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- Stock Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Challenges Tuned Nissan GT-R on the Drag Strip
- New Toyota Camry Excels in Consumer Reports’ Tests, VW Passat Not So Much
- Brooklyn Designer Creates Autodromo Watch Line Inspired by Car Instrument Gauges
- Is this Video Real? Speeding Car Passes Between Police Cruiser and Truck at Intersection
- SPIED: 2012 Mercedes A-Class Hatchback Stretches Out in the Snow
- Christmas Day Hail Storm Damages More than 10,000 Cars in Melbourne, Australia
- China to Withdraw Support for Foreign Investments in the Auto Industry in 2012
- BMW Factory Tour Shows us what it Takes to build the New 1-Series Hatch
- Rumors: Proton May be Forced to Sell Loss-Making Lotus Brand
- Man High on Crack Steals Police Cruiser in his… Undies Leading Officers on a Wild Chase [Video]
- An Alternative Concept for a Bugatti Super Sedan by Dejan Hristov
- Meet Qatar's Police Fleet of Porsche Cayenne SUVs and Panamera Sedans
- Report: Mitsubishi to Launch Electric Light Truck and Plug-in Hybrid Outlander in 2013
- Toyota Says it Received 60,000 Orders for New Aqua Hybrid in Japan Before Launch
- In Soviet Cars, Doors Automatically Fall Off in Case of an Accident
- 2012 Cadillac Escalade gets New Security Features to Prevent Thefts
- Volkswagen Pushes for Greener Plants by 2018
- New Suzuki Teasers May Hint at Jimny / Samurai 4x4 Concept
- 2014 BMW M4 / M3 Coupe Realistically Rendered
- Fisker Issues its First Recall on Karma Over Battery Fire Risk
| Stock Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Challenges Tuned Nissan GT-R on the Drag Strip Posted: 29 Dec 2011 06:49 PM PST  The Nissan GT-R and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 are two very different beasts made by two companies that couldn't be more different, but there's one thing these two sports cars have in common: they are blazingly fast. On one hand, you have a stock Bugatti Veyron 16.4 with 1,001-horses and a $2 million price tag while its Japanese contender, currently priced from US$90,000 in the States, normally gets between 480 and 550-ponies depending on the model year, but this particular model, is said to have been "lightly modified". Read more »
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| New Toyota Camry Excels in Consumer Reports’ Tests, VW Passat Not So Much Posted: 29 Dec 2011 05:18 PM PST  Consumer Reports has just announced its latest test results. This time, the nonprofit organization put two brand-new, family sedans under its microscope – and while the one came up trumps, the other was a mixed bag. Starting with the new 2012 Toyota Camry, Consumer Reports tested three different models with a four-cylinder, a V6 and a Hybrid engine, all of which ranked amongst the best in their class.
In fact, while the 173HP 25-liter four-cylinder version ties with the Hyundai Sonata for best-in-class fuel consumption delivering 27 mpg (8.7 lt/100 km), the more powerful 268HP 3.5-liter V6 is just a smidgen more thirsty and, at 26 mpg (9.0 lt/100 km), beats most four-cylinder rivals. Read more »
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| Brooklyn Designer Creates Autodromo Watch Line Inspired by Car Instrument Gauges Posted: 29 Dec 2011 04:37 PM PST  Bradley Price is 31-year-old product designer from Brooklyn, New York, with a special passion for cars and a pretty creative mind. Combine those two and you get an interesting mix. A couple of years ago, while driving his red 1983 Alfa Romeo GTV6 2.5 (yes, he's our kind of guy), Price had an inspiration: design a line of watches loosely inspired by sports car instrument panel gauges. Upon returning home, Price went to the drawing board and began rendering watch faces based on car gauges he admired.
