| Need For Speed: “Racers Should Race, Cops Should Eat Donuts” Pretty Much Sums It Up |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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We don’t review many movies, but when a full-length film focusing on cars comes around, we roll up our sleeves and attend advanced showings that feature neither the glitz nor the glamour for which Hollywood is famous. So we suited up and headed to a nondescript theater listed on an invitation to screen Need for […]
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| Get . . . Smart? The Promise—and Idiocy—of the So-Called Smart Dashboard |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Traffic cops can smell the baloney as soon as you roll down your window. In a few years, though, try hitting them with this one: “Officer, a computer ate my speedometer!” At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Audi showed an interior mock-up that would lend that excuse some credibility. On its […]
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| After Nearly 15 Years, Rumors of Mercedes Sub-SLK Roadster Won’t Go Away |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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When Mercedes-Benz launched the Vision SLA concept at the Detroit auto show in January of 2000, the brand called it “the precursor of a small roadster from Mercedes-Benz.” Little did Benz know the avalanche of speculation it would trigger, or it might have phrased its release a bit more carefully. Rumors about a tiny roadster keep […]
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| Slappa Da Bass? Try Slappin’ Da Windshield, With These Automatic Snow-Shedding Wipers |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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We’re struggling to think of anything less natural-looking than self-slapping windshield wipers, but that’s exactly what Detroit-based Motor City Wipers hath created. Autoblog first reported on a series of Motor City Wiper’s YouTube videos, one using a Jeep Wrangler and another using a Cadillac CTS, wherein the startup company shows off its multidirectional wiper articulation device, […]
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| Green Hell Yes! Nürburgring Sold to German Supplier for $140 Million |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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The venerable Nürburgring racetrack had become the subject of much ridicule. On top of the legendary Nordschleife, the grand prix circuit, and various testing facilities, the politicians of Rhineland-Palatinate had decided that it needed nothing more than an amusement park. The project failed spectacularly, and in July 2012, the ’Ring was forced to declare bankruptcy. […]
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| Backfires Brief No. 7 Winners: T M and Trochu Have Best Argument for Next Corvette |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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We knew Backfires Brief No. 7 was going to be an interesting one when we pulled future Chevrolet Corvette speculation into the fold. We asked our Backfires members to tell us what kind of Vette they’d produce in a few years if they were an all-encompassing “Corvette Oz.” We enjoyed reading through the submissions, but […]
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| Wanxiang’s a Bad Mother Fisker: All Concepts Headed to Production, Current Owners Out of Luck |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Fisker’s Chinese owner says we should “truly believe” it can send all of the old company’s concept cars to production alongside the Karma, according to statements on its new website thenewfisker.com. The old website, fiskerautomotive.com, is still online but has been largely useless since the plug-in hybrid automaker killed production in 2012, fired three-quarters of […]
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| Watch Red Bull Explain F1′s Changes for 2014 Ahead of This Weekend’s Season-Opening Australian GP |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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The Formula 1 circus is home to some of fastest-moving motorsports action on the planet, and that includes the rulebook. Unlike in NASCAR, where the series specs occasionally appear to have been carved in stone, regulations for F1 often change before the ink can dry. To keep fans abreast of the changes for the 2014 […]
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| Nissan Teases Sino-Centric Sedan Concept [2014 Beijing Auto Show] |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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The Beijing auto show is just over a month away, and teasers of debuts have begun to flow. Nissan is kicking things off with a preview of an unnamed sedan concept it plans to reveal at the Chinese event, a car which it also says is geared specifically toward that market. The car is teased […]
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| The 5 Best Family Sedans You Can Buy Right Now |
Mar 17th, 2014 |
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Purchasing any family sedan marks you as a person of practicality, a driver who needs the flexibility of four doors who also eschews the lower fuel economy, relative ponderousness, and often-higher price of a crossover or SUV. But purchasing one of the family sedans on our list? That also marks you as a person in […]
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