test | Worth the explanation

"What do you drive?" If you want the answer to that to be quick and easy, forget about this thing. Never mind that this specific car's name is basically a sentence, officially the "2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid Coupe with Lightweight Sport Pa…

Friday, May 8, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for May 8, 2020

May 08, 2020

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2020 Honda Civic Si Coupe Interior Driveway Test

The compact coupe is nearly extinct, and one has to assume that the Honda Civic Coupe is just clawing for its future life somewhere in the depths of product planning. For now though, the 2020 Civic Si Coupe still exists, it's still a barrel of laughs…

Toyota strongly hints it will launch a Corolla hot hatch in America

Toyota alchemized the newest Yaris into a street-legal, 268-horsepower pocket rocket in order to homologate it in the World Rally Championship (WRC). It's not going to sell the model here, partly because our Yaris is completely different from the one…

The 1965 Ford Mustang could have looked a lot different

The 1965 Ford Mustang is unquestionably an automotive design icon, and nearly every generation of Mustang has some connection to that original car. Because it's such a universally-known vehicle, we were amazed to see all the different designs that we…

One day later, junior car thief bags his Lambo

Five-year-old Adrian Zamarripa made headlines when he boosted his parents' SUV and set out for California from his home in Utah. With $3 in his pocket, the young supercar fan was on a quest to buy a Lamborghini. His plan unraveled, however, when Utah…

2020 Porsche Macan Review & Buying Guide | The performance choice

When it comes to the world of small sport utility vehicles, nobody does sport better than Porsche. That's as it should be, as the 2020 Porsche Macan continues its reign as an exceedingly fun crossover in just about every performance guise. The Macan …

Tesla aims to restart Fremont plant today, report says, but there's a wrinkle

Tesla plans to reopen its sole U.S. car plant in Fremont, California, as soon as Friday, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing an email from the company to its staff. The move comes a day after California allowed manufacturers in the state to reopen …

2021 Kia Seltos Luggage Test | Big space for little dough

The 2021 Kia Seltos starts at $21,990, which is consistent with a growing number of crossovers that slot in between sub-compact models (Hyundai Kona, Kia Soul, etc ) and compact models (Honda CR-V , Toyota RAV4 , etc). The Mazda CX-30 would be another e…

UMC Zero XP is a Zero SR/F naked electric streetfighter from the future

Hugo Eccles is the industrial designer who co-founded Untitled Motorcycles, a company that redresses a range of two-wheeled machines in a pared-down, artful, classic aesthetic. All 34 bikes in the portfolio of past work on UMC's website look like the…

'Dirt 5' announced, promising even more variety than before

The mainline "Dirt" racing game series is back this fall with "Dirt 5." While the "Dirt Rally" spin-off series has focused on highly realistic and technical stage rally and rallycross events, the main "Dirt" games have combined a variety of off-road …

Musk says Tesla Roadster is delayed until after Cybertruck

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a podcast interview released on Thursday that the company's planned Roadster sports car would take a backseat to the development of other vehicle models. Talking with stand-up comic Joe Rogan, the billionaire …

Thursday, May 7, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for May 7, 2020

May 07, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

2019 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited tips over in IIHS crash test

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety just tested the 2019 Jeep Wrangler , marking the group's first test of the latest generation JL Wrangler. It released a couple videos of the test online to depict what happened. The headline does most of the…

Chevrolet may end 2020 Corvette production after making about 2,700 units

The eighth-generation Chevrolet Corvette deserves a do-over. Its market launch was marred by a United Auto Workers (UAW) strike that paralyzed General Motors for 40 days in the fall of 2019 and a pandemic that forced the global economy to grind to a …

2021 Kia Stinger facelift caught in the wild in new spy photos

The 2021 Kia Stinger was caught testing on the roads of Germany this week sporting heavy camouflage to disguise the changes coming in its mid-cycle update. This prototype is wearing extensive exterior and interior disguise, hinting that both will r…

2020 Jeep Gladiator Mojave Suspension Flex Test

I've been eager to get my hands on a new 2020 Jeep Gladiator Mojave ever since it was first announced. The specs are right up my alley: A 1-inch front lift to level the truck and give it more front compression travel, softer rear springs to allow the…

VW explains why the new Golf GTI still has a stick and isn't a hybrid

Volkswagen's new Golf GTI should have been one of the stars of the canceled 2020 Geneva Motor Show . We couldn't check it out in person as planned, and we still haven't seen it in the metal, but we caught up with some of the engineers and designers wh…

Alfa Romeo Giulia, Stelvio Quadrifoglio get louder and — literally — greener

Alfa Romeo made several small improvements to the Quadrifoglio variants of the Giulia and the Stelvio as part of its 110th birthday celebrations. The changes make both models safer, more stylish, and quite a bit louder. Outside, the design tweaks ar…

Lamborghini turns the Huracán EVO into a tail-wagging rear-wheel-drive roadster

The latest evolution of the Lamborghini Huracán Evo loses its top and its front axle to deliver a wind-in-your-hair driving experience whether it's going forward or sideways. The company proudly explained the newest addition to its line-up relies on …

2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB-Class Interior Storage Driveway Test

The 2020 Mercedes-Benz GLB-Class is an impressive new entry in the rapidly growing subcompact luxury SUV segment. A big part of its appeal, literally, is how much interior space Mercedes was able to squeeze out of its exterior dimensions. A lot of th…

Frank Stephenson's BabyArk child seat mixes supercar/military tech with nature's forms

After capping a career at Mini, BMW, Ferrari, and Maserati with nine years at McLaren, Frank Stephenson retired from the English automaker in 2017 to open a design firm. The Frank Stephenson Design Consultancy obeys four dictates : A project needs to …

2020 Aston Martin DB11 tops this month's list of discounts

When we drove the Aston Martin DB11 for the first time , we said that it "stands out" and that "it delivers on the promise of Aston's potential for a successful second century." But we also said, "There must be a reason to buy the Aston beyond the fac…