| Watch Ken Block Flog the Hell Out of the 2017 Focus RS in a Ford Factory |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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Professional hoon Ken Block knows a thing or two about pitching a car into a lurid four-wheel drift. The just-announced Ford Focus RS packs “more than 315 horsepower” and a high-performance all-wheel-drive system. You know where this is going. Ford asked Block, who served as a consultant on the car’s development, to run a Focus RS prototype through […]
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| The Lifted 2016 S60 Cross Country Sedan—WTF Was Volvo Thinking? Well, We Asked Them |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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The recently unveiled Volvo S60 Cross Country, the tall, all-wheel-drive sedan version of the tall, all-wheel-drive V60 Cross Country wagon, came basically out of left field. We heard no hue and cry for a sedan version of the V60 Cross Country, and it’s being introduced in a time where more consumers than ever seem to be eschewing sedans […]
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| The 2015 Volvo S60 Cross Country—What were they thinking? We asked them. |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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| 2016 Ferrari 488GTB Revealed! The 458 Successor Goes Turbo |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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Can you feel the generational shift? That change in the supercar game comes from Ferrari, which has unveiled its new eight-cylinder, mid-engine sports-car standard-bearer, and the successor to the much-loved 458 Italia sees the insane-revving, naturally aspirated V-8 retired in favor of a turbocharged unit. This follows Ferrari’s recent promise that all of its future […]
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| Mazda 6 AWD Models Spreading from Japan to Elsewhere—Can We Get Them Here? |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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The Mazda 6 is one of our favorite vehicles, period—with clean, flowing styling and crisp handling, it’s definitely at the head of the mid-size-sedan pack in terms of both aesthetics and driving enjoyment. But the 10Best Cars–winning model it does lack at least one option that many of its competitors offer: four driven wheels. While that […]
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| GM Closes Ignition-Switch Victim Fund, Still Feverishly Blocking Related Lawsuits |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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General Motors has closed its settlement fund to victims of ignition-switch-related injuries. At the fund’s submission deadline last Saturday, administrator Kenneth Feinberg had accepted claims for 51 deaths and 78 injuries involving 2.6-million GM cars, which were recalled at the start of 2014 for defective ignition switches that can shut off the vehicles while driving. […]
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| 2016 Ferrari 488GTB Revealed! The 458 Successor Goes Turbo |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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| Tom Brady Is Giving His Super Bowl MVP Chevy Colorado to Game-Clinching Teammate Malcolm Butler |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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After the New England Patriots sealed the deal on Super Bowl XLIX, quarterback Tom Brady was named MVP. With that title came fame, adoration, and a brand-new 2015 Chevy Colorado pickup truck. But Brady and wife Gisele Bündchen won’t be bombing around Boston in the bodacious red pickup: The quarterback plans to give his gratis […]
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| Cavorting with Strippers: GM Rolls Out New Base Models |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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While all eyes are on Dearborn—via Cologne—today, courtesy of Ford’s STI-baiting Focus RS, some more subtle new models have debuted courtesy of the minds at the Renaissance Center. Conceived with an eye toward moving metal that’s near the end of its product cycle, new variants of the Chevy Cruze, Chevy Equinox, GMC Terrain, and Buick […]
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| 2015 Porsche Cayman GT4 Revealed: The Cayman’s Potential, Unlocked |
Feb 3rd, 2015 |
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Hear that? It’s the sound of the Porsche 911’s pedestal cracking. The plinth on which Porsche has ensconced the 911, safe from threats like the 914, 928, and, most recently, the mid-engine Cayman, has been heretofore unassailable. Browse the spec sheets of the 911 and the Cayman, and like models such as the S and […]
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