Toyota now has produced a high quality video that clearly demonstrates how to stop any Toyota hybrid vehicle in the event of unintended acceleration, following their distribution of a low budget video, apparently created by a Toyota car salesman...
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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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found about 6 hours ago by Sam Abuelsamid on
Autoblog
Later today, Ford will officially unveil its new Police Interceptor at a private fleet sales event in Las Vegas, but the first images of the new vehicle were posted this morning on the company's website. As has been rumored for some time, Ford will...
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As we previewed yesterday, Ford finally released some images of its long-anticipated replacement for the Crown Victoria-based Police Interceptor today. Although it looks like a toughened up version of the standard Ford Taurus, we’ll have to wait...
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found about 6 hours ago by Caitlin Hamilton on
Autopia
MONTVALE, New Jersey — Mercedes-Benz has been on a relentless quest to achieve hyper-safe accident-free driving since 1959, when it introduced the first car to feature energy-absorbing crumple zones. At long last, it’s getting pretty close to...
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That’s one of the great things about the new generation of video games; you can continue to add on content even after you’ve finished the game to keep it fresh. But here’s the thing: while we appreciate all the new content, it gets...
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The new Audi A1 was introduced at the Geneva Auto Show and Audi clearly has big plans for it. They’ve given it a high-profile spokesman in the form of Justin Timberlake and clearly expect it to form a big part of Audi’s sales growth. BMW has the...
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GM has briefly reopened its Hummer plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, to meet an order of almost 850 Hummer H3 vehicles. There’s no news on who ordered the Hummers, but it’s most likely a major rental firm looking to upgrade their Hummer fleet....
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According to a report by Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri, Chinese automaker Geely has reportedly obtained financing for its long-overdue purchase of Volvo from FoMoCo. The report says that financing was concluded in recent days and the...
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Thanks to a leaky United States patent office, we have what appears to be our first look at the redesigned 2012 Chevrolet Malibu. The Malibu will essentially be all-new for the 2012 model year, riding on a version of General Motors’ Epsilon II...
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found about 17 hours ago by Matt Hardigree on
Jalopnik
Earlier today we broke a story about the San Diego runaway Toyota Prius driver James Sikes declaring bankruptcy last year. Now, a review of records shows a link to a sexually-oriented site for...
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found about 28 hours ago by Jonathon Ramsey on
Autoblog
Automobile reports that the 4C will be a "a compact, lightweight sports car concept," shorn of high-zoot and high-dollar goods like carbon fiber and a Ferrari engine. Instead, it will use a 250-horsepower four-cylinder and could be...
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found about 30 hours ago by Alex Nunez on
Autoblog
In honor of Tomica's 40th anniversary, jeweler Ginza Tanaka has produced a one-of-a-kind replica of the toymaker's die-cast 1970 Nissan Fairlady Z432 (the Z432 was a Japan-only model powered by the same S20 inline-6 used in the C10 Skyline GT-R)....
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Orders are now being received for Lexus’ revised IS range for 2010 that is priced from £24,350. Included in the range is a new F Sport trim level that is inspired by the high-performance IS F model. The F Sport trim is offered on both IS250 and...
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In typical Carlos Ghosn style, the father of the Nissan EV throws down the gauntlet. gm-volt.com quotes him from a talk with reporters: “Frankly, I mean so far there is no competition. Let’s be serious. It’s not because someone is coming with...
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found about 23 hours ago by Tony Borroz on
Autopia
A mere 10 years from now Audi expects 5 percent of its sales will be electric vehicles. That’s not the wishful thinking of tree-huggers or even the fanciful projection of some think-tank. It is the bold prediction of Michael Dick, Audi’s...
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As the days go by, we learn something new about James Sikes – the popular owner of a Toyota Prius that experienced a dangerous 94 mph speed in his hybrid after claiming that the accelerator was stuck. Yesterday, we learned that Sikes is a member...
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Toyota’s sales tumbled double-digits during the first two months of 2010 as the Japanese automaker struggled with its largest ever recall, but a new incentives program is expected to rally Toyota’s March sales in a big way. In order to combat...
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An electric-car company by the name of Aurica Motors LLC is proposing a plan to keep the California plant New United Motor Manufacturing Inc open, a plant that was a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota. Aurica said that it will build...
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When Ford announced that it would be building an “all-new” Police Interceptor model, speculation was rampant. At the time, we noted: GM went to Australia for their police-duty RWD platform, might Ford do the same with a Falcon-based interceptor?...
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To help fund various acquisitions, Volkswagen AG said that it may use a convertible bond issue rather than a big portion of new shares. V W said that on April 22, the date of the annual general meeting, it will request that shareholders approve a...
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found about 26 hours ago by Wes Siler on
Jalopnik
Incorporating design elements from every vehicle in the VW Group, the Audi RS7 is Austrian designer Adriano Mudri's vision for future Audi products. Probably most successful are the minimal LED...
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The Atomik 500 will definitely be the star from Top Marques Monaco Show which will open its doors on April 15th. What you see in the photos is actually an Abarth 500 transformed into an electric car with four wheels drive, 5.6s for the 0-60 mph...
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found about 24 hours ago by Chris Shunk on
Autoblog
Without the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, the U.S. auto industry would likely have two fewer domestic automakers and hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs would be history. The Detroit News reports that ex auto task force...
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Chrysler has restarted discussions with Cummins to continue development of an all-new light-duty diesel engine for Ram pickup trucks. “We’re in discussions with Cummins,” said Joe Veltri, Chrysler vice president of product planning, at the...
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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 47 hours ago by Chris Paukert on
Autoblog
In a letter issued to its customers, Ralliart, a Japanese high-performance subsidiary of Mitsubishi, has announced that it is closing its doors. The company's business case has apparently faded, a victim of the wilting domestic aftermarket scene as...
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BMW and Daimler don’t really like each other. As Herr Baron Schmitt put it, “Daimler engineers view their colleagues as boorish Bavarian upstarts. BMW engineers think Daimler is a congregation of has-beens”. Bluntly speaking, there’s no love...
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Sleepers rule. True sleepers rule even harder and this Mustang that belongs to BangShift.com forum member Affordillac is proof positive of that. Other than the big fat drag radials on the rear “dial a date” wheels, this thing appears harmless....
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found about 28 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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