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- U Design: 2013 Cadillac ATS Compact Sports Sedan Rendering Hits the Spot
- Watch a Mitsubishi Lancer EVO hit Black Ice and Almost Crash in West Virginia Pile Up [NSFW]
- Supercar-Sharing Service HiGear Closes Shop After Repeated Thefts…
- India's DC Design to Unwrap Mid-Engine Sports Car at New Delhi Auto Show
- Once Again, the Japanese Prove Their Drifting Skills
- Are 2011 Luxury Car Brand Record Sales a Good Sign for the US. Economy?
- 2011 U.S. Sales: Detroit's Big 3 and Koreans Report Strong Gains, Honda and Toyota Feel the Pinch
- This is One Motorcycle Rider You Don't want to Mess Around with
- Marchionne’s 6 Million Sales Target for Fiat-Chrysler Deemed "Unrealistic" by Analysts
- Videos and Live Photos of Ford's Fiesta-Based EcoSport Study
- New Year Brings Bose Treatment for Refreshed Renault Koleos Crossover
- Fox Marketing Building 400-HP Nissan Juke Special
- Run, Little Red Bimmer, Run! Man Chases his Runaway BMW
- Volvo to Debut New XC60 Plug-In Hybrid Concept at the Detroit Auto Show
- VW Brand Records 26.3 Percent Increase in 2011 U.S. Sales, Passat up 124 Percent
- 1970s Toyota Corolla Sleeper with Nissan V6 Turbo Runs 1/4 Mile in 11s
- Are High-Tech Cars an Ideal Target for Cyber Terrorists and Criminals?
- Porsche Says Cayenne Diesel and All-New Cajun Coming to the USA in 2013
- Lexus Shows Off LF-LC Sports Coupe in New Photos
- Ford EcoSport Crossover Concept with 1.0-liter EcoBoost Engine Debuts at New Delhi Auto Expo
- Volkswagen Announces UK Pricing for its Facelifted CC Sedan
| U Design: 2013 Cadillac ATS Compact Sports Sedan Rendering Hits the Spot Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:59 PM PST  While some of our readers are more handy with the camera (i.e. spy shots) others have a serious knack for designing car like Josh Byrnes that sent us a very well executed rendering of the upcoming 2013 Cadillac ATS, GM's first serious attempt (anyone remember the BLS?) to challenge the BMW 3-Series. And it couldn't come at a better time as Cadillac will reveal the new ATS in the flesh at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit next Monday on January 9. Josh stated that he designed the rendering based on the details seen on the various camouflaged prototypes as well as the single teaser picture showing the sedan model's profile. Read more »
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| Watch a Mitsubishi Lancer EVO hit Black Ice and Almost Crash in West Virginia Pile Up [NSFW] Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:42 PM PST  The first major snowfall of the season brought along bad news for some 30 drivers that were involved a multi-car pileup along the West Virginia Turnpike on Monday. One of the luckier and perhaps more skilled drivers in a modded Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII captured some of the accidents on his dashboard camera when his car stepped on black ice and almost lost complete control of the AWD model - at which point, he repeatedly makes use the "F" word, hence the NSFW warning. Read more »
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| Supercar-Sharing Service HiGear Closes Shop After Repeated Thefts… Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST  A large number of businesses have closed in the past few years due to the global economic crisis. The paradox is when someone decides to close shop even though the cash keeps coming in and the company has already started expanding. But that's exactly what happened to San Francisco-based luxury car sharing company HiGear after repeated thefts made its owners realize that they couldn't prevent criminals with falsified credentials from stealing the cars! Read more »
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| India's DC Design to Unwrap Mid-Engine Sports Car at New Delhi Auto Show Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:42 PM PST  In less than 24 hours from now, India's DC Design will drop the curtains and turn the lights on a new mid-engine sports car called the Avanti. DC Design is named after its founder, Dilip Chhabria, a graduate of California's Art Center College of Design who previously worked for General Motors before opening the Mumbai-based company in 1993. One of the company's most publicized projects –albeit for all the wrong reasons- is the Rolls Royce Coupe, nickname "The Black Ruby" (see here). Read more »
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| Once Again, the Japanese Prove Their Drifting Skills Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:11 PM PST  Typically, radio-controlled car users concentrate more on speed than anything else, but not when it comes to Japanese owners who are renowned for their drifting skills in the real world. What makes this video even more special is the sheer number of RC cars drifting on the realistically designed miniature racetrack. Check it out for yourself in the video that follows after the break. Read more »
