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At the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show next month, Mazda will show an updated version of its 6 sedan. However, in the near future we may see some new variants introduced including the oft-rumored Mazdaspeed performance model as well as a new coupe. Auto Express, citing an inside source, reports that a 6 coupe will be launched by 2016. The new coupe will be positioned as a sportier offering than the 6 sedan, and may end up featuring a more distinct look similar to that previewed on the Shinari concept car from 2010. MUST SEE: Watch Dodge Build The 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat With VIN0001: Video The...
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2016 Cadillac ATS-V Coupe Spy ShotsCadillac’s new ATS-V is set for a debut at next month’s Los Angeles Auto Show, in both sedan and coupe and bodystyles, and today we have an undisguised version of the latter. The car was snapped by one of our photographers during what appears to be an official photo shoot, revealing the...
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2015 BMW M3 / M4 first drive reviewCoupe-like crossovers, carbon-bodied sportscars, urban-mode city hatchbacks--BMW can build them all, but when it gets placed in the balances and judged by its hardcore enthusiast audience, the only BMW that matters is the M3. It's the critical nuclear core of the brand and a bellwether for...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe Priced From $120,825The 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe is a sleeker alternative to the S-Class sedan.
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2016 Cadillac ELR To Receive Upgrades: ReportCadillac’s ELR has been on the market for a little over a year but an updated version of the car could be revealed very soon. It’s no secret that the ELR hasn’t been selling well but some worthwhile updates are coming, according to a report out this week. Edmunds, citing Cadillac...
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Infiniti To Reveal New Q60 In 2015, Partner With Dongfeng In ChinaInfiniti may have just lost its turnaround strategist Johan de Nysschen but the automaker has no intention of slowing down the expansion plans devised under the guidance of the South African executive. Infiniti recently appointed a new chief in the form of former BMW exec Roland Krüger, and at...
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Few cars on the market offer a better combination of style, performance and luxury than BMW’s M6, but the German automaker isn’t resting on its laurels and plans to introduce an updated version of the car for the 2016 model year. Today, we have spy shots of a prototype for the updated 2016 BMW M6. The camouflage gear on the prototype suggests we’ll see revisions made to the bumpers and lights. Changes are also expected in the cabin, with the updated M6 likely to adopt BMW’s touchpad interface already found on some of the automaker’s vehicles. A twin-turbocharged...
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2015 Lexus RC F first drive reviewAt some point in the early 2000s, Lexus approached peak grandma. Cars like the SC convertible and the ES sedan were arguably its best efforts, just when Cadillac was brewing up a revival and BMW putting out some of its best machinery before electronic controls became a generation's voodoo curse. A...
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2015 Chevrolet Corvette 8-Speed Automatic First Drive: VideoWhat do you do when Chevy hands you the keys to a 2015 Corvette Stingray and an open run at the Milford Road Course? You flog it for all you’re worth, whether you know the track or not. That’s just what we did yesterday. Of course, this wasn’t your usual 7-speed manual Stingray...
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2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe First Drive: VideoAs much as General Motors has been in the news for getting things wrong of late, Cadillac deserves notice for how much it’s been getting right over the past decade, too. From the CTS sedan that kicked off the brand’s revival as a world-class marque, to the ATS sedan that helped cement...
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2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe 2.0T Gets Increased Torque OutputThe 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe is a demonstration of America’s—and particularly Cadillac’s—resurgent design excellence, and now we know it’ll have the bark to back up its bite. While horsepower in the 2015 ATS Coupe 2.0T remains the same as the pre-2015 sedan’s...
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Next Hyundai Genesis Coupe To Offer More Space, V-8: ReportHyundai has just launched its second-generation Genesis sedan, and the vehicle continues to offer a well-built cabin, loads of technology and the option of a V-8. The good news is that Hyundai will use the platform of its new Genesis sedan as the basis for a new Genesis Coupe, but this time around...
