| Opel Debuts New Corsa Hatchback in Paris, Nails Most Confusing Engine Lineup Ever Award |
Oct 4th, 2014 |
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Mainstream car, hot entrance: This is the script Opel followed for the introduction of its new fifth-generation Corsa hatchback. The successful subcompact Opel debuted with a little help from German supermodel Claudia Schiffer at the 2014 Paris auto show. Oh, and the less blonde and even less leggy Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, Opel’s CEO, also was there. […]
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| Sacrebleu! The 7 Hottest Debuts of the 2014 Paris Auto Show |
Oct 4th, 2014 |
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Ah, Paris, a city of romance, fashion, and at-times pretentious locals who just love to scoff at oafish Americans like us. Besides hosting four annual fashion weeks—what, Frenchies, one isn’t good enough?—and sporting more cafés than citizens, Paris also happens to host an auto show every other year. The city’s average of 0.5 auto shows […]
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| 2015 Kia Soul EV First Drive |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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Kia's first EV is a serious contender.
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| The 5 Hottest 2014 Paris Debuts That You’ll Never, Ever Drive |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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As with any European auto show, the 2014 Paris event provided us Americans a prime, front-row seat to witness the debuts of a bunch of rad, sexy, high-performance (and sometimes all three!) Continent-only rides that we’ll never, ever, ever be able to buy. Our coping mechanism for this look-but-don’t-touch bind is to share our favorite […]
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| Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon Deliveries Halted for Airbag Issue, GM Issues Additional Recalls |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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Will GM ever be able to focus on simply making cars and trucks? The beleaguered automotive juggernaut has identified yet another safety issue it needs to fix. Automotive News reports that driver-side airbag connections in the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon trucks were wired incorrectly; to correct the problem, the airbag’s sensing and diagnostic module will be […]
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| The 2015 Ford Mustang Officially Gallops into Europe—But Will They Care? |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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The 2015 Ford Mustang is on display at the Paris motor show, marking the car’s official debut in Europe. The new-generation car will be the first Mustang made widely available on the Continent—and Ford of Europe is ecstatic. “The new Mustang is one of the most hotly anticipated cars ever; we are very excited to now […]
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| HOLY F&*%: This 500-hp Turbocharged Go-Kart Is Today’s Best Way to Potentially Off Yourself [Video] |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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If you wanted to kill yourself—and I mean really, really kill yourself—there might not be a better way to go about it than to strap a hopped-up, 500-horsepower, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder into a kart and go for glory. It’s like those people who tame a cougar, live with it for four years, and then feign […]
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| Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear Crew Flee Argentina Over Number-Plate Fracas |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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The cast and crew of the BBC’s Top Gear television show were forced to flee Argentina ahead of schedule due to controversy over a vehicle license plate that appeared to reference the 1982 Falklands War. Affixed to a Porsche 928 driven by Jeremy Clarkson, the plate number in question read “H982 FKL, which was reportedly […]
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| The Sound that Slayed Ferrari: Listen to the Hellacious Fury of the Ford GT40 Mk II |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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The Ford GT40 Mk II was decidedly exotic in comparison to most American cars of the era (of course, that’s mostly due to its Anglo-American heritage and the help of Lola), but its 7.0-liter big-block was built of the same stuff as the Galaxies coming off Ford’s assembly lines back home—iron block, pushrods, and all. […]
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| Enraging Bull: We Attack the Stelvio Pass in a Monster Lamborghini |
Oct 3rd, 2014 |
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Dawn is more smashed than broken by the time we come over the crest and into the valley. Ahead of us lies another stretch of road, one that climbs like a Holmby Hills parvenu to the distant ridge in a sawtooth oscillation of metronomic vacillation, between hairpin bends that bitch-slap it from zig to zag […]
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