The 2020 Kia Telluride is a first for the automaker—a mid-size crossover truly big and beefy enough to compete with the Volkswagen Atlas, Toyota Highlander, Mazda CX-9, and other SUVs in its class. It’s highly competent, comfortable, and, dare I say, even fun.

The Mazda Miata has been rear-wheel drive for its entire 30-year existence, as most people believe a proper sports car should be. But the new Mazda 3 will have all-wheel-drive for the first time. This got me wondering if an all-wheel-drive Miata isn’t the worst idea after all—and if Mazda could even pull it off.

The 2019 Mazda 3 has arrived. It has two versions, a front-wheel drive and an all-wheel drive. We got in the front-wheel drive version earlier this year, but I’m about to get in the AWD version in a few hours, on a snow course in California. What do you want to know?

Many years ago I owned a second-gen Ford Tempo, which sucked. Sometime after that I owned a Saturn Ion, which also sucked, but a bit less. (The first time my dad rode in it, all he could be moved to say was, “This is a very basic car.”) Right now, I’m driving a rental Nissan Versa on a trip west. And you know what? I…

Twelve Hours of Sebring, IMSA’s annual endurance race in Sebring, Florida, started off pretty wet this year. That was almost a serious problem for driver Tom Blomqvist. Almost.

The Koenigsegg Jesko is too good for dual-clutch. It’s too good for three clutches, or four or five or six. No, the Jesko’s transmission has seven clutches, in an effort to make the time between gear shifts as minimal as possible, among other uses. Here’s how that works.

Many “import” cars of importance these days are made in the U.S.—BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Volvo, Kia, Nissan, Subaru, Hyundai all have huge operations here. That also includes Toyota, which announced today it’d be investing even more in its already substantial U.S. production facilities.

This season, Ferrari’s F1 cars will feature the phrase “Mission Winnow,” standing for Philip Morris’ apparent but not nominal initiative to get people to switch from cigarettes to vaping. There’s nothing really noble about that, though, and the backhandedness of it all has already got them in trouble.

Joe Girard, who held the Guinness world record for most cars sold in a calendar year, is dead at 90. Girard sold 1,425 cars in 1973, mostly Chevys, and 13,001 cars throughout his career. He also, annually, mailed a copy of his W-2 to a former boss who’d fired him, attaching a note that read, “You fired the wrong guy.”

The UAW is gearing up for a contract fight, Elon Musk argues that he shouldn’t be held in contempt of court, and the Renault-Mitsubishi-Nissan partnership might not be dead. All that and more for The Morning Shift this Tuesday, March 12, 2019.

The Renault Espace F1 was an Espace—a minivan—with a 3.5-liter, 800 horsepower, V10 RS4 Grand Prix engine in the rear and four bucket seats. Why did this exist? Shut up, it doesn’t matter. (Fine, I’ll tell you, it was made in 1995 for the Espace’s 10th anniversary.) The Espace F1 rules.

Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Renault who was arrested months ago on charges of financial misconduct, was released this week from jail, having spent 108 days in lockup. He came out disguised as some kind of maintenance worker or laborer, for some reason, a move that his lawyer admitted today was a terrible idea…

Pebble Beach isn’t until August, which means we’ll still have to wait a bit, but according to Car and Driver, Acura is cooking up a new sedan for us, to be revealed then. Remember the Precision concept? No? Well, it’s going to look something like that. Could it be ... a new Legend?

Look, I’m not gonna lie, the 2020 Buick LaCrosse looks pretty good. Out officially yesterday, as reported by GM Authority, it’s a reminder that an old dog can learn new tricks. It’s also sort of befuddling. Why couldn’t Buick make a car that looks this good, say, 20 years ago?

Hyundai released photos of the 2020 Sonata late yesterday and, uh, I think it looks great? Almost Genesis-like? This once-boring sedan is now lower, wider and longer, and it’s probably sharper than ever.

The Tesla Model Y electric crossover is coming in less than two weeks, China’s still in a car slump, and the cobalt market so critical for EVs is boom-bust. All this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, March 4, 2019.

Nearly three-quarters of Americans think the future of cars is electric, according to a new study commissioned by Volvo, the Swedish automaker. Does that number seem high? It does! But maybe also realistic.

The Polestar 1 is a hybrid sports car priced like a supercar, at $155,000; the Polestar 2 is an all-electric sedan priced like a Tesla Model 3, starting at $45,000. The Polestar 2 (which debuted this morning) is also cool as hell. Should Tesla be a little worried? Yes, Tesla should be a little worried.