Endearing is not the same as good. Ask anyone who’s had a puppy and they’ll tell you as much. Endearing is puppy smells and wagging tails, the spots on the carpet? Another thing entirely. The 2020 Toyota 4Runner is endearing. It’s also objectively good—and I mean that in the way …
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With seven motors and a targeted 1400 horsepower, the Mach-E 1400, the work of Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Ford, is built for thrill rides. The 1400 is all-wheel drive, but removable front driveshafts allow for maximum drift action. Like the production Mach-E, the race car has four doors. And back …
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AMG wasted no time getting its hands on Mercedes’s smallest crossover, the new GLA. Compared to the 221-hp GLA250, the AMG GLA45 seems to be cut from entirely different cloth. There is an intermediate AMG GLA35 with at 302 horsepower, but the range-topping GLA45, with its 382-hp M139 engine, is …
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To what extent the coronavirus pandemic will wreak havoc on the automotive finance sector is a mystery. But what is known is that finance and insurance profits and product sales have been roiled. J.D. Power data suggests that F&I profits fell in the weeks following shelter-in-place orders aimed at mitigating …
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The Plymouth Barracuda, like other muscle cars, was offered in a huge number of color choices, some of them outrageous. The Wellborn Musclecar Museum took that idea one step further and painted the entire side of a ‘Cuda with the full color palette. The museum has an online configurator so …
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Volvo’s latest TV commercial shows four of its new semi-trucks stacked on top of each other and driving down an artistically lit road. The four big rigs that make up the rolling tower are the freshly updated FH, FH16, FM, and FMX. The guy on top? That’s Volvo Trucks president …
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