| The Best Hooptie-Ass “Ferraris” in 24 Hours of LeMons History! |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Even though some improbable cars manage to squeeze in under the LeMons $500 budget limit (the Three Pedal Mafia Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow comes to mind), even the hooptiest, most biohazardous, undesirable Ferrari—say, a Mondial dredged out of a plutonium pond at the Hanford Site—is worth way too much for our racing series. Still, all racers [...]
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| 2013 VW Passat TDI Diesel Long-Term Update: Long-Legged as Ever at 30K |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Diesel cars are haunted by a reputation etched decades ago. One example: As temperatures dipped below zero in early January, some staffers wondered if our long-term 2013 Volkswagen Passat TDI would be crippled by the cold. Yet just as it bucks the notion that diesel power means smoky emissions and gutless performance, our Passat started [...]
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| Retain the Bargain: Subaru Prices 2015 WRX from $27,090; STI from $35,290 |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Enthusiasts, you may now breathe a sigh of relief: Subaru’s performance bargains, the WRX and STI, will remain deals. The automaker has released pricing for the new-for-2015 WRX and WRX STI, and both sedans won’t cost much—if anything—more than the cars they replace, despite having inherited a rally stage’s worth of refinement and extra equipment. [...]
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| Audi Considering Building TT Shooting Brake Variant Modeled After Detroit Concept |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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When Audi unveiled the Allroad Shooting Brake concept at the Detroit auto show in January, it was easily identified as a thinly veiled third-generation TT. The brand pulled a similar stunt in 2005 when the second-gen TT was previewed by the Shooting Brake concept. The production-spec TT will bow next month at the Geneva auto [...]
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| 2015 Subaru WRX, WRX STI Pricing Announced |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Subaru announces pricing for its popular WRX and WRX STI vehicles.
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| Winter Storms Shut Down BMW, Kia Plants |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Bad weather forces BMW and Kia to halt production in their Southeast plalnts.
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| Porsche Strongly Considering Making 991-Generation GT3 RS Available with a Stick |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Porsche’s 911 Turbo and Turbo S models are monsters, in a good way, but we’ve typically preferred the purist approach of the naturally aspirated GT3 models. And the current GT3 is no exception; it’s the most desirable 911 on the market. That’s likely to change soon, however. According to Auto Express, development of the über-GT3, the [...]
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| 2015 Subaru WRX Tested: Wait Until You Hear How We Got Our Best Acceleration Times |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Even the cruelest parking valets are unlikely to rev a car’s engine to redline and dump its clutch. But that’s just what a Subaru engineer suggested we do when we asked him how to get the best acceleration times out of the 2015 WRX. READ MORE ››
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| Elon Musk Says Tesla Model S Could Receive Larger Battery Pack Next Year |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Having a friendly chat with a group of Tesla owners in Norway, brand CEO Elon Musk intimated that more-powerful batteries could be on the way for the Model S. The most potent battery pack currently offered in the Model S holds 85 kWh of juice, or enough for 265 miles of driving. Musk wasn’t terribly [...]
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| Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a Fuzzy, Weird-Looking 3D-Printed Chocolate Mustang |
Feb 14th, 2014 |
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Ford, cognizant of the calendar, is using a Valentine’s Day–appropriate example of what 3D printing is capable of—tiny Mustangs made of chocolate!—to spice up the story of the minor role 3D-printed prototype parts played in the 2015 Mustang‘s development. Isn’t that cute? There’s only one problem that we can see: the little Mustangs don’t exactly look like [...]
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