| The Latest “Fast and Furious” Movie Is Simply Titled “Furious 7″, Hype Video Released |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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After being pushed back a year in response to star Paul Walker’s death, Universal Studios is beginning to roll out details on the seventh installment to the Fast and Furious series. Here’s your first look at the poster for the movie, Furious 7, which hits theaters in April. The movie, which will go by Fast […]
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| Name That Shifter, No. 202 |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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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, magnet, and sticker.* Good luck! (* […]
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| Toy Giveaway: Next Porsche 911 GT3 RS Leaked in Die-Cast Form |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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For fanatics of Zuffenhausen iron, aluminum, und schteel, very little takes the bellows to the embers like a new GT3 RS. Spiritual heirs to the 1973 2.7 RS, one of which now trades hands at something like a jillion dollars, the RS cars offer a stripped-out interior, lightweight panels, and more power (save for the […]
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| BMW M235i Manual Test: Formidable—Very Formidable |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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It’s no secret that we have long preferred to shift for ourselves, rather than assign that function to an automatic transmission. (Save the Manuals!) But we have to be realistic about the current climate for the stick shift. And this car illustrates why. READ MORE ››
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| Clearly, Lincoln Motor Co. Needs to Fire Matthew McConaughey and Hire Jim Carrey |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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Lincoln’s Matthew McConaughey–powered commercials come across as an exercise in strangeness: The star putters along in a 2015 MKC crossover, whisper-muttering bizarre musings more fit for True Detective‘s Rust Cohle than for a brand spokesman. Turns out, Lincoln may have gotten the aesthetic right, but what this concept really needed to resonate with the public […]
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| Peter Max Corvette Collection Exhumed from Parking-Garage Purgatory |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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The long and twisted tale of the so-called VH1 MAX Corvette collection, after sitting for nearly twenty-five years in a series of New York parking garages, has finally come to a close. According to a report in the New York Times, the thirty-six-car collection, which began as a grand prize in a television contest before […]
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| Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Next Big Disruption Isn’t a New Car, It’s a New Battery |
Oct 27th, 2014 |
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Elon Musk isn’t waiting for someone else to figure out how to build a better battery. While lithium-ion technology remains expensive and somewhat fraught with technical issues, the headstrong Tesla CEO has a plan that should at least make batteries cheaper. Many also think it’s his bid to establish the battery as the dominant alt-fuel […]
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| LeMons New England Day 1: No German Cars In Top 10, Sea Sprite Leading Class C |
Oct 26th, 2014 |
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We inspected the 132 entries at the third annual Halloween Hooptiefest 24 Hours of LeMons on Friday, and today we raced. We saw many bent fenders, many ventilated engine blocks, and more lead changes than we could follow during the course of the day. When the dust settled, though, we were able to sort out […]
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| LeMons New England: Many Audis, Many Forgotten GM Cars, and the World’s Most Evil Vanagon |
Oct 25th, 2014 |
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The 24 Hours of LeMons has returned to New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the third annual Halloween Hooptiefest, and we’ve got some fascinating machinery among the 130 or so entries that rolled into the garage for our traditional Friday car inspections. Let’s take a look! First of all, the Mod Squad Vanagon made everyone stagger […]
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| 2015 Subaru WRX STI2015 Subaru WRX STI Tested: If You Want Action, It Has the Traction |
Oct 24th, 2014 |
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If competition improves the breed, then the corollary is that the lack of competition invites stasis. And the Subaru WRX STI has only one natural predator: the dead-car-rolling Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, the product of an enterprise that seems a little on the fence about whether it wants to sell cars or get deeper into the […]
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