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As President Trump briefs the country on the spread of the virus, an update on how it’s affecting the U.S. and world’s automakers. The coronavirus is unpredictable, and so is its impact on the automotive industry. While global automakers are still saying that their North American production and sales efforts are continuing apace, there are …

Moody’s credit-rating agency changed its prediction for 2020 global auto sales. Read More »

Plus, the 800 Adventure XLP is taller, longer, and more powerful than the ordinary Mercedes-AMG G63. Do you need a 800-hp Mercedes-AMG G63 that’s converted into a pickup truck with a landing pad for your drone on the back? Of course you don’t need one. But if you’re all about high-end, high-performance off-road excess, Brabus has the thing …

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Park Han-woo, president of Kia Motors Corp, said he plans to meet with reporters at the Korea Automobile Journalists Association to replace the brand emblem. This is the first time that Kia’s senior executives have made public comments about the emblem replacement plan we already commented here by the end of 2019. Park Han-woo said, “The new emblem …

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It’s a four-door coupe. An electric, four-door coupe BMW, it appears, is wrong. It describes its upcoming i4 four-door coupe as “a perfect BMW”. Which, as anyone with sentience and eyes will attest, is incorrect. The E46 M3 CSL is a perfect BMW. However, we must grudgingly concede that times have moved on. So far in …

Here’s the side profile of the 526bhp BMW i4 Read More »

While we already processed that Hyundai will only launch a decaf N-line variant of the Sonata, at least for the time being, today we have a new set of spy pictures directly from South Korea that confirms they’re still fine tunning the 290-hp sedan. What we know so far? To clarify, in Hyundai’s world an …

Hyundai Sonata N-Line Spied in South Korea Read More »

It’s called LogR, get it? The 2020 Honda Civic Type R gets a number of updates over the previous model, plus a wild special edition, but one that Honda just announced is actually for your phone. The company is launching a phone app called LogR that will record vehicle data when you’re at a track. The app connects with the …

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Ahead of next month’s Geneva Auto Show, Hyundai is giving us a small teaser of its upcoming electric concept, the Prophecy. We’ve seen a small smattering of electric sports cars from the Tesla Roadster to Porsche’s Taycan, but aside from Honda’s Sports EV concept, where are the reasonably attainable and reasonably sporty EVs for folks like us? Maybe this …

This Hyundai Concept Could Be The Sporty EV Prophecy Foretold Read More »

Gaining Canoo’s electric skateboard is part of $87 billion EV push Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. The electric vehicle platform will be based on Canoo’s proprietary …

Hyundai partners with startup Canoo to develop EVs Read More »

Nikola Corporation has announced the Nikola Badger electric pickup that has an estimated range of 600 miles on blended fuel cell and battery power. The truck will be offered as a fuel-cell electric vehicle or as a traditional battery-electric vehicle. Nikola says that the Badger can go 300 miles on electricity for those with no …

Nikola Badger pickup can run on hydrogen or electricity Read More »

There are almost as many types of car repairs as there are types and models of cars on the roads. Even for the separate vehicle systems, i.e. engine, transmission, etc., there are a multitude of repairs for each system. Then there’s also maintenance items to consider. Almost every one of the systems on your vehicle …

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