2019
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Dodge on Thursday rolled out the 2019 Challenger and Charger Stars & Stripes Edition muscle cars, which the automaker bills as a salute to the nation's armed forces. The upgrade is available with the GT, R/T and Scat Pack models and adds a number of special touches—inside and out. The highlight is a satin center stripe that runs the length of the car. It's joined by a U.S. flag fender decal, 20-inch wheels in gloss black, black badging, and a bronze finish for the brake calipers. The latter, a 4-piston design from Brembo, is standard on the Scat Pack models and available through a...
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2019 Audi TT RS refined with round of updates
Audi's TT RS sports car has benefited from a more aggressive look but sadly there's no extra power to match it. We're not complaining, though, as the TT RS was already a fast, agile car.
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2019 Audi TT preview
Audi's TT enters the 2019 model year with a sharper look and a 20th anniversary special edition, but sadly there's no extra power to be had.
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2019 Audi e-tron rated by EPA with 204 miles of range
Audi's e-tron only gets 204 miles of range but its battery has been designed to offer a more consistent range over the life of the vehicle and in a wider variety of conditions.
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First drive review: Sweet on the 2019 Mercedes-Benz E 53 AMG sedan
The 2019 Mercedes-Benz E 53 AMG is conflicted. The pugnacious luxury sedan that arrived this year is sandwiched between a Hammer and a scythe. No, really. The former was a 1980s wonder machine that helped set the table for a tradition of sleeper sedans, and the latter is a modern-day...
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BMW's 3-Series spawns long-wheelbase variant for China
BMW has revealed a stretched 3-Series with almost 5 more inches in the wheelbase, but this model is built exclusively for China.
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The swoopy four-door AMG coddles passengers in luxury and delivers V-8 power with 6-cylinder consumption.
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First drive review: 2019 Volkswagen Jetta GLI channels GTI better than ever
The Tail of the Dragon sits at, or near, the top of any list of great driving roads in America. This 11-mile ribbon of U.S. Highway 129 between Tennessee and North Carolina entices enthusiasts with more than 300 turns and 1,000 feet of elevation change. Unfortunately, it also attracts...
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2019 Volkswagen Arteon arrives this April, costs more than CC predecessor
The sleek 2019 VW Arteon is the successor to the CC and offers handsome looks with a turbo-4 and front- or all-wheel drive.
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Hyundai Tucson N Line revealed with racy accents
Hyundai recently got into the performance game with the new i30 N and Veloster N models developed by Hyundai N, the Korean automaker's in-house tuner. These models sit at the top of the Hyundai N portfolio, with a tamer N Line range to be introduced to suit customers looking for milder mods. The...
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Cadillac CT6-V will die another day, brand bumps starting price
The Cadillac CT6's future, in general, remains in question, but the hotter CT6-V isn't dead yet. The brand announced it will build another "installment" of the cars due to high demand. Cars Direct reported on Wednesday that the Cadillac CT6-V will live again, but the next batch of 4.2-liter...
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Bentley brings race-inspired Continental GT to Geneva auto show
Bentley celebrates its centennial in 2019 (the actual date is July 10), and the automaker is clearly excited. The British brand has already revealed a special Mulsanne limited to 100 units, each featuring a slice of the original crankshaft that featured in the 1930 8 Litre owned by company founder...
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In a sign of the times, Ford in 2015 unveiled its redesigned Taurus in China, where large sedans still sell in significant numbers. With sedan sales on the decline in these parts, Ford didn't even bother introducing the redesigned car here and instead continued producing the previous generation for our market. That was until Friday when the final Taurus rolled off the line at Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant, marking the end of North American production for the once cherished nameplate. It was at the 1985 Los Angeles Auto Show that Ford first pulled the covers off the Taurus. Less than a decade...
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First drive review: 2019 Ram 2500 Power Wagon conquers nearly anything
If it can’t climb up the hill, it’ll just pull itself over the hill. That’s life for the 2019 Ram 2500 Power Wagon. For 2019, the Ram 2500 Power Wagon loses some weight, gains some useful technology, refines its edges, but loses zero capability. I flew out to Las Vegas to put the...
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Cadillac CT6, Chevy Impala production to continue into 2020
Two General Motors sedans previously confirmed to cease North American production this year will live on a bit longer. As first reported by Reuters on Friday, GM will continue to build the Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac CT6 at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan until January 2020. The original...
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Why Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
Tablet-like touchscreens have become the ubiquitous interfaces of choice, and they’re seemingly everywhere in daily life, on everything from thermostats to coffee makers and refrigerators. But Mazda really doesn’t think they belong in cars—or at least anywhere near the...
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Pricey Platinum trim could be last chance to snag CT6 with V-8
Cadillac has a new, brand-exclusive V-8 called the Blackwing that debuts in the 2019 CT6. Initially announced last November for a high-performance CT6-V model limited to just 275 units, Cadillac in January added that the 4.2-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 would also be offered in the regular CT6...
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Haul out in a 2019 Ram Heavy Duty pickup from $35,090
A new generation of Ram's 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty pickup trucks debuted in January at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and now we have the all-important pricing details ahead of the market launch this spring. The 2019 Heavy Duty range kicks off with the 2500 Tradesman...
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Twenty minutes from my front door is nowhere. And that’s somewhere I want to be. That’s true for many of us who live in Denver. It’s probably true for the 30 people who will move to Denver today, the 30 people who will move here tomorrow, and the next day, too. The greatest lie you’ll read in the next 10 seconds is that Denver isn’t a mountain town, the sun doesn’t shine here, everything you’ve heard about moving here is wrong. Shop’s closed, folks. Keep along to Kansas City. READ MORE: Into the muck: A day with the 2019 Toyota TRD off-roaders...
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First drive review: 2019 Maserati Levante GTS completes a beast
Italian cars are known for four things: beauty, speed, noise, and a special feel. Fail on any of these and the car feels authentic like ravioli from a can. Maserati’s Levante is the Italian automaker’s first crossover SUV. It’s beautiful, but base models weren’t fast...
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Mopar-modified 2019 Ram 2500 Heavy Duty rolls into Chicago Auto Show
Aspiring owners of the redesigned 2019 Ram 2500 Heavy Duty already have a bevy of customization options to choose from thanks to the folks at Mopar. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' parts and accessories division has prepared more than 170 items for the new pickup truck and previewed some of them on...
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2019 Lexus NX F Sport Black Line Special Edition is monochromatic luxury
Lexus has treated its NX crossover to a special edition package that was revealed on Thursday at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show. The Lexus NX F Sport Black Line Special Edition is, bluntly, luxury produced in black and white. Despite its mouthful of a name, buyers aren't bound to all-black everything...
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2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata 30th Anniversary Edition celebrates 30 years of spritely fun
This year, the beloved Mazda MX-5 Miata turns 30, and to mark the Japanese roadster's birthday Mazda has introduced the 2019 MX-5 Miata 30th Anniversary Edition. The debut took place on Thursday at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show, which was fitting considering it was at the same show back in 1989 that...
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2019 VW Jetta GLI arrives with GTI and Golf R hand-me-downs
Volkswagen launched a new generation of the Jetta compact sedan for 2019 but the version we're most interested in is only making its appearance now. We're talking about the new Jetta GLI sport sedan, which was unveiled Thursday at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show. The Jetta GLI is essentially the GTI...
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