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- 2012 VW New Beetle Caught Testing, will get 2.0T and Possible Hybrid
- Survey Finds that BMW Drivers are the Angriest on Britain’s Roads
- Rhys Millen Sports-up Hyundai's Equus Flagship for 2010 SEMA Show
- VW Group's Walter de Silva to Help Style Future Porsches Starting from the Cajun 3door Baby SUV
- Nissan Releases Pricing on Refreshed 2011 Murano
- Citroen's Survolt Electric Sports Coupe Receives the Art Treatment
- FAB Design Shows Off 611HP Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG 'Gullwing'
- Porsche Clamps Down on Employees' Internet Activity for Security Reasons
- Toyota iQ Disco Concept to Glamour Rock German Showrooms
- Chrysler Drops the Curtain on New 200 Sedan
- Romanian Tuning Firm Drops the Top on Dacia Logan
- Did the General Lie to us about its Chevrolet Volt?
- Ford Transit SportVan Limited Edition goes Red
- Report: Audi Working on a Production Version of the Quattro Coupe Study
| 2012 VW New Beetle Caught Testing, will get 2.0T and Possible Hybrid Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:01 PM PDT Before you are spy pictures of an all-new second-generation New Beetle. While the test mule appears to still be wearing the current model's nose and rear, the big news here is the appearance of the less "cute" and more "masculine" roof line that seems to be part Beetle and part stubby Chrysler Crossfire or Porsche 356; take your pick. Volkswagen...
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| Survey Finds that BMW Drivers are the Angriest on Britain’s Roads Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:49 PM PDT If I had a dollar for every time I was honked at, tailgated or called something unsavory on the road, I would be a very rich man. And it seems that the worst for this sort of behavior, at least according to a recent UK survey, are BMW drivers - feel free to insert your own joke about iDrive. If you want to see a frustrated / angry BMW driver in...
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| Rhys Millen Sports-up Hyundai's Equus Flagship for 2010 SEMA Show Posted: 12 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT The soon-to-be-launched onto the U.S. market Hyundai Equus doesn't exactly scream SEMA Show material, but that hasn't stopped the Korean firm from allowing Rhys Millen Racing (RMR) to customize their flagship limo for the Las Vegas tuning convention. Dubbed the RMR Signature Edition Equus, the S-Class sized saloon will be upgraded with a variety...
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| VW Group's Walter de Silva to Help Style Future Porsches Starting from the Cajun 3door Baby SUV Posted: 12 Oct 2010 01:29 PM PDT There's some good news if you're a fan of Porsche and/or automotive design. Walter de' Silva, Volkswagen Group's design director, will very soon have another VW brand reporting to him: Porsche. Scroll on down for a gallery featuring some of his previous works including the Alfa Romeo 156, 147 and GTV, Seat Salsa and Tango concepts, Leon, Altea,...
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| Nissan Releases Pricing on Refreshed 2011 Murano Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:29 PM PDT We already took an in-depth look at the mildly facelifted 2011 Murano back in August, but now Nissan has released U.S. pricing for the crossover model which went on sale today nationwide. The manufacturer's suggested retail prices (MSRP) for the 2011 Murano start at $28,500 for the entry-level front-wheel drive model and top out at $39,140 for a...
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| Citroen's Survolt Electric Sports Coupe Receives the Art Treatment Posted: 12 Oct 2010 11:45 AM PDT Citroen is displaying several of its new production and concept cars including a Survolt racer turned-art-car and a prize-winning DS3 at its C4_2 flagship showroom on Champs-Elysées in Paris. The Survolt art car is the work of Francoise Nielly. The Marseille- born artist took Citroen's all-electric Survolt concept racer and adorned it with a...
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| FAB Design Shows Off 611HP Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG 'Gullwing' Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:59 AM PDT Swiss tuning firm FAB Design has just pulled back the sheets on its powered-up Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG proposal. Though the company has yet to publish all the details, we do know that the tuner found a way to extract 40 more ponies from 'Gullwing' door supercar's V8 engine pushing total output to 611-horsepower. The extra oomph allows the SLS AMG to...
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| Porsche Clamps Down on Employees' Internet Activity for Security Reasons Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:23 AM PDT Porsche AG has decided to curb any potential social network-based espionage, meaning employees will have to soon make a very important decision: work for one of the most prestigious automakers of them all or be able to poke your friends and play FarmVille. The Stuttgart-based automaker says it's concerned that foreign intelligence services may...
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| Toyota iQ Disco Concept to Glamour Rock German Showrooms Posted: 12 Oct 2010 09:32 AM PDT Say 'hallo' to Toyota's bling-bling shiny iQ Disco, a concept model that was created by the firm's German division purely for demonstration purposes as the oversized Japanese disco ball on wheels will tour dealerships all over the country, starting from showrooms in Cologne. The tiny Toyota model, which will be sold to Americans under the Scion...
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| Chrysler Drops the Curtain on New 200 Sedan Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:32 AM PDT After bringing you dimly-lit pics of the Chrysler 200's exterior last week, as well as some hints of the potential jump in interior quality, we now have EVEN MORE official photos from Chrysler. Finally, we get a glimpse of the post-Sebring in some proper lighting. Although we now have a much better view of what the nose and tail will look like,...
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| Romanian Tuning Firm Drops the Top on Dacia Logan Posted: 12 Oct 2010 07:45 AM PDT For the time being, Dacia's parent company Renault doesn't seem to have any solid plans to further expand the range of its low-cost Logan subcompact, but that hasn't stopped tuning companies from creating their own unique proposals. Enter the world of Auto K9, a tuning house based in Romania. The company has just presented its latest creation in...
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| Did the General Lie to us about its Chevrolet Volt? Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:59 AM PDT It appears as if GM has some explaining to do when it comes to the oh-so-important Chevrolet Volt. In layman's terms, various sources are showing up to call out the General about how, specifically, the Volt is motivated. GM says the gasoline engine doesn't officially move the wheels, and the critics say at some point it does, which if true,...
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| Ford Transit SportVan Limited Edition goes Red Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:15 AM PDT Four years after the presentation of the Transit SportVan and Ford UK continues to release special edition variants of its commercial vehicle. Following the sold-out limited production models finished in Performance Blue with white stripes (500 examples), Sea Grey with silver stripes (80), Panther Black with silver stripes (500), Frozen White with...
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| Report: Audi Working on a Production Version of the Quattro Coupe Study Posted: 12 Oct 2010 05:35 AM PDT If you thought we'd had enough of 'malignant rumors' with our last article reporting that Jaguar was seriously considering putting the C-X75 hypercar into limited production, you were wrong. British magazine Autocar reports that a team of engineers at Audi's Ingolstadt headquarters are advancing plans to put the Quattro Concept from the 2010...
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