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- Living the MegaLife: A Look at MegaUpload Boss Kim Dotcom's Passion for Cars
- Cadillac ATS: The Journey from the Nürburgring to Detroit
- Mini said to have Pulled the Plug on the Rocketman
- 2012 Infiniti M35h vs Porsche Panamera S Hybrid: And the World's Fastest Full Hybrid Model is…
- CSI Marchionne: Poor J.D. Power Scores Means Chrysler Dealers Must Work on Customer Satisfaction
- New Fiat Panda Ad Lifts a Page from Chrysler's "Imported from Detroit" Campaign Book
- Feds Can’t Install GPS Devices on Cars without Warrant, Says the Supreme Court
- Mazda Confirms Diesel-Powered Model for the States, Sales Start in Early 2013
- Spy Shots: Hyundai i20 Facelift to get the i40 Styling Touch
- MINI Roadster Hangs Over the Sea for its New Istanbul Adventure
- Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport "Bumblebee" Special to Debut at the Qatar Motor Show
- Tough Guy Learns a Lesson About Road Rage and Hitting an Old Man
- New Hyundai i30 Hatchback Priced from £14,495 in Britain
- 2012 Detroit Motor Show Sees Best Attendance Numbers Since 2005
- Toyota Cutting 350 Jobs in Australia Due to Slowing Demand
- WRC: 2012 Season Kicks Off With 80th Monte Carlo Rally [Videos]
- Sorry, Didn't See Ya There: Hummer H2 Parks on Top of a Dacia Logan
- Toyota Prius Joins Berlin's Eco Fleet of Police Cars
- No1 2013 Corvette 427 Convertible Collector Edition Fetches $600,000 at Barrett-Jackson
- Volkswagen Introduces Five-Door Version of its Up! City Car
| Living the MegaLife: A Look at MegaUpload Boss Kim Dotcom's Passion for Cars Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:21 PM PST  Fast cars, beautiful women and lots of cash: what else could a man possibly want? Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz, aka Kimble (a hacker alias inspired by The Fugitive's Dr. Kimball) had it all, but apparently wanted more. The former hacker was the founder of popular file-sharing website MegaUpload and was worth more than US$200 million. Until last week, that is, when he made headlines all over the world after feds shut down his site and police arrested him in New Zealand. Dotcom's collection of cars worth some US$6 million, which including two examples of the rare Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM along with a dozen or so other Benzes and a Lamborghini LM002, was to be expected – even with the not-so-subtle "God" and "CEO" vanity license plates. Read more »
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| Cadillac ATS: The Journey from the Nürburgring to Detroit Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:09 PM PST  Before the official unveiling of the new ATS earlier this month, Cadillac had given us an insight on the development of its new premium sedan model at the Nürburgring racetrack through The Journey web videos. For the fourth episode of the series, the wreath and crest brand takes us on a trip behind the scenes of the car's world premiere at the Detroit Motor Show. Read more »
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| Mini said to have Pulled the Plug on the Rocketman Posted: 23 Jan 2012 04:09 PM PST  Remember the Mini Rocketman Concept from last year's Geneva Motor Show? Over the past few months, there had been several reports saying that the BMW Group was planning to put the city-car sized Mini into production by 2016. Today, Car is reporting that the Germans have shelved those plans for a smaller Mini model inspired by the Rocketman. Read more »
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| 2012 Infiniti M35h vs Porsche Panamera S Hybrid: And the World's Fastest Full Hybrid Model is… Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:24 PM PST  If not all, most makers of hybrid automobiles focus their advertising campaigns on their vehicles' fuel economy and CO2 emission ratings, but not Infiniti that has taken a different route with its new M35h Following a teaser clip last week, the Japanese carmaker released the full video today of its M35h taking on the also new 2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid in a quarter mile drag race. The 360-horsepower M35h completed the standing quarter mile in 13.4 seconds beating the 380-horsepower Porsche Panamera S Hybrid by about half-a-car's length, according to the video provided by Infiniti. Read more »
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| CSI Marchionne: Poor J.D. Power Scores Means Chrysler Dealers Must Work on Customer Satisfaction Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:24 PM PST  Fiat is the brand in the alliance that's in trouble and Chrysler the one blossoming right now having increased its sales by 26 percent in 2011, yet Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne is not happy about the latter's performance in J.D. Power's December Sales Satisfaction Index study on customer experience at dealerships. The recent J.D. Power survey placed Jeep, Ram and Dodge in three of the bottom four places amongst the mainstream brands. As a result, Sergio Marchionne wants Chrysler Group dealers to rapidly improve their Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) scores if the company is to achieve its sales goals. He said that some dealerships' salespeople weren't acting properly, failing to make follow-up calls or treat customers "with the dignity they deserve". Read more »
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| New Fiat Panda Ad Lifts a Page from Chrysler's "Imported from Detroit" Campaign Book Posted: 23 Jan 2012 01:39 PM PST  Fiat has aired a new commercial for its third generation Panda city car in its home market titled "This is the Italy we like", which uses a similar (but not identical) theme to the super successful and ongoing "Imported in Detroit" campaign from its Chrysler partner. Only this time, the promo film focuses on the Italian origins of the Panda, the latest version of which is produced at the Fiat Group's renewed Pomigliano d'Arco Plant, near Naples, and also calls upon Italians to change the views imposed by others and show the world who they are and what they are capable of creating.
