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- In the Backseat with Serene: Hot Host Takes us for a Spin Around the 2011 New York Auto Show
- German Gas Station Charges €9.99 for a Liter or $55 for a gallon of Gasoline!
- GM set to Reclaim No1 Position Thanks to Toyota’s Mounting Woes
- Barely Driven BMW M1 with Less than 3,000 Miles on the Odo up for Sale on eBay
- Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf Receive Top IIHS Safety Ratings in Crash Tests
- Toyota Conducts Voluntary Recall of 2011MY Tundra to Fix Drive Shafts
- Kylie Minogue Promotes the 2012 VW Golf Cabriolet in New Ad
- VIDEO: The World’s Fastest IRS Corvette Runs ¼ Mile in 7.89 Seconds
- Mercedes to Mark Unimog's 60th Birthday with Special Celebrations
- Bentley Joins Celebrations for New James Bond Book with Collector’s Edition
- 2012 Opel Astra GTC Sport Hatch is…Virtually Here: First Official Images and Video of Production Model
- Taiwan’s Luxgen Shows Off Neora EV Concept Sedan in Shanghai
| In the Backseat with Serene: Hot Host Takes us for a Spin Around the 2011 New York Auto Show Posted: 26 Apr 2011 02:34 PM PDT  Even though it may sound blatantly stereotypical to say that the majority of men like hot cars and women, well, deep inside we all know it's true. Therefore, we can't blame the organizers of the 2011 New York Auto Show for trying to combine the two to promote the event to the public, or at least to the social media-active male population.
Serene takes us for a tour around the Jacob Javits Center, while also asking questions of the sort, "Which car has the best backseat for..ya know...backseat fun?". Feel free to enlighten Serene with your answers in the comments section after the jump… Read more »
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| German Gas Station Charges €9.99 for a Liter or $55 for a gallon of Gasoline! Posted: 26 Apr 2011 01:24 PM PDT  A petrol station in the town of Filderstadt near Stuttgart, Germany, skyrocketed the price of super gasoline to a prohibitive level of €9.99 per liter ($14.60) or $55 per gallon on Easter Monday, in an attempt to…prevent customers from buying the fuel. German news site 'The Local' reported that the Esso petrol station raised the price to €9.99 a liter as it was running low on the fuel amid a nationwide shortage. Despite warning signs posted at the pumps, several clients fueled their cars and had a very, very unpleasant surprise at the cash register when they learned the amount of money they had to pay. One of them was asked to pay €209.98 ($307) for the 21 liters of super gasoline he put in his BMW, while another driver learned that she owed just under €200 ($292.5) for 20 liters of fuel! Read more »
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| GM set to Reclaim No1 Position Thanks to Toyota’s Mounting Woes Posted: 26 Apr 2011 12:38 PM PDT  One automaker's misfortune is another's gain, or so it seems with GM and Toyota. With the effects of Japan's Tōhoku earthquake still being felt and full scale production unlikely to resume at Toyota's Japanese plants until the end of the year, GM is likely to reclaim the top spot as the world's largest automaker.
Meanwhile, a post-bankruptcy GM has gone from strength to strength. Better products – including the likes of the Buick Lacrosse and Chevy Cruze and Equinox models – are helping bring GM into the second decade of the 21st century. Toyota, meanwhile, is struggling to maintain sales with an ageing range of vehicles, bad PR and diminished production capacity. Read more »
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| Barely Driven BMW M1 with Less than 3,000 Miles on the Odo up for Sale on eBay Posted: 26 Apr 2011 11:55 AM PDT  Today's eBay find brings us a seemingly immaculate BMW M1 from 1980 that's offered up for an undisclosed price. One of 455 (albeit some bring this number down to 451) examples ever built, this one is finished in a classic red hue with a black interior. Claimed to be in original condition, the seller says it has been driver a mere 4,418 kilometers or 2,747 miles since it left the Bavarian automaker's factory some 31 years ago.
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| Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf Receive Top IIHS Safety Ratings in Crash Tests Posted: 26 Apr 2011 10:59 AM PDT  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released the results of the first-ever U.S. crash test evaluations of plug-in electric cars, with the two EVs earning the highest safety ratings. The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf were awarded the top rating of "good" for front, side, rear and rollover crash protection. Since both cars are fitted as standard with electronic stability control systems, they also qualified as winners of Top Safety Pick, the Institute's award for state-of-the-art crash protection. Read more »
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| Toyota Conducts Voluntary Recall of 2011MY Tundra to Fix Drive Shafts Posted: 26 Apr 2011 10:31 AM PDT  Approximately 51,000 Toyota Tundra trucks from the 2011 model year are subject to a new voluntary safety recall to inspect the rear drive shaft. According to the Japanese automaker, the rear drive shaft in a very small percentage of the affected vehicles (0.05%) may include a component (slip yoke) that could break due to improper casting during the foundry process. Read more »
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| Kylie Minogue Promotes the 2012 VW Golf Cabriolet in New Ad Posted: 26 Apr 2011 09:28 AM PDT  It appears that carmakers have a love-connection with Australian pop singer, Kylie Minogue. Following a recent collaboration with Lexus for the European launch of the Lexus CT200h, the Melbourne-born star signed an advertising partnership with Volkswagen to promote the new Golf Cabriolet. Minogue has already filmed the first TV commercial for Wolfsburg's new convertible model that aired in Germany this week. Read more »
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| VIDEO: The World’s Fastest IRS Corvette Runs ¼ Mile in 7.89 Seconds Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:09 AM PDT  A heavily modified 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 [C6] equipped with a turbocharged V8 engine built by IPS Motorsports, recently shattered the quarter mile record for IRS 'Vettes completing the sprint on the dragstrip in just 7.89 seconds with an exit speed of 180 mph (289 km/h). The record-breaking time was achieved at the 2nd race of the LSX Series in Atlanta. Watch the run through the in-car camera in the videos right after the break. Read more »
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| Mercedes to Mark Unimog's 60th Birthday with Special Celebrations Posted: 26 Apr 2011 07:17 AM PDT  This year, Mercedes-Benz's Unimog truck celebrates its 60th birthday and to honor this milestone, the German automaker will host a special anniversary party on June 4. Fans, club members, owners of classic vehicles, drivers and owners of current models are all invited to the event, which will be hosted at the Wörth plant in Germany where the Unimog is built today. Read more »
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| Bentley Joins Celebrations for New James Bond Book with Collector’s Edition Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:49 AM PDT  In celebration of the upcoming release of Carte Blanche, the new James Bond book by Jeffery Deaver, publisher Hodder & Stoughton has joined forces with Bentley Motors to create an exclusive special edition that will be available in a strictly limited number of 500 copies. These are available for order from today, Tuesday 26 April 2011, exactly a month before the book reaches retailers' shelves. Read more »
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| Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:02 AM PDT  General Motors' Opel division is getting ready to take the wraps off the all-new Astra GTC as the company released the first official renderings and a video of the production model shown in a virtual landscape.
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| Taiwan’s Luxgen Shows Off Neora EV Concept Sedan in Shanghai Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:29 AM PDT  Among the many world premieres hosted at the Auto Shanghai 2011 (April 21-28) is a new concept model for an all-electric sedan from Taiwanese automaker Luxgen. Called the Neora, the study is meant to demonstrate the firm's technological prowess as well as to preview a future design language.
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