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| |  | | Daily Drive | | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | | | | | | |  | | | Buyer's Guide | | | | | | The compact luxury class accounted for almost 400K sales in 2018 and well over 300K in 2019. There are a handful of kick-ass cars in this bunch, but several also-rans, too. We're going to lay them out by sales here and then rank them for the enthusiast buyer, taking into account engine choice and power, handling feel and price. Feel free to disagree, but make sure you drive them all first. | | | Read More > | | | | | |  | | | Drives | | | | | | While everybody else is leaping into crossovers, Cadillac is offering everything, including sedans … and performance sedans, even. Caddy is celebrating 15 years of its performance V brand by launching an all-new CT5-V in your choice of luxury or performance trim, aimed at the best competition from Europe. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Industry News | | | | | | Audi is putting production of its e-tron battery-electric SUV on pause due to issues that include bottlenecks in the battery supply, Bloomberg reports. Assembly of the model at the Brussels plant stopped on Thursday of last week and will not resume until Tuesday of this week. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Luxury | | | | | | Want a perfect example of how complex cars have become? Volvo's acoustic engineers spent two full days traipsing around the Swedish woods collecting dried spruce sticks, then two additional days snapping them (and extensively processing the resulting tone) in their instrumented sound laboratory to create the signature "click-click" heard when you activate the turn signal in a modern Volvo. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Autoweek Talks: Family | | | | | | Sometimes evolution makes more sense than revolution. If you're sympathetic to the "if it ain't broke" mindset, we've highlighted some of the longest-lived engine families that are still represented on the new-car market. In all cases, they've been extensively modified and vastly improved over their ongoing production runs, speaking volumes about modern performance engineering (and raising some interesting philosophical questions along the way). | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Racing | | | | | | Opponents to a proposed 2021 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix are not going away quietly. That's the word from F1 chief executive Chase Carey, who appears to be bracing for the possibility of putting an F1 Miami Grand Prix on hold. | | | Read More > | | | | | | |  | | | Racing | | | | | | The Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas was the model race for what NASCAR wants to build itself into over the next decade. It was an unpredictable affair featuring 38 underpowered race cars that remain bunched together due to the giant spoiler affixed to the rear end. | | | Read More > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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