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    DS Aero Sport Lounge EV Offers French Design Mastery Plus 671 HP

    French luxury brand DS has unveiled its Aero Sport Lounge concept, a full-electric vehicle of SUV proportions. The concept is equipped with a 680-hp engine and a 110.0-kWh battery with a claimed range of just over 400 miles. Forget screens: infotainment is instead projected onto the car’s dashboard and works using gesture control. French luxury […] More

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    All-Wheel Drive on 2020 Toyota Camry Costs $1400 Extra

    Toyota announced that the 2020 Camry with all-wheel-drive will start at $27,325 for the Camry LE, compared with $25,925 for the front-wheel-drive Camry LE. AWD costs an additional $1400 on all trim levels. The all-wheel-drive system is available on the LE, SE, XLE, XSE, and Nightshade models. They’ll arrive starting in spring 2020, and the […] More

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    A New VW Golf GTI Always Makes Us Happy, and Here's the Mk 8

    The eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI hot hatchback is here. It has a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four with 241 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. Europe will get the new GTI this fall, but Americans will likely have to wait until the fourth quarter of 2021 for it to arrive. As the former owner of two second-generation […] More

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    Tesla Reports Only 12.2 Miles of Autonomous Mode Testing in 2019

    Companies working on self-driving cars are required to give the state of California regular reports on how many miles they drove and how many disengagements from autonomous mode there were (number of times a human intervened). Tesla reported, for 2019, only one autonomous drive in the state, of a mere 12.2 miles, and no disengagements. […] More

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    Tesla Sentry Mode Records Vandal Smashing Model 3's Window

    A vandal in Vancouver decided to throw a sizable rock onto the windshield of a Tesla Model 3, and its cameras caught the whole thing. All Teslas built after August 2017 come equipped with a Sentry mode that uses the car’s numerous cameras to monitor the car and its surroundings. Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously […] More

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    Mercedes-Benz Electric EQA Is Out Cold-Weather Testing

    The EQA concept vehicle, first unveiled in 2017 at the Frankfurt auto show, is close to production, as these cold-weather testing photos show. The EQA is expected to go into production before the end of 2020. Mercedes will also reveal at least two new models at the Geneva auto show with its third-generation hybrid powertrain. […] More