| Super Bowl Ad Analysis: A Terry Crews Commercial That Happens to Feature the 2014 Toyota Highlander and Muppets [The Ad Section] |
Feb 2nd, 2014 |
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Many ad-industry pundits hail the idea to use Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy to sell Dodge Durangos as the most brilliant marketing coup of 2013. I agree. Dodge got a wildly popular spokesperson whom they otherwise could never have afforded, Anchorman 2 got phenomenal pre-release hype, and a record-breaking number of Dodge crossover SUVs were [...]
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| Supercar Sunday: Need For Speed Camera Cars, Ford GT Mustang, Ferrari, More |
Feb 2nd, 2014 |
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A behind the scenes look at the hot camera cars in Need for Speed
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| LeMons Alabama Day One: Mercedes-Benz 190E Leads, Cordoba Beating Fury |
Feb 2nd, 2014 |
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For the first visit of the 24 Hours of LeMons to Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama (and the 2014 season-opener race), we had a good mix of fast veteran teams and excellent new cars. Saturday’s race session gave us much lead-changing and many dramatic rise-and-fall adventures among the top contenders, while each of the three [...]
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| Cars and Coffee Photosplosion: Nissan’s Sweet IDx Concepts Rub Elbows with Supercars, Vintage Metal, and More |
Feb 2nd, 2014 |
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It’s Saturday, and the parking lot of Mazda’s Irvine, California, headquarters is filled with everything from McLarens to vintage pickup trucks to a phalanx of Porsches: It’s Cars and Coffee. This week, Nissan trailered in its sweet IDx concept cars, and we’re hearing some Saturday in the not-too-distant future will see Mercedes uncork a few [...]
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| First Look: 2015 BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe |
Feb 1st, 2014 |
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BMW has released full details on its newest four-door coupe.
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| 2015 BMW 4-series Gran Coupe: Because Having Two 3-series Sedans Would Be Confusing |
Feb 1st, 2014 |
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Although we’ve since come to terms with it, initially, we were somewhat dubious about BMW’s decision to rename coupe and convertible derivatives of the 3-series as the 4-series. Few, if any, models carry the same sort of equity that’s been earned by the 3er, so it seemed a shame to cut its model line in [...]
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| Week in Review: Minis, Small Cadillacs, and a Big Merger with a Small Name |
Feb 1st, 2014 |
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Catch up with us to read the biggest stories of the week that was
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| A Cordoba, The Snowman’s Semi, and a Cherry Bomb: The Car Inspections of the Alabama 24 Hours of LeMons |
Feb 1st, 2014 |
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Here we are in Alabama, for the 24 Hours of LeMons’ first visit to Barber Motorsports Park, and this super-luxe track seems in real danger of having its property values destroyed forever by the collection of heaps and hoopties we’ve dragged onto the premises. We saw quite a few quick-looking (i.e., boring) Integras and Miatas, [...]
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| 2015 Mercedes-Benz V-class: Just Like Any Other People Mover, Except It’s a Benz |
Feb 1st, 2014 |
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Minivans aren’t hip. They’re not cool. So square are the once-dominant force in family haulers that few automakers even sell one anymore, opting instead for SUV-mimicking crossovers—our vote for the next automotive trend to be uncool. Mercedes-Benz saw this coming in 2005, and duly came to market with the not-quite-a-minivan R-class, which was subsequently thought [...]
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| Suck It, Polar Vortex: 9 Vehicles Guaranteed to Get You Through Any Snowpocalypse |
Feb 1st, 2014 |
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Thanks to the polar vortex—or more accurately, vortices—this winter is the harshest that many parts of the country have seen in decades. As icy doom continues to close schools and turn roadways into skating rinks, it’s only natural that talk in the C/D office turned to the ultimate vehicles to get us through this modern [...]
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