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- Jeremy Clarkson's Top 10 Most Controversial Moments
- Two Very Cool People and a Very Loud Audio System
- Subaru BRZ Black Edition by Prova from the Tokyo Auto Salon [Video]
- Malaysian Government Sells 42.7% Proton Stake to DRB-Hicom
- BMW Talks About its new Range of M Performance Cars
- Power Play: Watch Four Chevrolet Silverados Tear Down a Building
- Suzuki Puts a Teensy-Weensy Boot on the New Swift for India
- SpeedART Outlines SP91-R Program for 2012 Porsche 911 Ahead of Geneva
- SPIED: Mercedes Begins Testing Next Generation Viano and Vito LCV
- Audi Prices New A6 Allroad Quattro from £43,145 in the UK
- This is What 1,250-horses can do to Silicone Prostheses
- FAB Design Cloaks the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Convertible in a Wide Body Kit
- Saab Museum Cars Looking for a New Home – See the Complete Auction List
- GM Considers Producing the Cruze and Other Chevy Models in Europe
- Gazoo Racing Builds Toyota Yaris Turbo Concept with 180-Horses [Video]
- Fiat Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari All Chromed Up
- Top Gear “Christmas Special” Causes Tension with India, British PM Caught in the Middle
- Nissan Creates Self-healing iPhone Case Featuring the Brand's Scratch Shield Paint
- Jaguar XF gets New 163PS Version of 2.2-liter Turbo Diesel
| Jeremy Clarkson's Top 10 Most Controversial Moments Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:18 PM PST  No one can claim that Top Gear is unpopular; on the contrary, BBC's televised car show is broadcasted in no less than 170 countries (according to Wikipedia)! It generates a ton of income and of course, its hosts are paid handsomely. To no one's surprise, Jeremy Clarkson has the highest paycheck pocketing a total of £2.14 million (that's a not-too-shabby US$3.27 million) last year. Making a whole lot of money, even in this unpredictable economy, is admirable, even if it occasionally makes you unpopular. After all, as they say, you can judge a man by his enemies, right?
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| Two Very Cool People and a Very Loud Audio System Posted: 16 Jan 2012 04:20 PM PST  You've surely heard the story before; young people blasting the volume of their vehicle's pimped audio system in or near a residential area to the point that an older neighbor can't help but notice. The outcome is usually a rude confrontation that can easily escalate to physical violence and/or the police getting involved. But not this time as the protagonists were surprisingly cool about the whole incident with the young owner of the vehicle sincerely apologizing as soon as he sees the older man approaching the car, and the neighbor, well, let's just say that he left everyone speechless with his attitude. Read more »
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| Subaru BRZ Black Edition by Prova from the Tokyo Auto Salon [Video] Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:42 PM PST  Prova, one of the more notable Subaru tuners in the Land of the Rising Sun, teamed up with the Japanese automaker to display a bespoke edition of the new BRZ sports coupe at this past weekend's 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon. The BRZ Black Edition is supposed to be a more mature tuning take on the rear-wheel drive model that goes on sale worldwide this spring. Read more »
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| Malaysian Government Sells 42.7% Proton Stake to DRB-Hicom Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:55 PM PST  There's been a lot of speculation these past few weeks about the future of Proton. The Malaysian carmaker, which also owns Lotus, was reportedly looking to sell the loss-making British sportscar maker to SAIC or Genii Capital, something that Lotus CEO, Danny Bahar, dismissed as a rumor.
