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During the hustle and bustle of last week’s Geneva Motor Show, organizers of the European Car of the Year awards named the latest Opel Astra the winner for 2016. This bodes well for cars in the United States as the underlying platform of the Astra, General Motors Company’s [NYSE:GM] D2XX platform, is found in latest versions of the Chevrolet Cruze and Volt and is also destined for the next Buick Verano. A team of 58 jurors, made up mostly of automotive journalists and representing 22 European countries, awarded the Astra a total of 309 points versus 294 for the Volvo XC90 and 202...
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2016 Porsche 911 R debuts at Geneva auto showFollowing yesterday’s leak, we now have official details on the new Porsche 911 R following the car’s world debut this morning at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. The car is designed for those Porsche purists lamenting the somewhat radical direction engineers took with the latest 911 GT3 and...
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Volkswagen bringing updated Up! to 2016 Geneva auto showVolkswagen’s Up! first arrived on the scene in 2012 as a spiritual successor to the Lupo city car. An updated version of the car has now been revealed ahead of an official world debut at next month’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show. Among the changes is a new engine, an expanded list of...
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2016 Kia Optima Sportswagon Revealed Ahead Of Geneva DebutKia’s handsome Sportspace concept unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show a year ago was meant to preview the design of the new Optima whose debut followed a month later at the New York Auto Show. However, the fact that the Sportspace was in the shape of a wagon and not a sedan suggested Kia was...
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2017 Bentley Flying Spur V8 S To Debut At Geneva Motor ShowBentley buyers looking at the Flying Spur now have a new option to choose from in the form of the Flying Spur V8 S, which makes its world debut at next month’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show. As the name suggests, the car sports the same powertrain as the related Continental GT V8 S, in this case a...
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Aston Martin To Replace Vantage And Vanquish By 2018: ReportWe’re now just a couple of weeks away from the official reveal of Aston Martin’s new DB11, the long-awaited replacement for the—gracefully—aging DB9. The car will be the first to ride on an all-new platform developed by Aston Martin for its next generation of sports cars...
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Morgan, the British firm that builds advanced, high-tech sports cars that look like they stepped out of the first half of the last century, is headed to the 2016 Geneva Motor Show with two new additions. One is a special edition of Morgan’s 4/4, the company’s first car with four wheels. The 4/4 has been in production since 1936, making it 80 years old this year. (Production was suspended during the years of World War II.) That’s certainly reason to celebrate. Unfortunately, we don’t have any details on the car. However, we can expect it to be a lot like the special...
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Next Cadillac Escalade To Be More Sophisticated But Keep Body-On-Frame ConstructionCadillac’s Escalade is big and brash and that’s exactly what its customers are demanding. Those customers are also happy that the vehicle features body-on-frame construction, as opposed to car-like unibody construction many rival full-size luxury SUVs rely on. These attributes...
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Ferrari California T Chases The Dunes: VideoIf you’re in the market for an exotic sports car but aren’t looking to go down the flashy supercar route, Ferrari’s [NYSE:RACE] California is a great option, especially those versions designated a California T. The California T addresses the original California’s somewhat...
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Nissan Armada To Return As Rebadged Patrol?Nissan is expected to return to the full-size SUV segment this year with a new Armada, the previous version of which bowed out of the market after the 2015 model year. It’s not clear what form the new Armada will take but there are rumors it may be a rebadged version of the Patrol sold...
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Replica Ford GT40 From ‘Fast Five’ Heads To AuctionFans of the 2011 movie Fast Five will immediately recognize this Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] GT40. It’s a replica built exclusively for filming of the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise and featured prominently at the start of the movie, during the train heist scene. Now...
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Opel GT Concept Partially Revealed In New Teaser VideoOpel is set to unveil a new GT concept at March’s 2016 Geneva Motor Show and to build excitement is running a teaser campaign. Video clips below feature Opel CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann who talks about seeing the brand with a “fresh pair of eyes.” We also get a partial reveal of the...
