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General Motors has announced that it will be issuing a worldwide recall of its Cadillac SRX crossover due to wheel nuts that may have been incorrectly tightened.
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BMW X1-Based Crossover To Be First Model From China's ZinoroAbout a month ago it was revealed that BMW and its Chinese partner Brilliance were on the verge of establishing a new brand for the Chinese market to be called Zinoro. At the time, we reported that Zinoro was focused on eco-friendly vehicles and would launch in November a new electric car as its...
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Infiniti’s New Compact Car May Spawn A CrossoverInfiniti will soon start production of a new compact car based on its Etherea concept from 2011. The car, which may be labeled a Q30 in line with Infiniti’s new naming practice, will be built at a Nissan plant in the UK and should be revealed towards the end of next year or in early 2015...
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BMW M2 Coming In 2015: ReportBMW’s regular 1-Series coupe and convertible are about to be replaced by new 2-Series-badged cars, with prototypes for both versions having been spotted testing on several occasions and a world debut expected soon. But what about a successor to the highly praised 1-Series M Coupe? According...
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Detroit 3 Will Be Absent From Tokyo Motor Show, AgainThe Detroit 3 automakers, made up of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, will be absent from the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, making this the third time in a row that the American brands have skipped the event. The first was in 2009, during the height of the financial crisis and ensuing bankruptcy of two...
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Ford confirms plans to end production in Australia by 2016It’s a sad day for the Australian auto industry and an end of an era, too. Ford has confirmed it will close its Australian manufacturing facilities, its Broadmeadows car plant and Geelong engine plant, by October, 2016. The plants are responsible for the Falcon sedan and its various...
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The SRT brand is yet to announce sales of its Viper in Europe but fans of the iconic American supercar on the other side of the pond will soon be able to start ordering the cars.
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George Michael Falls From SUV Traveling At 70 MPHGeorge Michael’s bad luck with the road has struck yet again. This time the 49-year-old singer was almost run over when he fell out of a Range Rover he was riding in on a stretch of highway located near St Albans, England. ALSO SEE: Whammer In The Slammer: George Michael Gets Jail Time For...
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Formula One Monaco Grand Prix PreviewFormula One’s premier event, the Monaco Grand Prix, takes place this weekend. The famous street circuit may be one of the shortest tracks of the year, but it’s the most demanding, especially for the driver. Although the corner speeds are the slowest on the calendar, too, drivers need as...
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Tesla Pays Back Government Loan--Nine Years EarlyTesla has confirmed it has paid off the entire loan awarded to it by the Department of Energy back in 2010--a full nine years ahead of schedule. The Californian startup wired the remaining $451 million amount yesterday. The original loan stood at $465 million, though with Tesla’s latest...
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No Plan For Honda-Powered McLaren Road Car, Says InsiderWith Honda recently announcing its return to Formula One racing in 2015 as an engine supplier to its longtime partner McLaren, talk of the Japanese automaker’s engines ending up in one of McLaren’s new road cars started to develop. McLaren’s 12C range of supercars as well as its...
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Lamborghini Names Manager For Super Trofeo Series In U.S.Lamborghini’s Blancpain Super Trofeo one-make racing series lands in the U.S. later this year, with the inaugural North American season’s first race taking place at the Mid-Ohio race track in June. Having just announced a new director for its Squadra Corse racing division in the form of...
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The convertible version of the new 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish, a Volante in Aston Martin speak, has been spotted tested once again, this time wearing more revealing camouflage on the Nordschleife.
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SRT Prepares Viper GTS-R Race Cars For 24 Hours Of Le MansHaving dominated the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for three consecutive years between 1998 and 2000, the Dodge Viper has been noticeably absent from the event for the past decade. That’s all about to change, as the Viper in its latest iteration, now badged an SRT, will be returning to...
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Man Crashes Multiple Times Before Falling Down A Hole: VideoIf there ever was a video you had to see to believe, this latest clip of a very unusual crash taking place in China would be ranked among the top contenders. The action unfolds almost straight away. A man in a white shirt riding a scooter, and with a passenger in tow, is first seen crashing head-on...
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NFL’s Jim Harbaugh To Pace Indy 500 In 2014 Corvette StingrayThe head coach of NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh, will be driving the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Pace Car at this Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, the 97th running of ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.’ Harbaugh will lead the pack of 33 cars to the start of the...
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Bob Lutz And China’s Wanxiang In Bid To Buy Fisker: ReportThe auto industry can never seem to rid itself of Bob Lutz, but maybe that’s a good thing as where others see failure the inexorable exec sees opportunity. Having spent years in senior positions at major auto firms, Lutz more recently has been flogging extended-range electric trucks for Via...
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Report: Kia Quoris (K9) flagship sedan coming to US in 2014While it’s long been expected that Kia’s Quoris flagship sedan would eventually make it over to the U.S., we now know roughly when that will happen. Speaking with Kia officials at the recent launch of the 2014 Kia Cadenza, website Automotive learned that the Quoris would go on sale in...
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Land Rover is currently working on its next-generation LR2, which is expected to ride on an extended Range Rover Evoque platform and make its debut late next year. However, the new vehicle... -
1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake Is The Most Expensive Mustang Ever SoldWhile all eyes at last week’s Dana Mecum 26th Original Spring Classic Auction in Indianapolis was on the sale of the ‘Eleanor’ Mustang from 2000’s hit movie Gone In 60 Seconds, another rare Mustang also went under the hammer and ended up selling for considerably more. That...
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Toyota Overtakes BMW To Regain Most Valuable Brand TitleBrand value can be a fickle thing. It’s impossible to measure accurately and it can be affected by numerous volatile factors. But at the end of the day, if a consumer is willing to pay more for one brand over another then brand value becomes a vital indicator of a company’s overall...
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Hennessey Builds 600-Horsepower F-150 SVT Raptor SUV: VideoThe Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is one of the most capable vehicles off the road, and with a bevy of upgrades offered by the tuning masters Hennessey, the awesome pickup can also be quite capable when it comes to the track. Where the standard F-150 SVT Raptor, and even Hennessey’s custom...
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Mercedes AMG F1 Team Names Paddy Lowe As Technical DirectorBack in February it was revealed that McLaren’s Formula One Technical Director Paddy Lowe would be ditching the Woking-based team to join the Mercedes AMG squad in nearby Brackley. At that time, it wasn’t clear what role Lowe would take at his new employer and when he was officially to...
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Ferrari 458 ‘Scuderia’ Set For Frankfurt Auto Show Debut: ReportThe hardcore version of Ferrari’s 458 Italia supercar, the spiritual successor to 2007’s 430 Scuderia, is reportedly set for debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show this September. The biannual event has been favored by Ferrari of late for debuts concerning its entry-level mid-engine...
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