| Hold Up: Next-Gen Land Rover Defender, New Engine Factory in India Shelved For Now |
May 21st, 2013 |
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Remember Land Rover’s plans to introduce a new Defender in the next few years? Unfortunately for fans of the iconic nameplate, this has been put on hold, along with the opening of Land Rover’s latest engine plant in India. The original plan was to offer a lightweight Defender model but now, it’s back to the [...]
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| Honda Aircraft Achieves Significant Milestones in Preparation for HondaJet Production |
May 21st, 2013 |
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The Honda Aircraft Company, a division of Honda Motors, announced new achievements and milestones during the development of the HondaJet during the 2013 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE). The program has flown through 3,300 test points for stability, control, performance, landing gear, flight controls, and more. Michimasa Fujino, president and CEO of Honda [...]
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| Is McLaren Preparing a Honda-Powered Porsche 911 Fighter? |
May 21st, 2013 |
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Thanks to the partnership between McLaren and Honda for Formula 1 and the success of McLaren’s road car division, there are rumors that the next McLaren road car set to be slotted below the 12C to fight the Porsche 911 will be powered by a Honda-developed engine. This speculation isn’t that far off the mark, [...]
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| Redesigned 2014 Toyota Corolla Teased for First Time on Facebook |
May 21st, 2013 |
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Can nearly 30 million happy customers be wrong? As the top-selling nameplate in the world, the Toyota Corolla carries a lot of weight on its shoulders. In its introduction in the 1960s, it has grown into being a dominant force in the compact segment. But it’s recently gotten long in the tooth, as newer, faster, [...]
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| Photo of the Day: Herbie! |
May 21st, 2013 |
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We’re going to bug you with our newest feature. Bug you. Get it? Because it’s a picture of a… ahh, okay, forget it. That was lame. Seriously, though. New feature. We’re going to call it…ready…”Photo of the Day!” But not every day. Not at first. For now, this semi-regular feature will jump into our photo [...]
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| 2014 BMW M5: New Gadgetry Built for Speed and Comfort |
May 21st, 2013 |
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Just as it did to the 5-series, BMW is making subtle yet significant changes to the M5 for 2014. But while those upgrades border on inconsequential, the brand will offer an optional Competition package that reinforces the M5′s position as the purest among high-performance sedans. It’s the Bavarians’ latest response to the high-performance luxury arms [...]
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| 2013 Mercedes-Benz GL450 4MATIC Long-Term Intro: Long-Haul Busybody |
May 21st, 2013 |
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It was somewhere in southwestern Pennsylvania when we realized that we were driving faster in our Mercedes-Benz GL450 4MATIC seven-passenger long-term SUV than the Porsche 914 2.0 behind us had probably ever driven. READ MORE ››
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| Hennessey’s Ford Raptor–Based VelociRaptor SUV: Eight Seats, 600 hp |
May 21st, 2013 |
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Texas is a big state with big ambitions—the home of big trucks with big horsepower. Thanks to John Hennessey, the pride of Sealy, Texas (at a population of 6019, we might point out that’s not so big) the list of bigs now includes his VelociRaptor, a custom-built SUV converted from Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor that [...]
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| Red Bull Racing RB8 Edition of the Renault Mégane: Cool, But We’ll Wait for the Infinitis |
May 21st, 2013 |
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Not to knock the Hot Wheels Camaro, but it does seem like we Americans miss more often than we succeed when gussying up special-edition cars. European automakers, too, have released hundreds (if not thousands) of limited-run models with paint-and-tape themes that could shame even Jerry Lewis—but when they get it right, they really get it [...]
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| Name That Exhaust Note, Episode 185 |
May 21st, 2013 |
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