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Welcome to Road Show's Auto Complete, your weekly 

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round- up of the biggest news in the automotive world. 

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This week we've got news on AMG's newest hot cross 

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over and VW's new logo. But first, let's start 

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with Jessie Combs. Jessie Combs, noted television 

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personality, fabricator, and racer, is dead at the age of 

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39 after the jet- powered land speed racing car she 

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was driving crashed on an Oregon dry lake bed. 

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Combs earned the title of fastest woman on four 

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wheels after setting a land speed record of 398 miles 

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per hour in 2013. In 2018, she drove her jet powered 

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North American Eagle supersonic speed challenger to 

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483 miles per hour during a shakedown run. And built 

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a television career for herself after appearing on shows 

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like Overhaulin', All Girls Garage, and MythBusters. She 

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was also the first woman to take first place overall at 

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the gruelling King of the Hammers off road race in 

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2016. To say that Volkswagen has had a rough few 

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years would be a massive understatement. Even if that 

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trouble is totally its own fault. But in an effort to further 

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distance itself from those dieselgate blues, the brand's 

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ditching its bubble logo that it's been using since 2000 

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for one that's much flatter and more plain. We're 

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actually kinda digging it, and word around the 

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campfire is that the first production car to get the new 

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branding will be the Mark 8 Golf, which is slated to 

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debut in Frankfurt. Chinese startup Lynk & Co 

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managed to snag itself two Nurburgring records testing 

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its 03 Cyan Concept, which is a 528- horsepower 

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front- wheel drive Sedan. Somehow, the car was able 

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to wrangle all of its arguable too many horses and set 

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records for fastest front wheel drive vehicle and fastest 

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four door car with a time of 7 minutes, 20. 143 

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seconds with driver Ted Bjork behind the wheel. Did 

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we mention that those 528 horsepower come from a 

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2- liter turbocharged 4- cylinder engine? Just chew on 

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that for a while. The US isn't known for being the 

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quickest to adopt new technology where vehicle's 

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lighting and mirrors are concerned, but there are signs 

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that those attitudes might be changing. Specifically, the 

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word around the schoolyard is that NHTSA is going to 

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start testing camera- based side view mirror 

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placements for use in US market vehicles. This tech 

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has been adopted in Europe and Asia already. And 

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we've sampled it there in several vehicles, with 

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generally positive results. We'll be psyched to see if 

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this is gonna be a continuing trend or not. Last year, 

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Tesla experienced a highly publicized. Vulnerability 

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with the key fobs for its Model S sedan, specifically the 

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company that supply the key fobs to Tesla only 

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equipped them with a paltry 40 bit encryption key. As 

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a result the fobs can be hacked and cloned in 

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seconds. The big T, to its credit, fixed the issue 

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quickly with a new fob with much much tougher 80- bit 

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encryption and a few new software features for drivers 

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meant to increase security. But now, a university in 

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Belgium has found that the company that supplied the 

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fobs has once again fumbled the whole thing and 

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made them vulnerable once more. Though, they're 

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about twice as difficult to hack as they were the last 

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time. Tesla is once again on the ball and has already 

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began to roll out it's software fix for the problem. 

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Hyundai is keen into getting into the electric scooter 

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game but it's [ UNKNOWN ] to those scooters that are 

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just getting get left around on the street instead, it 

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wants to go the same route as Honda did with its CT 

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Turbo car in [ UNKNOWN ] scooter in the 1980s And 

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have its vehicle serve as the dock for the scooter, 

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charging it while driving. The Hyundai scooter also 

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differs from the Birds and Limes and Jumps of the 

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world in that it's a rear wheel drive and has front 

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suspension. So that means it's game on for dank 

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wheelies and sick tail whips. They're currently working 

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on a prototype design, and we hope it sees production 

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soon. Listen y'all, the new Explorer is a big vehicle, like 

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real big. But that's not stopping the hybrid version of it 

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from returning some mad decent fuel economy, 

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according to the EPA. How decent? How about 28 

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miles per gallon combined. That breaks down to 

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around 27 MPG city and 29 on the highway, which is 

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nothing to sneeze at. Though That is for the rear wheel 

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drive version. If you have to have all wheel drive that 

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combined rating drops down to 26 which is still pretty 

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healthy. The hybrid Explorer makes it a totally 

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reasonable 318 horsepower and 322 pounds of 

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torque, a ways off of the wildly powerful new Lincoln 

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Aviator hybrid that makes 494 horsepower and A 130 

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pound- feet of torque, but the Explorer is gonna be a 

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lot more affordable. It's easy to crack jokes about 

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Crossover, since they're currently dominating the 

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automotive landscape. But occasionally one comes 

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across our desk that we are genuinely interested in, 

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and the new Mercedes- AMG GLB35 is one of them. 

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This is a small 305 horsepower all wheel drive 

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crossover with an eight speed dual clutch transmission 

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and AMG tuned suspension. It's also got seven seats as 

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an option. It looks like it'll be a little ripper We cannot 

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wait to get behind the wheel when it hits the US late in 

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2020 Porsches McCaughan has long been the 

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crossover of choice for those who want the extra 

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carrying capacity of an SUV but for whom there is truly 

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no substance. Institute when it comes to Porsche. Now, 

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for 2020, the Macan Turbo is given some new goodies 

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which include a 434 horsepower version of it's 

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twin turbsky B6. And the newest version of the brands 

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Porsche communication management suite. The rest of 

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the Macan line got a little refresh for 2019 so this is 

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mostly just a continuation of that theme Toyota wasn't 

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necessarily the quickest company to adopt the 

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convenience of Apple CarPlay, having waited until just 

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last year before getting around to it for all of its 

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models. But if iPhone users were salty about the the 

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wait, just think of the poor, ignored, Camry- loving 

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Android auto users. Who are still waiting only they 

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won't be waiting much longer because while the 

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camera wasn't included on today's list of models to get 

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Android Auto initially, it's 

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now confirmed that that list was a bunch of nonsense. 

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Plus now that Android Auto is better than ever, there's 

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a lot to be excited about. Porsche Taycan is doing all 

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kinds of big things lately and the latest of those is a 

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newly minted Nurburgring record for being the fastest 

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ford or electric vehicle around Germany's most 

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notorious strip of Tarmac. The cool thing is that unlike 

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many other electric cars that struggle with heat build 

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up after hard running, the Taycan didn't even really 

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need a cooldown period between laps This type of 

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gnarly performance testing is similar to what a typical, 

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petrol- powered Porsche would undergo, and it seems 

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like Porsches first all electric vehicle is handling it with 

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style. That's it for Auto Complete this week. Don't 

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