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The MotorTrend Garage is constantly filled with drool-worthy long- and short-termers, but nevertheless our plucky 2019 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon remains one of our more popular fleet regulars. We typically aim to crest 20,000 hard miles by the time our yearlong loans run up, but our Wrangler is within spitting distance of that number with

Zeigler Automotive Group, a large privately owned dealership group, said Monday it’s buying three luxury dealerships in suburban Chicago from the Motor Werks Auto Group in its largest acquisition to date. The deal, expected to close on Jan. 20, includes Mercedes-Benz and Sprinter of Hoffman Estates, Jaguar-Land Rover Schaumburg and Infiniti of Hoffman Estates, all

If Steve McQueen was still with us, you know he would have jumped at the chance to own his co-star—the 1968 Ford Mustang GT that he drove in the classic cop film Bullitt. The original Highland Green beauty just crossed the block at the Mecum Kissimmee 2020 auction in Florida and became the most expensive

DETROIT — The eighth-generation Chevrolet Corvette won the 2020 North American Car of the Year while the Jeep Gladiator took the truck win, and the Kia Telluride was named top utility vehicle of the year. This year’s winners were selected by a jury of 50 American and Canadian automotive journalists — including Automotive News engineering

BEIRUT — As he seethed over his arrest, his ouster from power and his portrayal as a greedy dictator, Carlos Ghosn admitted last week being seized by other emotions. One of the most successful auto CEOs of the past generation is haunted by regret, blown opportunities and the road not taken. Indeed, more than one

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Hummer name is making a comeback within General Motors, and will be applied to an electric pickup. We’d heard rumors and speculation for the past year that Hummer was set to return to GM’s portfolio after a long hiatus—the brand was shuttered in 2010 in the face of

Toyota Motor North America’s electrification strategy in the U.S. isn’t sexy or even that complicated — but it does appear to be working. The Japanese automaker’s massive bet on hybrids — it plans to offer electrified versions of all the vehicles in its U.S. lineup by 2025, while other automakers have concentrated on battery-electric vehicles

We can attest to how much fun it is to drive the all-new 2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray, a car that needs a racetrack to exploit its full potential. The latter is especially worth remembering the next time you’re tempted to seriously drop the hammer on public streets, in any car—a lesson two General Motors

As the Carlos Ghosn scandal unfolds with Hollywood-level kinds of drama and intrigue, it’s refreshing to see the Japanese government launch its resources to rein in this fugitive from justice with all the righteous indignation of a nation that truly values international business ethics. It’s quite an about-face for a business culture that allowed the

Much of what’s on display in the little booths that line the automotive halls at the 2020 CES techstravaganza is nitty-gritty hardware developed by devoted engineers toiling in the trenches to realize the autonomous-vehicle future that we’re promised (or is it “threatened?”) is just around the corner. Most of this stuff bores us to somnambulism,

The primary purpose of Valeo’s Smart Cocoon concept is to save power in electric vehicles. In extreme temperatures, when batteries are at their least efficient, it takes a lot of precious amps to warm or cool the cabin, and so Valeo sought to find a more efficient way to keep occupants comfortable. That raised the

General Motors is shifting “significant” dollars to advertising on connected TV, said Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Wahl. “We think there is enormous potential,” Wahl said during an interview last week at CES. “Just this year, our [connected TV] budgets have increased by 66 percent. It represents a significant portion of our overall media investments.” Connected

The Byton M-Byte’s jumbo, 48-inch interior screen grabbed headlines, but was by no means the only cool new display technology among the car goodies at CES 2020. Here are three of the coolest: Continental 3D Lightfield Centerstack “Flat was yesterday,” proclaims the fact sheet explaining this new screen technology (shown above) that Conti says will

The 1968 Ford Mustang GT that Steve McQueen drove in the classic car chase in the movie Bullitt, one of the most famed cars from American cinema, sold for $3.4 million at auction in Florida on Friday, Mecum Auctions said. It was the highest price ever paid for a Ford Mustang at auction, according to

LONDON — Jaguar Land Rover posted a 5.9 percent fall in 2019 vehicle sales after a challenging year in which its performance was hit by the weakening Chinese market and falling European demand for diesels. Retail sales were 557,706 in 2019, the company said in a statement on Friday. Land Rover sales fell 3.8 percent

