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- It Came From eBay Hell: Mercury Cougar Based Bugatti Veyron Replica
- BMW Readying FWD 1-Series GT for 2014 Launch
- First Fisker Karma to be Delivered to Leo Di Caprio, Company has More than 3,000 Orders
- Union of Concerned Scientists Releases 2011 Hybrid Scorecard: Prius = Good, Touareg Hybrid = Bad
- Video: Jay Leno Takes the New 2012 VW Beetle for a Spin
- GM Rumored to Offer Chevy Cruze with a 50mpg Diesel in the USA
- Audi Q7 Pickup Truck Photo Begs the Question: Is it Real or Fake?
- China Hopes To Poach Overseas Automotive Engineering Talent
- Spy Shots: New 2013 Porsche 911 Turbo Shows Off its Aero Bits
- Kanye West Beware: BMW’s 1-Series Composes its Own Music
- Mercedes-Benz Tops Secret Shopper Study of U.S. Dealers, Lincoln Places Last in Luxury Segment
- Video: BMW Alpina B6 GT3 Flies Over Safety Barriers and Crashes Onto Concrete Wall
- Volvo to Extend Driving Range of its EVs by Going the Way of the Chevy Volt
- UK Insurer Parts the Most Unreliable and Costly Car to Fix
- Ford Mustang Exotica Hides an Aston Martin Vanquish V12 Under its Hood [with Video]
- Sir Stirling Moss Buys an Aston Martin Cygnet for his Wife
- BMW Creates New Performance Edition models to Celebrate Sponsorship of 2012 London Olympics
- VW Sets Record First Half Year Car Sales with More than 2.5 Million Units
| It Came From eBay Hell: Mercury Cougar Based Bugatti Veyron Replica Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:59 PM PDT  Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Of all the cars I've featured in "It Came From eBay Hell", this one takes the cake. It's a 2002 Mercury Cougar with 120,000 miles (193,120 kilometres) on the clock, though that's not what makes it special. No, what makes it special is the composite and fibreglass Bugatti Veyron body draped over it.
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| BMW Readying FWD 1-Series GT for 2014 Launch Posted: 12 Jul 2011 04:46 PM PDT  *2012 BMW 1-Series Hatchback Pictured above It's no secret that BMW is getting ready to adopt a front-wheel drive layout for its smaller models including certain versions of the next generation of the 1-Series. BMW's decision has already sparked a lot of discussions whether its front-wheel drive products will remain true to the brand's "ultimate driving machine" motto or an insult to the company's heritage. Now it seems that the day we will see the first front-wheel drive BMW is closer than we thought. According to Autocar magazine, the 1-Series GT, which is said to be a more practical version featuring a high-rising tail like the 5-Series GT, will be the first BMW to adopt front-wheel drive. Its launch is scheduled for 2014. Read more »
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| First Fisker Karma to be Delivered to Leo Di Caprio, Company has More than 3,000 Orders Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:42 PM PDT  Fisker is finally starting deliveries of its Karma luxury plug-in hybrid sedan later this month –and the lucky person to get the first car will be none other than Hollywood star Leonardo di Caprio (....the spicy female model featured in the firm's print advert is not included with the car). The company says it has already received 3,000 pre-orders with the waiting list reaching until early 2012. Other famous customers for the $100,000 hybrid sports sedan are former US Vice President Al Gore and former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Read more »
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| Union of Concerned Scientists Releases 2011 Hybrid Scorecard: Prius = Good, Touareg Hybrid = Bad Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT  The Union of Concerned Scientist, a non-profit science advocacy group in the U.S., has released its second annual Hybrid Scorecard. The organisation criticised hybrid car manufacturers for not delivering on the technology's promise, for placing performance above fuel efficiency and environmental benefit and burdening hybrids with features that put them out of the price range of average Americans. A total of 34 hybrid vehicles from the 2011 to 2012 model year were tested for their fuel efficiency, environmental impact, value-for-money and their so-called "forced-feature premium". The latter is features that don't improve fuel efficiency but probably make the cars more appealing to money-conscious consumers. Read more »
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| Video: Jay Leno Takes the New 2012 VW Beetle for a Spin Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:49 PM PDT  Some guys have all the luck. Like Jay Leno. Not only is he a famous and wealthy TV presenter, but he also gets to drive a bevy of new cars well before anyone else. After driving the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell, which won't enter production for another two years, and the new SLS Roadster wasn't enough, Leno was also invited to VW's headquarters at Wolfsburg to try out the new Beetle. Read more »
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| GM Rumored to Offer Chevy Cruze with a 50mpg Diesel in the USA Posted: 12 Jul 2011 01:26 PM PDT  Citing two unnamed people that were briefed earlier this week on GM's future product plans, the Detroit Free Press reported today that the company is mulling the addition of a diesel engine to the Chevrolet Cruze's range. According to the insiders, a diesel version of the Cruze would return a highway fuel economy of around 50mpg rivaling the efficiency of the Toyota Prius hybrid which is rated at 51 mpg (4.6 lt/100 km) in the city and 48mpg (4.9 lt/100 km) on the highway. A diesel Cruze would also help GM meet the more demanding government gas mileage rules. Read more »
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| Audi Q7 Pickup Truck Photo Begs the Question: Is it Real or Fake? Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:52 PM PDT  This photograph of an Audi Q7 SUV turned into a pickup with an aluminum truck bed appeared today on several sites, all pointing towards an Audi fan blog as the source. Over the years, we've seen one too many photo-chops making the internet rounds to take everything we see online for granted. In this case, even though there appears to be an inconsistency in the shadows between the lower parts of the front door and the rear panel, we just can't be 100 percent sure. Read more »
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| China Hopes To Poach Overseas Automotive Engineering Talent Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:11 PM PDT  China has a problem. Although it has the financial and material resources to compete with the world's automakers, it lacks the design and engineering knowhow. The solution – to companies such as BAIC, Dongfeng, Chang'an and others – is to seek talent abroad; in Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and USA. Research and development centres are popping up in Nottingham and Detroit and recruitment fairs are being held in Munich, Stuttgart and Aachen Read more »
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| Spy Shots: New 2013 Porsche 911 Turbo Shows Off its Aero Bits Posted: 12 Jul 2011 11:40 AM PDT  The next Porsche 911 will make its world premiere in base trim at the forthcoming Frankfurt motor show this September, but this will only be the first chapter of the 991 saga as the Stuttgart-based firm plans to create an entire range of sub models.
