Car News
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Rumors of a new Jaguar F-Type have been making the rounds for years.
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Video: Saab Crash-Tests The 2010 9-5 Head-On With ItselfThe closing speed of 120 km/h, or 74.5 mph, yielded good results despite the big impact.
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Dodge Redesigns Logo To Promote Youthfulness, PerformanceChrysler’s decision last year to separate its Dodge car and truck models into the respective Dodge Car and new Dodge Ram brands meant that the two separate divisions henceforth could focus more directly on their best attributes. By splitting the Dodge Ram brand off, it allowed that division to...
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New Sports Car, 3-Series Rival And Chinese Plant In The Pipeline For JaguarJaguar's XF and new 2010 XJ sedans have made waves in the sport-luxury seas, bringing a newer, fresher face to what was once a bit of a stodgy lineup. Now it looks like Jaguar may be planning even more boat-rocking, with several new models in the pipeline including a sports car, a BMW 3-Series...
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Honey, I Shrunk The 'Vette: The Opel GT StoryIf I say "Opel," what comes to mind? That’s right, a German manufacturer of mainstream cars for the Average Joe. You might know them as Saturns, Buicks and Cadillacs in the United States, but sometimes they also build surprising machines like the Manta, Calibra and, in cooperation with a...
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Plug-in Electric Sports Car Splits To Form Two BikesIn a perfect example of thinking well outside the box, Indian designer Ramesh Gound has produced a rather unusual vehicle concept. In cooperation with Renault Design India, Ramesh has revealed his vision for the future of "affordable youth mobility". At the culmination of his time at India's...
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Volkswagen's next-generation Passat is expected to up the stakes against Germany’s luxury automakers, with the car’s designers hoping it will be mentioned in the same breath as the BMW 3-Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4. Previous spy shots have revealed a longer wheelbase will be present, and although the new car will be larger than the outgoing one, the use of lightweight materials in its construction should ensure a lighter kerb weight and improved mileage. This latest computer-generated rendering shows the wagon version or “Variant,” which is due approximately one year...
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Hulme Supercar From New Zealand Boasts 600hp, CollectabilityLooking for something rare and unique? Ever wonder what it's like to drive an open wheel race car? Now might be a good time to make a deposit on a Hulme CanAm Supercar. The New Zealand company has announced that it will produce a quantity of 20 Hulme Supercars for purchase on a first come, first...
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May 28, 2010: Wherein We Surrender To SEX AND THE CITY 2 ManiaWe give up. We asked Hollywood to give us something interesting for this holiday Friday, something that might tide you over until we return on Tuesday, and what did we get? Bupkis, that's what. Zip. Zero. Zilch. (Okay, there was this photo of Simon Monjack, husband of the late Brittany Murphy...
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Warning: Not All Car Thieves Are As Inept As This GuyAlthough some car thieves are seemingly unstoppable pros, the vast majority are bungling opportunists just looking for an easy target for the chop shop or, easier yet, the pawn shop.
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547 2010 Cadillac SRX Turbos Recalled For User-Induced Engine FailureThe 2010 Cadillac SRX equipped with the 2.8-liter V-6 turbocharged engine is the only model subject to the recall.
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Rumor: 800 bhp Fully Electric Bugatti!Auto Express announced this week that Bugatti has developed a fully electric sports car with some impressive capability. Known for exploring the limits of performance in street legal supercars with its Veyron, Bugatti has apparently set out to prove a similar point about electric cars. Details at...
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The Countryman's beach-combing cousin could see the green light for retail sale.
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Rumor: Mercedes-Nissan To Yield E-Class-Based Infiniti G and MThe synergy between Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz is being explored hypothetically all around the Web.
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Report: 800-HP Electric Bugatti Supercar Built, But May Never See DaylightAutoExpress is reporting that a Bugatti supercar generating 800 horsepower is already built.
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Ford May Be Sounding Mercury's Death KnellWe don't have anything in stone yet, but Bloomberg is reporting that Ford executives may be planning to shut down its little-known and flailing Mercury brand. The closure would mark the end of almost 71 years in the business for Edsel Ford's Mercury brand. The move makes good business sense...
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Report: Toyota FT-86 Delayed For Design ChangeFlip-flopping along, the FT-86 isn't expected for another couple of years now.
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Cadillac To Build Lambda-Platform Crossover?Reports are surfacing that Cadillac will build a version of the Buick Enclave.
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Smoky burnouts, lurid powerslides, brutalized rev-limiters. These are all things you might expect from the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500, and you'd be right to, based on previous versions. But that's not what we're giving you. Instead, we're giving you what the 2011 GT500 gave us: a surprisingly good time on one of the best road courses in the country. The 2010 Shelby GT500 isn't a bad car by any means. Brutally powerful, competent enough in the curves and fundamentally comfortable, if not all that luxurious for a car in the neighborhood of $50,000. But the 2011 massages the 2010s faults, tosses in...
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Jesse James Doesn't Fully Understand The Concept Of 'Low Profile'Remember when Jesse James was awesome? When he and Sandra Bullock were like the couple everyone wanted at their holiday key party? Oh, how times change. Now, Jesse James is a philandering skank-magnet and alleged white supremacist, who's taken the really brave, really courageous step of blaming his...
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McLaren Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of F1 SupercarMcLaren Automotive, the road car division of the McLaren motorsport group, is on the verge of launching its first all-new model in decades: the MP4-12C. It’s hard to believe that the company’s last model is now more than 20 years old. That’s right, the legendary McLaren F1 supercar has just...
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Spy Shots: 2011 Volkswagen JettaSales of the new 2010 Volkswagen Golf (MkVI) is picking up pace all around the country and considering the car’s solid feel, classy styling and German engineering, it’s easy to understand why. Oh, did we mention that it’s also available with a dual clutch transmission and a frugal turbodiesel...
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Infiniti Performance Line (IPL) Coming SoonAutomakers are finally catching on to the fact that there’s a lot of money to be made in the aftermarket business. Traditionally, the domain of tuning firms like Brabus, Mines and Hennessey, actual automakers are now offering their own line of factory-backed modifications. We’ve already seen...
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Infiniti Performance Line (IPL) Trademarks Registered In U.S.Lexus has its “F-Sport” line of factory backed modifications and then there’s the “BMW Performance” range, and soon Infiniti will have its own range of performance accessories to help the automaker capture a piece of the lucrative aftermarket pie. The upmarket Nissan division has filed...
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