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Volkswagen has updated its Phaeton flagship for the second time in its short life, reaffirming the lackluster opinion of the car in the full-size luxury sedan market. With a brand new BMW 7-series and facelifted Mercedes-Benz S-Class already on sale, plus the completely redesigned Audi A8 and Jaguar XJ just around the corner, Volkswagen’s entrant in this segment is facing a serious uphill battle. The new 2011 Volkswagen Phaeton comes onto the market with a fundamentally new front design and is making its world debut in what will arguably be its biggest market, China. It will be on display...
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Spy Shots: Hardcore Audi R8 SportThe R8 Sport will likely be joined by a smaller TT Sport as well.
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2011 Ford Fiesta Rocks Out With Voice Control For PandoraHow would you like to choose between personalized Pandora stations, or select from the programming in your Stitcher custom channels, while keeping both hands on the wheel?
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2011 Audi RS5 Image UpdateWhen Audi released the RS4 back in 2005, few expected it to be a true competitor to BMW’s benchmark M3 but with the benefit of quattro all-wheel drive, a high-revving V-8, and better weight distribution, the performance sedan managed to upset many, if not, all of its rivals. A replacement for the...
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Ferrari 599 GTO revealed ahead of 2010 Beijing auto showFerrari recently showed off its new Laboratorio Technologico 599XX experimental car based on the regular 599 GTB Fiorano, and while we all wished the wild concept would eventually enter production, the chances of actually buying one are next to nil except maybe for a few lucky people enlisted as...
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2011 Audi TT And TTS PreviewThe 2011 Audi TT gets an upgraded 2.0-liter TFSI engine and some new appearance options.
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Hennessey and DiMora, two firms with questionable pasts, have come together to help sell the new 2011 Hennessey Venom GT supercar in the Middle East and India. Hennessey, as many would know, has had trouble in the past with allegations of incomplete work surrounding its line of modified Dodge Vipers, while DiMora had been promising for years to build an extreme 1,200 horsepower luxury sedan but to this day there has been no tangible evidence that the car even exists. At least Hennessey has revealed its Venom GT supercar--and this week the company has announced that DiMora will become the...
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Spy Shots: 2011 BMW X3New spy shots of the latest 2011 BMW X3 prototype testing in Germany indicate the automaker may be moving the crossover's development forward to match the competition. Previous reports had indicated that the current BMW X3 would have to soldier on for a few more years until an all-new model could...
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Nissan Sentra SE-R Goes R/C Drifting For Canadian commercialThe latest Nissan Sentra SE-R gets some special video treatment.
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2010 New York Auto Show CoverageThe 2010 New York Auto Show turned out to be one of the most exciting and product-filled North American shows so far this year, with the industry bootstrapping itself out of the depths of 2008 and 2009. With nearly as many new cars, concepts and special editions as Detroit and Chicago combined, it...
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America’s AMS Performance Builds World’s First Nine Second R35 Nissan GT-RThe Nissan GT-R is the quintessential Japanese sports car--high-tech, efficient and with styling that could only have come from the Land of the Rising Sun--but when it comes to performance tuning of the latest R35 model, America is king. AMS Performance, based in Chicago, Illinois, currently builds...
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Panamericana Reborn: Puebla To Oaxaca In The 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMGThe newest member of Mercedes' gullwing family traces its roots to the oldest.
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Futurists predict that by 2030 more than 60 percent of the world’s population, which by that time should number around eight billion people, will be concentrated into urban areas. Streets will be more congested than ever and pressure on a public infrastructure--already struggling to meet the growing demand for transportation and basic services--will be tremendous. General Motors’ solution, formulated together with the aid of Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Group (SAIC), is for a radical change in personal urban transportation. There are a number of proposals on...
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2011 Subaru Impreza WRX Adopts WideBody DesignThe new 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX has been updated for the latest model year, picking up the same striking widebody design as the high-performance STI model along with a wider track and tires for enhanced grip. The new widebody design is standard on both the WRX sedan and hatchback, making both cars...
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Spy Shots: Lexus LFA Nurburgring 24 Hours Race CarLexus has already shown off its new LFA race car that it plans to field in this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance race, which takes place on May 13, but now we have live shots of the car taken while it was undergoing testing at the famous circuit. Lexus claims the car is essentially a...
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Spy Shots: 2012 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti Successor Test-MuleThe 612 Scaglietti is the oldest model in Ferrari’s lineup but a replacement is due in late 2011.
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2012 McLaren MP4-12C previewWhen the McLaren F1 first hit the streets it almost immediately catapulted to the top of the performance car scene, taking home the title of world’s fastest production car in 1998 and holding it up until 2005. Building a car better than the original F1 was always going to be a difficult...
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Rendered: SAAB 9-1 HatchbackWith Lexus unveiling the new CT 200h and Infiniti bosses confirming plans for an all-electric compact car of their own, Saab is wary of becoming one of the only premium automakers without a model to compete in what’s quickly becoming a new frontier for the luxury marques: the premium compact...
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Audi is hopping onto the electrified vehicle bandwagon with the announcement of plans for a new range of hybrids, plug-in hybrids and all-electric luxury vehicles and sports cars. Following the lead of parent company Volkswagen, Audi is striving to become the leader for alternative-powered vehicles in the luxury segment by the end of the decade. The information comes directly from Audi's board member for technical development, Michael Dick, who revealed to Automotive News that the automaker plans to start off with several hybrid models, followed by more advanced plug-in hybrids and...
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Ford Mustang: Past, Present And FutureThe Mustang is one of the oldest nameplates in the automotive world--and rightly so. Since its debut on April 17 at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, the Ford Mustang has stood for affordable performance and till this day it remains America's only pony car to stay in uninterrupted production...
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Ford Mustang: Best Pony Car Ever?The Ford Mustang is not just an iconic pony car or a retro-modern throw-back to simpler times. It's a fan-favorite performance vehicle that has a rabid and enthusiastic base of drivers, tuners and manufacturers behind it from all around the world. It hasn’t always been this way, however. The...
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Spy Shots: 2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class CoupeThe facelifted Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe is due next year.
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2010 Geneva Motor Show: Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta Concept By PininfarinaBack in January we first reported that Alfa Romeo was planning a trio of new concept cars previewing its replacement for the 159 sedan for the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Today, the first of these concepts has been fully revealed in the form of the new Pininfarina designed Alfa Romeo 2uettottanta...
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2010 Geneva Motor Show Coverage Starts HereWith the global financial crisis--and all the negative effects associated with it--for the most part behind us, the 2010 Geneva Motor Show is in full swing, and the cars are rolling out. Considering that in the past 12 months we’ve seen vehicle sales drop to almost half the levels they were...
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