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| Feds Can’t Install GPS Devices on Cars without Warrant, Says the Supreme Court Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:59 PM PST  In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that law enforcement agencies cannot attach a global positioning system device to a vehicle without obtaining a warrant first. The court's ruling dismissed the Justice Department's claim that it did not need to have permission to tack on a GPS to a Jeep Grand Cherokee owned by the wife of Antoine Jones, a Washington, D.C., nightclub owner and suspected drug dealer who has been sentenced to life. Government agents had indeed obtained a warrant, but installed the device after the 10-day deadline had expired. During the four-week period that they tracked the vehicle, they collected over 2,000 pages of data – and even had to secretly replace the GPS battery when it was parked in Maryland. Read more »
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| Mazda Confirms Diesel-Powered Model for the States, Sales Start in Early 2013 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:20 PM PST  We had first heard rumors about Mazda's plans to debut its first diesel-powered model in the States last summer, but now, a company spokesman has not only made it official but also gave a launch date. Speaking with Car&Driver magazine, Mazda spokesperson Jeremy Barnes, said: "It'll be here between 15 and 18 months behind the launch of the Skyactiv-G gasoline engine in the Mazda 3." Read more »
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| Spy Shots: Hyundai i20 Facelift to get the i40 Styling Touch Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:51 PM PST  It's only been on the market for three years but Hyundai is already prepping the i20 supermini for a facelift, the first since its introduction at the Paris Motor Show in 2008. Our man with the long lens spotted a prototype model during winter testing in Europe wearing heavy camouflage around the front and rear ends as well as the door panels. Read more »
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| MINI Roadster Hangs Over the Sea for its New Istanbul Adventure Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:59 AM PST  The new Mini Roadster is returning to Turkey and the city of Istanbul for its new thirty-second promo film as part of the "Another Day. Another Adventure" campaign that kicked off last fall. Following on from the first episode that saw two men taking the new Roadster for a drive around the back alleys of Istanbul, the second clip shows the two-seater model balancing on a metal structure overseeing the sea. Read more »
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| Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport "Bumblebee" Special to Debut at the Qatar Motor Show Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:29 AM PST  General Motors isn't the only company pushing out a black and yellow themed edition of one of its cars as Bugatti is doing the same - fortunately without the toy-ish / kitsch Transformers decals... Whether you like the color combo or not, Bugatti has presented another one-off edition of its Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, which is the open-top variant of the series, ahead of its world premiere at this week's 2012 Qatar Motor Show that runs from January 25 to 28. Read more »
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| Tough Guy Learns a Lesson About Road Rage and Hitting an Old Man Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST  We strongly oppose any form of violence on the road or anywhere else, for that matter, but what happens when you actually see someone attacking another person? Obviously, there's not one answer to that question as it all depends on the circumstances and whether or not someone's life is in danger. In yet another wild incident from Russia that was captured on camera, a middle-age man in a Mercedes-Benz was squabbling with an elderly man in a hatchback.
