| 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat & 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Earn Awards from Popular Mechanics |
Feb 5th, 2015 |
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Dodge's super fast models left lasting impressions on the editors at Popular Mechanics magazine.
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| Good News, Bad News for GM: Recalls Cut 2014 Profits by More Than Half—But Sales Are Rockin’ |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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General Motors coasted through 2014 with a $2.8 billion net profit and record global sales of more than 9.9 million cars and trucks. Too bad GM broke another record: for most recalls ever in a single year. Otherwise it would have made another $3.5 billion. That’s what the company spent on more than 80 recall […]
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| 2015 Volkswagen Golf 1.8T TSI Automatic Long-Term Test Intro: The Newest Golf Enters Our 40,000-mile Gantlet |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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The Volkswagen Golf ranks up there with the Toyota Corolla and Ford’s F-series as one of the top-selling nameplates of all time, but you probably see a lot more Corollas and F-150s dotting the American landscape. That’s because the little Volkswagen has racked up most of its sales in Europe, the citizens of which appreciate […]
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| 2015 Volkswagen Golf 1.8T TSI Automatic – Long-Term Road Test Intro |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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| How We’d Spec It: The Wrangler-est 2015 Jeep Renegade |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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When the 2015 Renegade hit the scene, Jeep die-hards immediately decried its front-drive bones, the fact that it’s built in Italy, and, well, basically everything about the little crossover that made it not a Wrangler. The Renegade doesn’t have solid axles, massive suspension articulation, or a ladder frame, but it does offer a stiff, well-isolated unibody; […]
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| Act Now and You Can Buy Ayrton Senna’s Final Racing Kart at Auction |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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Ayrton Senna is perhaps the most legendary driver in Formula 1, and he’s undoubtedly a hero to anyone who follows international motor racing. Come February 5, fans will get to bid on a piece of Senna history that played a crucial part in his career: The very last racing kart he ever competed with. Bonhams […]
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| How We’d Spec It: The Wrangler-est 2015 Jeep Renegade |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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| Valiant Alphard and the Mighty Vellfire: New Toyota Vans We Miss Out On |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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As those of us born in the 1970s are increasingly aware, the decade of disco, malaise, denim, polyester, and righteous coiffures is disappearing rather quickly into the rearview mirror. All of the original Ramones are dead. Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is battling cancer, Donna Summer passed on to the great dance floor in the sky […]
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| Valiant Alphard and the Mighty Vellfire: New Toyota Vans We Miss Out On |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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| Hold On? Gibbs Quadski Amphibian Handlebars Can Fail |
Feb 4th, 2015 |
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There are plenty of systems on the somewhat complex Gibbs Quadski that we’d expect to be the subject of a recall: the folding wheel mechanism, or the unusual manual-upshift, auto-downshift sequential 5-speed transmission … perhaps the jet drive? Nope. The Quadski is being recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission because the handlebars can fail. […]
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