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All cards on the table: we think Reese Witherspoon is a big ol' slice of awesome. Not that she's fat or anything; when we say "big ol'", we just mean that she seems extremely awesome. She's a study in contrasts: a Southern girl with a tiny bit of a wild streak; pretty and refined, but not opposed to letting her hair down; and she's had fairly good taste in bunkmates. That's exactly the kind of gal we'd like to take for drinks. Now we also know that she's loyal to a fault. By which we mean brand-loyal. Not so long ago, folks were saying that brand-loyalty was all but dead, especially among Ms...
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2011 Cadillac CTS And Infiniti M Earn IIHS Top Safety Pick AwardsThe 2011 Cadillac CTS and Infiniti M have both earned the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety’s (IIHS) top rating of Good in new roof strength tests that assess how well vehicles would protect people in rollover crashes. In doing so, they have beat cars like the Lexus GS and Audi A6, both of...
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Driven: 2010 Audi A4If you've driven the A4 in the past, and crossed it off your list in favor of another compact sport sedan, you owe it another chance.
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Guy Rents 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia, Then Crashes ItOnly yesterday we reported that too many 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia supercars have been written off, either due to careless drivers crashing them or the cars themselves spontaneously combusting. We even saw one of the rare beauties suffering a crash just one day after leaving Ferrari’s factory in...
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Pebble 2010: Microbrands And Other CarsThere's more to see at Pebble than the Bugattis and Ferraris, though these representatives have few constituents. From the odd to the outstanding, and occasionally both at once, these cars represent the happy oddballs of one of the world's most important concourses. This 1958 Facel Vega Excellence...
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Pebble 2010: A Fistful Of FerrarisThere are so many simply beautiful Ferraris at Pebble Beach it's hard to pick any as a favorite, but these are some that caught our eye.
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The G-Power name has become synonymous with extreme BMWs and the company’s latest Hurricane RR based on the M5 sedan fits in perfectly with that description. After G-Power’s own M6-based Hurricane CS broke the record for the fastest BMW two-door on the planet with a top speed of 228 mph, the German tuner decided to shoehorn the same record-breaking powerplant into the BMW M5. The end result is the all-new G-Power M5 Hurricane RR. Following on the G-Power Hurricane RS powered by a twin-supercharger engine with 750 horsepower, the crazy German tuner has dialed output up to 800 horsepower...
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Spy Shots: U.S. Market Volkswagen NMSThe Passat has been a relative success for Volkswagen in the U.S., but the automaker is hard at work on a New Mid-size (or mid-market) Sedan, not-so-cleverly codenamed NMS, to replace it. The final design has already been approved and previewed previously in an official sketch, and now we have the...
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Video: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe Laps Monticello Motor ClubLast week, we told you how much fun the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe is from behind the wheel in our First Drive Review. Now, we can show you. This video was shot from inside a CTS-V Coupe we took around the very technical track at Monticello Motor Club, a racetrack that's normally only open to...
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Ali Fedotowsky Buys A Convertible. So Is She A Celebrity Yet?Somehow, The Bachelorette is still on the air, which probably means that someone is still watching it, which probably means that some people out there know who Ali Fedotowsky is. We are not those people. However, her name shows up a lot in the news feeds, and it's fairly hard to miss, so in our...
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Video: 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia Crashes One Day After Leaving FactoryIn the short time that the new 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia has been on sale we’ve already managed to see at least one crashed example and hear about two other causalities, as well as see an additional two examples go up in flames. Now, we have a video showing yet another 458 Italia suffering from the...
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August Is Exotics Month At Motor AuthorityGet ready for a month of some of the hottest cars on the road.
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These Italian cars prove Ferrari isn't necessarily the master of the concours.
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Pebble 2010: A Miller for the AgesIn a past life, I wrote about the Miller 91 that Car and Driver editor Karl Ludvigsen found in a dank barn in France, and brought to the U.S.--and later saw installed in the National History Museum. Today, it's another spectacular Miller that made its way to the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours...
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Pebble 2010: Morgan Eva GT Live PhotosAlong with the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, we've brought you all the details of the new Morgan EvaGT as they've trickled out over the Internet in the past few weeks. Today, at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours' concept-car lawn, we were able to lens the tradition-breaking EvaGT for the first time...
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Pebble 2010: Mercedes-Benz 500KWhile Mercedes-Benz made a show of its own with a massive gathering of its 2010 SLS AMG sportscar, it also found a place of honor on the lawn at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance with this near-perfect 1930s roadster. Shown for the first time at the 1934 Berlin Motor Show, this...
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Pebble 2010: Ghia, In All Its GloryDesign studios rarely receive the kind of comprehensive museum treatment of established car brands. It's no easy thing to assemble a cohesive group of cars that eventually were sold by different car companies, each with a different purpose in mind. As one of the honored marques at this year's...
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Pebble 2010: Jaguar XKSS by the dozenIt's been a special year for Jaguar, which introduced a new 2011 XJ sedan earlier this year to widespread acclaim. A highlight of its corporate summer must have been today's showing of a dozen XKSS sports cars at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours. The XKSS has a compelling history. Sixteen cars in all...
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We've told you all about the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport in previews earlier this month, but at today's 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, we grabbed our first live photos of the world's new record holder for production-car top speed. Bugatti introduced the car on Saturday at The Quail 2010, a rival concours at the nearby Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, California, against a backdrop of more than a dozen pre-war Bugatti race cars and touring cars. Today, it sat on the concept-car lawn on the forecourt of the Lodge at Pebble Beach, flanked by other newly minted luxury exotics like the...
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Pebble 2010: 1937 Bugatti 57S AtlanticThe Bugatti 57S Atlantic was, in many ways, ahead of its time. Even now, over 70 years later, it features elements just beginning to make their way into the average passenger car, such as aluminum body panels. This example, on display this weekend at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance...
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Pebble 2010: 1933 Delage D8S De Villars Roadster wins Best Of ShowThere can be few higher honors for the world's elite car collectors than Best of Show at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. This year, the award goes to a 1933 Delage D8S De Villars Roadster, selected from among the hundreds of cars and tens of contenders vying for supremacy on this highly...
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Modern Lancia Stratos turns out to be Pininfarina-designed one-offEarlier this month, what appeared to be a modern reinterpretation of the Lancia Stratos appeared on the web in some suspect but intriguing photos. Today, we can finally confirm that the car is real but for now, at least, it is only a special-off commissioned by a German customer. The modern Lancia...
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Pebble 2010: 2011 Bentley Continental GTC And GTC Speed 80-11 EditionsThe Bentley Continental range is starting to get a little long in the tooth, having been on sale in its current form since 2003. Despite this, Bentley is milking the most out of its Continental range for the 2011 model year, releasing two more special editions based on the Continental GTC and GTC...
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All-Aluminum Morgan EvaGT RevealedFrom the hydrogen-powered LIFEcar concept to the Aero SuperSports to its history of wood-framed cars, Morgan spans an incredible variety of technology and aims with its cars, all wrapped in a classically-styled package. For this month's 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Morgan is turning its...
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