John Voelcker, Contributing Editor
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If you have possibly the most striking concept car of the year, what better place to show it off than what may be the biggest, best, and most jaw-dropping car collection in the U.S.?
Which is how...
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2010 LA Auto Show: 2012 Range Rover Evoque Five-Door Debut PartyThe 2012 Range Rover Evoque five-door will officially be revealed this morning at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. But Range Rover's new baby debuted last night at an invitation-only party packed with celebrities, spotlights, and paparazzi--or at least photographers. A horde of slim, young...
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2010 Paris Auto Show: Jaguar C-X75 Concept Live PhotosJaguar's C-X75 concept car, designed to celebrate the marque's 75th anniversary and unveiled today at the 2010 Paris Auto Show, is nothing if not a striking design. And its technology is equally as stunning: it's an extended-range electric car with 68 miles of range on a lithium-ion battery pack...
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2010 Paris auto show: 2010 Jaguar C-X75 supercar conceptJust last week, Jaguar turned 75, celebrating the occasion with a tour of their most historic models. That was then; this is now. Today the company unveiled perhaps its most radically futuristic design ever, the C-X75 Concept, at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. For more photos of the stunning 2010...
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Want The 2011 Chevy Camaro Convertible? Grab Your CheckbookThe 2011 Chevrolet Camaro convertible is on schedule to arrive at dealers by March, and it's as eagerly awaited as the revived 2010 Camaro coupe was 18 months ago. If you're impatient, and want to be the first kid on your block with a cool drop-top bowtied muscle car, pull out your checkbook. You...
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Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-Cell Electric Car: Another Daimler ExperimentThis morning Daimler released complete details on its 2011 Mercedes-Benz A-Class E-Cell, a limited production electric conversion of its aging A-Class five-door small hatchback, sold mostly in Europe and not available in the United States. The A-Class E-Cell is Daimler's second vehicle to use...
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We all knew the 2011 Dodge Charger would be restyled. Now Chrysler has issued the first factory photo of the new model, decked out in full police pursuit gear.
The new styling--the press release...
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Video: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, Your Guided Underhood TourIf you happen to have read our First Drive Review, you know we think the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V is way fun from behind the wheel. And if you watched the footage from behind the wheel as we took a 2011 CTS-V Coupe around Monticello Motor Club's track (ignore the driver's grimaces, please), you'll have...
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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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2011 Cadillac CTS-V: First Drive ReviewIt's not often that a manufacturer has the courage to turn dozens of auto journalists loose on a racetrack with pricey copies of its new, 556-horsepower performance coupe. So we were eager to get behind the wheel of the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe and find out whether it was as much fun as the CTS-V...
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Want To Drive a Ferrari 458 Italia? Rent It at Gotham Dream CarsSo you really, really want to drive that new Ferrari 458 Italia--but there's that pesky problem of the two-year waiting list to buy one since it launched in summer 2009. Now Gotham Dream Cars, the exotic-vehicle rental firm with New York and Miami outlets, has acquired one. And you can rent it for...
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2012 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible: Arrival by March ConfirmedThe new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro coupe has sold well for Chevy, making a real race for sales supremacy with its archrival, the 2010 Ford Mustang. And, as Chevy execs point out, there's only one Camaro model--the coupe--whereas the Mustang has a pair of body styles, with a popular convertible model as...
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Ah, supercar owners. The very wealthy amongst us, the ones who drive the toys we crave. Especially through the cities we live in.
Even owning a supercar, though, doesn't exempt you from abiding by...
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Slideshow: Tour of New Bentley Mulsanne Factory in CreweSometimes photos speak louder than words. This slideshow provides just a few snapshots of what Bentley buyers experience if they visit the factory in Crewe, England, to commission a new Mulsanne. The new body assembly hall built just for the Mulsanne includes a viewing platform, so visitors can...
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Shanghai Stunt Driving: Don't Try THIS In Grandma's CadillacCadillac has worked hard to move its image from your grandparents' car to sophisticated luxury cars that compete with global brands like Mercedes-Benz. And one of their big markets is China. How to introduce your sedans to a new audience that thinks Buick is a prestige brand? Well, you could try a...
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Shocking Photo: Land-Rover Owner Uses LR3 In Dirt!While Land Rovers can still be seen in the muddy fields and horse paddocks of Great Britain, in the U.S. they tend to be found mostly in tonier suburban precincts. Though they may have started from humble "British Jeep" roots, these days Land Rovers are far more likely to carry young Justin and...
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Sneer at Ferrari Owners, Win a 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport Drive!Spend an hour or two behind the wheel of a Tesla Roadster, and you may walk away thinking that pistons, gasoline engines, clutches, gearboxes, and the many other mechanical bits of a standard sports car are just so...last century. Now you too can experience the rush of pure electric power from the...
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Porsche's $1,700 Starter Battery Option For Boxster Spyder, 911 GT3Perhaps only Porsche, with its long legacy of pricey options, could consider charging $1,700 for a starter battery. To be fair, this isn't just any old 12-Volt lead-acid starter battery. It's a lightweight, lithium-ion pack with a similar form factor and the same mounts as a standard battery. It's...
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We can't even count the number of performance-car owners and drivers who sneer at electric cars. Usually the phrase "golf carts" comes up.
Well, we guarantee that if you put each of them behind the...
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Miley Cyrus Parks Toyota Prius In Handicapped Space, Gets MilkshakeLike many of Hollywood's Very Very Very Famous People, Miley Cyrus drives a Toyota Prius. At least some of the time, since we don't know if she's hiding a Paris-Hilton-style Bentley Continental GT in her garage. But as shown on Hollywood.tv in March, the "Hannah Montana" starlet has clearly parked...
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Snoop Dogg's 1967 Cadillac, aka Brown SugarAn item on one of our sister sites here at the High Gear Media global nerve center rags on a Detroit News piece yesterday that mixes up a Cadillac and a Lincoln. We're more interested in the car itself. It's a decked-out 1967 Cadillac owned by rap star and sometime-Chrysler-spokesman Snoop Dogg...
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