"There are so many wonderful gauge designs from the 1960s and '70s that I love," Price told the New York Times in a recent interview. "I did some research and saw that no one was doing that for watches." Read more »
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| Is this Video Real? Speeding Car Passes Between Police Cruiser and Truck at Intersection Posted: 29 Dec 2011 03:34 PM PST  We're not ready to call this video real yet, but if it proves to be genuine, the driver that violated the green light at this intersection passing between a cop car and a truck, allegedly in the capital city of Baku in Azerbaijan, should feel more epic than Chuck Norris in any of his 1980s movies. Take a look at the security video footage after the break, and tell us what you think. Read more »
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| SPIED: 2012 Mercedes A-Class Hatchback Stretches Out in the Snow Posted: 29 Dec 2011 06:04 PM PST  The upcoming third generation A-Class is one of the most interesting new vehicles currently being prepared by Mercedes-Benz and all for good reason as the only common factor it has with the current model is its name. You see, the Stuttgart-based company decided to compete more directly with the BMW 1-Series and even the higher-end versions of the VW Golf and as a result, opted for a sportier looking hatchback body built on a conventional platform instead of the tall, minivan-like shape and sandwich floor of the first two generations of the A-Class.
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| Christmas Day Hail Storm Damages More than 10,000 Cars in Melbourne, Australia Posted: 29 Dec 2011 02:22 PM PST  Several Melbourne car owners may be experiencing the holiday blues these days - the reason being the severe hail storms that hit the capital of Victoria on Christmas Day, causing damage to thousands of buildings and vehicles. Insurers are bracing themselves up for the claims that will follow, with the Insurance Council of Australia declaring the event a catastrophe. Read more »
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| China to Withdraw Support for Foreign Investments in the Auto Industry in 2012 Posted: 29 Dec 2011 01:53 PM PST  The new year will bring some significant changes for carmakers that had plans to invest in China as the world's most populous country will stop encouraging foreign investment in the auto industry putting an end to seven years of benefits that included reduced tariffs on imported equipment. China's National Reform and Development Commission (NRDC) and the Ministry of Commerce made a joint announcement on the move that is due to come into effect on January 30, 2012. Read more »
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| BMW Factory Tour Shows us what it Takes to build the New 1-Series Hatch Posted: 29 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST  Modern automobile plants are an impressive sight to watch in action, but few outsiders actually get the chance to see one in person. BMW wants to give us a taste of how one of its main factories in Germany located in the city of Regensburg works to produce the latest 1-Series five-door hatchback through a quick video tour of the plant. Read more »
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| Rumors: Proton May be Forced to Sell Loss-Making Lotus Brand Posted: 29 Dec 2011 11:59 AM PST  Four centuries ago, they used to say that "the sun never sets on the British Empire". Today, the Brits are content with much less – and the sun has more or less set on their local automotive industry after many decades of bad management and even worse products. As a result, foreign car groups own all major carmakers that managed to survive. Lotus Cars, which was founded by the ingenious Colin Champan in 1952, was acquired in 1996 by Malaysia's Proton. Since then, it has introduced many variations of the lightweight Elise, its first new car in 12 year, the Evora, and showed no less than five new models in concept form at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. Read more »
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| Man High on Crack Steals Police Cruiser in his… Undies Leading Officers on a Wild Chase [Video] Posted: 29 Dec 2011 11:20 AM PST  If you are high on drugs, you can do some pretty foolish, and ultimately very dangerous stuff – like stealing a police SUV wearing nothing but your underwear, which is precisely what Ryan Elliot Cunningham did last Friday, December 23. It all started when Blackman-Leoni Township police arrested the 34-year old drug addict at the Colonial Inn Motel on Ann Arbor Road. According to a report from MLive, the officers handcuffed Cunningham and placed him on the rear seat of their Chevrolet Tahoe SUV patrol car, while they went inside the motel to check his room. Read more »
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| An Alternative Concept for a Bugatti Super Sedan by Dejan Hristov Posted: 29 Dec 2011 10:30 AM PST  We'll probably have to wait for a major international motor show to see what kind of "significant" design changes Bugatti has made to its original Galibier concept, as confirmed earlier this year by the brand's new CEO, Wolfgang Duerheimer, but in the meantime, here's a new design study for a Bugatti saloon that was sent to us by Dejan Hristov. While a little rough on the edges, Hristov's Bugatti Super Sedan design concept proposes a different look that draws closer to the firm's Veyron 16.4 coupe than the Galibier showcar. Read more »
