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After a product lull, Cadillac is finally set to release its first new vehicle since the mid-size XT5 crossover, the 2019 Cadillac XT4. Ahead of the compact-luxury crossover's debut at the 2018 New York auto show, the brand is dedicating an advertisement to the XT4 and giving us our first look at the CUV in the process. The ad is one of three commercials Cadillac will air during the 90th Academy Awards this Sunday and it shows the XT4 in dark, shadowy environments that give away just a few design details. The overall design is an evolution from Cadillac's current motif with fewer sharp...
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2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio first drive review: ultimate performance, incomplete luxury“Best RACE Experience With Shifter in Manual.” That message flashes across the instrument cluster after I twist the drive mode selector past Dynamic and into Race in the 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. I dutifully oblige, slotting the electronic shift lever left from Drive and...
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2018 Buick Regal GS first drive review: six appealThe 2018 Buick Regal GS wears lots of letters and words on its flanks and in its cabin. Two you won’t find? “Gran Sport.” That moniker’s a relic of an era when rear-drive Buicks prowled the roads, leaded fuel their Muscle Milk. Today’s Buicks lean heavily on recently...
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Rimac's next electric supercar almost fully revealed in new teaser videoWhen Rimac first turned up at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show with the Concept_One electric supercar, few could have guessed at the time that less than a decade on there would be a race among the major automakers to electrify their lineups. Now Rimac is ready to unveil its successor to the...
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We'll get our first look at BMW's 8-Series Gran Coupe in GenevaBMW is already confirmed to be unveiling its new-generation 8-Series coupe at next week's 2018 Geneva International Motor Show, and now we know the automaker will have an 8er-related surprise on display as well. This teaser shot was posted up on BMW's Facebook page overnight and depicts a stretched...
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McLaren Senna made meaner with exposed carbon bodyAt least one of the 500 individuals awarded a build slot for the McLaren Senna supercar has opted to have most of it's beautiful carbon fiber left exposed, and McLaren will treat us with the unveiling of the completed car at next week's 2018 Geneva International Motor Show. It's one of five themes...
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Aston Martin's financial turnaround is complete as the company on Tuesday announced its first annual pre-tax profit since 2010 and is poised to grow substantially in the coming years. The British sports car marque's profit for 2017 came in at $121 million, overturning a loss of $226 million reported the previous year. This was on the back of record revenues of $1.21 billion made possible by a 58 percent surge in sales to 5,117 units, the highest since 2008. Aston Martin pointed to the DB11 and special projects such as the Vanquish Zagato and Vantage GT8 as sales boosters during 2017...
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Giugiaro Sibylla concept recalls the past and looks to an electric futureGiogietto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio have revealed the latest vehicle penned inside the walls of their recently established design studio GFG Style: the Sibylla concept. GFG revealed the concept vehicle, an electric sedan, on Tuesday ahead of its debut on March 6 at the 2018 Geneva International...
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7 things you should know about the 2018 Audi RS 5I’m frustrated. The Arizona desert roads Audi picked for me to drive its track-bred coupe on were picturesque and open, but I found nary a sharp corner to attack. So, I’ve called in a favor and borrowed a Nardo Gray 2018 Audi RS 5 for some extra drive time. Now I'm in search of twisty...
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FCA's head designer Ralph Gilles hailed for actions after fatal car crashFiat Chrysler Automobiles' lead designer Ralph Gilles is being praised for his actions after a fatal car crash in Michigan last week. According to authorities, Gilles used his Jeep Wrangler to push a burning Ford Edge SUV away from a three-car crash that killed one woman and injured the man she was...
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Geely buys 9.7 percent of Daimler in $9B dealHaving just acquired Terrafugia, Lotus, and a sizable stake in Proton, holding company Zhejiang Geely’s international buying spree doesn’t look to be slowing down yet. Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler on Saturday confirmed that Geely, which also owns Volvo and Lynk & Co., plus...
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2019 Porsche 911 teased with nod to future hybridPorsche promises the next-generation 911 will be the same sports car we know and love, only better. On Friday, the brand released official teaser images and a lengthy preview of the 992-generation 911 touching on the topics of autonomous driving, connectivity, and electrification. The teaser images...
