| Ally Financial Honors 2015 TIME Dealer of the Year Nominees |
Oct 23rd, 2014 |
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Ally Financial has announced that 55 U.S. auto dealers have been selected as nominees for the 2015 TIME Dealer of the Year award. The nominees will be honored at the NADA Convention & Exposition in January.
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| The British May Be Coming: Jaguar Land Rover Considering U.S. Plant |
Oct 23rd, 2014 |
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Jaguar Land Rover wants to colonize South Carolina, or at least a few hundred acres of it, for its first-ever U.S. factory. The U.K.’s Sunday Times reports that the automaker has been “talking to several southern states, including South Carolina” about plans to open a facility that could churn out up to 200,000 cars per […]
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| 2014 BMW 328d Diesel Sedan Tested: Frugality Has Its Price |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Of course you’re wondering, so we’ll just tell you up front: 39 mpg. That’s what we got over 522 miles of driving with the BMW 328d rear-drive sedan, which amounts to one fill-up. It’s also 4-mpg better than the 35 mpg we saw from two 2014 328ds, an xDrive sedan and our long-term xDrive wagon […]
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| Weave Come So Far: BMW, Audi, and German Consortium Developing Carbon Fiber That’s 90 Percent Cheaper |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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BMW and Audi want to cut carbon-fiber production costs by up to 90 percent within six years—and they’re already halfway there. The two automakers, bolstered by funding from the German government and working with 86 other partners including Airbus and ZF, are part of a $102-million research consortium whose goal it is to make still-exotic […]
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| Lynyrd’s Innards: McLaren Releases Interior Shots of P1 GTR Track-Only Special |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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The wonks from Woking yanked a sheet from their new P1 GTR back in August at—where else?—the Pebble Beach festivities in California. We were there for the unveiling, but the P1 GTR’s ultra-mega-blackout windscreen restricted any and all ganders at what lay within. Helpfully, McLaren has finally released images of the plutocratic track-day special’s interior, as […]
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| Minimize That: 2014 Mini Cooper/Cooper S Smacked for Overstating Fuel Economy |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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The new-for-2014 Mini Cooper grew in size versus its predecessors, but some of its fuel-economy ratings are now getting the chop. An audit by the Environmental Protection Agency turned up city/highway mileage estimates that were overstated by as many as 4 mpg. 2014 Cooper Hardtop manual: Drops from 30/42 to 29/40 2014 Cooper Hardtop automatic: […]
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| Mustang Party at the LV Corral: Ford Previews First Two Modified 2015 Mustangs for SEMA |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Were you even surprised? Yes, Ford Motor Company is bringing a veritable “stampede”—its word, not ours—of modified 2015 Mustangs to this year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas. Given that last year, Ford stuffed something like 7000 cars into its Las Vegas Convention Center display area, the idea that it’s bringing “over a dozen” tuned-up Mustangs […]
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| Dodge Viper’s $15,000 Price Cut Boosts Monthly Sales by Nearly 200 Percent—to 108 Cars |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Last month’s decision by Dodge to slash prices on the face-melting Viper by $15,000 seems to be paying huge dividends: Sales of the car jumped by 184 percent in September. That doesn’t mean you’ll be seeing Dodge’s V-10 brute on every street corner, though. That huge percentage jump translates to 108 Vipers sold in September, up from 38 […]
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| Exeter’s Floyd Stepping Down from CEO Post |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Mark Floyd will join Exeter's board of directors and will work with his replacement, Thomas Anderson, to ensure a smooth transition, the company said late yesterday.
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| Mich. Governor Signs ‘Anti-Tesla’ Bill |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Governor Rick Snyder signed into law yesterday tighter restrictions on selling vehicles directly to consumers. The new law now effectively bans Tesla Motors from selling vehicles in the state.
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