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    Mini Sidewalk Convertible Is One Way to Look Forward to Fun Days to Come

    Mini is relaunching a Sidewalk Edition for the 2021 model year, based on the Cooper S convertible. The ragtop model will be offered in either Deep Laguna Metallic or Enigmatic Black Metallic exterior colors and sports a gray-patterned softtop. Cool scissors-spoke wheels, touchscreen navigation, a head-up display, and a Harman/Kardon stereo system are among the […] More

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    Tesla Model Y Off-Roading Video Gets Hate on Twitter

    Twitter user Mike McGinnis posted a video of his new Tesla Model Y electric compact crossover driving across a flooded patch of dirt road. Commenters had mixed emotions about the off-road video, some applauding him and some claiming any car could do that. The Model Y starts at $40,200 and is the latest model from […] More

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    Dominic Toretto's Fast and Furious Dodge Charger Becomes Lego Kit

    Lego’s latest automotive creation is a replica of Dominic Toretto’s badass 1970 Dodge Charger R/T from the Fast and Furious movies. The 1077-piece Lego Technic kit features a V-8 engine with moving pistons, a double-wishbone suspension, and a wheelie bar. Pre-orders open today, March 30, and the Charger kit will be available for sale globally […] More

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    2021 Genesis G80 Fully Revealed, and We're Impressed

    We’ve already shown you that for 2021, the Genesis G80 has made a move upmarket; now we have an on-sale date for the sleek mid-size luxury sedan. The 2021 G80 rides on a new rear-wheel-drive platform and gets a choice of two turbocharged engines. The G80 goes on sale in the second half of the […] More

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    How Electric-Vehicle Startups Are Coping in Coronavirus Pandemic

    Rivian, which has been talking up its electric truck and SUV (below), and Lucid, with its near-production Air luxury sedan (pictured above), have both had to reschedule events due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some EV startups were in the middle of building factories when shelter-in-place orders were given. The agility that is a characteristic of […] More

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    GM, After Six-Year Battle, Settles Another Ignition-Switch Lawsuit for $120 Million

    General Motors has reached a preliminary settlement in a lawsuit on behalf of owners of vehicles with faulty ignition switches and related defects, agreeing to pay $120 million. The class-action lawsuit claimed loss of residual value in owners’ vehicles because of the defect. GM has recalled more than 2.6 million vehicles from the 2004 through […] More