Sunday, September 18, 2011

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Poland's Arrinera Supercar Ready for Production with the help of Lee Noble

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 05:16 PM PDT


British car designer Lee Noble is back with a vengeance. If you are a Carsccop regular, you'll remember the Arrinera.

And if you're wondering who Lee Noble is, you'll be interested to learn that he has been designing and manufacturing cars for three decades, almost all of them hardcore machines focused on pure driving pleasure. The first of them, the Ultima, was used as the test mule for none other than the McLaren F1.

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Car Movie Review: Super Hybrid

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 02:53 PM PDT


Tilda's (Shannon Beckner) life is less than perfect: her boyfriend is a layabout body builder who refuses to work because of a back injury, her boss (Oded Fehr) is a sexist asshat who has just passed her over for a promotion and her estranged nephew (Ryan Kennedy) talks about her behind her back.

She works at the 29th District Garage in Chicago, the place where all the accident vehicles go. The garage's latest resident is a near-totaled Chevrolet Nova with a matte black paint job.

Only this isn't just any old car: it's actually a shape-shifting, man-eating killing machine! With the garage closed for renovations over the weekend and our band of misfits sealed in, it is a race to survive against nature's smartest – and most devious – predator.

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Oh China…Yema Auto Presents Clones of the Audi A4, VW Tiguan and Infiniti EX

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 02:39 PM PDT


Not too long ago, in a country far, far away, Yema Auto presented a clone of the previous generation Subaru Forester. The years passed and the force behind Yema Auto became stronger and stronger…

At this week's Chengdu Auto Show 2011, the Chinese automaker unleashed a second attack with a new breed of clones named the E-SUV, T-SUV and the F16.

In all cases, the pictures speak louder than words and it doesn't take an avid automobile aficionado to see that the T-SUV is a blatant rip-off of the Volkswagen Tiguan, the E-SUV China's doppelganger of the Infiniti EX crossover and the F16 and its commercial E-TAXI sibling, copies of the older Audi A4 Avant.

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The Manchurian Candidate: Jeep capitalizes on Fiat’s Chinese Operations, Wants to Build SUVs locally

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:50 AM PDT


Now that Sergio Marchionne has consolidated Fiat-Chrysler management into a smaller, leaner unified team, its members are working full force to maximize the group's capabilities.

Jeep CEO Mike Manley travelled to China last Wednesday to negotiate the local production of Jeep models with Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd., which already has a joint venture with Fiat.

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