Last week, Proton released an official statement saying that it was negotiating with General Motors about selling a stake in its Tanjuing Malim factory. Its board of directors also confirmed that the company's chariman, Datuk Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh, was interested in buying the 42.7 percent stake held by the state-owned investment company Khazanah Nasional Bhd. Read more »
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| BMW Talks About its new Range of M Performance Cars Posted: 16 Jan 2012 02:37 PM PST  After a shopping spree in the 1990s, which saw the BMW Group acquire the California based industrial design studio DesignworksUSA, the British Rover Group and the rights to the Rolls Royce nameplate, the Bavarian company cooled down and focused on building up the range of its three core brands: BMW, MINI and Rolls Royce while selling off MG Rover. Today, the BMW brand already comprises of two unique sub-brands developed under the M and the "i" monikers for its high-performance and for its electric cars, plug-in hybrids and other alternative-power vehicles respectively. But the Bavarians aren't done yet as following the example of Audi and it's S range that slots between the regular and RS models, they are readying a third sub brand called M Performance that will be positioned under the automaker's M models. Read more »
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| Power Play: Watch Four Chevrolet Silverados Tear Down a Building Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:38 PM PST  While some GM dealers go around destroying old cars to inaugurate their new premises others use the company's new vehicles to demolish their old buildings like this dealer, who judging by the name used to upload the video on YouTube, is John Thornton Chevy, located in Georgia. The Chevrolet dealer hooked up four Silverado pickup trucks to the building's columns and the GM models didn't disappoint. Head over the jump to watch the impressive take down in the video that follows. Read more »
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| Suzuki Puts a Teensy-Weensy Boot on the New Swift for India Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:08 PM PST  Different markets, different needs and different tastes. While the rest of the world is content with the 3- and 5-door body styles of the Suzuki Swift, in India, the Japanese company along with its local partner Maruti has also been offering a sedan version under the Dzire nameplate (apparently, a "hip" misspelling of the word "desire") since 2008.
We don't have any official information in our hands yet, but it looks like Suzuki has kept the same wheelbase as the hatch simply extending the rear overhang and adding a tiny boot. Read more »
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| SpeedART Outlines SP91-R Program for 2012 Porsche 911 Ahead of Geneva Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:33 PM PST  The upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March will see Porsche tuning specialist SpeedART unleash a slew of styling and performance goods for the 991 Carrera and Carrera S models branded under the SP91-R nameplate. SpeedART is giving us our second look at the SP91-R package for the 2012 Porsche 911 after the release of a teaser image back in September while also providing more details on the components that will go on sale later this year. Read more »
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| SPIED: Mercedes Begins Testing Next Generation Viano and Vito LCV Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:02 PM PST  Now in their second generation, the current Mercedes-Benz Viano passenger model and its light-commercial van sibling, the Vito, have been in the market for quite a long time –nine years to be precise. The Germany automaker has already begun work on their successors that should arrive towards the end of 2013 or early 2014. Our spy shooters caught up with a test mule featuring a modified front with a raised hood while testing in Germany. Read more »
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| Audi Prices New A6 Allroad Quattro from £43,145 in the UK Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:20 AM PST  The brand-new Audi A6 Allroad Quattro won't reach British shores before spring, but the Germany company has already released base pricing and will begin accepting orders for the high-riding station wagon model in February. The range starts from £43,145 on-the-road. Read more »
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| This is What 1,250-horses can do to Silicone Prostheses Posted: 16 Jan 2012 10:44 AM PST  We can hardly see this video making it on Discovery channel, but our science-minded readers will surely appreciate the following clip that shows what a twin-turbocharged Lamborghini Gallardo tuned by Underground Racing with some 1,250 wheel-horsepower can do to a pair of silicone implants when it's accelerating full force. You can take notes of the effects while watching the video that follows after the break. Read more »
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| FAB Design Cloaks the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Convertible in a Wide Body Kit Posted: 16 Jan 2012 10:01 AM PST  Over the years, we've seen some pretty crude creations from Swiss tuning house FAB Design including an atrocious-looking Cadillac Escalade for a North African client. But once in a while, FAB Design comes up with a tune that we could live with such as its new offering for the latest Mercedes-Benz E-Class Convertible series. Read more »
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| Saab Museum Cars Looking for a New Home – See the Complete Auction List Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST  There's a lot of blame going around over the bleak outcome of the efforts to save Saab, but life goes on and so does the liquidation of the Swedish company's assets including the collection of vehicles from its museum, which is located at the brand's headquarters in Trollhättan. As we learned from the folks over at Saabsunited, Swedish law firm Delphi has posted a list of all the cars from the Saab museum that will soon go up for auction. The news is both good and bad, depending on how you look at it.
