Car News
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Saab is working on a new 9-6X with its Chinese partners but this 'Saabaru' will remain forever as just a museum piece.
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How Many Bugatti Veyron Owners Does It Take To Install A Cloth Roof?The latest Bugatti fail happens before the driver even starts the car.
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Guilty Pleasure: 1980-85 Cadillac Eldorado BiarritzSorry about the lateness of this installment of Guilty Pleasures; I got dragged off to some madness in Michigan and am only now getting caught up on my worship of cars I shouldn't want but do want. Cadillac made many such vehicles beginning in the late 1960s, when pursuit of market share took...
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Ferrari 458 Spider Hard Top Details: ReportThe Ferrari 458 Italia's convertible, or Spider, variant could get a unique hardtop system--one that might even be made of glass.
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BMW ActiveE Gets Some Behind-The-Scenes Action: VideoEver wondered what the BMW ActiveE looks like while it's rolling through the plant, innards exposed to the open air? Here's your answer. The 1-Series bodies in white glide through the Leipzig plant as they are built up into BMW's all-electric, lease-only ActiveE coupe. As it's being build, BMW...
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Drivers, Team Talk About Return To DTM, BMW M3 DTM Concept: VideoThe BMW M3 gets a fully radicalized motorsports interpretation for the company's return to DTM racing next year. The DTM series will be coming to the U.S. in 2013.
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As a replacement for the dull and unfashionable Chevrolet Aveo, GM is hoping the funky 2011 Chevrolet Sonic will appeal to a more savvy car buyer, and tempt people away from their Ford Fiestas and Honda Fits. One way of doing this is giving free invitations to the Spotify digital music service to the first 150,000 people who inquire about the car. Spotify has been a massive hit in Europe with over ten million members. Similar to Pandora, Spotify has a huge online music library from which users can create playlists, streaming via their computers and mobile devices. Chevrolet is the first U.S...
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Mercedes-Benz: Four-Cylinder Diesel M-Class A Possibility For U.S.A four-cylinder ML250 BlueTec, powered by a 2.1-liter four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine, could be headed to the U.S.
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2012 Audi A5 Coupe Shown In 360-Degree VideoAudi fans can take a complete virtual walk-around of the 2012 Audi A5 Coupe thanks to a 360-degree video posted on YouTube.
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Bentley CEO Confirms SUV Plans: ReportWith the Volkswagen Group's umbrella sheltering Audi and Porsche as well as Bentley, it a hyper-lux SUV might seem like a natural progression of platform sharing. The rumors that have circulated for the last five years or more have certainly indicated it's a possibility, but today it looks like...
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FIA Tests Jet Fighter Canopies For F1: VideoFelipe Massa's severe head injury and close call with death after being hit in the head with a spring thrown free of Rubens Barrichello's car at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, which happened less than a week after 18-year-old Henry Surtees died during a Formula Two race when a loose wheel struck...
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Mercedes-Benz' Wind Tunnel Provides Weather On DemandOne minute it's freezing cold, the next you're battling with a hurricane, and then finally the sun comes out for tropical temperatures. No, it's not some futuristic vision of a world in the grips of rapid climate change, it's actually the conditions available in the new wind tunnels used by...
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Dual-clutch gearboxes are the latest word in high-tech transmissions, but even though they're not as demanding on the driver as a manual transmission, this Ferrari 458 Italia owner proves they still require at least a modicum of skill.
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Ford Fiesta To Be Available With Three-Cylinder EcoBoost: ReportFord's upcoming 1.0-liter, three-cylinder EcoBoost engine will make it to Fiestas sold in North America, according to information pieced together from Ford executives
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Jay Leno Visits McLaren Factory And Drives New MP4-12C: VideoThe video features Leno on his tour of the McLaren factory and behind the wheel of his own example as he’s given instruction by the MP4-12C’s chief test driver Chris Goodwin.
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Paris Hilton Gets Lexus LFA From Boyfriend, Later Breaks Up And Swaps ColorIt turns out that Hilton really did love the LFA, just not the color.
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11-Year Old Takes Audi R8 For A Spin: VideoThe clip is of a 11-year old boy in the UK hopping behind the wheel of the right-hand drive Audi R8 supercar and then proceeding to hoon it on a patch of grass.
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SRT Boss Ralph Gilles Wants To Revive Dodge Magnum, SRT Viper LikelyRemember the Dodge Magnum? How it was long and low and imposing, and yet somehow still completely American? Remember when Dodge inexplicably killed it off? Well, SRT boss Ralph Gilles says he wants it back. In an interview with Jerry Garret of the New York Times Wheels Blog, Gilles said the...
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The 2012 Ford Mustang Blue Angels edition will be sold at charity auction to benefit the EAA Young Eagles program. It's also one mean Mustang, with Ford Racing upgrades, including a 624-horsepower Ford Racing supercharged V-8.
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2012 BMW M3 DTM Concept RevealedThe 2012 BMW M3 DTM concept previews the race car the brand will use to return to the German racing series for the first time in two decades.
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Audi Previews A5-Based 2012 DTM Race CarThe 2012 Audi A5 will do battle against BMW and Mercedes in next year's DTM championship before heading to the U.S. for several races in 2013.
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Red Chrome Bugatti Veyron Wrap: Why, Dartz, Why?Dartz, the Latvians known for gigantic armored SUVs, faux whale penis leather, and something called a "Prombron Nagel," have just completed a red chrome wrap on a Bugatti Veyron. While we (and anyone with eyes) ask why, Dartz asks, why not? Though the video is low-res and grainy, it's still clear...
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Corvette Racing Offers Behind-The-Scenes Look At Race Logistics: VideoThe Corvette Racing Team shows us what it takes to win a race like Le Mans. Hint: it's all about teamwork.
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2012 Charger, Challenger, Grand Cherokee SRT8 Hoon It Up: VideoWhen a new car is launched, the manufacturer typically provides the media with a few minutes of "B-roll" footage, to be used for voiceovers and the like. Typically, it's pretty tame stuff--static shots, some two-lane driving, fly-bys. The new SRT brand's B-roll is all sideways and smoking. It's a...
Nelson Ireson