Car News
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Over the past couple of years, autonomous cars have shifted gears: once considered a novelty act akin to life-size remote-controlled vehicles, there's recently been serious talk about using autonomous cars for everyday transportation. And as one of the world's biggest auto markets, China isn't about to be left out of the discussion. So far, Google has dominated the autonomous car conversation with its high-profile fleet of self-driving Priuses (Prii, if you must). But China has an entrant, too: researchers at the country's National University of Defense Technology partnered with First Auto...
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Fornasari Loses The Plot With New RR99 Crossover
The Fornasari RR99 contains design elements from at least five other cars.
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New RSX And Hybrid Duo In The Cards For Acura
The new-generation Acura RSX is expected to be available in coupe and sedan bodystyles, and eventually a convertible option may be offered.
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Ethernet May Reduce Cost, Improve Vehicle Communication Tech
If ethernet brings up images of 1990s technology and its use in cars suggests a spaghetti of cables like your office, then think again. Freescale Semiconductor is one of several companies now exploring ethernet technology in an automotive communications and networking environment, and it could...
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Dodge Viper Race Team Owner Buys First Lexus LFA In Germany
Manfred Sattler, the owner of the Dodge Viper racing team Vulkan Racing-Mintgen Motorsport, bought the first 2012 Lexus LFA in Germany.
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Pressure Drop: Mazda Rethinks Internal Combustion Tech
Mazda has long been known for emphasizing engineering, being a little quirky, and emphasizing driving enjoyment across all its products in a way we don't see from bigger automakers
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The new online configurator for the 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe also lets you play around with the options for the performance S and John Cooper Works models too.
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Germany’s Endora Releases New Renderings Of Corvette-Based SC-1
The Endora SC-1, based on the Chevrolet Corvette, is now available for order, with production to start in the near future.
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Infiniti To Launch Three New Models In The Coming Years
The first of Infiniti's all-new models will be the 2013 JX crossover due in showrooms by spring of next year.
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Lamborghini To End Gallardo’s Run With Road-Going Super Trofeo?
Lamborghini is expected to use the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show to celebrate the end of the Gallardo's production run with a road-going version of its Super Trofeo race car.
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Ford Thunderbird, Shelby GR-1 Concepts Up For Auction At RM Monterey
Auctions to benefit charities are common among the high-end car-loving crowd, and RM Auctions' Monterey event will host a pair of unique Ford concepts to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: the 2001 Thunderbird Sports Roadster Concept and the 2005 Shelby GR-1 Concept Platform Model...
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Himler's Mom Screams As He Unleashes 1,250-HP Twin-Turbo Gallardo
Remember that incredible video of the fire-spitting twin-turbo Underground Racing Gallardo we showed you a few weeks back? Well the videographer and owner, Robert Himler, has gifted us another brilliant video, this time of his (rather attractive) mom screaming as he mats the gas pedal. She protests...
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A wrecked 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 is on sale on eBay.
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Electric RaceAbout EV Laps 'Ring In 9:08: Video
Yes, electric sports car fans, the Electric RaceAbout, the only of the Automotive X Prize finalists to actually, you know, look like a real car, has taken its turn at the Nurburgring's Nordschleife. Unfortunately, it's not quite as quick as you might have hoped. It's not exactly slow, completing...
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The Batpod In The Dark Knight Rises: Catwoman Hathaway's Ride?
While we haven't quite worked out the flowchart for how Catwoman, played by Anne Hathaway in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises movie, ends up wearing some futuristic HUD-type glasses on the back of the Batpod, we're not arguing. Of course, we're not exactly Batman historians. Maybe it makes...
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Nissan First Carmaker To Use QR Codes On Window Stickers
You can't fail to have noticed the abundance of Quick Response (QR) codes on products and services these days. They appear on everything from soda cans to billboards, websites and TV adverts. The curious little pixellated codes have become a great way for companies to offer information to anybody...
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2012 MINI Cooper Coupe To Make U.S. Debut At Pebble Beach, On Sale Oct. 1
The 2012 MINI Cooper Coupe (and its S and John Cooper Works variants) have been revealed in detail already, and we know they'll start at $22,000 in the U.S., too. But as yet, we haven't seen the hardtop two-seater in production form in the U.S.--a fact MINI USA will be fixing at Pebble Beach in...
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2012 Porsche 911, V-6 Exige, 458 Spider: Today's Car News
Volkswagen's 1-Liter car may live on as an Audi e-Tron concept. [MotorAuthority] The convertible version of the Ferrari 458 is due next month in Frankfurt. [MotorAuthority] Bernie Ecclestone gets a bit hysterical over "lethal" F1 hybrids. [GreenCarReports] Australia's FPV tweaks a sedan into GT...
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Reports of the Lexus LFA having a flying doctor style service team in Europe are completely unfounded says Lexus.
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1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider Going Under The Hammer
The rare 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider up for sale at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was once owned by Fred Astaire and featured in the film 'On the Beach'.
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Which Automaker Is Trying To Save SiriusXM From Pandora?
We are at a crossroads. Thanks to the internet, people have become accustomed to the free and easy flow of information. Subscription services -- from newspapers to magazines to cable TV -- are scrambling to keep their heads above water as mobile devices make no-cost infotainment even more...
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Tech Blamed For Stressed "Gen Y" Drivers; Some Tips To Help
If you were born some time between the 1970s and the mid 1990s you're what's known as "Generation Y", and new research has shown that you're much more likely to be stressed behind the wheel than your "Baby Boomer" predecessors. The survey was conducted by Galaxy Research, on 1,010 people across...
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NHTSA Investigating Ford Mustang Over Erratic Manual Transmissions
More than 26,000 Ford Mustangs from the 2011 and 2012 model years have been fitted with the potentially faulty six-speed manual gearbox.
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Lotus Working On V-6 Exige For 2012
Lotus is expected to launch its new V-6 Exige next year but it's unclear if the revamped model will be sold in the U.S.
Viknesh Vijayenthiran