2013
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The electric version of the Fiat 500 goes on sale in the summer of 2013, but only in limited markets.
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2013 Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio Preview: 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show
Love the Fiat 500 Abarth but really want to get an open-air driving experience? Well then, Fiat has just the thing for you as it's revealing the 2013 500c Abarth, where the c stands for cabriolet. Basically, take the sliding soft-top from the 500c, put it on a 500 Abarth, and you have the right...
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2013 Dodge Charger Daytona Preview: 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show
While the original Dodge Charger Daytona, the winged terror of the 1970s, may have been a sales flop, today, there’s a lot of interest in original Daytonas (as well as the car’s Plymouth Superbird sibling). Dodge is well aware of this and is now celebrating the return of the legendary...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Ferrari Expert Novitec Rosso Gets Its Hands On The F12 Berlinetta
The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta has only just started deliveries in Europe, but already the people at Novitec Rosso, the German experts at tuning Ferraris and other exotics, have got their hands on the car and prepared a first round of modifications. And yes, Novitec’s engineers have managed to...
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2013 SRT Viper Production Will Ramp Up After Thanksgiving
We’ve just driven the all-new 2013 SRT Viper, and can confirm it is a marvelous machine, and now production of the car is ready to be lifted to full capacity as customer orders start getting filled. Chrysler will be waiting until after this week’s Thanksgiving break before production of...
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2013 Dodge SRT Viper Driven, Best Car To Buy Short List, BMW i Eco Concept: Car News Headlines
Today we tell you what it’s like to drive the all-new 2013 Dodge SRT Viper on the street and on the track. Though equipped with modern concessions to safety like electronic stability control, the new Viper is hardly what we’d call de-fanged. The list of Best Car To Buy candidates is...
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Bobbing and weaving through the vineyard-dotted hill country around Napa, windows down on a perfect fall day, the sun settling just behind the nearest ridge, a massive 8.4-liter, 640-horsepower V-10 growling out an atonal bass note to complement the music flooding out of the stereo, it's easy to gloss over imperfections, forget the odd inconvenience--even forgive one's enemies. But it's not all rose-colored tarmac from behind the wheel of the 2013 SRT Viper. Unless you're on track, that is. You see, the 2013 SRT Viper is almost completely different from the old Dodge Viper, and yet it's...
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MINI Shows Off Cooper Countryman Dakar Rally Support Vehicle
Last January, MINI surprised the racing world by taking first place honors in the grueling Dakar Rally. Even more surprising was the fact that 2012 represented MINI’s very first attempt at the event, a testament to the preparation and planning of the X-raid Team, as well as the durability of...
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BMW Turns The M6 Into A Printing Press: Video
In it’s most elemental form, a rotary printing press consists of a cylinder that’s coated with ink, rolling across a sheet of paper. Though neither economical nor practical, it’s entirely possible to turn a car into a printing press, once you engineer a solution to spray the...
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In Search Of New Customers, Lincoln Reinvents Itself
Lincoln, Ford Motor Company’s long-term luxury brand, knows one absolute truth: it can no longer sustain itself selling mildly badge-engineered Ford products to its traditional (and aging) customer base. To attract new buyers, especially the “cultural progressives” it covets...
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First Ferrari F12 Berlinetta Delivered To U.S. Sells For $1.125 Million
A Ferrari-organized charity auction coinciding with this past weekend’s United States Grand Prix saw the star attraction of the event, the very first F12 Berlinetta offered for sale in the U.S., delivered to its new owner Larry Roth of Long Island. All proceeds of the auction, a sum of $1.5...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2013 Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio Teased In New Video
Formula 1 is in the U.S. for the first time in five years this weekend, and it's already leading to the product tie-ins. No, we're not complaining. In this video you see the first footage of the Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio, due to be unveiled at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show in just under two weeks...
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Mercedes-Benz has revealed a new AMG Sports Package for the full 2013 C Class range, which means it is available for both the sedan and coupe versions. Unfortunately, no details have been revealed apart from these initial images depicting a 2013 C Class Coupe fitted with the pack. It confirms that a sporty body kit, custom grille and unique alloys will be included. Items featured in previous AMG Sports Packages have included sports suspension and special AMG badging, and we suspect some of these will be available with the new pack being launched for the 2013 C Class range. Inside, there are...