On the other hand, Saab enthusiasts as well as gearheads would have surely preferred to have all the cars together in a museum where the public can see them. Read more »
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| GM Considers Producing the Cruze and Other Chevy Models in Europe Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:02 PM PST  Reclaiming the number one spot as the world's best-selling car manufacturer in 2011 must have been quite satisfying for GM management. Still, there is a blemish in GM's ornament as the company's CEO Dan Akerson admits: its loss-making European operations. Even though Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne expressed an interest in a possible tie-up with Opel, GM vice chairman Steve Girsky quickly responded that the German carmaker and its British division, Vauxhall, "are not for sale". Read more »
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| Gazoo Racing Builds Toyota Yaris Turbo Concept with 180-Horses [Video] Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:52 AM PST  While Toyota has no current plans to develop a performance version of its latest generation Yaris (marketed in Japan as the Vitz), the automaker's tuning and motorsports partner Gazoo Racing introduced an interesting concept model at this past weekend's Tokyo Auto Salon 2012. The Vitz Turbo Concept is based on the three-door Yaris and comes with a raft of performance upgrades that may become available to the public in the very near future. Read more »
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| Fiat Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari All Chromed Up Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:21 AM PST  The limited run Fiat Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari special may come with its own bespoke Scuderia Red finish with contrasting grey racing stripes (among other unique features) but that hasn't stopped Japanese tuner Office-K from giving it a new shade – fortunately, not permanent. The tuning firm covered the Ferrari-branded Abarth model's body in a flashy chrome vinyl wrap with racing stripes in the colors of the Italian flag. Read more »
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| Top Gear “Christmas Special” Causes Tension with India, British PM Caught in the Middle Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:54 AM PST  It's true that the British have a special sense of humor; self-depreciating, absurd, even surreal at times, and no subject is off-limits. But the thing is that people from different countries and cultures may just not get it, or in certain cases, even be offended. It's that sense of humor which is a trademark of famous car TV show Top Gear that has often landed them in hot waters. This time, though, their "Christmas Special" episode almost caused an international diplomatic incident between Great Britain and India. Last July, Top Gear producer Chris Hale wrote a letter to the Indian High Commission in London, asking for permission to film an episode in the country. "Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will travel across India in three cars filming a light-hearted road trip… there will be spontaneous interaction between the presenters and their environment, and potentially people they meet along the way," Hale wrote in the letter. Read more »
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| Nissan Creates Self-healing iPhone Case Featuring the Brand's Scratch Shield Paint Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:11 AM PST  Technology transfer from one sector to the other is nothing new but it's not often that we hear about an automaker using one of its innovations on a cell phone accessory. We're talking about Nissan and its Scratch Shield paint technology that can heal scratches and which the Japanese company will soon premiere on a new series of mobile phone cases compatible with Apple's iPhone 4 and iPhone 4 S. The unique Scratch Shield paint finish promises to heal small scratches in as little as an hour, with more severe cases taking up to a week's time, according to the company. Read more »
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| Jaguar XF gets New 163PS Version of 2.2-liter Turbo Diesel Posted: 16 Jan 2012 05:35 AM PST  Jaguar is doubling the XF's four-cylinder diesel offerings with the presentation of a new base version of its 2.2-liter unit that produces 163PS (161bhp) and supplements the 190PS (187bhp) variant already on sale in Europe.
The new lower output diesel accelerates the XF from zero to 62mph (100km/h) in 9.8 seconds en route to a top speed of 130mph (210km/h), while returning a combined fuel economy of 52.3mpg UK (43.5mpg US or 5.4lt/100km) and emitting 149 g/km of CO2. Read more »
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