Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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Honda is the latest automaker to explore the safety benefits of vehicle-to-vehicle anti-collision technology, demonstrating two new products that could make cars much safer to be around. The new...
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Ford Design Chief: Lincoln Not True Luxury YetIt could be a decade before Lincoln becomes a "true luxury" brand--those aren't the words of an industry analyst or competitor, but J Mays, Ford's design chief. While rival Cadillac has made good inroads into the luxury field with several new launches over the last few years, Lincoln has struggled...
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Never Stall Again Thanks To Bosch eClutchJust five percent of new vehicles in the U.S. are sold with a manual transmission these days--a small band of enthusiasts or the penny-pinching keeping the increasingly archaic but undeniably fun stick-shift alive. Technology can still play a part in the humble manual though--and those embarrassing...
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Alternative Vehicle Loan That Helped Fund Tesla, Fisker Might Be BackThe system of Energy Department loans set up in 2007 to promote the development of green technology has come under plenty of criticism, both ideological and political. Following the high-profile failures of several companies that accepted loans from the DoE, the system was put on hold in March...
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Nissan Autonomous Tech Influenced By Animal MovementNo, the little robots you're seeing aren't prototypes for EVE, the futuristic plant-finding robot in the Pixar movie WALL-E. They're actually all little Nissans, designed to develop technology for the firm's future autonomous vehicles, and the behavior of each has been inspired by the way creatures...
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Greenpeace Protestors Fail To Disrupt Last Weekend's Belgian GPFormula One Grands Prix, like many motorsport events, tend to major on high-octane thrills more than environmental friendliness. As such, they're never going to be on Greenpeace's list of "good things", but at last weekend's 2013 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, Greenpeace activists were...
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Stefan Bellof is one of the biggest names from a golden era of GT racing, when incredibly light and stunningly powerful cars were driven by now legendary names such as Derek Bell, Jacky Ickx and...
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Detroit Electric Delays Sports Car Pending Factory DealThe SP:01, Detroit Electric's battery-powered sports car not unlike the Tesla Roadster, is currently on hold, pending the company's purchase of a facility in which to build it. Production was due to start on the Lotus Elise-based electric car this month, but delays in finalizing a manufacturing...
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This 1925 Rolls-Royce Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"Load up the Rolls--it's time for some shootin'!" isn't something you're likely to hear too often these days, but there was a time when hunting vehicles were a little more salubrious than your average bashed-up pickup. One such vehicle was owned by Umed Singh II, Maharaja of Kotah, back in the...
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Laguna Seca, Spa Announced As Latest Forza 5 ContentRacing games are coming thick and fast from the Gamescom exhibition in Cologne, Germany, but one of the most important games on show is the latest installment in the Forza Motorsport series, Forza 5 (FM5). Gamers were able to try the next-gen racer on the Forza stand, but the game's appearance also...
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BMW i Genius: Artificial Intelligence To Answer Your QuestionsIn the new, strange and intriguing world of electric cars, customers have plenty of questions to ask--and BMW is launching a tool to help answer those questions without having to contact your dealer. Called i Genius, it's actually an artificial intelligence service, combining a database of...
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Local Motors Launches Rally Fighter Online Configurator: VideoLocal Motors has taken its open collaboration, local-building approach to making vehicles and made it even more fun to participate--by giving users an online configurator for its Rally Fighter off-road vehicle. The company's approach is a unique one, having designed the Rally Fighter through an...
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Cars aren't enough for Lexus any more, it seems, as the company now plans to expand into "luxury spaces" to enhance the brand's image.
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New Need For Speed Rivals Trailer Hits From Gamescom: VideoNeed For Speed games, like the Fast and Furious movies they mimicked for a few years in the mid-2000s, are a bit of a guilty pleasure. The crazy driving, running from the police and modifying your car is all a bit of a release after another stressful day. And the new game, Need For Speed Rivals...
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Dyno Numbers Are InThe LT1 V-8 found in the latest 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the most advanced engine ever put under the hood of a 'Vette--but how do its power and torque numbers stack up? You could read the official spec sheets of course. Chevy claims 460 horsepower and 465 pounds-feet of torque from the...
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Porsche Develops New Tires For Its Old SupercarSome Porsche Carrera GT owners are probably quite familiar with the word "NO". Usually preceded by "OH" and suffixed by several exclamation marks and a few expletives as their V-10 supercar goes into an uncontrollable spin. Porsche might be elbows-deep in development of its 918 Spyder--successor to...
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'The Crew' Next-Gen Racing Sim Previewed At Gamescon: VideoGames have professed to offer open-world layouts before, but short of flight simulators few games have offered the entirety of the United States to explore. That's exactly what Ubisoft's new racing title The Crew offers though, set to launch on next-generation games consoles and putting the cities...
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Tesla Eying Asian Production On Back Of Strong Expected Demand For Gen 3 SedanTesla Motors has made no secret of its plans to move into the Asian market, and the company now says manufacturing plants in both Europe and Asia are on the cards. It's part of a large expansion planned for the electric car startup over the next few years, including new model launches, new...
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Lamborghini has a history of shock-and-awe supercars, but eyebrows still raised when it unveiled the Veneno concept at the Geneva Motor Show back in March. Here was a car devoid of any sanity...
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Sony Teams With Automakers For Gran Turismo 6 Add-On, Confirms MoviePolyphony Digital, creator of the Gran Turismo racing game franchise, has teamed up with automakers all around the world to further blur the lines between video games and reality. Top makes like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo and Aston Martin have designed dedicated concept vehicles for the game's...
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Ginetta G40R: The Car Lotus Should Have BuiltThink of lightweight British sports cars and the first name that probably comes to mind is Lotus. To head straight for the Norfolk-based brand would be to dismiss plenty of other small British sports car makers though, among them Ginetta. Little known outside of the U.K., Ginetta has been around...
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Future Corvettes May Come With Engine Stop-Start TechWe'd bet that few potential Corvette buyers give the car's fuel efficiency much consideration. It's a car built for MPH, not MPG. That doesn't mean a few gallons saved here or there can't be appreciated though--if you can save some gas in traffic, that just leaves more for the open road. It's why...
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Tesla Model S Rated As Safest Car On Sale By NHTSAThe Tesla Model S electric sedan isn't just receiving awards from all quarters--it's also incredibly safe should the worst occur. Just how safe has come to light in extra information provided by Telsa Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], following the car's recent five-star NHTSA crash tests. It's scored the best...
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60 Years Of The Volkswagen Karmann GhiaIt's one of Volkswagen's most iconic models--but was neither designed nor built by Volkswagen itself. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first Karmann Ghia prototype--a model integral to Volkswagen's history, and desired by drivers and collectors the world over. As the name suggests, the first...
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