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- Vancouver Riots Victim will Continue to Pay for her Burned Down BMW M5!
- Production VW Up! Ditches Rear-Engine, Rear-Wheel Drive for a Traditional FWD Setup
- Video: A Lap of the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit in a Mazda MX-5 GT
- NCE Converts New Jaguar XJ into a Four-Door Convertible Oddity
- Driver Tries to Stop Runaway Pickup Truck Fred Flintstone-Style
- More Powerful 2012 Kia Soul Priced from $14,650*
- SPIED: New, Evoque-Inspired 2013 Range Rover Hits the 'Ring
- Video Presentations of the 2013 Lexus GS and Infiniti JX Showcar
- Singapore Businessman Peter Lim Invests in McLaren
- Video: This is What a 30,000 Watt Audio System Does to Your Hairdo
- Nissan Juke Kuro Limited Special Edition Available in the UK
- Edsel Ford’s Restored 1934 Model 40 Special Speedster Makes a Special Appearance at Monterey
- Why Overtaking Returned in Formula 1 This Season
- SPIED: Porsche Developing New Cajun on Modified Audi Q5 Platform
- Subaru Announces Pricing for New 2012 Impreza, Starts at $18,245*
- Swedish Regulator Prepares to Seize Saab Assets as the Automaker Hires Endeavor to Secure New Funding
- 2012 Toyota Yaris: New Photo Gallery of North American Hatchback
- Kia Raises the Stakes with RWD Four-Door Coupe Concept
- New Cadillac Ciel 4-door Convertible Concept Wows Pebble Beach Crowd [Photos + Video]
| Vancouver Riots Victim will Continue to Pay for her Burned Down BMW M5! Posted: 19 Aug 2011 05:13 PM PDT  We suspect that you remember our story about the young woman trying to save her E60 BMW M5 from the manic hooligans during the Vancouver riots that erupted in June after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins for the Stanley Cup.
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| Production VW Up! Ditches Rear-Engine, Rear-Wheel Drive for a Traditional FWD Setup Posted: 19 Aug 2011 04:28 PM PDT  It won't be long before we get our first glimpse of the production version of Volkswagen's all-new Up! city car that scheduled to have its official world premiere at next month's Frankfurt Motor Show. But here's a little something we learned. While the three-door hatchback model's looks are very similar to the original Up! Concept car displayed at the 2007 Frankfurt auto show, under the sheetmetal it's a different story as Volkswagen has ditched the study's unique rear-engine, rear-wheel drive layout. Read more »
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| Video: A Lap of the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit in a Mazda MX-5 GT Posted: 19 Aug 2011 03:29 PM PDT  The Ardennes Forest in Belgium is famous not just for the failed German offensive against the Allied forces, which signaled the beginning of the end for World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, but also for its Spa-Francorchamps circuit that is a place closely linked with Formula 1. Spa includes one of the championship's most demanding corners, the flat-out Eau Rouge. With the F1 teams heading to Ardennes for the Belgium GP on August 26, Mazda has released a video with its race driver Mike Ticehurst guiding us through a lap behind the wheel of a 275HP MX-5 GT. You can watch it right after the jump. Read more »
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| NCE Converts New Jaguar XJ into a Four-Door Convertible Oddity Posted: 19 Aug 2011 03:01 PM PDT  One of the latest models to fall into the hands of California-based company Newport Convertible Engineering (NCE) is the new Jaguar XJ. NCE is known for chopping off the roofs of just about anything it can, be that a Toyota Prius hybrid or a luxury Range Rover SUV. And while we respect the work that went into developing and applying the convertible treatment to Jaguar's flagship limousine, the end result is not what we would call elegant or stylish, especially with the soft top in normal position. Check out the rest of the pictures for yourself in our gallery after the break. Read more »
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| Driver Tries to Stop Runaway Pickup Truck Fred Flintstone-Style Posted: 19 Aug 2011 02:04 PM PDT  A driver using his feet to stop a vehicle is something you expect to see in the Flintstones movie or a comic strip and not in real life, yet this actually happened when a 24-year-old Detroit-area man literally used his feet to try to bring his runaway truck with faulty brakes to a halt. The comical scene was captured on police video by a patrol car that had been called in to help. According to the Detroit police, the man was aware of the problem as he had previously stopped to check his pickup but instead of calling for a tow truck, he continued on his way. Read more »
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| More Powerful 2012 Kia Soul Priced from $14,650* Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:17 PM PDT  After the premiere of the facelifted 2012 Soul at this year's New York Auto Show in late April, it's time for Kia to talk prices. The revised small crossover enters the new model year with some modest styling changes but more importantly, a new pair of more powerful engines hooked up to six-speed transmissions. Pricing for the entry level Soul with the 1.6-liter engine and a manual gearbox starts at $13,900 or (*) $14,650 after a $750 destination and handling (D&H) fee, while the automatic model starts at $15,700 or $16,450 if you include D&H. Read more »
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| SPIED: New, Evoque-Inspired 2013 Range Rover Hits the 'Ring Posted: 19 Aug 2011 12:52 PM PDT  Only last week, we brought you spy pictures of the all-new 2012 Range Rover, but our man with the long lens has once again managed to capture the luxury 4x4, this time, in and out of the Nordschleife. The company's test drivers put the zebra-dressed Range Rover prototype through its paces to check out different suspension settings and evaluate its on-road high-speed behavior and agility. Read more »
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| Video Presentations of the 2013 Lexus GS and Infiniti JX Showcar Posted: 19 Aug 2011 12:14 PM PDT  Leaving aside the elegant Cadillac Ciel which is a pure design study (for now), the big production stars of this year's edition of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance festival in Monterey, California, are the 2013 Lexus GS 350 and the production-ready Infiniti JX showcar. We have already presented both cars in detail but we now have video footage from the presentation events that took place on Thursday evening ahead of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and which you can watch right after the break. Read more »