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Mercedes-Benz’s S63 AMG Coupe certainly isn’t lacking in the power department, but the German automaker knows that some of its customers will always seek more. That’s why we have the all-new 2015 Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG Coupe, a luxury grand tourer with a big V-12 heart. That V-12 is the familiar twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter lump found in the S65 AMG sedan and SL65 AMG convertible, and its peak output is pegged at 621 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque. This is enough for 0-60 mph acceleration in an estimated 4.0 seconds, and achieving a governed 186 mph top speed should...
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2015 Bentley Continental GT Speed First DriveCruising at a cool mile of altitude over a carpet of lush green Scottish turf—Highlands to the left, Lowlands to the right—our seaplane bobbles over some ripples in the wake of Ben Lomond. In a few minutes, we top out at something like 165 miles per hour, not bad for an airborne mutt...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe first drive reviewLife is good. Life is especially good when you’re in Tuscany behind the wheel of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe. Life gets downright magical when threading your way through hills dotted with castellos, pointing the S63 two-door down a picturesque winding two-lane and loosing the horses...
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2014 BMW M235i video reviewThe BMW 1-Series is no more. Nope. It’s been replaced, by this: the new 2-Series. It’s longer, wider, and roomier, and a little more expensive—but with the turbo six, it’s as close to a classic M3 as you can get. Let’s start under the hood. You’ll find either a...
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2015 Jaguar F-Type Coupe R First DriveWhen last we left the Jaguar F-Type, it was hustling substantial ass somewhere on some choice, shall-remain-unnamed mountain roads of north Georgia. Locked in close competition for our hearts and minds with the Porsche Cayman S, Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG, and Chevy Corvette Stingray, the F-Type was a...
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Even Cadillac Marketing Chief Worried About 'Provocative' ELR AdTurns out that even the marketing chief at Cadillac was "troubled" by the ad it ran during the recent Oscars and Sochi Olympics broadcasts. The goal, according to Cadillac's advertising director Craig Bierley, had been to air a "provocative" ad that would break through the clutter and draw...
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How quick is the new Bentley Continental GT V8 S? How powerful? If this were the Bentley of the past, when it was intertwined with Rolls-Royce, the deflective reply to such questions would be “Sufficient.” And it would be left up to us to agree. A quarter-century ago, when the imperially iconic Bentley Turbo S was released, company communications reportedly described its output as “Sufficient plus 30 percent.” If that beast, with its 60-mph times of around six seconds and wallop of nearly 500 pound-feet of estimated torque, was that, based on our recent drive of the...
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Infiniti Boss Confirms Flagship PlansInfiniti hasn’t had a proper flagship since 2006, when the Q45 filled this role. Previous rumors had the Q45 being revived, but these were subsequently squashed. While only a year ago Infiniti was unsure of what direction to take for any new flagship, the brand is confident now that it will...
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2014 BMW M235i first drive reviewThere are a lot of reasons to moan about the current state of BMW's cars, including a couple of the porkier M vehicles. But the new 2014 M235i isn't one of them. It's the opposite. This, friends, is what the F30 should have been, at least as far as the balance between poise, ride, dynamics, and...
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Godsil Manhattan: V-16 Super-Coupe we'll probably never seeThe list of startup automakers that have successfully broken into higher echelons of the market is a very short one. Pagani springs to mind, as does Koenigsegg. But such companies are very much exceptions to the rule, and each got off the ground as much through using tried-and-tested...
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2015 Aston Martin V12 Vantage S First DriveFlorida's the home of the bucket lists, for obvious reasons, our national Last Chance Saloon. So this week, I took "driving, Florida-style" off mine. Here's how: First, I drilled an Aston Martin V-12 Vantage S up to 143 mph in a straight line andthenIhitFULLPANICBRAKE, yanking it and me into a...
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2014 Porsche Cayman: Best Car To Buy 2014 NomineeMid-engined perfection with Porsche power and tuning--the 2014 Cayman is the consummate sports car. Even the vaunted 911, as good as it has been and become, leaves something on the table when it comes to the sheer driving pleasure of the Cayman. That is, perhaps, surprising to some. The 911, after...
Nelson Ireson