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The ability to walk and chew gum will go a long way toward determining which automakers survive this decade. Engineering talent and investment capital are being pulled in two different directions like never before. On one hand, automakers are scrambling to develop electric and self-driving vehicles — fabulously challenging and expensive undertakings — or be left behind. On the other, customers only buy a handful of EVs today, and true self-driving vehicles are years away. EVs and self-driving technology are the auto industry’s future, but for now they’re money pits. That m...

Q: The Illinois Tollway recently announced that cash tolls will no longer be used. People who don’t have a transponder and/or out-of-staters must pay within 14 days. And they must figure out what they owe. My question: Why doesn’t the tollway use machines that accept credit cards? The whole world has come to accept credit and debit cards as a result of COVID. It would make life much easier. A.F., Evanston, Ill. A: The tollway system does accept credit cards, but not at toll booths, which are history. You don’t even have to sign up for a transponder. The tollway will bill you an...

Kia is the latest to answer it, with a resounding “Sorta.” Car companies want to know not because they’re caring friends, concerned with drivers’ emotional welfare, but because there are two conflicting narratives about minivan owners: 1. They revel in their role as parents, and minivans’ unrivaled practicality for carrying kids, sports gear and the odd labradoodle. Their minivan is a badge of honor. 2. Like a supporting character in “Wandavision,” they’re trapped in a cliche of suburban sameness. They long for the Technicolor days when their vehicle an...

The 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 is expensive. With a starting price of $74,995 including destination charges, it costs as much as the most expensive variants of Land Rover’s new Defender. That’s $46,000 more than the price of a base Wrangler. The Wrangler Rubicon 392 is loud. Speeding down a long two-lane highway near Moab, Utah, on March 30, it barked and belched like an angry junkyard pit bull. It reached 60 mph in 4.5 seconds, nearly a second faster than a Jaguar F-Type sports car. The Wrangler Rubicon 392 is large. At 5,103 pounds, nearly 10 feet long at the wheelbase, and tw...

GMC’s 830-horsepower electric 2024 Hummer SUV will be even more capable than the 1,000-hp electric Hummer pickup, thanks largely to trail-friendly dimensions that will let it negotiate tighter spaces. Due to go on sale early in 2023, the electric Hummer SUV is nearly 2 feet shorter than it’s sibling pickup. At 196.8 inches long, the SUV is 3.4 inches longer than a GMC Acadia midsize SUV. For comparison to other off-road SUVs, the Hummer is about a foot longer than a four-door Jeep Wrangler. The radically engineered electric Hummer SUV bears no other similarities to the tame family-h...