| Beastly: Ford Trademarks EcoBeast Name, Possibly for 2016 Raptor |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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Ford has trademarked the name “EcoBeast,” and to our ears, it sounds tailor-made for the next Raptor pickup. The trademark filing on December 22, first reported by the blog Motrolix, appears to be a new take on Ford’s turbocharged EcoBoost engines that power nearly every Blue Oval product. But the nickname isn’t really new. F-150 […]
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| To the Extreme: The Quickest, Slowest, Thirstiest, Lightest—and Much More—Cars We Tested This Year |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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This is how the hundreds of cars we tested in 2014 stack up—at the extremes.
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| 2015 Mercedes-Benz SLK250 Manual Tested: Saving Benz’s Manuals? |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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Care to shift for yourself but resolutely abstain from anything not built by Mercedes-Benz? Your choices, good eccentric sir, are excruciatingly limited. So limited, in fact, that the correct word is “choice,” not “choices.” The 2015 SLK250 is the only U.S.-market vehicle wearing the three-pointed star to offer a stick shift. Since buyers selecting the […]
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| Magnus Numeris: Here Are the 21 Bestselling Vehicles of the Year |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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Sales? These vehicles has them.
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| 2015 Mercedes-Benz SLK250 Manual – Instrumented Test |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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| Feast Your Eyes: This Video of Porsche 911 Engines Being Assembled is Flat Sexy |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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Porsche’s flat-six engine may not be air-cooled anymore, but it’s still a jewel to behold. Powering the run-of-the-mill 911, the manual-transmission GTS, the giant-killing Turbo, and the epic 911 GT3, that six-banger is as iconic as the ever-familiar silhouette of Zuffenhausen’s rear-engine legend. And while much has changed since the first six-cylinder engines rolled off Porsche’s […]
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| Mazda LM55 Vision Gran Turismo Is a Digital Furai for the Modern World [w/ Video] |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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Back in 2007, Mazda re-skinned a rotary-powered Courage LMP chassis with their then-current Nagare styling language, called it “Furai”, and subsequently captured the hearts of all manner of fanboys. The Furai caused rotary aficionados to require a trouser change. Lovers of functional concept cars misplaced their sanity. Those who believe the only sort of sports […]
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| Mazda LM55 Vision Gran Turismo Is a Digital Furai for the Modern World [w/ Video] |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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| Mama’s Menu |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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The magazine’s legal wiz says regulations don’t offer much guidance when it comes to F&I menu usage. But he says there’s an unofficial rule F&I managers should consider.
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| Reading the Signs |
Dec 30th, 2014 |
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Do you know who your customer is? The magazine’s objection-handling wiz lays out five customer profiles you need to quickly identify before handling any objection.
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