| Why Scion FR-S Sales Have Plunged: The Life and Times of an Ultra-Niche Product |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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| 2017 F-150 Raptor’s EcoBoost V-6 to Make 450 hp, Says Ford’s Raj Nair |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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There’s a lot to be excited about with the all-new 2017 Ford Raptor: The weight-saving aluminum body. The crazy-cool combo 4WD/AWD drivetrain. And the EcoBoost twin-turbo V-6, which, Ford’s head of global product development, Raj Nair, says will kick out a walloping 450 horsepower. The number-drop came during a Fox Sports TV interview at the 24 Hours […]
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| Name That Shifter, No. 212 |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until midday Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the Manuals button and sticker.* Good luck! (* Offer open […]
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| Top Gear Season 22 Premieres Tonight! Here’s Your Episode 1 Preview |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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We’ve already heard a lot about Season 22 of the BBC’s Top Gear, and it hasn’t even aired in the U.S. yet. But while you’re probably sick of hearing about the uproar over Clarkson’s allegedly insensitive license plate, if you’re like us, you can’t wait for the first episode of Season 22, which premieres tonight. […]
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| Amazing Home-Build: 15.7-Liter, 12-Rotor Wankel Engine |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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How many rotors is too many rotors? If you’re Tyson Garvin, the number is somewhere north of 12. Garvin is an endurance powerboat racer who has twice set the record for the run from New York City to Bermuda, and he’s built one of the craziest engines we’ve ever seen. It’s a 12-rotor Wankel, which, […]
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| McLaren Posts Picture of Camouflaged Car, Internet Fills in the Blanks |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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Another day, another new McLaren, with the British sportscar maker’s seemingly ceaseless product offensive continuing with the release of this teaser shot through the company’s Facebook page. We believe it’s a more powerful variant of the 650S, and we know that we’ll be seeing it at the Geneva motor show in March alongside the track-only […]
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| Buy It Now: Mr. Bean’s Twice-Wrecked Daily-Driver McLaren F1 Is for Sale |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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Rowan Atkinson may be known best to American audiences as Mr. Bean, the hilariously hapless Brit with the musty green Mini. In real life, however, Atkinson is a true gearhead of excellent taste, as evidenced by the burgundy 1997 McLaren F1 he’s putting up for sale after having owned it since brand new. It turns […]
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| Southern Rock Racing Demonstrates Why Crawling Is for Babies |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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“Don’t forget your nut belt; you’re gonna to need it.” Wait . . . what? Oh, right. I hurriedly fish around the seat bottom for what was previously known to me as an anti-submarine belt, latch it, and cinch it as tight as my arm muscles will allow. I am holding up the show. This […]
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| Southern Rock Racing Demonstrates Why Crawling Is for Babies – Feature |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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| From Out of the Past, GM’s Futurliner Rolls into Washington D.C. and a Permanent Place in History |
Jan 26th, 2015 |
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To say that the Historic Vehicle Association unveiled the latest addition to its National Historic Vehicle Register wouldn’t be entirely accurate; no one could find a silk cloth large enough to cover it. So they made the announcement from inside the 33-foot-long General Motors Futurliner No. 10 at the Washington Auto Show on Thursday. The […]
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