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2013 Cadillac XTS Models Recalled For Rear Seat Head Restraint Issue
General Motors has announced the recall of 2013 Cadillac XTS models built between October 12, 2011 and August 30, 2012. On the 12,626 cars affected by this recall, the rear seat head restraints may not fully lock in the upright position after being folded. As a result, the rear seat head rests...
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Lexus Is Latest To Start Car 2 Car Communications Research
Car 2 Car and Car 2 Object communications are the next big steps forward in vehicle safety, and both are necessary milestones on the road to fully autonomous cars. Automakers such as Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Ford, General Motors and Nissan have been active in research for years, and now Toyota...
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Rolls-Royce Announces 'One Thousand And One Nights' Edition Ghost
Rolls-Royce knows how to please customers within a given market segment. In the past year, it’s introduced a Year of the Dragon Phantom special edition for China, shown an Art Deco range of bespoke models at the Paris Auto Show and debuted its Aviator Collection Phantom Coupe at Pebble Beach...
Kurt Ernst -
Porsche To Throttle Back On Production In Zuffenhausen
Porsche has spent the past few years ramping up its production to meet demand. In Leipzig, Germany, its plant is running three shifts to meet global demand for the Cayenne SUV, while an expansion is underway to add another line for the upcoming Macan crossover. Things had been equally busy in...
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2013 Honda Civic Revealed Ahead Of Los Angeles Debut
When Honda launched its ninth-generation Civic in the U.S. market in 2011, the car was almost universally panned by the media, which collectively found it to be a giant step backward in materials and construction compared to the previous generation. Even Consumer Reports, long one of the...
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Forty years ago, the plan was beautiful: take the first Range Rover to Morocco to show off its dune-stalking, terrain-conquering prowess and bedazzle the world's press. A popular uprising has a way of changing history and itineraries--like so (sweeps arm across desk)--so the launch was scrubbed. Fast-forward to 2013 and there's a new Range Rover, and this time we were among the bedazzled-to-be that charted a path for Morocco, to hook up with the global first drive. After a year of seeing Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria break out in unrest and outright revolution, the omens were dark. Only...
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Ferrari To Auction First U.S. F12 Berlinetta For Hurricane Sandy Relief
Ferraris are notorious for their long waiting lists, and no doubt the upcoming F12 Berlinetta already has one several years long. If you’re cashed up and keen to get your hands on one, the very first example in the country no less, then here’s your chance. Ferrari will be auctioning off...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2014 Audi R8, V10 Spyder, And V10 Plus: First Drive
There are many reasons why the friends of those of us lucky enough to write about cars profess to hate and envy us. Most of them are completely valid. Driving a passel of brand-new 2014 Audi R8s, including the new V10 Plus model, on track in northern Italy and over the Alps is just one of the...
Nelson Ireson -
Corvette Z06-Powered Chevy Spark: Seven Liters Of Terror?
Big engine, little car: it's a classic formula. Sometimes it is taken to extremes. Sometimes it's taken to ludicrous extremes. And sometimes, someone shoehorns a 7.0-liter LS7 from a Corvette Z06 into a Chevy Spark. The car, which appears to also wear extensive track-focused modifications like a...
Nelson Ireson -
Ford Explains How The Shelby GT500 Is A 200 MPH Car: Video
There’s a lot more to building a car capable of 200 mph (under the right conditions) than stuffing in a massively-powerful engine and calling it done. While the 2013 Shelby GT500’s supercharged 5.8-liter V-8, rated at 662 horsepower and 631 pound feet of torque, can deliver the...
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Fiat Starts Custom Shop For U.S. 500 Buyers
One of the keys to MINI’s success in the United States is the vast amount of customization available on its cars. While it’s theoretically possible to spec a MINI Cooper that’s identical to a car ordered by another buyer, we’d have to rate the chances on the same level as...
Kurt Ernst