| Mercedes-Benz GLA-class Interactive Website Is the Weirdest Thing You’ll Interact With Today |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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We applaud automakers for finding new and interesting ways to market their wares, but Mercedes-Benz seems to have exuberantly crossed the line between advertising innovation and advertising weirdness. We’re talking, of course, about Benz’s bizarre interactive website for the 2015 GLA-class crossover, which takes users through a click/scroll/drag journey to help an amnesic “Ryan” figure [...]
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| Hyundai May Target BMW and Mercedes: 3-series and CLA-class in Crosshairs? |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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Having already attempted to fill undefined niches with vehicles such as the Veloster, Hyundai is now looking to satisfy customers shopping in traditional segments and in the upper echelons of the market. This, according to Automotive News, which alleges that the South Korean automaker is considering production of an entry-level luxury sedan in addition to [...]
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| Rinspeed XchangE Concept: Assume the Position—All 20 of Them [2014 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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There are two things you need to know immediately about the Rinspeed XchangE electric sedan: It includes an electric watch winder the manufacturer calls “crazy, playful, but somehow also ingenious and wickedly expensive,” and its interior offers up to 20 different possible seating positions, a self-professed world record. We’re not talking 20 different seating adjustments, [...]
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| Turbo-licious: New Alfa Romeo Spider to Receive a Fiat 1.4-Liter Turbo Four |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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We’ve seen a few de-badged, current-generation Mazda Miata–based test mules running around the Ann Arbor area over the last few months, and although we’ve gathered some good intelligence regarding Mazda’s role in the development of the new Alfa, powertrain details have remained a mystery. Our latest bit of intel helps fill in the blanks. C/D [...]
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| 2015 Volvo S80 Hits 37 mpg Highway, Starts at $41,425 |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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Volvo’s flagship S80 sedan rushes into the 2015 model year with a brand-new engine and a 37-mpg highway rating, an impressive figure for an automaker that has never sold a gas-powered car with a rating higher than 30 mpg. While otherwise a carry over from its 2014 refresh, the 2015 S80 T5 Drive-E is an [...]
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| Five Ways to Play: 2015 Volvo XC60 Starts at $36,675, Gets 31 mpg Highway |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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The 2015 XC60 has the most engine choices of any new Volvo in the U.S.—five, in fact—so allow us to break down any confusion if this Swedish SUV is on your shopping list. Two new turbocharged four-cylinder engines from Volvo’s Drive-E system, which include automatic stop-start and brake regeneration, are the only additions to the [...]
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| Alfa Romeo (Finally) Returns to the U.S. |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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The Alfa Romeo 4C is expected to hit U.S. Maserati dealers by June this year.
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| 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA250 and GLA45 AMG First Drive |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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The 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA250 and GLA45 AMG enter the fastest growing segment in America, we get behind the wheel.
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| Fallout from Volkswagen Union Vote Extends to VWoA Expansion, UAW Appeal |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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Volkswagen assembly line employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, can’t finish a Passat without passive-aggressive threats coming from all sides. Just one week after hourly employees voted against union representation by the United Auto Workers by a slim margin, Volkswagen’s German labor chief Bernd Osterloh voiced his opposition to any new VW plant built in the southern [...]
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| National Corvette Museum: You Wanna See Some Damaged Corvettes? We Got Some Damaged Corvettes |
Feb 24th, 2014 |
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So remember that time a sinkhole opened up underneath a portion of the National Corvette Museum? Of course you do, it happened just last month and we inundated you with photos and video of the incident. Well, guess what? The Vettes are still down in that hole, but the museum told the Detroit Free Press [...]
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