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- Video: The Mother of All Car Jump Fails
- 2012 Honda Ridgeline gains New Sport Trim
- Cadillac Introduces 2012 SRX with New 308HP 3.6-Liter V6 LFX Engine
- Shocker! Chrysler Bringing Home More Bacon than Fiat...
- Bulgarian Styling House Vilner Refines Toyota iQ
- Fisker Claims Multi-Speed Gearbox Would Give Karma “Veyron Speed”
- Life After Death: Automakers Find New Uses for Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Batteries
- $202,000 Porsche Taxi Cab Takes Bangkok by Surprise
- Report: GM to Launch Key Fuel Efficient Cars and Trucks in the Next 18 Months
- Official: Honda Announces 2012 CR-V Concept, on Sale in America by the End of 2011, and in Europe in Fall 2012
- Fraudsters Claiming Luxury and Exotic Cars as Farm-Use Vehicles to Save on Insurance!
- Toyota’s Passenger Car Sales in Japan Down 43 Percent in the First Half of 2011
- Video: Man versus Wild…Radio-Controlled Car
- New Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback Launched in the UK
- 2012 Honda Pilot Goes Under the Knife, gets a New Face
- Ford Ditches CD Players on its New European Models
- Report: Red Bull Mulling to Build Road Cars with the Help of Infiniti
- New Alfa Romeo 4C Promotional Film
- F1: 2011 German GP Race Results
- 2012 Honda CR-V Concept: First Official Photo Leaked Onto the Web
| Video: The Mother of All Car Jump Fails Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:53 PM PDT  Take a good look at the opening picture above: what you see are the backs of two men in racing costumes, what they see is the road from several feet above the ground in a 90-degree angle…
For whatever reasons, the jump didn't go as planned and as a result, the Dacia flew into the air only to drop down like a brick well before reaching the ramp on the other side. Amazingly, at the end of the clip we can see the driver and the front passenger walking out of the car alive! Read more »
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| 2012 Honda Ridgeline gains New Sport Trim Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:23 PM PDT  As you probably expected after the introduction of the 2012 Pilot, Honda also announced the first details on its updated for the new model year Ridgeline pickup truck. The big news is the addition of a new member to the Ridgeline family called Sport that supposedly targets customers looking for more personalized and slightly sinister looks. Read more »
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| Cadillac Introduces 2012 SRX with New 308HP 3.6-Liter V6 LFX Engine Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:36 PM PDT  The latest Cadillac SRX has been on the market for just two model years, but for 2012, General Motors is making some important tweaks to improve the crossover model's performance. While GM had made the announcement on the 2012 SRX back in April, the company came out today with additional information and revised performance figures, just before the SUV goes on sale. Read more »
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| Shocker! Chrysler Bringing Home More Bacon than Fiat... Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:54 PM PDT  Two years ago, Chrysler was saved from oblivion when the federal government provided a $15 billion bailout and orchestrated a rescue plan that gave the Fiat Group the management control of the company.
You see, Chrysler's US sales increased by 21% in the first six months of the year, whereas Fiat's European deliveries dropped 12.7% in the same period. But that's only half the story. With the exception of the Maserati and Ferrari brands, the Chrysler Group will contribute to the alliance €155 million for June alone, while Fiat €175 million for the past three months. Read more »
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| Bulgarian Styling House Vilner Refines Toyota iQ Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:17 PM PDT  While American buyers will have to wait until October to see the iQ in Scion's showrooms, over in Europe, the Japanese carmaker's 3+1 seat mini has been on sale since the beginning of 2009. But despite being in the market for more than two years, the iQ hasn't really caught the attention of the aftermarket tuners. One of the few companies to warm up to the iQ is Bulgarian customizer Vilner, which has introduced a more luxurious take on the Toyota's interior. Read more »
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| Fisker Claims Multi-Speed Gearbox Would Give Karma “Veyron Speed” Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:31 PM PDT  Fisker's environment-friendly hybrid sports sedan, the Karma, can hardly be called a slouch but if someone were to tell you that it could reach "Bugatti Veyron levels of performance" you'd probably look at them a little askance. But that's exactly what Henrik Fisker recently supported during an interview with British weekly magazine Autocar. More specifically, the founder of the company said that the development of a reliable multi-speed gearbox could offer electric-powered vehicles a huge boost in performance. Read more »
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| Life After Death: Automakers Find New Uses for Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Batteries Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:59 PM PDT  Hybrids and electric vehicles are more environment-friendly than conventionally powered models. However, one question many eco-conscious consumers bring up is what happens to the batteries at the end of their life cycle in the vehicles. GM and Nissan estimate that batteries in their Volt and LEAF models respectively will have approximately 70% of their "life" remaining after a decade on the road. So, far from being useless, they can be utilized as back-up power sources for home use. Read more »
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| $202,000 Porsche Taxi Cab Takes Bangkok by Surprise Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:25 PM PDT  While New Yorkers get ready to embrace a new generation of boxy taxis like the Ford Transit Connect and the Nissan NV200, city dwellers in Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, were introduced to a different and far more appealing form of the yellow cab: a Porsche Boxster sports car. Read more »
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| Report: GM to Launch Key Fuel Efficient Cars and Trucks in the Next 18 Months Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT  USA's biggest car manufacturer, General Motors, is scheduling a series of new vehicle launches for its four brands in the next 18 months. And the dominant theme here, both in passenger cars and trucks, will be improved economy figures as GM prepares its vehicle lineup to meet the more stringent fuel-efficiency standards. For example, the Detroit automaker plans to introduce 8-speed auto transmissions and downsized turbocharged engines in its new pickups, and also intends to fit more models with the eAssist light-hybrid technology. Read more »
