| BMW Uses Frickin’ Lasers for High Beams That Don’t Blind |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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Conventional wisdom and legally-required safety labels have trained us to understand that we shouldn’t look directly at laser lights, lest we become blinded by their eye-searing output. That’s still almost universally true, except when it comes to BMW’s laser-powered headlight concept. These lasers were designed to prevent blindness—specifically when it comes to oncoming drivers and high-beam […]
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| Return of the Acura NSX Type R? Burlier Version of New Supercar May Be on the Way |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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Only a few minutes had passed—if even that long—since the sweet new 2016 Acura NSX rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show in all of its 550-plus-hp, all-wheel-drive, hybridized, torque-vectoring awesomeness before rumors swirled about even burlier versions. And then reports, including one from AutoExpress, stated definitively that Acura has confirmed—confirmed!—that an NSX Type R is on the way. While […]
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| Death-Dealing Diesel? No! It’s the 2017 Ford GT At Idle! [w/ Video] |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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The magnetism of the Ford GT is so strong that the gaggle of lenses and gawkers surrounding the car at the North American International Auto Show left the GT350R and new Raptor practically ignored on their turntables. Either one of those machines would normally draw a throng of folks strong enough to generate its own […]
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| Death-Dealing Diesel? No! It’s the 2017 Ford GT At Idle! [w/ Video] |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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| Elon Musk in the D: Franchise Dealerships Possible, Model 3 Will Be Cheaper than Bolt, and More |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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Chevy aimed a shot across Tesla’s bow with the Bolt EV, a family-size concept car unveiled at the 2015 Detroit auto show. But Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk doesn’t seem worried. At the Automotive News World Congress event held during the show, Musk dropped bombshells about the Bolt versus Model 3 competition, his views on hydrogen fuel cells, and […]
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| Gripping News: Next BMW M5/M6 Will Get More Power, Possibly AWD (Oh, and X3 and X4 Ms Could Be Things) |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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The Detroit auto show is nothing if not a gabfest—well, it’s also a world-class display of new vehicles—and a conversation between new BMW M chief Franciscus van Meel and Autocar has resulted in some all-wheel-drive news. The tech is something van Meel certainly knows a thing or two about, having come to BMW from a stint heading Audi’s Quattro […]
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| 10 Things You Need to Know About the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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The GT350R is the purest, most hard-core expression of the current-generation Ford Mustang—naturally, we just had to know more about the latest super Stang.
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| Made in Detroit: Local Motors Printed a Car at the Auto Show |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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Local Motors is joining the Detroit maker movement: The company 3D-printed an electric car at the North American International Auto Show, the three-part printing process ushering in the company’s midcycle refresh of its Strati. The car was first unveiled at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in September. Local Motors expects to ultimately produce 30 Stratis and deliver […]
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| Game On: How Ram Games the Fuel-Economy Test with a Badge |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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There is one difference between the 29-mpg 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE that debuted at the Detroit auto show and the 28-mpg 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel that has been on sale since February: the HFE badge on the tailgate. We’re not being dramatic or cynical here, just honest. There isn’t a single mechanical change to […]
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| Here’s a Drone Tour of Our Mothership, Hearst Tower, on its 10th Birthday of Sorts |
Jan 14th, 2015 |
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Car and Driver is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but the mothership is a little taller. And more urban. And now you can tour it via drone. The Hearst Tower is now an entrenched part of the New York City skyline—a 46-story building designed by architect Norman Foster, who leads you through it with this drone […]
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