The base Sonata is excellent, but should you hold off a year and buy the high-performance N Line model?
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| |  | | Autoweek Daily Drive | | Tuesday, December 10, 2019 | | | | | | |  | | | Car Reviews | | | | | | Hyundai is playing the long game in the sedan segment, and performance appears to be a part of it. Should you buy a Sonata now or wait a year and buy an N Line? Read on and make your own determination. | | | Read More > | | | | | |  | | | Supercars | | | | | | Automakers love to promise “a race car for the road.” Normally they’re just fast road cars, which is fine, but McLaren is taking its 570S GT4 and converting it for street duty. That includes putting a brake light on the foot-high wing, but also some other things. There are a few manufacturers I would trust to put “a race car on the road,” and McLaren is one of them. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Classic Cars | | | | | | Think you've seen every Volvo production and concept station wagon? This book could change that. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Trucks | | | | | | One interesting aspect of automotive design—and really, design in general—is that often, you can’t really assess a given product’s styling until you see it in the real world. Sometimes, things that look wonky upon their reveal make a lot more sense in a less artificial context. Sometimes, they don’t. But what about the Tesla Cybertruck? | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Junkyard Treasures | | | | | | A 1970 Toyota Corona Mark II sedan, photographed in a self-service car graveyard on California's Central Coast last month. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Monster Energy NASCAR Cup | | | | | | The 37-year-old captured the Cup championship in 2017 at Furniture Row Racing. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | NHRA | | | | | | Autoweek senior motorsports writer Al Pearce has spent the better part of the last three years collecting autographs of every living NHRA champion in the Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle classes. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | NASCAR | | | | | | Travis Braden was declared the winner due to a Stephen Nasse DQ. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car Reviews | | | | | | The Panamera GTS is a big car done right and falls in the middle of the sedan’s now 10-version (!) lineup. It gets the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, adaptive air suspension and the sport design package that adds black wheels and a massaged fascia; plus, it's the cheapest way to get Porsche’s V8 in the sedan. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | People | | | | | | Mazda is the mainstream automaker most synonymous with driver enjoyment. The company makes sure each one of its cars has feel, and enthusiasts like us applaud that. But maintaining that reputation in a world of drastic change is difficult. To learn more about Mazda's future path, we sat down with Mazda North American Operations CEO Masahiro Moro. And, wouldn’t you know it, racing came up, too. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car News | | | | | | Ford’s problems with its DPS6 dual-clutch Powershift transmission are coming to a head this week with a blockbuster report from the Detroit Free Press citing many sources within the company. The consensus is that Ford knew about issues with its dry-clutch DCT but built and sold it anyway in both the Fiesta and Focus compacts. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car News | | | | | | We recently saw powerful performance RS versions of the A6 wagon and even the Q8 crossover debut. We also had a chance to sit down with several Audi executives and ask what makes an RS an RS. Here’s what they said. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car Life | | | | | | The SLX—a rebadged Isuzu Trooper—was Acura's first attempt at a luxury SUV. It was not exactly a success, and it had apparently been relegated to "we shall never speak of this again" status ... until now. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Classic Cars | | | | | | De Tomaso is still best known in the U.S. for the Pantera, but the automaker also offered something a little more plush and relaxed. That car was the Longchamp, and for almost 20 years, it served as the marque's luxurious 2+2 while spawning a Maserati model along the way. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Technology | | | | | | BMW corrected course by dropping its Apple CarPlay $80 annual fee. The feature used to be $300 “for 240 months” according to the BMW consumer site; starting in 2019, the first year of the service was free, with an $80 recurring charge after that. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Classic Ads | | | | | | The story of the Opel brand in North America went through many strange plot twists during the second half of the 20th century. Here's a big, brochure-grade Opel advertising insert that was included in American car magazines during the 1974 model year. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Podcast | | | | | | On this episode of the “Autoweek Podcast,” Natalie Neff joins Mike Pryson, Wesley Wren and “Autoweek Podcast” enthusiasm contributor Chris Langrill to celebrate the end of the NASCAR season by reviewing the classic flick Fireball 500 from 1966. Later, the team dives deep into the Lexus GX460, the Volvo V60 T8 Polestar and the Hyundai Santa Fe. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Formula One | | | | | | Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen, who finished third in the 2019 Formula 1 standings behind champion Lewis Hamilton and runner-up Valtteri Bottas, says there may be opportunities for a move to another team for 2021. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Formula One | | | | | | Mick Schumacher is well aware that Formula 1 will be the toughest assignment of his career. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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