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| Singapore Businessman Peter Lim Invests in McLaren Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:33 AM PDT  McLaren Automotive announced today that Singapore-based businessperson Peter Lim has made a significant investment in the company and has also joined the McLaren Automotive Board of Directors, effective immediately. Read more »
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| Video: This is What a 30,000 Watt Audio System Does to Your Hairdo Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:07 AM PDT  If you ever wondered what's the purpose of fitting an insanely (and unnecessary) powerful audio system into your vehicle other than bragging about output numbers to your friends and if you're a professional, winning specialists awards, follow the jump to see how a certain Steve Meade makes use of 30,000 watts of sound to –ahem- blow away the girls. Read more »
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| Nissan Juke Kuro Limited Special Edition Available in the UK Posted: 19 Aug 2011 10:25 AM PDT  For certain enthusiasts, Kuro can only mean one thing: Pioneer's now discontinued, but in the minds of many, still the best series of HD television sets to date. For Nissan's UK arm, Kuro is the name of a new special edition of its funky looking Juke small crossover. Nissan says it borrowed the name from the Japanese word for black as the strictly limited edition provides a new, dark look to the British-built Juke. Read more »
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| Edsel Ford’s Restored 1934 Model 40 Special Speedster Makes a Special Appearance at Monterey Posted: 19 Aug 2011 10:07 AM PDT  Nearly eight decades after Edsel Ford, the son of the founder of the company, commissioned the one-off 1934 Model 40 Speedster, the historical sports car made a comeback at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance show in Monterey, California. The custom made model, which served Edsel Ford as a personal roadster had changed many hands after his death in 1943 until its last owner, a Texas car collector, bought the car in 2008. After the collector's sudden death in 2010, the Speedster returned to Edsel's home, now operated as an historic site called the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. Read more »
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| Why Overtaking Returned in Formula 1 This Season Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:48 AM PDT  In recent years, Formula 1 had turned boring. Each F1 race became a tedious process with almost no overtaking and pit strategies were more important than the actual driving on the racetrack. This year, however, things have changed dramatically. We are finally watching true racing: wheel-to-wheel battles, rapid changes in the classification, unexpected results and, most of all, overtaking – and plenty of it. And this despite the fact that Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing are even more dominant than Schumi and the Scuderia at their best. Read more »
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| SPIED: Porsche Developing New Cajun on Modified Audi Q5 Platform Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:19 AM PDT  Our trusty scoopers caught Porsche's development team working on a test mule of the new Cajun junior crossover before it entered the German firm's test facility at the Nürburgring. Hiding under the Audi Q5 body is a modified version of the crossover's platform with wider tracks that will form the base for the new Porsche Cajun. Read more »
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| Subaru Announces Pricing for New 2012 Impreza, Starts at $18,245* Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:24 AM PDT  The all-new 2012 Subaru Impreza will arrive in U.S. showrooms in the beginning of November, and the Japanese carmaker announced today that its starting price will be $17,495 before the $750 destination charge (*$18,245 total) for the base four-door Impreza 2.0i with a manual gearbox, meaning that the starting price remains unchanged over the outgoing model. Read more »
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| Posted: 19 Aug 2011 06:55 AM PDT  Saab just can't seem to get a break. When you think that it's on the right path to solve its problems, suddenly new issues arise. This time it's Sweden's Debt Enforcement Agency, which, according to Detnews, has started collection proceedings after the company failed to meet last Tuesday's deadline to pay two suppliers. Saab's debt to Kongsberg Automotive AB, a Norwegian manufacturer of car seat parts, and Infotiv AN, a Swedish consulting firm, amount to $633,000, with the majority belonging to Kongsberg according to the Agency's chief, Hans Ryberg. Read more »
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| 2012 Toyota Yaris: New Photo Gallery of North American Hatchback Posted: 19 Aug 2011 06:03 AM PDT  After the cagey release of the North American 2012 Yaris under a tent during the Lollapalooza annual music festival in Chicago earlier this month, Toyota officially revealed its revamped contender in the subcompact segment that rivals the likes of the Ford Fiesta and Mazda2. The redesigned Yaris is available either as a three-door liftback or five-door liftback with power coming from a 1.5-liter gasoline engine producing 106HP at 6,000 rpm and 103 lb.-ft. of peak torque at 4,200 rpm. A five-speed manual gearbox or a four-speed automatic transmission drives the front wheels. Read more »
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| Kia Raises the Stakes with RWD Four-Door Coupe Concept Posted: 19 Aug 2011 05:22 AM PDT  It should be quite clear to everyone now that Hyundai and its Kia affiliate have lifted the bar and are now looking to compete with brands that used to shun them.
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| New Cadillac Ciel 4-door Convertible Concept Wows Pebble Beach Crowd [Photos + Video] Posted: 19 Aug 2011 04:58 AM PDT  GM's Cadillac division is on a roll lately. After confirming the production of three new cars including the XTS large luxury saloon, the BMW 3-Series rivaling ATS compact sports sedan, and the ELR Coupe plug-in hybrid EV, Cadillac revealed an impressive new concept model called Ciel that looks into the future but winks at the past.
"Large, expressive luxury is innate to Cadillac and the Ciel recalls that heritage, while suggesting where the brand can go in the future," said Clay Dean, global design director for Cadillac. "Authentic luxury is driven by experiences, not just products, and Ciel is about the experience of the journey." Read more »
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