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| Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:12 AM PDT  An online leak resulted to a photo of Honda's 2012 CR-V Concept appearing on the internet earlier today, but now the Japanese carmaker has given in and released a high-resolution image as well as initial information on the crossover model. Honda said that the concept will make its first public outing at the Orange County International Auto Show in Anaheim, California, in September 2011, and go on sale in North America by the end of the year, and in Europe in Autumn 2012. This means we will probably see the final production model at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. Read more »
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| Fraudsters Claiming Luxury and Exotic Cars as Farm-Use Vehicles to Save on Insurance! Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:38 AM PDT  If you've ever owned a car that's even slightly upmarket or exotic, you'll know that insurance premiums can be a real headache. However, some owners are combating this by claiming that their vehicles – among them Porsches, Mercedes-Benzes, Audis and BMWs – are for…farm-use. In other words, the insurance companies are being led to believe that these high priced luxury and exotic models are being used to haul bales of hay and the like and rarely leave their owner's properties. In turn, these owners are paying as much as 20% less on their insurance premiums. Read more »
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| Toyota’s Passenger Car Sales in Japan Down 43 Percent in the First Half of 2011 Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:05 AM PDT  The two natural disasters that hit Japan on March 11, the 8.9 offshore earthquake and the subsequent Tsunami that devastated the country and took many human lives, has also hit hard production and sales of Japanese car manufacturers. Toyota said on Monday that its domestic passenger car production for the first half of 2011 dropped by 38% to 947,090 units and its overseas production by 11.7% to 1,923,408 units compared to the same period in 2010 units due to the lack of parts. Read more »
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| Video: Man versus Wild…Radio-Controlled Car Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:06 AM PDT  Undoubtedly, the video you're about to see would have elicited a chuckle or two even if the radio controlled missile-car hit a by-stander, but the fact that it knocked the person holding the remote control off his feet (we mean that literally) and into the air makes it twice as fun to watch. See the incoming RC for yourself in the video after the break. Read more »
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| New Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback Launched in the UK Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:48 AM PDT  Chevrolet found the perfect opportunity at the Donington race of the WTCC (World Touring Car Championship) to launch the hatchback version of the Cruze in Britain. While Yvan Muller was winning both rounds of the race in the Cruze WTCC, further advancing his lead on the championship, journalists were able to use the country roads around Donington to get their first taste of Chevy's new hatchback. Read more »
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| 2012 Honda Pilot Goes Under the Knife, gets a New Face Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:16 AM PDT  Tis' the season for changes at Honda. After the news on the 2012 CR-V Concept that previews the soon-to-be-launched production model, yet another official photograph of a new Honda model is making the internet rounds This time it is the redesigned 2012 Pilot SUV. The facelift comes three years after the introduction of the second generation Pilot in 2008. The most noticeable change is the brand-new and simpler looking three-slate front grille that replaces the oddly styled fascia of the outgoing model. Read more »
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| Ford Ditches CD Players on its New European Models Posted: 25 Jul 2011 07:24 AM PDT  As digital music sales rise, compact discs seem to be heading the way of the cassette –for those of you old enough to remember them, that is. For example, in the UK digital sales account for 98% percent of the market. That's evolution: just as the cassette made the 8-track player obsolete and then gave its place to CD-players, now purely digital content is making CD players a thing of the past. Read more »
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| Report: Red Bull Mulling to Build Road Cars with the Help of Infiniti Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:55 AM PDT  Enzo Ferrari didn't initially intend to manufacture road cars when he started his Scuderia Ferrari team in 1928. It wasn't until almost two decades later, in 1947, that the first road car bearing the prancing horse, the V12 125S, was produced mainly to finance his team's racing activities. Ferrucio Lamborghini founded Lamborghini Trattori in 1948, a successful manufacturer of tractors and other agricultural equipment. In 1959, he opened an oil heater factory, and later started producing air conditioning equipment. Naturally, he became very wealthy. Read more »
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| New Alfa Romeo 4C Promotional Film Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:19 AM PDT  If Alfa Romeo follows its most recent timetable, the 4C mid-engine sports coupe should arrive in European showrooms sometime in the first half of 2012 with a few examples making their way into the U.S. by the end of the year. But let's not forget, it's the Fiat Group we're talking about here; the same company that has turned Alfa Romeo's U.S. introduction into something a joke by constantly pushing back the launch for the past decade. Read more »
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| F1: 2011 German GP Race Results Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:32 AM PDT  Last Sunday, after the finish of the German Grand Prix there was a McLaren, a Ferrari and a Red Bull on the podium. No surprise there. So what else is new? Red Bull and McLaren obviously have the best cars from the start of the season, winning all the races except the previous one. Especially Sebastian Vettel has such a big points lead, that he looks to have this year's driver's title in his pocket even with half the season remaining. Read more »
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| 2012 Honda CR-V Concept: First Official Photo Leaked Onto the Web Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:02 AM PDT  Circulating around the internet today is an official photograph of the 2012 Honda CR-V Concept that previews the production model that is scheduled to follow by the end of the year. In June, Honda had announced that it would present a new generation of its popular compact crossover model; however, the Japanese company had not disclosed any specific details on the vehicle other than it would sport a "new design inside and out, new features and new possibilities". Read more »
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