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| Kanye West Beware: BMW’s 1-Series Composes its Own Music Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:57 AM PDT  It's a fact that car manufacturers go to great lengths to promote their new products. Traditional means like TV and press advertising are so last year –and so is celebrity endorsement, though they are still employed by the carmakers. However, the new place to be are the social media, like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. BMW has gone one step further in promoting its brand-new 2012 1-Series: it has created a video clip named "check my machine" which shows the process of manufacturing the car. Read more »
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| Mercedes-Benz Tops Secret Shopper Study of U.S. Dealers, Lincoln Places Last in Luxury Segment Posted: 12 Jul 2011 10:21 AM PDT  Mercedes-Benz dealers were number one for customer treatment in the US according to an independent study by survey company Pied Piper. The California-based company hired 3,524 "secret shoppers" and sent them to US dealerships in order to determine how their salesmen were performing in anything from explaining a car's features to closing a deal. This is the third year in a row that Mercedes-Benz, which looks set to top the sales charts this year in the luxury segment, has topped Pied Piper's study. Read more »
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| Video: BMW Alpina B6 GT3 Flies Over Safety Barriers and Crashes Onto Concrete Wall Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:52 AM PDT  The spectators at last weekend's ADAC GT Masters championship at the Nürburgring witnessed a horrific crash involving Alex Plenagl and his BMW Alpina B6 GT3 racecar when the driver lost control of the vehicle and strayed off the course at a high speed. Plenagl's Alpina flew over the safety barriers, passed through a BMW sign and crashed onto the concrete wall. Read more »
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| Volvo to Extend Driving Range of its EVs by Going the Way of the Chevy Volt Posted: 12 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT  Electric Vehicles, or EVs, are the future. Or so the automakers say. And they would be correct, if it wasn't for a significant disadvantage over petrol or diesel powered models: their abysmal range which makes them suitable only for limited city use. Volvo is taking measures to solve this problem and make its EVs attractive to the public by adding an extra 1,000 km (621 miles) to their range. The solution, which has also been adopted by other models such as the Chevrolet Volt and the Audi A1 E-Tron concept, is the addition of a "range extender" internal combustion engine. Read more »
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| UK Insurer Parts the Most Unreliable and Costly Car to Fix Posted: 12 Jul 2011 08:43 AM PDT  In an article on a BMW-faced Honda Accord we found for sale on Craigslist back in 2008, we wrote that in a perfect world, our ultimate car would be "designed by Italians, engineered by Germans, built by Japanese and marketed by Americans". So, what's the worst car one could imagine? Well, if we played around with the above statements, we'd say one designed by Japanese, engineered by Americans, built by Italians and marketed by Germans. But UK insurance firm Warranty Direct had something a little bit different in mind. Instead of playing the origin card, the company decided to check out its database of 50,000 live policies on cars aged five years on average to part the UK's most unreliable vehicle that would break down every other month and cost an average of £2,050 (equal to US$3,270 - €2,330) to fix each year. Read more »
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| Ford Mustang Exotica Hides an Aston Martin Vanquish V12 Under its Hood [with Video] Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:58 AM PDT  We're pretty sure that, during the time Aston Martin was under the ownership of Ford, the thought of stuffing an exotic V12 powerplant under the bonnet of a Mustang must have crossed the mind of a few company engineers.
Built by Western Motorsports, this one-of-a-kind Mustang gets a 6.0-liter V12 engine with 600 ponies from a 2001 Aston Martin Vanquish. Power is sent to the chunky rear wheels through a 6 speed manual Tremec T-56 transmission. Read more »
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| Sir Stirling Moss Buys an Aston Martin Cygnet for his Wife Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:20 AM PDT  You would never think that an Aston Martin would need any sort of marketing push from a personality like Sir Stirling Moss, but to play around with our own words, up until recently, you would never think that Aston Martin would actually try to sell a hugely overpriced city car that's a rebadged Toyota model… In any case, the British racing legend is one of the first customers to receive the Aston Martin Cygnet, which he purchased as a birthday gift to his wife, Lady Moss. Appropriately, there was a photographer in hand to capture the gift-wrapped Cygnet. Read more »
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| BMW Creates New Performance Edition models to Celebrate Sponsorship of 2012 London Olympics Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:45 AM PDT  There are many ways to celebrate the sponsorship of an event like the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but when it comes to automakers, the norm is the introduction of special edition models For BMW, the festivities over its sponsorship of the games begin with the UK launch of two new Performance Edition models based on the 1-Series hatchback and 3-Series sedan. Read more »
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| VW Sets Record First Half Year Car Sales with More than 2.5 Million Units Posted: 12 Jul 2011 06:10 AM PDT  Volkswagen announced today that it set a first half-year record in passenger car sales, with more than 2.5 vehicles delivered globally. This represents an increase of 11.8% compared to the same period of 2010 (2.26 million). Read more »
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