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- All-New 2012 Audi A6 Avant to Debut on May 18
- Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell’s World Tour Cut Short after Accident in Kazakhstan
- Gerhard Plattner Does it again: Drives Skoda Fabia GreenLine 2,006 km / 1,246 Miles on a Single Tank of Fuel
- Canadian Man Throws a V12 into a 1967 MGB GT
- SCOOP: 2012 Audi S7 Snagged Testing, Rumored to get New V8 Engine
- Carlsson Gives the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet more Power and Poise
- The Great Escape: Motorcyclist Rides Through a Three-Car Accident
- 2012 VW Beetle to Participate in New Car Sharing Scheme in Hanover
- Lexus CT200h Race Car to Debut at the Nurburgring
- Good News Everyone! We’re Back after Blogger’s 24-hour Outage
- Mercedes-Benz Rumored to be Readying Monstrous G65 AMG Limited Edition with 612HP V12
| All-New 2012 Audi A6 Avant to Debut on May 18 Posted: 13 May 2011 03:41 PM PDT  It's only been five months since Audi pulled the wraps off the four-door saloon version of its fourth generation A6 executive model at the 2011 Detroit Motor Show, but the brand with the four rings has already prepared a more practical station wagon body style with the Avant moniker. Today, Audi announced that it will reveal the spanking new 2012 A6 Avant next week on Wednesday, May 18, during a special event at the Humboldt Box in Berlin, which will also be broadcasted online. Don't expect any surprises under the hood, with the Avant model gaining the same range of diesel and gasoline engines (depending on the market, of course) with the option of the firm's Quattro all-wheel drive system. Read more »
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| Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell’s World Tour Cut Short after Accident in Kazakhstan Posted: 13 May 2011 02:49 PM PDT  On January 30th, 2011, three Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell models set out from Germany to travel around the globe covering 30,000 kilometers (about 18,700 miles) in 125 days to demonstrate the technical maturity and reliability of the world's first series production fuel cell vehicle. Read more »
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| Posted: 13 May 2011 01:59 PM PDT  We're not sure if you know this, but there's a world champion in economy driving out there and his name is Gerhard Plattner. He's the kind of guy you'd want as a driver on your gas-guzzling car now that oil prices have hit the roof However, the Austrian champ has better things to do, like driving a Skoda Fabia GreenLine from Austria to Denmark and back on a single 45-liter (11.9 gallons US or 9.9 gallons UK) tank of diesel fuel. He covered a distance of 2,006 kilometers in a Skoda Fabia GreenLine without ever having to refuel the eco-friendly diesel car. Read more »
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| Canadian Man Throws a V12 into a 1967 MGB GT Posted: 13 May 2011 01:40 PM PDT  If you are a car guy like Mark Sawatsky of Winnipeg, Canada, and you happen to have a Jaguar 5.3-liter V12 and an old 1967 MGB GT lying around in your garage, it doesn't take too long to come up with an impressive project. For Mark it was the creation of racecar to compete in the modified class of the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). Read more »
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| SCOOP: 2012 Audi S7 Snagged Testing, Rumored to get New V8 Engine Posted: 13 May 2011 12:47 PM PDT  With the reveal of Audi's rakish A7 sports liftback in the summer of 2010, we knew it was only a matter of time before the Ingolstadt-based automaker enhanced the range with a top-spec model wearing the S badge and down the line, an even gutsier version with the firm's famed RS moniker.
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| Carlsson Gives the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet more Power and Poise Posted: 13 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT  German aftermarket specialist Carlsson released a new tuning package for the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet, offering 20 percent more power, a new aero package and interior improvements. All these are available for the E 350 CDI model, whose 3.0-liter V6 diesel engine delivers 231 horsepower out of the box As expected, Carlsson didn't think that was enough, so it developed the C-Tronic Diesel Power CD28-35 REVO package that consists mainly of ECU remapping. Read more »
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| The Great Escape: Motorcyclist Rides Through a Three-Car Accident Posted: 13 May 2011 11:31 AM PDT  It is a known and sad fact that most drivers will experience an accident two at some point in their careers on the road. Fortunately for the motorcyclist seen in this footage from a closed circuit camera in a tunnel, it just wasn't meant to happen this time. The driver of the motorcycle miraculously passed through a three car accident that seems to have been caused by two cars chasing each other, We don't know the wheres and whens of the incident and there's a good chance that this video may not be new, but the commentator on the background appears to be speaking Portuguese (any help with translation would be appreciated). Watch the clip after the break. Read more »
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| 2012 VW Beetle to Participate in New Car Sharing Scheme in Hanover Posted: 13 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT  To be completely frank, what caught our attention in Volkswagen's latest press release (and probably yours in this post) on the new pilot car-sharing program called Quicar, wasn't the news itself but the special livery of the 2012 Beetle shown in the promotional set of photos. Nevertheless, since we already told you the headline here's the rest of the story on Volkswagen's new car sharing concept that will take place in the German city of Hanover (or Hannover). Read more »
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| Lexus CT200h Race Car to Debut at the Nurburgring Posted: 13 May 2011 10:38 AM PDT  The Lexus CT200h compact hybrid will debut in racing car guise at an endurance race this weekend at the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. Entered by Gazoo Racing, the same organization that races the Lexus LFA, the CT200h will compete in the Adenauer ADAC Rundstrecken-Trophy. Around 200 cars will line up at the start of the six hour-race. Read more »
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| Good News Everyone! We’re Back after Blogger’s 24-hour Outage Posted: 13 May 2011 10:28 AM PDT  As Professor Farnsworth would say, Good news, everyone! We're back! For those of you that missed our rants and were wondering what in tarnation happened to us for the past 24 hours, put the blame on Google's engineers and a supposedly regular maintenance issue that turned into a widespread outage. Here at Carscoop, we've "lost" about a day's worth of posts, but Google's people have promised to reinstate them soon. If they don't keep their word for any reason, no worries, we'll just do it the good 'ol fashioned way – manually… Read more »
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| Mercedes-Benz Rumored to be Readying Monstrous G65 AMG Limited Edition with 612HP V12 Posted: 13 May 2011 10:03 AM PDT  The Mercedes-Benz G-Class or G-Wagen, started its life towards the end of the 1970s as a rugged off-roader featuring a body-on-frame construction and three fully locking differentials, one. And even though the base models continue the same formula today, somewhere down the line, a crazy AMG engineer had a eureka moment and threw in a powerful engine under the hood transforming the boxy 4x4 into a 3.5-tonne weapon capable of humiliating sports car in a straight line duel. Today, the most potent G-Class model is the G55 AMG fitted with a supercharged 5.5-liter V8 engine developing 507-horses and 700Nm (516 lb-ft) of peak torque for a 0-100km/h (62mph) in just 5.5 seconds and a limited top speed of 210 km/h. But that may soon change if we are to believe a report from Dutch website Autoblog.nl on a new range topping G-Class model with the G65 AMG moniker. Read more »
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