Mercedes' latest new model lands between the GLA- and GLC-Class.
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| |  | | Autoweek Daily Drive | | Thursday, December 12, 2019 | | | | | | |  | | | Drive Reviews | | | | | | Mercedes' latest SUV is the GLB-Class, and it seeks to offer just about all the features of the GLC-Class, including greater cargo space, for a lower starting price. Here's why this new SUV will be a hit. | | | Read More > | | | | | |  | | | Racing | | | | | | If you have a budget and a need to race, you couldn’t do much better than the BMW M2 CS Racing, based on the company’s kickass M2 CS. You’ll just have to write a check for about $105,000. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Autonomous cars | | | | | | Mercedes will test robo-taxis in San Jose, California, but just how close is the automaker to launching driverless versions of the same thing? | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car News | | | | | | Volkswagen is fully aware that Americans like their SUVs. So the recently introduced three-row Atlas, which first arrived for the 2018 model year, is already receiving an update. The built-for-the-U.S. (and built in Chattanooga, Tennessee) people hauler gets a restyled front and rear end, including the grille, head- and taillights, and updates to the interior. It also grows 3 inches. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car News | | | | | | Our friends over at Car and Driver did their latest moratorium on cars that will be dead in or by 2020. Most are cars, obviously, as crossovers and SUVs take over the world, but some were wagons and tall vehicles, too. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | NASCAR | | | | | | The grandson of NASCAR legend Neil Bonnett was in the ICU for 48 hours after the crash. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | NASCAR Cup | | | | | | "The Bull" will pilot the No. 15 for Premium Motorsports in 2020. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | People | | | | | | What started as the Mission E Concept at the 2015 Frankfurt motor show has developed into Porsche’s first production EV, the Taycan. Since its launch in September at Niagara Falls, the Taycan product line has been developing quickly. It already has three trims: Turbo S, Turbo and 4S, with more on the way. To learn about Porsche’s Taycan, we sat down with the product line boss, Stefan Weckbach, to learn more about it and what we might expect in the future. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | But Wait There's More | | | | | | Not only is the Chevy Suburban the longest-running nameplate in history, at 85 years, it’s also been featured in at least one movie every single year since 1960. Hence, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, the outfit that decides who—or what—gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, decided to make the full-size SUV the first inanimate object to get a brass and terrazzo star. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Formula One | | | | | | Pirelli boss Mario Isola is preempting the teams' likely next complaints about F1 tires by insisting that tire pressures will need to be raised in 2020. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Formula One | | | | | | Six-time Formula 1 champion Hamilton and seven-time MotoGP 500cc champion Rossi switched things up a bit this week at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car News | | | | | | If you’re buying a full-size SUV in the U.S. there’s almost a 50 percent chance you’re buying a Chevrolet Suburban or Tahoe. That’s how much of the market it owns. When the company builds a new model—85 years running for the Suburban, 25 for the Tahoe—it’s a big deal. Big as in bigger, big as in more cargo space, big as in more technology in the cabin and underneath. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Green Cars | | | | | | Nikola and Tesla are now competitors in the field of electric semitrucks, and it looks like Nikola could beat Tesla to market with an electric truck in 2021. Here's what this truck promises. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Formula One | | | | | | Gasly, 23, had finished in the top 10 in seven of eight races before being told after the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix that he was being demoted to Toro Rosso—Red Bull's B team. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Car News | | | | | | Mercedes-Benz’s new GLA is the entry point to the company’s SUV lineup. The new car is 3.9 inches taller, an inch wider and a half-inch shorter than the model it replaces. It also has new headlamps and a new grille, while the slightly bigger interior gets a thorough refresh. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Rally | | | | | | In this land of "Will it baby?" and "Will it do a burnout?" and other reasons for videos, "Will it rally?" is one of our favorites. And who better to decide if "it" will rally than the instructors at Team O'Neil Rally School in New Hampshire? It, in this case, is the current-gen JL Jeep Wrangler. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Classic Ads | | | | | | A television commercial for the 1980 Datsun pickup trucks, including King Cab and Lil' Hustler. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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