| Billionaire Dan Gilbert Slams Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Over “Anti-Tesla” Law |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Yesterday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (above) signed a law that included a last-minute legal tweak that would ban Tesla’s direct-to-customers auto sales model in the Midwestern state. Snyder has been taking a lot of heat for the move–including from Detroit billionaire Dan Gilbert, who took advantage of his stint guest-hosting this morning’s Squawk Box on CNBC […]
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| Takata Recall Update: Defective Airbags Being Disabled, “Do Not Sit Here” Stickers Affixed to Dashboards |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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This is a disaster. The giant Takata airbag recall affecting more than 7 million U.S. passenger vehicles from a variety of auto manufacturers is proving difficult to combat. To briefly recap, there’s an issue with the airbag propellant that, in high-humidity states, can lead to shrapnel being fired into passengers when an affected airbag detonates. […]
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| Mercedes-Benz Parent Daimler Divests Itself of Tesla Holdings |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Daimler has sold its share in Tesla in its entirety. In 2009, the German carmaker acquired 9.1 percent of Tesla, which was in a dire financial position at the time; it then divested 40 percent of that stake to Abu Dhabi later that year. Both companies have worked together closely. For a while, the last-gen […]
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| Henrik Fisker Returns, Will Unveil New Car with Galpin at L.A. Auto Show |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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Henrik Fisker, more than a year after leaving his own namesake company, is back and apparently ready to rock the Los Angeles auto show with a new car. The 61-year-old Danish car designer extraordinaire (Aston Martin DB9, BMW Z8) and plug-in-hybrid CEO (Fisker Automotive) is slotted for a 25-minute press conference next month, a day […]
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| 24 Hours of LeMons Michigan: The Winners! |
Oct 22nd, 2014 |
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For our second 2014 LeMons race at GingerMan Raceway in South Haven, Michigan, we admired some of the greatest endurance-racin’ machines we’d ever seen on Friday, watched those machines duke it out in the rain on Saturday, and then watched the winners roar (or clatter, or coast) across the finish line on Sunday. Here are […]
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| Wanna Drive an E-type? Jaguar Announces New Heritage Driving Program |
Oct 21st, 2014 |
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If you’ve never driven a vintage Jaguar and you happen to be in Europe, you’ll now be able to head to the brand’s Fen End test track in Warwickshire, England, and sign up to experience some of the marque’s most historic cars for a fee. There are a ton of options laid out on the […]
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| Takata Airbag Update: Toyota and GM Expand Recalls, Chewing Gum Found Inside Inflator |
Oct 21st, 2014 |
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General Motors and Toyota are expanding an airbag recall for the third time to replace inflators that could explode and shoot shrapnel during deployment. This latest recall is due to a still-undetermined problem affecting at least 10 manufacturers. Among Toyota-built products, the affected models are 2002–2005 Lexus SC430 and Toyota Sequoia, plus the 2003–2005 Tundra, […]
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| 2015 Bentley Continental GT3-R First Drive: Lighter, Quicker, Costlier |
Oct 21st, 2014 |
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One thing that has always separated Bentley from its former longtime partner Rolls-Royce is its racing heritage. Bentley trots out this factoid from time to time when it wants to go back to the track, as it did at Le Mans from 2001 to 2003 with the Speed 8 and as it is doing now […]
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| Toca (Figuratively) Burns Down 2015 Hyundai Genesis for SEMA, Builds It Back Up Into a “Steel Phoenix” |
Oct 21st, 2014 |
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“How now, turbo Tau?” That, presumably, is the question Hyundai hopes show goers will ask when it pulls the wraps off of the Steel Phoenix at the upcoming 2014 SEMA Show. Conceived by Toca Marketing Group, the hopped-up Genesis with a bad-ass name features a twin-turbocharged version of Hyundai’s 5.0-liter Tau V-8 pumping out 600 […]
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| 2015 Volkswagen Golf R SportWagen Spied: So Rad, So Off-Limits |
Oct 21st, 2014 |
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What It Is: This is an easy one, as far as our daily routine of identifying future products goes, because no effort has been made whatsoever to obscure the car: It’s a Volkswagen Golf R SportWagen circling the Nürburgring. It’s quite obviously a Euro-market model, as VW has only shown us Americans the SportWagen in […]
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