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The Dutch sure do have an adventurous spirit. Not only is one Dutch firm working on a Tesla Model S shooting brake, but another by the name of Voitures Extravert is now taking old Porsche 911s and turning them into electric cars. The company calls its project the "Quintessenza": a 1970s or 1980s Porsche 911 with a modern electric powertrain underneath. A 60-kilowatt-hour battery pack provides a range of 400 kilometers (roughly 250 miles) and provides enough power to scoot the 911 from 0-62 mph in 6.0 seconds. Other creature comforts such as air conditioning and power steering are onboard as...
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SEAT launches Cupra performance brand with hot Ateca SUVThe Volkswagen Group's Spanish unit SEAT has turned its Cupra performance trim into its own sub-brand, and the first model to be revealed is the 296-horsepower Cupra Ateca SUV. SEAT's Ateca is a small SUV related to the Volkswagen Tiguan, but the Cupra Ateca, which makes its world debut next month...
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Es-stating the obvious: 2007 Audi S6 Avant is the dream wagon we never gotThere are only two ways a third-generation Audi S6 Avant makes it to the U.S. It’s either a blackmarket car that was imported here and federalized at a completely absurd cost that isn’t worth it to make it street legal, or, it was custom-built. This 2007 S6 Avant is the latter...
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2019 Hyundai Santa Fe debuts with handsome look, diesel millHyundai on Thursday released full details and photos on its redesigned Santa Fe ahead of the sales launch this summer. The SUV, whose formal debut will take place on March 6 at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show, will arrive as a 2019 model. It represents the fourth generation of the Santa Fe...
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Living with the 2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon: the good and the badJeep crows about its Wrangler being the standard for off-road driving. As my colleague Andrew Ganz found in Arizona, the 2018 Jeep Wrangler is a dynamite car in the dirt. While the 2018 Wrangler, a JL to all the fans, certainly will be a fixture on trails and in mud bogs, it's also the vehicle that...
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2019 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe spy shots and videoIt was previewed in concept form only last March, but prototypes for Mercedes-AMG’s standalone sedan are already at a late stage of development. We’re talking about the production version of AMG’s GT sedan concept unveiled at the 2017 Geneva auto show, and judging by the latest...
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Porsche in recent months has been in the midst of internal talks regarding the future of diesel engines within its own lineup. Those talks are clearly over, because the German automaker has just killed off the last remaining oil-burner holdouts in the lineup. For Porsche, diesel is now officially dead. According to Autocar, Porsche has removed the last two models offered in a diesel flavor. The Macan S Diesel and the Panamera 4S Diesel are off the market. This brings Porsche's diesel chapter to a close just 16 years after it kicked off. That first Porsche to get a diesel engine was the...
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2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan spy shots and videoWork on Rolls-Royce’s new SUV due in 2018 continues, as evidenced by recent prototype sightings. It was in early 2015 that Rolls-Royce announced plans for an SUV, but the sighting of a test mule a few weeks later confirmed that work on the automaker’s first “high-sided...
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2019 Porsche 911 leakedA redesigned Porsche 911 is coming this year, and the first photo of a completely unmasked version has surfaced. The photo was posted to the Instagram account of Nina Stegmaier over the weekend but has since been removed. It shows the rear section of what appears to be a 911 Carrera S model, and...
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Aspark Owl electric supercar does 0-60 in under 2 secondsThere's a new electric supercar brewing in Japan, and during testing one of the prototypes managed to accelerate from 0-62 mph in 1.92 seconds. The car is the Aspark Owl, which was rolled out in concept form during the 2017 Frankfurt auto show, and importantly it's performance gives credence to the...
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GT Coupe is AMG's standalone sedan debuting in GenevaMercedes-AMG will reveal its standalone sedan at next month's 2018 Geneva International Motor Show, ahead of an expected market launch late this summer. Curiously, the Affalterbach tuner is referring to the car as the “GT Coupe,” despite prototypes confirming the car will come with four...
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First EVs on Audi and Porsche's PPE platform coming in 2021Audi will introduce its first volume electric car this year in the form of the e-tron SUV. Fellow Volkswagen Group member Porsche will follow in 2019 with its own electric car in the form of the production version of 2015's Mission E concept. The two cars ride on distinct platforms developed...
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