| How We’d Spec It: The Zoom-Zoomiest 2015 Mazda 3 2.5 s Hatchback |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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| Must-Watch Video: Masterful Drifting on a Cliffside Mountain Road |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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Professional drifter Fredric Aasbo knows what he’s doing. He can pirouette his 800-horsepower, 2JZ-powered Toyota 86-X (what we call the Scion FR-S) like a ballerina, balancing the high-power, low-traction rocket on a knife’s edge at the bare brink of disaster. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, here he’s doing it on a cliffside road high […]
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| Acura Is Getting Off the Stick—And Here’s Why |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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If you were at all car-aware in the 1990s and 2000s, Acura was squarely on your radar. From the brand’s first Legends, to the iconic Integra, to the follow-up RSX and the halo-status NSX, Acura’s lineup always included something for the gearheads among us, complete with honest-to-goodness manual transmissions. Not anymore. Come the 2016 model year, […]
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| State of the Union (Jack): Mini Minor and New Roadster on the Way, Plus More Mini News |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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Mini is about to go micro, and it’s not afraid to knock on other doors for help doing it. At least that’s what Automobile Magazine’s Georg Kacher is asserting in a broad report on Mini’s near-to-mid-term product plans. The report, which cites unnamed company and supplier sources, states that Mini has enlisted the help of […]
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| Baby Book: 13 Developmental Milestones of the Ford Mustang’s Formative Years |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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The Ford Mustang has a legendary past. We dig in and come up with come up with some fun facts about its creation and early years.
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| Bring the ‘Pain: Lamborghini Announces Huracán GT3 |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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The Exotic House That Agriculture (and Piëch) Built has been offering its Super Trofeo V-10 cars to gentleman racers since midway through the Gallardo’s run, adding a veneer of motorsport flair to a brand that’s been characterized by F1-snob Maranello-ites as an all-show, no-go concern. Now, less than six months after the unveiling of its […]
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| 24 Hours of LeMons Sears Point: The Winners! |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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The Svengalis at the 24 Hours of LeMons have managed to cloud the minds of Race Sonoma‘s management to the point where they look at their beautiful wine-country race track being befouled by horrible, LeMons cars dropping bumpers and spewing oil… and see a real race going on. Maybe the hypnotism has them imagining shiny […]
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| 2015 Jeep Renegade First Drive: A Brand Extension That’s Far from Overextended |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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Like hair extensions, brand extensions make us wince. We like authenticity. But no matter how deeply ingrained a brand’s identity, that identity still belongs to a company, not a church, and a company’s first priority is not adhering to a belief system, it’s making money. Given that, the allure of selling out is easy to […]
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| 2015 Jeep Renegade – First Drive Review |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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| You All Bought So Many Camrys That Toyota is Again No.1 in the World |
Jan 23rd, 2015 |
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Congratulations, car buyers. Your predictable, slavish patterns have made Toyota the number-one selling automaker on the planet for the last three years. In 2014, the world ate up 10.23 million new Toyota, Lexus, and Scion models, more than Volkswagen (10.14 million) or General Motors (9.92 million). In the U.S., Toyota the brand at 2.06 million […]
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