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| Meet Qatar's Police Fleet of Porsche Cayenne SUVs and Panamera Sedans Posted: 29 Dec 2011 09:59 AM PST  When you have the world's largest per capita production and proven reserves of both oil and natural gas, you can afford a little luxury for your police officers. Case in point, Qatar's police fleet of Porsche Cayenne and Panamera cruisers, which along with several Toyota Land Cruiser SUVs, came together to celebrate the Arab state's National Day parade on December 18. A video waits to satisfy your curiosity just after the break. Read more »
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| Report: Mitsubishi to Launch Electric Light Truck and Plug-in Hybrid Outlander in 2013 Posted: 29 Dec 2011 09:30 AM PST  According to a report from Japan's Nikkei business daily, Mitsubishi is developing a pure-electric light truck that will be launched onto the market in the second quarter of 2013. Mitsubishi has been one of the first carmakers to enter the EV market with its iMieV, an all-electric city car that like the Outlander SUV has also spawned PSA Peugeot Citroen variants. Speaking of the Outlander, the report states that a plug-in hybrid version of Mitsubishi's crossover will also hit the market at the same time as the electric truck. Read more »
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| Toyota Says it Received 60,000 Orders for New Aqua Hybrid in Japan Before Launch Posted: 29 Dec 2011 09:00 AM PST  The new Aqua is off to an excellent start in Japan as Toyota revealed that it had already received pre-orders for 60,000 cars ahead of the sub-compact hybrid hatchback's launch on Monday, December 26. That's five times the company's monthly sales target of 12,000 cars in Japan. "It will take about four months to receive the car once an order is placed," Toyota managing officer Koei Saga told reporters during a media briefing earlier this week. Read more »
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| In Soviet Cars, Doors Automatically Fall Off in Case of an Accident Posted: 29 Dec 2011 08:12 AM PST  In modern day vehicles, in the event of an impact the door locks are programmed to open automatically so to allow the driver and passengers to exit the vehicle or if that's not possible, to make the work of firefighters and emergency crews easier. However, as you can see in the video that follows, Lada seems to have devised an even better solution to solve this problem… Read more »
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| 2012 Cadillac Escalade gets New Security Features to Prevent Thefts Posted: 29 Dec 2011 08:50 AM PST  In late August, General Motors announced that it is preparing a raft of upgrades to improve the security of its Cadillac Escalade for the 2012 model year. Today, GM released full details on the changes it has made and which the company claims will prevent the luxury SUV from a being a "pushover for push-away or towing thieves". We'll remind you that a recent study from the Highway Loss Data Institute found that the Cadillac Escalade is more than six times as likely to be stolen by thieves compared to the average vehicle not only due to its popularity but also because it was easier to steal than other vehicles. Read more »
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| Volkswagen Pushes for Greener Plants by 2018 Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:02 AM PST  Thinking "green" is the latest mantra repeated over and over again by all car manufacturers. The most usual way of displaying their environmentally conscious approach is to advertise their vehicles' low CO2 emissions. Volkswagen, while still selling and developing greener cars, is also implementing a new "Think Blue. Factory." initiative that aims to make its product plants more environmentally friendly. Read more »
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| New Suzuki Teasers May Hint at Jimny / Samurai 4x4 Concept Posted: 29 Dec 2011 07:47 AM PST  After more than 13 years in production, Suzuki may be ready to begin work on a successor to the third generation of the Jimny 4x4 that was first introduced at the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show.
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| 2014 BMW M4 / M3 Coupe Realistically Rendered Posted: 29 Dec 2011 05:59 AM PST  Its name and the type of engine that will lie under its hood may be debatable, but plans for a successor to today's M3 Coupe do exist. However, you'll have to wait at least until 2013 to see the high performance model in BMW's dealerships. For those of you that just can't wait to get a peek at the next M3 Coupe or perhaps as we may come to know it, the M4, graphic designer Jacek Kolodziejczyk has put his skills to work developing a pretty realistic rendering of the coupe model. Read more »
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| Fisker Issues its First Recall on Karma Over Battery Fire Risk Posted: 29 Dec 2011 05:31 AM PST  After it was revealed that A123 Systems Inc. discovered a "potential safety issue" in the batteries it supplies to Fisker Automotive, it was only a matter of time before the California-based automaker would issue a recall on the Karma, the first since the car launched onto the market this summer. The maker of the extended-range plug-in hybrid model said the safety recall concerns a total of 239 2012MY Karma sedans built from July 1, 2011, through November 3, 2011. Read more »
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