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A victim of dismal and declining sales in the U.S., the Mercedes-Benz R Class will disappear from U.S. showrooms at the end of 2012, but will remain available in other markets.
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Enzo Ferrari Museum In Modena, Italy Is Now OpenA new museum, dedicated to the life of Enzo Ferrari, has opened in Modena, Italy, adding to the list of reasons why you should visit Northern Italy.
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Lexus Again Tops Luxury Brands In Latest J.D. Power StudyLexus has scored top honors for the fourth consecutive time in J.D. Power's most recent Customer Service Index survey.
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Britain's Atalanta Re-Launches Sports Tourer After 75 YearsJust revived from a 75-year slumber last fall, Britain's Atalanta sports car brand has now launched its first new car--except it's a 75-year-old design. Called the Atalanta Sports Tourer, the car was first shown to the public on March 5, 1937. But despite its aged design, the modern Sports Tourer...
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2013 Bentley Continental GT V8: First DriveWhenever I land in a strange place for one of these first drives of a new car, the first task at hand is to keep moving. Get off the plane, off the shuttle, and get out of the hotel room before jet lag lures me for "a short nap" and proceeds to take the rest of the day--the rest of the...
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Infiniti FX Sebastian Vettel Version Confirmed For ProductionSebastian Vettel is about to commence his quest to maintain his world champion status in Formula 1 in the 2012 season, and as brand ambassador for Infiniti, he also has a special-edition FX50. First unveiled last September in concept form, the special FX50 has been confirmed for production by...
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For anyone doubting Pagani’s ability to launch a world class supercar the second time round, Pagani’s founder and chief designer Horacio Pagani has now confirmed that his company’s latest car, the Huayra, already has 85 confirmed orders and that production is being ramped up. Pagani also revealed that the changes required to make the 700-horsepower supercar pass U.S. certification are in progress and that the first U.S.-spec Huayras are on track to be delivered in 2013. European and Asian customers won’t have to wait that long as the Huayra has already been certified...
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Ferrari F12 Berlinetta supercar revealedIt's finally here. The highly-anticipated successor to the 599 is the all-new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. Revealed today in full ahead of its world debut on March 6 at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the F12 Berlinetta is not only the most powerful road car in Ferrari’s history, but the fastest too...
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Land Rover Defender To Star In Upcoming Bond 'Skyfall'A Land Rover Defender will join a Range Rover Evoque, a Jaguar XJ and an Aston Martin DB5 as a star vehicle in the next Bond film.
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Coming To Geneva: Range Rover Evoque Convertible ConceptBilling it as "the world's first premium convertible SUV," Land Rover is showing a topless Evoque concept at next month's Geneva Motor Show.
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Porsche Engineer Predicts Demise Of Manual 911sThe Porsche 911 may no longer come with a three-pedal manual option by the end of the decade.
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Ford Tourneo Custom Concept: 2012 Geneva Motor ShowHere in the U.S., vans aren't typically a big deal, and haven't been since, oh, the A-Team. That's a shame, because some are pretty cool. Ford's relatively new Transit Connect has revived a little van-love, but it has a bigger brother that's bound our way soon to replace the E-Series van. This...
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The 2013 SRT Viper has been revealed. Click here for all the official details. The 2013 SRT Viper (formerly the 2013 Dodge Viper) is one of the most anticipated cars of the year, if not the decade. A few weeks ago, we got the first tantalizing teaser via DriveSRT’s Facebook page, revealing just a little of the car’s front-end and in the process confirming that designers aren’t mucking around with the Viper’s DNA too much. Today, we get another teaser, though it's much less descriptive of the overall design. Some of the visible details in the first teaser revealed a...
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Porsche’s New SUV To Be Called The MacanPorsche has confirmed today that its upcoming compact SUV will be called the Macan. The name is derived from the Indonesian word for tiger and according to Porsche it embodies the suppleness, power, and dynamics of the new model. Along with the reveal of the new name, Porsche also dropped this...
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Launch Of Second-Gen Tesla Roadster Pushed Back To 2015The Tesla Roadster was forced to bow out of the market last year due to Lotus choosing to end production of its own Elise and Exige sports cars, with which the Tesla shared a platform. While this is bad news for electric sports car fans, Tesla is promising to build a successor though it won’t...
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Audi And Kia Least Expensive Brands To Own, Per Kelley Blue BookKBB's latest study examines the total cost of ownership for the initial five years, and it's named Kia as the most affordable brand and Audi as the most affordable luxury brand.
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Fisker DOE Loans Blocked, Work Stopped On Project Nina PlantFisker was forced to stop work on its plant in Delaware and lay off 26 employees after the Department of Energy blocked access to federal loans due to what it claims are several contractual milestones that are yet to be met by the Californian startup. The information was confirmed to Bloomberg...
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Bugatti Veyron Doing 220-Plus MPH Runs On Public Road: VideoIt’s a sad fact that a vast majority of supercar owners will never take their million-dollar machinery to the extremes they were designed for. In fact, it’s quite common for many of these beauties to be locked away in garages, only to be driven a few hundred miles each year. While we...
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Nissan is launching a new B segment hatchback, called the Invitation, at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.
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Super Bowl Ads: Kia Gives Us The Stuff Of DreamsLooking to duplicate the success of last year's bizarre Super Bowl ad, Kia turn the freak know up to 11 for this year's imaginative effort.
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2013 Fiat 500L Revealed Ahead Of 2012 Geneva Motor Show DebutThe fourth addition to the Fiat 500 lineup, the all-new 500L, has been revealed ahead of its official world debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March. The “L” in 500L stands for “large” and while this is the biggest model in the Fiat 500 family it will still be one of the...
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Rolls-Royce Year Of The Dragon Phantom Sells Out In Two MonthsLuxury car sales in China show no signs of slowing, with news emerging this month that a special edition Rolls-Royce Phantom priced from $1.2 million sold out within two months of being announced. The special edition model is the Rolls-Royce Year of the Dragon Phantom, built to commemorate the...
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MINI Eyeing Diesel Sales In U.S.: ReportDiesel engines are finally starting to gain traction in the U.S., following years of rhetoric from automakers that American buyers just didn’t want them in their cars. It appears the tide has well and truly turned, with announcements in the past month alone confirming diesel versions of the...
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2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 First DriveI have a confession to make. Sitting at the lunch table after thrashing the 2012 Camaro ZL1 on track—unrestricted, an opportunity offered to only a few of us at Firebird International Raceway, home of the Bondurant Racing School—I made a spontaneous association and foolishly blurted it...
Nelson Ireson