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This week, the Window Shop crew was tasked with looking for online listings of underrated cars. As defined in the brief, an underrated car is one that was reviewed poorly and unappreciated in its time but that now seems like something you’d want to own. After all, time heals all wounds. We set a $20,000 budget for no other reason than it would make our search a little easier and off we went.Contributor Jonathon Ramsey’s pick is the oldest of the bunch, but even after nearly 40 years, not enough time has gone by to make any of us reconsider the AMC Spirit. Sure, the pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin, might have predated turning cars into four-wheelers, and its legacy can be seen in today’s crossovers, but the Spirit’s performance—it takes 20.0 seconds to hit the quarter-mile—remains comprehensively terrible. Our other contributor on this episode, the excitable John Pearley Huffman, chooses a late-model Buick Lacrosse, which he declares to be the last Buick car. Senior editor Joey Capparella points out that his Buick, the final Regal, is actually the last car to wear the tri-shield. Does it matter that the Regal was also an Opel Insignia? Does it matter that deputy testing director K.C. Colwell’s mother-in-law owns one? Does any of this matter?Speaking of Colwell, still reeling from an uncharacteristic WS loss last week, presents a car that C/D rated quite highly—even giving it a 10Best award—but that never caught on with buyers and should therefore be considered underrated. A debate about what it means to be underrated breaks out. Watch the entire episode and you might learn something useful, like that Ferdinand Piëch hated illuminated steering-wheel controls and also where Capparella went to college.

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As General Motors moves toward electrification, it has changed its logo and kicked off an ad campaign promoting its commitment to EVs.
The new logo fades from light blue to darker blue and displays the GM letters in lowercase type, is intended to evoke “the clean skies of a zero-emissions future and the energy of the Ultium [battery] platform,” GM said.
General Motors announced in November that it’s speeding up its plan toward electrification and is now aiming to have 30 electric vehicles on the market by 2025.
For the first time in a decade—and only the fifth time in its history—General Motors is getting a new logo, one which features lowercase lettering. The change comes as the automaker is on the brink of introducing a large number of electric vehicles and is seeking to make its image reflect that change.

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GM revealed three different variations of the new logo, one of which is black, one which is the traditional GM blue, and another which fades from a light blue to a darker blue through the lettering. The automaker says that the latter of the three evokes “the clean skies of a zero-emissions future and the energy of the Ultium platform.” Much like the GM logos of the past, the look is clean and simple.
Ultium is the name GM has assigned to its electric-vehicle platform and the batteries going into said vehicles. That platform was revealed for the first time in March 2020 and is going to be first introduced in the GMC Hummer EV, which was revealed in October. It will then shortly thereafter be seen on the Cadillac Lyriq and other electric vehicles in GM’s lineup.

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General Motors has accelerated its plans for electrification, saying in November that it aims to have 30 electric vehicles on the market by 2025, at which point it expects the cost of its Ultium batteries to drop by 60 percent from current prices. GM also announced an additional $7 billion investment in electric and autonomous tech, bringing its total investment in such technology to $27 billion through 2025.
In a call with investors last year, an auto analyst raised the question of why General Motors doesn’t change its name altogether. He proposed GM become simply Ultium to reflect the direction that GM is headed, toward electrification. GM CEO Mary Barra said that the automaker wouldn’t rule out a future name change, but at the moment is more focused on developing future electric vehicles.
Of course, a change of a logo isn’t as drastic as a name change, but it’s further proof of where GM sees itself going.
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Tesla has added a cheaper Standard Range model of the Model Y to its lineup with an EPA estimated 244 miles of range.
The rear-wheel-drive Model Y Standard Range starts at $43,190.
A new seven-seat configuration is now available on the Standard Range and Long Range for $3000.
Tesla’s Model Y electric compact crossover has added a cheaper Standard Range model with an EPA-estimated 244 miles of range, the lowest driving range of any Tesla available, despite CEO Elon Musk tweeting in July that the model was dropped because of its sub-250-mile range. And it’s still not the cheapest Tesla you can buy. That is currently the Model 3 Standard Range Plus, which starts at $39,190 and has an estimated 263 miles of range. The Model Y Standard Range starts at $43,190 and is available to order now.

Tesla Model Y Standard Range in Deep Blue Metallic with 20-inch wheels ($2000).
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The Model Y crossover is based on the Model 3 sedan, and it shares its chassis and interior. However when we tested a Long Range Model Y, we found that its ride was rougher and its handling wasn’t as good as the Model 3’s. The Model Y is offered in two other versions: Long Range (EPA-estimated 326-mile range) and Performance (303-mile range), both dual-motor models with all-wheel drive. The newly introduced Standard Range model is rear-wheel drive.

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Tesla has also added a third-row option to the Model Y, announced at the crossover’s launch last year, and it’s available for $3000 on both Standard Range and Long Range models. On the Model Y, the option can be had with an all-black or black and white interior, and it adds two seats in the rear with third-row USB-C outlets, a sliding second row, and electronic flat folding releases in the trunk. We expect headroom to be fairly tight in the available third row, though its dimensions haven’t been announced.
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The 2021 Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback and Mirage G4 sedan both see their prices increase by $300 over 2020 models; they now start at $15,290 and $16,290, respectively.
The Mirage received a facelift for 2021 and got several interior updates, and Mitsubishi also dropped the GT trim, the highest trim level.
The 2021 Mirage and Mirage G4 are already on dealer lots.
Mitsubishi’s entry-level subcompacts, the Mirage hatchback and Mirage G4 sedan, received facelifts for the 2021 model year along with some updates on the interior, and the starting price for both have received a price bump of $300. The Mirage will start at $15,290 and the Mirage G4 will start at $16,290. That lowest price for the Mirage is for the base ES with a five-speed manual transmission. The same model with a continuously variable automatic transmission is priced $1300 higher, the same price difference as last year.

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The highest trim on the 2020 Mirage, the GT, is discontinued for 2021, leaving three trim levels: ES, LE, and SE. The top-trim SE received a price hike of $700 and now starts at $18,445. The Mirage G4, which didn’t offer a GT model last year, sees the SE trim increase by the same amount, to $19,190. On both the Mirage and the Mirage G4, the middle-level LE trim sees only a $25 price increase over 2020.
The 2021 Mirage is still powered by a 1.2-liter three-cylinder engine that puts out 78 horsepower and 74 lb-ft of torque. A Carbonite Edition gets a different grille along with carbon pattern surfaces elsewhere on the exterior. Both the Mirage and Mirage G4 are on dealer lots now.

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