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Friday, January 3, 2020

Classic Cars

The World's Great Sports Cars Make Up the Top 10 Cars Sold at Auction in 2019

Total worldwide auction sales of collector cars dropped below a billion dollars for the first time in six years. Should we all freak out? Not necessarily. Total sales were almost a billion, at $931 million. The U.S. market accounted for 67 percent of that, or $627 million. What does it mean?

Future Cars

Ford Stops Taking Mustang Mach-E First Edition Reservations

Ford started taking reservations for the electric Ford Mustang Mach-E near the end of November, and the First Edition models are already sold out. In just over a month of preorders, the Mustang Mach-E First Edition has filled all the available reservations.

Drives

2020 Lexus RX 350L: A Third Row for the Kids ... and Only the Kids

This 2020 Lexus RX 350L does everything you need it to, everything I need it to do—and, as easily the best-selling vehicle in its segment, everything most shoppers of midsize luxury crossovers need it to do. That leaves a lot of room for want, though.

News

Carlos Ghosn Faces Interpol 'Red Notice' in Lebanon, Report Says

While the details of Carlos Ghosn's dramatic flight from house arrest in a leafy Tokyo district are still being pieced together, an Interpol "Red Notice" has now been issued for the former Renault Nissan boss, Reuters reports.

Rumor Mill

Report: RS Power Is Coming to the E-Tron GT

The Audi e-tron GT isn't even out yet, but Ingolstadt's version of the Porsche Taycan is expected to receive Audi Sport variants familiar to fans of fast Audis, Autocar reports.

Events

Mecum Kicks Off Kissimmee: Watch Day 1 Here

Mecum’s biggest auction of the year has finally started moving cars across the block. The Kissimmee, Florida, sale will help thousands of collector cars trade hands over the next 10 days, the first of which are filled with reasonably priced cars that might give you a good idea of how much you’ll have to spend to get into the hobby (Spoiler: It might not be as much as you think).

Classic Ads

1983: Chevy Cavalier Gets Hot-Rod High-Compression Engine with Fuel Injection

By the mid-to-late-1980s, Cavaliers were pitched with mullets and screaming guitars and as high-performance machines packed with black magic, but just going to electronic fuel injection and getting a compression boost (from 9:1 to 9.2:1) seemed brag-worthy in 1983.