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| Are 2011 Luxury Car Brand Record Sales a Good Sign for the U.S. Economy? Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST  Bentley saw its global sales increase by a whopping 30 percent worldwide last year. while Rolls-Royce, helped by the launch of the Ghost, sold 3,500 cars in North America, smashing its 2010 record of 2,711 deliveries. The first thing that comes to mind is that, in the midst of a recession, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Bentley's North American president Christopher Georges, however, sees things from a different perspective, in that booming sales of uber-luxurious cars are reflecting a confidence in the economy. Read more »
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| 2011 U.S. Sales: Detroit's Big 3 and Koreans Report Strong Gains, Honda and Toyota Feel the Pinch Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:35 PM PST  In the year that just ended, some automakers have a lot to be grateful for while others including Japan's biggest car brands would rather forget due to the Tsunami as well as the Thailand floods that significantly hurt their production lines during 2011. Starting with the American carmakers, General Motors saw its U.S. sales rise 13.7 percent last year to 2,503,820 units. Chevrolet led the way with 1,775,812 units (+13.4%) followed by GMC at 397,986 (+18.8%), Buick at 177,633 (+143%) and Cadillac at 152,389 (+3.7%). Read more »
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| This is One Motorcycle Rider You Don't want to Mess Around with Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:32 PM PST  We have shown you our fair share of motorcycle-related accidents, blunders and fails, so how about a video with a successful outcome for a change? If anything else, this rider sure knows how to control a motorcycle, though his friends might not be so enthusiastic about his talent. We think most of you will agree once you watch the video after the jump. Read more »
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| Marchionne’s 6 Million Sales Target for Fiat-Chrysler Deemed "Unrealistic" by Analysts Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:01 PM PST  To say that Fiat is in a crisis would probably be the understatement of the (last) year. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Italian group lowered its sales target for 2012 by half a million units, from 2.7 to 2.2 million. Even its CEO, Sergio Marchionne, has admitted that the European car market will drop in 2012.
Yet, the man who masterminded Chrysler's acquisition during the 2009 bailout and merged the two groups into one entity wants them to sell more than six million vehicles a year by 2014. By doing so, he might have set the bar too high. Read more »
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| Videos and Live Photos of Ford's Fiesta-Based EcoSport Study Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:41 AM PST  Making its world premiere at this week's 2012 Auto Expo in New Delhi, India, is the Ford EcoSport, a very thinly disguised concept that previews the company's upcoming entry in the compact SUV segment. We've already brought you the official announcement and photos on the EcoSport, but now we have the first videos as well as a batch of live pictures from the New Delhi show, courtesy of India-based website Motorbeam. Read more »
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| New Year Brings Bose Treatment for Refreshed Renault Koleos Crossover Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST  With the first Bose Edition accounting for close to 30 percent of the pre-facelift Koleos' sales across Europe, it's only reasonable for Renault to carry over the limited edition to the refreshed version of its compact crossover. The highlight of the 2012 Koles Bose Edition Phase 2 is of course the audio system from Bose that has been tailor made for the Renault model. Read more »
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| Fox Marketing Building 400-HP Nissan Juke Special Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:30 AM PST  Nissan UK's move to shoehorn the GT-R's twin-turbocharged V6 and all-wheel drive system into the conceptual Juke-R may have very well opened Pandora's box giving independent tuning firms the confidence and a motive to create their own hi-po versions of the Japanese brand's small crossover. Fox Marketing just announced that it's working on a new tune for the Nissan Juke that will be introduced in the coming months as part of the celebrations for the company's 12th year of creating custom cars. Read more »
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| Run, Little Red Bimmer, Run! Man Chases his Runaway BMW Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:01 AM PST  There's a reason why automakers fit your car with a handbrake. Now, if only certain drivers could actually remember to use it… On the other hand, if all drivers were diligent enough to use their vehicle's handbrake, we wouldn't have the opportunity to watch this suited up owner of an E46 BMW 3-Series sedan chasing his runaway car (possibly chanting "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there") before it hit a busy road causing some major damage. You can view the video after the jump. Read more »