At that point, a young man in an Audi SUV stopped over and came to the scene and said something to the Mercedes driver who brushed him away. Seconds later the Audi driver runs back with a metal bat in his hand and whacks the tough guy on his legs putting him down. He then rushes to the Mercedes and breaks the mirror and windows before returning to his Audi and driving off! Read more »
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| New Hyundai i30 Hatchback Priced from £14,495 in Britain Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:01 AM PST  The C-segment compact hatch that left Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn hugely impressed during its presentation at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September, the all-new Hyundai i30, is getting ready for its UK launch. Today, the South Korean automaker released full pricing and specification for the second-generation i30 that will arrive in UK dealerships on March 12. On-the-road prices start at £14,495 for the entry level Classic model with a 100PS (99hp) petrol engine and top out at £20,795 for the Style Nav edition with the 110PS (108hp) diesel unit and an automatic transmission. Read more »
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| 2012 Detroit Motor Show Sees Best Attendance Numbers Since 2005 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:35 AM PST  It may not have hosted as many world premieres as the recent Frankfurt Motor Show, but there were plenty of important debuts at this year's edition of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which closed its doors on Sunday, January 22, to draw in the crowds. According to the show's organizers, Sunday's attendance of 101,141 topped last year's final day numbers of 98,106, and brought total attendance of the 2012 NAIAS to 770,932 over a period of nine days (for the general public), which is a little over 35,000 more than last year and the highest since 2005. Read more »
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| Toyota Cutting 350 Jobs in Australia Due to Slowing Demand Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:05 AM PST  In a rare move for Toyota, the Japanese automaker announced today that it is axing 350 jobs at its Australian plant in Altona, Victoria, due to what the company describes as "unprecedented operating conditions". The job cuts will affect manufacturing and production workers as well as the firm's management. Toyota Australia President and CEO, Max Yasuda, said the extremely strong Australian dollar, which has risen to its highest position in six weeks against the US dollar, along with the global economic crisis that saw reduced demand from the local division's main export markets such as the Middle East, are to blame. Read more »
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| WRC: 2012 Season Kicks Off With 80th Monte Carlo Rally [Videos] Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:39 AM PST  After a three-year hiatus, the most famous rally in the world, the Rallye Monte Carlo, has returned to the WRC calendar. As it was the 80th event, the Automobile Club de Monaco, which organized the race, decided to design a route that combined memories of past years with demanding stages. The 2012 Monte Carlo rally started on January 17 with a ceremony north of Monaco, in the city of Valence. The real action, which consisted of 430 kilometers (267 miles) spread over 18 special stages, begun three days later, on January 20. Read more »
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| Sorry, Didn't See Ya There: Hummer H2 Parks on Top of a Dacia Logan Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:17 AM PST  Love it or loath it, who can deny that the Hummer H2 was and to some extent continues to be today an over-the-top status symbol for the rich and famous. In fact, it's not uncommon for some Hummer owners to the take H2's over-the-top attitude in the…literal sense. There's not much info on how the H2 driver managed to park the heavy-weight SUV on top of a Dacia Logan other than that the incident took place somewhere in Romania, but the CanCan website that posted these pictures says no one was hurt from the incident. Read more »
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| Toyota Prius Joins Berlin's Eco Fleet of Police Cars Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:42 AM PST  Toyota is participating in the Berlin Police force's efforts to go green by providing an initial batch of three Prius hybrids for its "Initiative 120" program that calls for the use of alternative fuel and low CO2 emission cars. In the first phase of "Initiative 120", the Berlin police will use a total of eleven vehicles that also include two examples of each of these models: the Opel Ampera extended range EV, the Renault Fluence sedan Z.E and Kangoo Van Z.E., and the Mitsubishi i-MiEV hatchback. Read more »
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| No1 2013 Corvette 427 Convertible Collector Edition Fetches $600,000 at Barrett-Jackson Posted: 23 Jan 2012 06:05 AM PST  The very first 2013 Corvette 427 Convertible Collector Edition with VIN number 001 hit the auction block this past weekend at the Barrett-Jackson event in Scottsdale, Arizona, bringing home $600,000. GM said that proceeds from the sale would benefit the Drive to End Hunger food relief program.
One of the final editions of the C6 series that has entered its final year before an all-new Corvette takes its place in 2013, the 427 Convertible Collector Edition will go on sale for the public later this summer. Read more »
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| Volkswagen Introduces Five-Door Version of its Up! City Car Posted: 23 Jan 2012 05:39 AM PST  Volkswagen has made the new Up! city car a little more practical with the presentation of a five-door model that will go on sale across Europe early this summer. The new addition to VW's New Small Family, which is the internal name for the model series, keeps the same 2.42 m (95.3-in.) long wheelbase and 251-liter boot as the three-door model Read more »
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