Car News
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Audi isn't the first name in high-mpg luxury cars--it has yet to release a hybrid, though it has several on deck, including the A6 Hybrid, which we won't get here in the U.S. But Audi does have its diesel engines, and those manage pretty solid economy while maintaining a level of performance thanks to the high torque figures. But soon, a new engine may add to Audi's green porftolio--and it's neither diesel nor hybrid. Instead, it's a highly efficient turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engine: the completely redesigned 1.8 TFSI. As the base engine--for Europe, at least, though there's some...
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Corvette Racing Shows Its Pit Lane Performance: VideoSee first-hand what it's like when the Corvette Racing American Le Mans Series team orchestrates a pit stop.
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German Driver Sets New Parallel Parking World Record: Video
English stunt driver and general behind-the-wheel-badass Russ Swift once held the record for parallel parking a car in the smallest space between two others. He did it, naturally, in a Mini, with the aid of a handbrake turn. The German who just reset the new record in a considerably smaller space...
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Toyota Helps Old Drivers, Pedestrians With New Safety Tech
Your next car will almost certainly perform better than your last car, offer more features, greater comfort and more gadgets. It'll also be safer, but we've become so complacent with the safety of modern cars that we barely give it a second thought any more. Carmakers do though, and Toyota has...
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2011 Lotus Exige, Elise Final Editions For U.S. Launched
An exclusive trio of Final Edition cars from Lotus will mark the end of production for the Elise and Exige as we now know them. First up is the Elise SC Final Edition. Only 15 will be built, and each will come with special equipment to mark it out as a unique version. A supercharged 218-horsepower...
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Alfa Romeo Teases Revised 4C Concept For Frankfurt
The Alfa Romeo 4C concept took the Geneva Motor Show by storm earlier this year, then really got us going with confirmation from CEO Harald Wester that it would be coming to the U.S. in production form. Now a new version of the 4C concept is being teased ahead of the Frankfurt Auto Show, hinting...
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The 2013 Lexus GS 350 will be unveiled later this month just ahead of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, complete with a live stream via Facebook. Today, we get the first official teaser image of the car we've spied so many times. We've also seen the new GS showing its stuff on video, even hitting an autocross course. The latest teaser appears to confirm that the production car will be keeping much of the dramatic front-end styling of the LF-Gh concept. LED running lights appear to frame the lower edge of teh headlights, while a large, semi-trapezoidal grill surround ensconces the primary...
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Saab Gains New Investor, Promises To Pay Workers
Saab has issued a new allotment of shares, roughly 17 percent of the company, to investment group GEM Global Yield Fund Limited.
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Waze app update calculates your commute
These days, you can't swing a cat in any app marketplace without hitting half a dozen targeted at travelers, but few of them meet anyone's everyday needs. After all, do we really need a travel app to get to the 7-Eleven? Waze is the exception to the rule, and with a new update, it becomes even more...
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2013 Cadillac ATS Teaser Released
This latest teaser previews the new 2013 Cadillac ATS compact luxury sedan, which goes on sale in the summer of 2012.
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2012 Buick Regal GS Priced From $35,310
The 2012 Buick Regal GS goes on sale this fall priced from $35,310.
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2012 Buick Regal eAssist Priced From $29,530
The 2012 Buick Regal eAssist will go on sale this fall priced from $29,530.
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If your car is your pride and joy you'll know the annoyance of returning to it after a shopping trip to find that some imbecile has opened their door onto yours or carelessly parked and left a dent and a scrape. And let's face it, if they're careless enough to ding your door they're hardly going to leave their details and an apology. For some, that would be enough to park at the far end of a lot just to avoid other cars. For Victor Lortz, it was enough for him to invent a gadget to catch them red-handed. Victor's electronic watchdog uses a car's sensors to detect when someone has bashed it...
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More RS Models Coming To U.S. Says Audi Sales Chief
The Audi TT RS has just gone and sale and the next RS model, the RS5, is due out next year.
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Scagliarini Fiat 500 Coupe Zagato Elaborata Is No Zagato
The Scagliarini Fiat 504 Coupe Zagato Elaborata was commission by a customer in the United Arab Emirates and has no affiliation with Italian design house Zagato.
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Dealer Takes 2012 Fisker Karma For A Spin: Video
The 2012 Fisker Karma is a range-extended electric car claimed to return a fuel economy of 100 mpg and costing $95,900.
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Land Rover Defender Concept Headed To 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show?
Land Rover is looking to target military buyers with its new-generation Defender, but for the project to be successful annual sales would need to reach at least 60,000 units.
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Audi Signs On As Sponsor For 63rd Annual Emmy Awards
The deal between Audi and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organizer of the Emmy awards, is multi-year one.
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Malaise Era cars make for great Guilty Pleasures entries, in my case because I'm old enough to remember these terrible clankers when they were new and should know better than to want any of them. I just couldn't get enough of the Chrysler J Body when I honored the 1981-83 Imperial, and so I'm back for more with the Imperial's odd-yet-compelling-looking sibling: the 1980-83 Dodge Mirada. You can love it or hate it, but the Mirada's strange-O front bodywork makes a vivid impression. Yes, it is a close relative of the Cordoba. No, you couldn't get it with anything called Corinthian Leather...
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Lexus To Broadcast 2013 GS Unveiling Live Via Facebook
If you're not already free the evening of August 18th, you might want to shuffle some things around: Lexus will be broadcasting the unveiling of the 2013 GS live, with a special preview to Facebook fans starting 30 minutes early. The debut event will happen in Pebble Beach, just ahead of the...
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2012 Infiniti FX Priced From $43,450, Limited Edition From $51,550
The 2012 Infiniti FX's new design and updated features for its mid-cycle refresh were announced earlier today, but Infiniti held back pricing until just minutes ago. Now we know the 2012 FX will start in FX35/rear-wheel-drive form from $43,450. The all-new FX35 all-wheel-drive Limited Edition model...
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Danica Patrick Moves To NASCAR, Keeps Door Open To Indy 500
Danica Patrick, the female racing phenom, GoDaddy spokesperson, and possessor of what is quite possibly the most annoying personal website on the Internet, is rumored to be making the switch from full-time IndyCar racing to the oval-obsessed fields of NASCAR. She won't give up on the Indy 500...
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NFL Coach Sells His Mercedes-Benz SL 500 To Cafeteria Worker For $20
Ray Horton, ex-secondary coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers and new defensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals, did a pretty generous thing recently: he sold his 1999 Mercedes-Benz SL 500 to a long-time cafeteria worker that served the coaches and staff for just $20. The car is worth closer to...
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Government-Mandated Autonomous Cars: Science Fiction Or Coming Soon?
The idea of an iRobot (the movie, not the book)-like future where only the renegades drive their own cars may be fast approaching. BMW's i range of cars offers some ready-for-prime-time autonomy, and VW's recent Auto Pilot demo shows just how close we already are to production driverless cars...
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