| The Diesel 7-series Cometh (and Only a Year Late): BMW 740Ld Starts at $83,425 [2014 Chicago Auto Show] |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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Next month in Chicago we’ll be happy to see the first oil-burning BMW 7-series debut on U.S. soil—even if it’s a calendar year after a BMW exec told us it’d arrive. Really, we’ll be happy anything is burning in the Windy City’s subzero weather, and the 2014 740Ld xDrive might be just the perfect new [...]
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| Kia K900 Driven: The Koreans Lob a $60K Grenade at Traditional Luxury Automakers |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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The new 2015 K900 could be the car that changes Kia forever. The car that elevates what has been a value-oriented brand to the top tier of luxury automakers. In a few short months, as the V-8–powered K900 hits about a third of Kia’s 765-ish U.S. showrooms, the Korean maker’s name may begin to be [...]
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| No Such Thing as Too Much of a Good Thing: Volkswagen Developing Ultra Golf R |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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The development team in Wolfsburg must be under the impression that there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing. We say that because the GTI is wonderful, and in some ways the Golf R is even better, yet Volkswagen still is hard at work an even more powerful version of the upcoming [...]
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| Hyundai Exec Says Battery EV Coming in Next Three Years |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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An on-the-fly comment by Hyundai’s chief U.S. product planner Mike O’Brien at this week’s Washington auto show caught the attention of reporters as it provided insight into an upcoming battery electric vehicle that will wear the Hyundai badge. As reported by Autoblog and confirmed by our sources inside Hyundai, the new BEV will arrive within [...]
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| Driven: 2014 Maserati Ghibli S Q4 Packs 404 Horsepower and AWD |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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Disneyland’s Matterhorn roller-coaster ride is a must do for every child, spoiled or otherwise. Experiencing the real thing in car form in the European Alps should, therefore, be high on every grown-up’s bucket list. Thanks to Maserati, you can check that item off your register, at least vicariously, by climbing aboard a Ghibli sport sedan [...]
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| Aaron Robinson: The Triumph of Tin Tops, Or: The Death of Convertibles |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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Uncle Jack appreciated the finer things. One day in the 1970s, he rolled up to our house in a randy red Cadillac Eldorado convertible with a white top and white leather seats, a vision of contemporary Jewish-American aspiration that caused my dad to snort just a bit too loudly. We kids bounced around inside it [...]
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| Lexus Introduces RC F GT500 Race Car, Tuxedo-Wearing Pit Crew DJs |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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Imagine the Lexus RC F we saw at this month’s Detroit auto show after being given the stuck-to-the-pavement treatment typical of Japanese Super GT and German DTM touring-car racers. Now imagine that car being pulled into the pits, where it’s being worked on by a legion of tuxedo-wearing mannequins listening to what the entire automotive [...]
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| Now Here’s an Audi A3 Ad That’s Awesome: Meet the “Doberhuahua,” An Oddity Purpose-Built for the Super Bowl [The Ad Section] |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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Just as NASCAR and Formula 1 have their Silly Seasons, so, too, does the ad industry. It starts a couple of weeks before each Super Bowl with strategic leaks and press releases, ramps up with televised and (hopefully) viral teaser videos, culminates in the Big Game itself, and then has a vibrant but short-lived afterglow [...]
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| World’s Greatest Barn Find: Dr. Ferdinand Porsche’s First Vehicle |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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It’s a damn shame so much great automotive history has been lost throughout the past century to wars and other ravages of time. Happily that doesn’t include Dr. Ferdinand Porsche’s first vehicle, which has spent the past 112 years in a shed in Austria. The relic from 1899 is now at home in Porsche’s factory [...]
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| Alfa Romeo Rear- and All-Wheel-Drive Mid-Size Platform Gets a Name: Giorgio |
Jan 29th, 2014 |
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As Alfa Romeo’s never-ending U.S.-market reentry saga drags on, it appears the Italian marque is still working on its ballyhooed revival, based on a report from Automotive News. A big part of the brand’s global resuscitation is its upcoming mid-size sedan model, which will spin off several other variations; we previously outlined this model’s future, [...]
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