At CES 2020, Nissan‘s near-production-ready Ariya SUV concept glittered under the lights. Fifteen miles to the northeast, on a specially prepared course at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, sat a squat little prototype Leaf with the Ariya’s proposed powertrain—and we got to drive it. Nissan calls the powertrain e-4ORCE, a name that barely makes sense

Given the luxuriant screen space—48 inches across!—available in the new 2021 Byton M-Byte electric crossover, it might have been tempting to jam ten instrument clusters’ worth of content up there to delight the biggest data geeks. Instead, Byton’s digital product experience director Dré Nitze-Nelson has strived to “declutter” his enormous dash as much as possible

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Belvidere assembly plant near Chicago will be temporarily idled for two weeks starting Monday as the company aligns production with demand. Normal output at the factory, which assembles the Jeep Cherokee, will resume the week of Jan. 27, the company said Thursday. U.S. sales of the Cherokee, Jeep’s No. 3 seller after

Carlos Ghosn said a surprise move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron, who was then economy minister, soured relations between Renault and Nissan, setting in motion the train of events that led to his downfall. In a news conference in Beirut on Wednesday following his escape to Lebanon from Japan, the former

Excitement for the new Ford Bronco seems to be reaching a fever pitch. We recently got a good look at the Bronco R Baja racer prototype, and the baby Bronco’s grille design appears to have leaked last week. Now the same source of that lil’ Bronco preview, Bronco6G, has taken a shot at giving us yet

The biggest surprise at CES 2020, at least for us, wasn’t some game-changing foldable smartphone or a robot that can wash the dishes for you. Instead Sony, a company that’s famous for making consumer electronics like the PlayStation and Walkman, and for starting the mirrorless DSLR trend, announced a car. It’s a battery-electric vehicle called

The world’s biggest car-making alliance between Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA is in tatters, according to the fugitive former boss Carlos Ghosn, who built up the Franco-Japanese partnership over two decades. “What we see today is a masquerade of an alliance that obviously with all the people involved is not going to go anywhere,”

Fallen auto executive Carlos Ghosn almost bumped into Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at an upscale Tokyo hotel as he set out on a daring escape from a looming trial for financial misconduct, according to reports by Japanese media. Public broadcaster NHK showed a map of Ghosn’s movements after he left his house in the

Have you noticed that those increasingly ubiquitous Qi-protocol wireless-charging mats you set your phone on are kind of homely and take up a lot of space? And while they’re more convenient than plugging in via a cord, they also limit what you can do with your device while it’s charging. At the 2020 CES, Brooklyn-based

LAS VEGAS — Audi revealed two larger technology concepts at CES on Tuesday, including the automaker’s 3D mixed-reality head-up display and the Audi Intelligent Experience. The Audi Intelligent Experience is the automaker’s concept for how its customers can experience and interact with cars of the future, Ivo Muth, vice president of user interface and user

The recently, um, evolved Lamborghini Huracan Evo represents a huge step up over the pre-Evo base Huracan. As we noted last year, “there might not be a car within 100 horsepower that’s easier to drive and drift at full tilt.” Now, Lamborghini is introducing a rear-wheel-drive version of the previously all-wheel-drive-only Huracan Evo for 2020 that

SHANGHAI — Elon Musk showed off his dance moves at the launch of Tesla’s Model Y crossover project at its new Shanghai factory on Tuesday, where the company delivered its first cars built outside the United States to the public. The $2 billion Tesla Inc factory started delivering cars in just 357 days, a record for

Flying cars? Nah. Hyundai says the wave of the future is a flying Uber—and it’s going to build them. At CES 2020, Hyundai announced an acronym-rich partnership between Uber and its newly-formed Urban Air Mobility (UAM) division to produce Personal Air Vehicles (PAVs) for Uber’s proposed Elevate air-taxi service. The South Korean automaker revealed a

LAS VEGAS — Korean automaker Hyundai is flirting with a fanciful idea of taking to the skies with aerial vehicles. At CES, Hyundai Motor Co. on Monday showed off a flying taxi concept, part of a partnership with Uber to develop an aerial ride-share network. Hyundai is not alone in its ambitions to take to

SHANGHAI — Elon Musk plans to attend a ceremony to mark the first deliveries of made-in-China Tesla Inc. vehicles to customers on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tesla, which is already churning out more than 1,000 Model 3 sedans a week at its plant on the outskirts of Shanghai, handed over a