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General Motors has announced the recall of 2013 Cadillac XTS models built between October 12, 2011 and August 30, 2012. On the 12,626 cars affected by this recall, the rear seat head restraints may... -
Drag Racer Stacks His Ford Mustang Cobra Jet: VideoThe Ford Mustang Cobra Jet, which comes in normally-aspirated, supercharged and (now) twin-turbo variants, is designed with a singular purpose in mind: to get through the quarter-mile as quickly as possible. The turn-key drag racer, which can be had for as little as $85,490 (for the...
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Lexus Is Latest To Start Car 2 Car Communications ResearchCar 2 Car and Car 2 Object communications are the next big steps forward in vehicle safety, and both are necessary milestones on the road to fully autonomous cars. Automakers such as Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Ford, General Motors and Nissan have been active in research for years, and now Toyota...
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2014 Corvette To Get Eight-Speed Aisin Automatic: ReportGeneral Motors is hard at work developing eight-speed transmissions for both transverse (front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive) and longitudinal (rear-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive) applications, which will ensure the brand’s competitiveness with others in terms of both performance and fuel...
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Rolls-Royce Announces 'One Thousand And One Nights' Edition GhostRolls-Royce knows how to please customers within a given market segment. In the past year, it’s introduced a Year of the Dragon Phantom special edition for China, shown an Art Deco range of bespoke models at the Paris Auto Show and debuted its Aviator Collection Phantom Coupe at Pebble Beach...
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Exhibit Honors 40 Years Of Porsche DesignFerdinand Alexander Porsche is best known as the designer of the iconic Porsche 911, but his artistic vision extended far beyond the world of the automobile. In 1972 F.A. Porsche founded the Porsche Design Studio, which would ultimately bring trend-setting style to the world of consumer goods...
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Porsche has spent the past few years ramping up its production to meet demand. In Leipzig, Germany, its plant is running three shifts to meet global demand for the Cayenne SUV, while an expansion is... -
'Top Gear' Filming Epic Supercar Road Trip In The U.S.: ReportHere’s what we know for sure: Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in the United States, losing money in Las Vegas and driving a Lexus LFA, an SRT Viper and an Aston Martin Vanquish. Autoblog was first to decipher this from the ramblings of Jeremy Clarkson on...
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Rides 'n Smiles Recap - Driving Fast For A Great CauseTo outsiders, the life of an automotive journalist is second only to the life of fictional spy James Bond. After all, we get to travel to exotic locations, drive the latest, fastest cars and eat meals we couldn’t possibly pay for on our own dime. Sadly, the reality of the job is countless...
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1967 Chevy Camaro RS/SS Barn Find Is Tired, But TrueThe problem with most barn find stories is that they generally start out with “I knew a guy who’d heard of a guy whose neighbor bought a mint-condition Cobra at a garage sale for $500.” The further away from the point of origin, the taller the tale generally gets. In reality that...
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Honda Announces A Trio Of Sport Hybrid SystemsHonda isn’t as well known as a hybrid manufacturer as its primary Japanese rival, Toyota. Though Honda has been producing parallel hybrids nearly as long as Toyota, its Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid system lacks the popularity of Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive system. Now Honda is...
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Jeff Gordon Fined $100,000 For Crashing Clint BowyerActions have repercussions, something that Jeff Gordon was well aware of before he deliberately hunted down and crashed Clint Bowyer in last Sunday’s AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix. Arizona. We now know what those repercussions are, as NASCAR was swift in handing out penalties to drivers and crew...
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Magnus Walker, star of the documentary Urban Outlaw, has an extreme passion for early Porsche 911s. While he owns numerous examples, one of his favorites is a 1971 911T built as a “streetable... -
Faster Range Rover Sport In The Works: ReportRange Rover’s best selling models in the U.S. market are its Sport variants, and it’s no secret that a new Range Rover Sport is under development. Like the all-new Range Rover, the Sport will benefit from the extensive use of aluminum in its construction, shaving serious weight from all...
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Ford's F-150 Raptor pickup a hot commodity... in ChinaFord’s F-150 SVT Raptor has become the brand’s best selling performance-enhanced pickup in the United States, winning over buyers from coast to coast. It’s earned fans overseas as well, including China, where pickups traditionally aren’t seen as status vehicles. Until now...
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2013 Honda Civic Revealed Ahead Of Los Angeles DebutWhen Honda launched its ninth-generation Civic in the U.S. market in 2011, the car was almost universally panned by the media, which collectively found it to be a giant step backward in materials and construction compared to the previous generation. Even Consumer Reports, long one of the...
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NASCAR AdvoCare 500 Recap: Harvick’s Win Overshadowed By Pit Melee - VideoOn Sunday afternoon, at the AdvoCare 500 in Phoenix, Arizona, Brad Keselowski almost certainly became the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion. Thanks to a mid-race right front tire failure that put Jimmie Johnson hard into the wall, Keselowski merely has to finish next weekend in 15th spot or better...
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NASCAR AdvoCare 500 Preview: Off To Phoenix With Two Races LeftWith two races left on the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, the championship will likely come down to a dogfight between points leader Jimmie Johnson and second-place Brad Keselowski; the big question is where that dogfight will take place. While Clint Bowyer is still mathematically in the running...
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In January of 2013, Britain’s first professional Dakar Rally team will contest for an T1 Class win driving an all-new desert racer. Loosely based on the Range Rover Evoque, the RaBe Desert... -
ATS Sport 1000 Road-Legal Racer Hits The MarketLast month, we told you that two dormant Italian brands, Ermini and ATS, would soon be back on the market with new products. One of the expected cars from ATS was the Sport 1000, designed as a lightweight road car with serious track potential. In fact, the ATS Sport 1000 is very similar in concept...
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Smarter Highway Design Could Soon Make Driving SaferThe problem with highway signs is that drivers rarely, if ever, pay attention to them. “Keep right, except to pass” may as well be written in hieroglyphics for all the good it does, and the same can be said for signs that read, “Caution, bridge freezes before road surface.”...
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Dynacorn to produce vintage Ford Bronco bodiesIf you don’t like the style of cars on the market today, there are plenty of reproduction steel bodies on the market that will allow you to build your own vintage car with modern mechanicals. Just two weeks ago, Ford announced a steel body reproduction of its 1940 Coupe, priced from $11,900...
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Jaguar Recalls XF Models For Possible Fuel LeakJaguar Land Rover is recalling 4,195 Jaguar XF sedans, built for model years 2010, 2011 and 2012. At issue is a fuel tank outlet flange that is susceptible to cracking under certain conditions, leading to the possibility of a fuel spill. Most of the vehicles affected by this recall were assembled...
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Not Your Average Grocery-Getter - TS Racing's 1,074 HP Audi S3: VideoThough forbidden fruit for those of us on this side of the Atlantic (for now, anyway), Audi’s S3 hot hatch combines above average performance with plenty of luxury amenities in a sensible hatchback body style. In stock form, the car comes with a turbocharged 2.0-liter TFSI engine, rated at...
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