As our Brazilian friend Stingray pointed out in today’s Curbside Classic thread, the FWD trucklet isn’t dead… it’s on vacation in South America. And new models are arriving all the time. This May, the popular Brazilian-market models Stingray...
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Look at what we found in our mailbox to make our cloudy Thursday morning a little brighter – our friend Chris Harris from EVO Magazine has just dropped us a two part video of his latest segment where he tests the new Bentley Continental...
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I don’t know if any of you remember the opening scene of the movie Smokey and the Bandit, but if you do, you’d recall a bunch of semi-trucks racing around a big dirt oval. I always knew people raced these things, but I had never actually seen...
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General Motors announced today that the diesel engine in its 2011 Heavy-Duty pickup trucks will produce 30 pound-feet more torque than the diesel engine in the 2011 Ford Super Duty. Well, technically, GM announced that its...
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Here’s Nissan’s solution to keep the underutilized Titan lines moving, an it’s a bit different. A van body has been grafted to the Titan front end, which brings certain obvious benefits and disadvantages. Nissan claims that US van owners are...
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What you’re looking at hear are said to be the first “official” patent drawings of the upcoming Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster. The SLS AMG Roadsters is expected to make its debut alter this year at the 2010 Paris Motor Show – so stay tuned...
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found about 6 hours ago by Peter Orosz on
Jalopnik
Bored of the deluge of perfect photographs pouring out of motor shows? We’ve taken some old and strange film cameras to Geneva to show you another side of cars. Well, of supercars anyway....
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found about 6 hours ago by Peter Orosz on
Jalopnik
Bored of the deluge of perfect photographs pouring out of motor shows? We’ve taken some old and strange film cameras to Geneva to show you another side of cars. Well, of supercars anyway....
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After we saw the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Blue Carbon, the Geneva Motor Show brought another edition of the impressive supercar dubbed Veyron Grand Sport Grey Carbon. The new car comes with a different interpretation of the two-tone concept, one...
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Did Spyker hire the designer of Suzuki's X90? If this is the way Spyker styles upcoming Saabs, we’re in for some ugly sheet metal on the roads in coming years. Originally launched as a concept at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show, the D12 Peking to...
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Jaguar isn't the first high-end manufacturer to offer driving school to owners of its highest-performance cars, but we're glad to see the company step up to the plate now that it sells two 510-horsepower cars. If you buy a 2010...
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So you’re pretty rich and own a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 and were pretty disappointed to see that Lamborghini finally released the Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show because you’d much rather have the most exclusive...
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Earlier today, president of General Motors North America, Mark Reuss held a live Webchat to talk about the state of GM North America. Besides a bunch of industry question Reuss was asked whether or not there will be a Chevrolet Cruze coupe in the...
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Want your Aston Martin Rapide as a shooting brake or as a convertible? Well, if you have the money and the imagination, you can probably get one in a couple of years. Speaking to AutoExpress at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Aston Martin design...
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found about 47 hours ago by Peter Orosz on
Jalopnik
Heritage grille my ass. The Bugatti Veyron is a two-ton rodent, not a modern take on 1920s racing cars....
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This is the first shot inside the cabin of the 2011 Dodge Charger. As you can see, it's a definite step up from the current model although that's not saying much. Thankfully, Chrysler's designers didn't go too far overboard with the...
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Do we know for sure that this is an S8? Not really, as our shooters never did get a peek under the hood. But this car does have a few signs of possible "S-ness". Note the quad pipes in back and the sizable brake rotors lurking under...
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found about 27 hours ago by Sam Smith on
Jalopnik
The National Truck Equipment Assocation's annual Work Truck Show is trucking along this week. Ever wonder what kind of warning labels end up on heavy-duty vehicles? These are the ten freakiest....
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found about 27 hours ago by Dave Eyvazzadeh on
Autopia
We are in the midst of an electric motorcycle revolution, and nowhere is that more obvious than on the racetrack. The new technology is not about tweaking the status quo. It’s about shattering it. And that’s just what Michael Czysz plans to do...
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found about 27 hours ago by Jeremy Korzeniewski on
Autoblog
We're here in St. Louis attending the National Truck Equipment Association show, and we just watched Nissan officially pull the covers off its NV commercial van for the first time in front of a live audience. Our initial impression: They aren't...
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Hard to believe it's been 20 years since Infiniti showed up in America with a bunch of fancy new Nissans. Yet, here we are in 2010 and the brand is still doing quite well. In fact, so well that it decided to commemorate its two...
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We’ve seen plenty of actual motorcycles that look suitable to play host to Batman’s glutes, but this one was designed a little more purposely toward that end. Called the Bat Bike, the bike is the creation of industrial designer Marouane Bembli....
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The biggest hit of the 2010 Geneva Motor Show had to be the new Porsche 918 Spyder Concept – so that should have most of you wondering when Porsche is going to drop the word “Concept” at the end of the name and just produce the well received...
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Infiniti announced today that it will offer four new G Anniversary Editions to celebrate 20 years of selling vehicles in the United States. “These unique and very limited editions represent what Infiniti is all about – Inspired Performance,”...
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The Shreveport Times reports that GM will restart production of the HUMMER H3 and H3T starting April 12, for a batch build of 849 units. An unidentified “fleet buyer” apparently needs a grip of the baby-HUMMERs, despite the fact that the brand...
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Getting the road-only Corvettes closest to their Corvette track-only siblings seems to be Chevrolet’s main goal. In 2006, the Corvette Z06 was introduced as the closest connection to the Corvette race cars ever. Of course, then came along the...
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Inside Line tests hundreds of vehicles a year, but not every vehicle gets a full write-up. The numbers still tell a story, though, so we present "IL Track Tested." It's a quick rundown of all the data we collected at the track, along...
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You like carbon fiber, right? Of course you do. It's all, you know, carbon-y black and racy. And, of course, it makes any vehicle onto which it is applied, like, superfast. Might we then introduce you to the 2011 Chevrolet...
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Jaguar will unveil the latest dramatic evolution of its supercharged XKR coupe at the Geneva Motor Show. The stunning new XKR Special Edition delivers a significantly raised maximum speed – 174mph (280km/h) – and bold exterior styling changes...
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found about 42 hours ago by Benz on
Car News
BF-performance has developed a new tuning package for the Gallardo LP560-4, both coupe and spyder versions. Called GT600, the tuning kit adds a stronger performance.New body parts are made entirely of carbon fiber, and include new side skirts, rear...
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