Filed under: Earnings/Financials,Green,Hyundai,Green Automakers,Electric,Future Hyundai Motor Co stock jumped as much as 10.2% on Monday to its highest price since May 2018, after the automaker said it would create a family of Ioniq-brand electric vehicles (EVs) as it aims to become the third-largest EV maker by 2025. In an announcement earlier on Monday, Hyundai said …

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Our first crack at the new, larger, more commodious and user-friendly T1-generation 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe was in a fully loaded, off-road–optimized Z71 variant that rang the register at an eye-widening $76,175 and crushed the scales at 5,893 pounds. That’s $10,665 and 187 pounds up on the Tahoe Z71 that finished …

There’s a diamond in there somewhere. Chevrolet launched the original Suburban during the first year of FDR’s first presidential term, in 1933. That makes the 2021 Chevrolet Suburban the longest-running nameplate in automotive history. I strongly suspect—despite what this or any review says—that 87 years from now Chevy will still …

In the increasingly competitive green-car space, the Hyundai Ioniq lineup hasn’t gained much traction. Many consumers haven’t even heard of the trio—it offers hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric powertrains—of Ioniq hatchbacks currently available, and the EV variant isn’t at all competitive when it comes to range. Now Hyundai is seeking …

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The 2021 Aston Martin DBX is the first SUV in the storied British automaker’s 107-year history. Daimler supplied the engine, the transmission, and the electrical architecture, but the rest of the DBX—the all-aluminum body structure, the anti-roll air suspension, the roomy and practical interior—has all been engineered and executed in-house. …

There’s something wonderfully calming about driving the 2021 Mercedes-Benz E 450 4Matic sedan. The world outside might be going to hell in a handbasket, but here, in the cabin of the car that in many ways still defines the Mercedes-Benz brand, is a continuity that soothes the soul. Sure, there’s …

The 2021 Mercedes-Benz E 450 4Matic Cabriolet isn’t scheduled to arrive in America until later this year, but it already looks like a future classic. Sources in Stuttgart have confirmed what Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Nicholas Speeks told American dealers in June: The convertible E-Class will be axed in the next …

Filed under: Government/Legal,Mitsubishi,Nissan,Renault Two American men wanted by Japan on charges that they helped sneak former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a box have again been denied release from a U.S. jail. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Friday rejected a bid to free …