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Exactly one year ago, Cadillac boss Johan de Nysschen confirmed the brand would launch a compact sedan to take on the likes of the Audi A3 and Mercedes-Benz CLA. He also confirmed that the car would come with rear-wheel drive to differentiate it from rivals which are all based on front-wheel-drive platforms. Not much has been heard about the Cadillac baby sedan since then but that doesn’t mean it’s off the radar. In fact, Cadillac chief engineer David Leone has hinted at the car once again during a recent interview with Road & Track. ALSO SEE: 2018 BMW 3-Series Spy Shots He is...
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Report: Audi Q1 still coming, will share underpinnings with next-gen A1Not that long ago, Audi confirmed plans for a new crossover that was to be called a Q1. However, the new crossover ended up being closer in size to the compact A3 than the subcompact A1 range, thus the vehicle had to be be rechristened the Q2 to reflect its larger size and positioning. In fact...
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VLF Teases V-10-Powered Force 1 Supercar, Reveal Coming SoonHenrik Fisker recently teamed up with VL Automotive (now VLF), the company turning Fisker Karmas into Corvette-powered hot rods, as both lead designer and a shareholder. He’s also designed a new supercar called the Force 1 that will debut later today at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show and is...
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2017 Audi A4 Priced From $38,250The all-new 2017 Audi A4 goes on sale in the spring priced from $38,250, including a $950 destination charge. This represents a rise of $1,425 on the starting price of the outgoing model and sees the new A4 priced close to segment leaders such as the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Only one...
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2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Convertible Spy ShotsThe all-new, sixth-generation Camaro has already been awarded our Best Car To Buy award in its SS trim, but even more potent versions of the car are coming, two of which have already been spotted out and about in prototype form. One is a track-focused 1LE and another is the ZL1 drag strip favorite...
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MINI Confirms Super Bowl 50 SpotMINI is set to return to the Super Bowl after a five-year hiatus. The automaker has teamed up with advertising agency Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners to craft a 30-second spot that will feature in the third-quarter of the game. The information was confirmed by a MINI spokesperson to Advertising...
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With the 2016 Volvo XC90, the first model based on Volvo's modular SPA platform, now in showrooms all across the country, attention turns to the next SPA-based model in the works, a new flagship sedan reviving the S90 nameplate. The car replaces the aging S80 in Volvo’s lineup and will be formally introduced at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show in just a couple of weeks. We already know what the S90 will look like, however, as Volvo has already shown the car online. The look is reminiscent of the sleek Concept Coupe from the 2013 thanks to elements like the Thor’s Hammer daytime running...
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Alleged BMW M1 Prototype Found In A BarnAn old, unloved BMW M1 stored in a barn in Germany was recently listed for sale on eBay, and according to the seller the car was the first very M1 ever built. We’re not talking about the first M1 built and sold to a customer but the very first of several prototypes built prior to the start of...
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Ford Oz To Send Off Falcon With XR Sprint Performance SpecialOnly yesterday we learned that there’s a mission on to save local production of Australia’s Holden Commodore. However, it’s just one big, rear-wheel-drive offering from Down Under as Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] offers a similar model called the Falcon. Unfortunately, Ford is also...
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2017 Audi A4 Allroad Spy ShotsThe new 'B9' Audi A4 has been revealed, both in its sedan and more practical A4 Avant wagon bodystyles. But as was the case with the previous A4, the new Avant won’t be available in the United States. Instead, we’ll get a more rugged version of the wagon that will once again don the...
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2017 Hyundai Ioniq spy shotsIt was only yesterday that Hyundai confirmed its upcoming Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius rival will be called an Ioniq, and now we have a new set of spy shots of the car. As we learned yesterday, the Ioniq will go on sale next year, and it will be the first car ever to offer electric, hybrid and...
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Next Subaru WRX STI to be a hybrid?Subaru is set to introduce an all-new Impreza next year and that means the sporty WRX and WRX STI will soon be renewed as well. We've already spied some prototypes and Subaru has unveiled concepts previewing both the hatch and sedan. Underpinning the vehicles will be a new platform called the...
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