Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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Tesla Motors can count itself among the more advanced automakers on the road, its Model S sedan gaining plaudits from around the globe and a loyal fanbase the envy of many a manufacturer. Its future...
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Buick Sells Four Times As Many Cars In China As In U.S.For the second time in its 110-year history, Buick has topped one million sales in a year--and set a new overall record in the process. Last year saw the marque shift 1,032,056 vehicles, beating the company's last million-sale year in 1984, when it sold 1,003,345 cars. Whereas that 1984 volume was...
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Mercedes Turns To QR Codes To Help First RespondersFor most of us, QR codes are just a quick way of getting extra details from an advertisement or transferring clients from a business card to a website. They're useful, but hardly life-changing. Those fitted to the latest Mercedes-Benz models--and now able to be retrofitted to the last few decades...
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New BMW Assistance Tech Showcased At 2014 CESBMW is using the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to showcase its latest wave of driver assistance technologies, coming to a BMW near you soon. The new technology ranges from systems to simply make your life a little easier, to ones that could help prevent an accident--hopefully enhancing...
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Puritalia 427 roadster edges closer to realityAs sports car inspirations go, the Shelby Cobra must rank pretty highly. You've got great looks, awesome power and lashings of excitement, with that wind-in-the-hair feel thrown in for good measure. WATCH: Hennessey Chevrolet SS Hits 163 MPH On Texas Toll Road: Video It makes the Puritalia 427...
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First JDM Nissan Skyline GT-R Legally Imported To U.S.In Europe, importing a car is easy. You simply arrange for it to be shipped, have it inspected to ensure it meets local safety laws, and pay any applicable taxes. In the U.S, all of the above also hinges on the car being over 25 years old, after which point the usual NHTSA and EPA regulations are...
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Bankrupt automaker Fisker Automotive is urging courts to approve the sale of its assets to a Hong Kong company currently bidding on it, in the hope that it can prevent Chinese auto parts maker...
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Idris Elba Starts New Car Show 'King Of Speed'Television stations and the internet are awash with car-themed programs, both serious and--in the case of shows like Top Gear--less so. But we always welcome more, which is why Idris Elba: King Of Speed has caught our attention. You may not have heard of Idris Elba, but the actor has appeared in...
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Fisker Founders Sued Over Company CollapseThe woes of Fisker Automotive, the electric car startup that filed for bankruptcy late last year after a series of insurmountable problems, don't look like stopping any time soon. Investor group Atlas Capital Management LP is suing Fisker co-founder Henrik Fisker as well as several former directors...
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Google, Audi Pairing For In-Car Infotainment, Announcement At CES?If there's one thing that spoils the experience of buying a decade-old luxury vehicle at a fraction of its original price, it's the hilariously outdated infotainment and navigation systems they were lumbered with. Infotainment technology has come along so quickly in recent years that OEM systems...
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Analyst Predicts Tesla Motors Sale In 2014The progress of Tesla Motors, electric car startup co-founded by PayPal billionaire Elon Musk, has been eye-opening for many in 2013. While the company hasn't been immune to the pressures of building a new car, and accident-related fires caused the firm's lofty stock price to dip towards the end of...
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2015 Ford Mustang And Lee Iacocca Drop By Jay Leno's Garage: VideoJay Leno's Garage is always essential viewing for gearheads, but fans of the Ford Mustang will find the latest episode particularly special. In a celebration of the Mustang's fiftieth year, Leno has brought together some very important cars and an even more important individual, in the form of Lee...
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V-12 engines are as much works of art as they are works of engineering, and have powered some of the most desirable cars on the planet. Still, there's a cheaper way to get your V-12 fix and one...
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A Fifth Of Drivers Speed...And Half Of You Hate ItIf you're reading this, you probably like cars. Chances are, you like fast cars, and you almost certainly like driving quickly. That probably puts some of you among the one in five drivers who've admitted in a recently National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) survey that they try to...
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Seinfeld Returns With More Comedians, Cars And Coffee: VideoLess, they say, is often more. And nowhere is that truer than Jerry Seinfeld's internet series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. There's little more to the concept than what you see in the title, but in taking some comedic friends for coffee in his impressive car collection, it's produced some...
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McLaren MP4-12C Joins Dubai Police FleetOne thing we've learned over the last few years is that the Dubai police fleet is not one to mess with. The United Arab Emirates might have more than their fair share of open desert roads down which the nation's wealthy residents can test their supercars, but the police are hardly ill-equipped to...
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2014 Tesla Model S A Five-Star-Safe Car, Says NHTSAEarlier this year Tesla was granted a full five stars in the NHTSA's round of vehicle crash testing for its Model S electric car. While the way Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] originally announced that figure drew some flak from the NHTSA itself--suggesting the car was capable of a rating of more than...
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Singer Porsche 911 Roars Into Jay Leno's Garage: VideoCalifornia-based Singer Vehicle Design creates some of the most desirable vehicles available today with its Porsche 911 conversions. Thousands of hours of work and many tens of thousands of dollars of materials go into each car to create a vehicle as near to perfection as a 911 can get. And...
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Trademark filings have become one of the best ways for discovering the names or even shapes of future vehicles over the past few years.
So careful are automakers about protecting their intellectual...
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Bose To Offer Noise-Canceling Tech For All CarsMany performance car fans are rather fond of the noises their vehicles make, but there are times when you just wish a car would shut up--the drive home after a long day at work, perhaps, or while listening to the drone of your muffler on a highway drive. For such eventualities several companies...
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VW Promises Another Unique Advert For 2014 Super BowlVolkswagen is making a habit of grabbing advertising space at Super Bowl games, and 2014 will be no exception with its fifth consecutive Super Bowl advert. Though the company hasn't yet released any details of its latest ad, it's sure to follow in the popular footsteps of some of its previous ones...
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Jaguar's Cat-Like Reflexes? No Match For Tech, Says MercedesIt's nearly Christmas, and apparently automotive advertising departments have been on the brandy mince pies and the mulled wine, because things have started getting a little silly. Recently, Mercedes released an advert demonstrating its Magic Body Control system, using chickens. British rival...
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Chuck Norris Christmas Message Out-Spilts Van Damme: VideoThe only Christmas present Chuck Norris gives you is allowing you to live another year. But this year, he's also sending us an unusual Christmas message. Well, it isn't strictly Chuck Norris--more the work of Hungarian firm Delov Digital, which has put together a new take on Volvo's semi-truck...
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Need For Speed Movie Stuntman Speaks: VideoThe life of a movie stunt coordinator is hectic, exciting, fast-paced, complicated, calculated and ever so slightly awesome. Lance Gilbert is one such stunt coordinator, and he's worked on hundreds of movies in his career, including Waterworld, Titanic, Terminator 3 and many more. He also worked on...
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