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The front-wheel-drive Volkswagen GTI is a blast to drive. It’s fun slow, it’s fun fast. It’s a lot like a MINI Cooper in that regard, but less cute, way more practical, and many of its attributes are quite nuanced and subtle — unlike a MINI. More on subtleties below. Fireworks come first. And you experience the latter at all times behind the wheel of the sixth-gen, five-door, $23,890 GTI, where this otherwise reserved VW lets its hair down. There’s the marvelous, clutchless manual six-speed DSG transmission that up/downshifts faster than an eyeblink, perhaps the steadiest and most...
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Jaguar-Land Rover Win UK Funding For Jet Turbine-Powered EVs
The gas-turbine technology draws on jet engine tech to extend EV range.
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Video: 2011 Audi A1 LED Running Light Preview
Audi continues its slow trickle of A1 information ahead of the February 6th unveiling.
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2010 Detroit Auto Show: 2011 Chevrolet Aveo RS Concept Live Gallery
The all-new 2011 Chevrolet Aveo hits all the right marks on design.
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2010 Detroit Auto Show: Fiat 500 BEV
At the 2010 Detroit Auto Show today Chrysler rolled out its Fiat 500 minicar once again but this time around the diminutive hatch is sporting something very different. Labeled the Fiat 500 BEV, the new concept features an all-electric powertrain based on Chrysler’s modular electric drive...
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Contrary to what we’ve heard recently from other sources—which might, admittedly, have been building on rumor—Volkswagen currently has no plans to build a Jetta Coupe.
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2010 Detroit Auto Show: Toyota FT-CH Compact Hybrid Concept
The Toyota FT-CH Compact Hybrid Concept is Toyota's latest take on a Prius-platform hybrid.
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Cadillac Converj Cleared For Production, Says Lutz
The Cadillac Converj extended range electric luxury coupe made its concept debut at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show.
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Zac Efron's Audi A5: Like HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, This Is Getting Old
Green goddess in a bottle, this is getting old: another celebrity caught cruising the streets of Los Angeles in an Audi. This time, the celebrity in question is none other than former teen heartthrob (and current 22-year-old heartthrob) Zac Efron, best known (a) for his turns in various High School...
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2009: The Year In Reverse
We're just a couple of days away from rear-ending 2010, so like all major media outlets, we thought we'd take a break from real reporting (don't worry: nothing's happening) and look back at some of 2009's notable moments. It was an...interesting year for the auto industry to say the least, and...
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Elecric Fiat 500 To Join New Midsize Chrysler At Detroit Auto Show?
The latest report says there'll be not just one but two new cars on Chrysler's stand at the Detroit Auto Show.
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Audi's Johan de Nysschen does it again.
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BMW Announces Price Rise For 2010 Lineup
The 2010 BMW range sees minor price bumps across the board.
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Danish Prince Drives 2010 Fisker Karma At Copenhagen Greenhouse Summit
The 2010 Fisker Karma is soon to be turned loose in non-Fisker hands for the first time.
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Mercedes-Benz Planning Three-Cylinder C-Class? Not So Fast
Reports have been circling the web for months now, but we've yet to see anything tangible.
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Tesla Roadster To Take On Winter, 'Range Anxiety' With 2,700-mile Road Trip
The Tesla Roadster will be hitting the road to make the run from Los Angeles to Detroit for the 2010 NAIAS.
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Video: Toyota iQ Gets Thrashed On Holiday Shopping Trip
The sporty little iQ will be coming Stateside as a Scion iQ sometime in 2010.
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Spend an hour or two behind the wheel of a Tesla Roadster, and you may walk away thinking that pistons, gasoline engines, clutches, gearboxes, and the many other mechanical bits of a standard sports car are just so...last century. Now you too can experience the rush of pure electric power from the driver's seat of a 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport. That's the model whose tweaked software and hotter electric motor slingshot it from 0 to 60 mph in a mere 3.7 seconds. It's quick enough that you'll pity most Porsches and Ferraris, smiling indulgently at their slow, stodgy, sluglike acceleration, just...
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Siemens Presents eRuf Stormster Electric Porsche Cayenne
The eRuf Stormster will also be paired with an eCar charging station initiative.
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2011 Chevrolet Cruze Live From The L.A. Show Floor
The new Cruze will hit the floor on December 2.
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Tesla To Build Model S Sedan Plant In Downey, California
A tax break for the company means Tesla will definitely build its new sedan plant in California.
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Report: Tesla Motors Preparing To Go Public
Tesla Motors could be preparing an IPO, according to
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Lutzed Again: Twin-Turbo V-6 Chevrolet Camaro May Be In The Works
A twin-turbo V-6 Camaro would do battle with the likes of the next-gen Mustang GT.
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