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| Volvo to Debut New XC60 Plug-In Hybrid Concept at the Detroit Auto Show Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:29 AM PST  Last month, Volvo launched the production version of its first-ever plug-in hybrid model based on the V60, which will go on sale in limited numbers this November in certain European countries. Today, the Swedish car manufacturer announced that it would soon be adding another plug-in hybrid in its range, this time based on the XC60 crossover featuring a gasoline (instead of a diesel internal combustion engine like the V60 PHEV). Read more »
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| VW Brand Records 26.3 Percent Increase in 2011 U.S. Sales, Passat up 124 Percent Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:43 AM PST  The year that ended a few days ago was a positive one for the Volkswagen brand, which reported U.S. sales of 324,402 units that represents a 26.3 percent increase over 2010 and marks its best year in sales since 2002. The company's December sales in the States totaled 32,502 vehicles, up 36.2 percent over the same month in 2010. VW noted that it was its best December since 1972. Read more »
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| 1970s Toyota Corolla Sleeper with Nissan V6 Turbo Runs 1/4 Mile in 11s Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:14 AM PST  We all love us some cool sleepers and what a better mechanical wolf in sheepskin than a third generation Toyota Corolla sedan [KE30 series] from the mid-1970s with a completely stock look right up to the rear window shades sporting a 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 Nissan engine under its tiny hood. The ride comes to us from Australia and according to the blokes over at FullBoost, it was created in just four weeks' time. The force-fed VQ30 is linked to a ZX five-speed manual gearbox while the car runs on 14-inch tires. Read more »
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| Are High-Tech Cars an Ideal Target for Cyber Terrorists and Criminals? Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:45 AM PST  As technology creeps its way into our everyday lives, criminals have devised new ways to commit their acts: it's called cyber terrorism, and it's so serious that the U.S. military has even created a Cyber Command. Experts now warn of a new way of cyber-attacks with an unlikely target: cars and trucks. As they become increasingly laden with high-tech features such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, they are at the same time becoming more vulnerable to electronic attacks. Read more »
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| Porsche Says Cayenne Diesel and All-New Cajun Coming to the USA in 2013 Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:10 AM PST  At the upcoming 2012 Detroit Motor Show, Porsche will reveal the all-new 911 Cabriolet to the North American public for the very first time before it goes on sale this spring along with the also new 430-horsepower Panamera GTS, which we first saw at the L.A. Auto Show in November. But these aren't the only new models being prepared for the American market as Porsche also has plans to launch its first ever compression-ignition car in the USA, the Cayenne Diesel along with the soon-to-be revealed Cajun compact crossover, which the German automaker said will arrive in showrooms in 2013. Read more »
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| Lexus Shows Off LF-LC Sports Coupe in New Photos Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST  Lexus' most recent creation, the LF-LC Sports Coupe Concept, is set to debut in less than a week from now at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, but that hasn't stopped the Japanese company from dropping a couple more fresh pictures for our viewing pleasure. Toyota's luxury division still won't say what's hiding under the LF-LC's long hood, though we do know for a fact that it's a hybrid powertrain. Read more »
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| Ford EcoSport Crossover Concept with 1.0-liter EcoBoost Engine Debuts at New Delhi Auto Expo Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:03 AM PST  As anticipated, Ford's surprise world premiere at this week's New Delhi 2012 Auto Expo was indeed a near-production-ready small five-door crossover model named EcoSport. The EcoSport is based on the B-segment Fiesta platform with its exterior sporting several styling cues from the Evos concept that was displayed at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. Highlights include a very large, trapezoidal grille at the front, while the back we find a tailgate-mounted spare tire.
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| Volkswagen Announces UK Pricing for its Facelifted CC Sedan Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:35 AM PST  The cosmetically refreshed and renamed Volkswagen CC sports sedan that made its world premiere at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November is available for order in Britain with first customer deliveries due on April 16. On the road prices start from £24,200 for the entry-level 1.8-litre TSI 160 PS, rising to £30,100 for the range-topping GT 2.0-litre TDI 170 PS model with a DSG double-clutch transmission and BlueMotion Technology. Read more »
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