| Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake: Your Everyday 550-hp, 186-mph Station Wagon [2014 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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As much as we love wagons, we love hotted-up wagons even more—there’s just something intoxicating about a powerful sports sedan with an enlarged cargo-swallowing space grafted to its rump. Take, for instance, Jaguar’s 2015 XFR-S Sportbrake: The package starts with the beastly 2014 XFR-S sedan, but drops that car’s trunklid and skyscraper wing in favor [...]
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| Volvo’s Concept Estate Is The Hottest Thing You’ll See All Day [2014 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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Volvo’s Concept Estate has leaked onto the internet ahead of its official debut, and it’s far more gorgeous than pretty much anything that’s ever leaked out of anything, let alone the rest of the drivel online. (Excepting, of course, this finely tailored space.) Photos of Volvo’s big 2014 Geneva auto-show debut hit the web courtesy [...]
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| All Crossed Up: Fiat Debuts Panda Cross and Freemont Cross [2014 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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Keeping its aging lineup afloat, Fiat is launching two crossover derivatives of existing models at the Geneva auto show next week. The Panda Cross is a variation of Fiat’s successful Panda range, which serves as the technical basis for the 500; the Freemont Cross is a trim level of the Fiat Freemont, which is a [...]
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| Alfa Romeo to Launch 4C Model in America in June: Yes, this June |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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From the believe-it-when-we-see-it files comes a bit more clarity around the long-awaited, often-delayed re-launch of Alfa Romeo in the U.S. According to a report in the Detroit News, Alfa sales will—er, should—commence this June, led by the gorgeous 4C sports car. This jives with our own reporting last month from the Detroit auto show that [...]
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| 2014 Mercedes-Benz E550 4MATIC Tested: Going, Going . . . |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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Drive half a block in the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E550 and you’ll experience a car that’s comfortable in its own skin. No equivocating is necessary. This isn’t a product that’s stretching a brand upmarket or downmarket; rather, the E-class is the hot nickel core of Mercedes. Neither as starchy as the S-class or as sassy as [...]
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| Tesla’s Stock Price Soars as Morgan Stanley Reports It Could Lead Us to “Utopian Society” with 100% Autonomous Vehicle Penetration |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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Another day, another $1 billion for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. No joke: That’s how much Musk’s net worth increased yesterday thanks to a zealous Morgan Stanley report that helped balloon the car company’s stock by as much as 18 percent in just hours. If one man can claim the most credit for triggering Tesla’s two-year [...]
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| Honda Mercy Kills Slow-Selling Insight |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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The Honda Insight hybrid, which became the first hybrid to appear in the U.S. back in 1999, has reached the end of its line. According to Bloomberg, Insight production will come to a halt in Japan this month due to low sales. Honda sold most of its Insights in Japan, with fewer than 5000 Insights [...]
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| Mini Clubman Concept Debuts: Plenty of Doors and Upscale Design [2014 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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It only took two full generations of Mini’s resurrected Cooper hardtop for the brand to figure out that, as quirky-cool as stuff like the three-plus-one-door Clubman is, all people really wanted was a five-door Mini with proper rear doors. Mini came close to hitting on this magic formula with the Countryman crossover, but it still [...]
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| Consumer Reports gets top vehicle picks mostly right: Tesla Model S comes out on top despite fires, lack of charging infrastructure, limited range |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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Despite the publication's uncomfortably broad definition of reliability -- it spans everything from "the engine fell out" to "the touchscreen display shows fingerprints too easily" -- automakers still clamor to get on the Consumer Reports...
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| 2014 Audi A6 and S6 Top NHTSA New Car Assessment Program |
Feb 26th, 2014 |
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Audi's A6 and S6 earn a 5-star safety rating from the NHTSA.
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