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2020 Range Rover Evoque essentials: Better...if it's your thing; there's a surprising glut of Jeep Wranglers on dealer lots; NASCAR Cup Series playoff preview: the chase begins

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Friday, September 13 2019
Car Reviews

2020 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque essentials: Better styling, good tech, still not my cup of tea

The Land Rover Range Rover Evoque is refreshed for 2020 with a new 48-volt, 296-hp mild-hybrid system, as well as the returning 246-hp four. It gets new head- and taillights, and a slightly longer wheelbase for more interior and luggage space.

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Car News

Sitting Wranglers: There's no shortage of 2018 Jeep Wranglers

The 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL is an improvement to the Wrangler in almost every way: It looks better, it performs better and it’s easier for the consumer to use. That’s not to say the previous generation, or JK in Jeep terms, was bad: We loved our long-termer. Despite being better in nearly every metric, it looks like there's a solid surplus of Wranglers on dealer lots.

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Classic Cars

Street-Spotted: Alfa Romeo 164

The 164 offered a 3.0-liter V6 producing 183 hp paired with a choice of a four-speed automatic or a five-speed manual, front-wheel drive and a well-sorted chassis. Add to that a luxurious cabin, plenty of room for golf clubs and a Pininfarina-penned exterior that could be souped up with a spoiler and sporty-looking wheels along a two-tone paint scheme. The 164 seemed to hit all the right notes.

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Products

The 2020 Land Rover Defender will get here first as a Lego set

The real 2020 Land Rover Defender won't be on sale for a few months, but its Lego doppelganger will be available far sooner. That's right: The new Defender has been re-created in a Lego set that you can actually buy, but it's not just a scale model that seeks to mimic the real deal's exterior design.

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Car Life

How to get rid of an engine you don't want? Find a desperate race team!

Adventures in unwanted engine disposal and endurance-racing heroism.

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Classic Cars

Simplify, then add lightness: Land Rover 1/2 Ton Lightweight

The Land Rover was already light by military standards -- it's about as basic as a small 4x4 can be, especially with aluminum skin -- but once upon a time, the automaker adopted the Lotus formula of simplifying, then adding lightness, to its military vehicle.

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Games

Nissan sketched chairs for National Video Games Day and why didn't anyone tell me!

Nissan is celebrating National Video Games Day (which should be a national holiday) by sharing some concept esports gaming chairs inspired by the Armada SUV, the Leaf and the GT-R. Nissan’s been in the egaming orbit since the beginning with the GT-R in the Gran Turismo series, which basically introduced the car to U.S. audiences, and the Nissan GT Academy, where gamers compete to become real race car drivers.

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Racing

Updated: Racing on TV: What's on this week

Here's Autoweek's guide to where to find the best of racing action, on TV and on the Internet through major livestreaming sites. Listings are updated weekly.

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Empire HIll Climb

2019 Empire Hill Climb driver profile: Frank Schwartz's journey from Germany to Empire

The Empire Hill Climb, a Detroit Region SCCA-sanctioned event, is scheduled for Sept. 14.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoff preview

The chase for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship will begin this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The first round will conclude with races at Richmond Raceway and the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup

Q&A: Dale Earnhardt Jr. previews the NASCAR playoffs and offers a package compromise

For the second year in a row, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will call the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs for the NBC Sports Network.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup

Chase Elliott: 'We can run with anyone when we run our best'

The sport's most popular driver expressed confidence in advance of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup

Erik Jones says summer streak should continue into NASCAR playoffs

The 23-year-old has a new contract with Joe Gibbs Racing and the best overall stats from the past two months or so.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup

Denny Hamlin in best position to win a championship for Gibbs, FedEx yet

The 38-year-old Joe Gibbs Racing lifer suffered championship heartbreaks in 2010 and 2014.

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NHRA

Big changes for 2020 NHRA Top Fuel Harley schedule

The schedule has a decidedly different look for 2020, as five venues have dropped off the schedule and have been replaced by five other stops. Also, the final race of the season is six weeks later than the 2019 finale.

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IMSA

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar DPi championship battle resumes at Laguna Seca

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship title fight resumes on Sunday at WeatherTechRaceway Laguna Seca.

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Racing

Pippa Mann doubles down on criticism of W Series

Pippa Mann remains steadfast in her criticism of the W Series on a conceptual level following the invitation of former rival Katherine Legge to participate in season two of the championship.

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Americas Rallycross

IndyCar veteran Sage Karam adds pair of Americas Rallycross races to schedule

Dreyer & Reinbold will put Karam in the No. 24 ISMI Springs DRR race car at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 28 and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, on Oct. 5-6.

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Formula E

Formula 2 points leader Nyck De Vries heading to Formula E

Mercedes has announced that the F2 points leader will join Stoffel Vandoorne in the German marque's inaugural Formula E driver lineup.

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Formula One

Teaser tweet: Pirelli's new 18-inch tires for F1 hit the track for testing

On Thursday at Circuit Paul Ricard in France, former F1 driver Sergey Sirotkin took a spin in a Renault on the 18-inch tires as tire manufacturer Pirelli takes the next step in the testing process.

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IMSA

'The Marshall Pruett Podcast' Ep. 646: WEC recap from Silverstone, IMSA takes, more

The WEC, ELMS, IMSA and more series are discussed, and we close with stories of angry drivers and team owners not happy with "The Marshall Pruett Podcast" team.

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