| These Peugeot Paris Concepts Are Typical French Oddball Goodness |
Oct 1st, 2014 |
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We couldn’t possibly cover this year’s Paris auto show without throwing in a few French-fried vehicles, right? Francophiles rejoice, because your favorite nation’s automakers are still mighty keen on turning out the weird and the different. Take this pair of Peugeot concept cars, for example. One of them has been shown before in slightly different […]
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| Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modern Pistons (and Probably Some Things You Didn’t) |
Oct 1st, 2014 |
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The slugs of aluminum inside your engine live in a fiery hell. At full throttle and 6000 rpm, a piston in a gasoline engine is subjected to nearly 10 tons of force every 0.02 second as repeated explosions heat the metal to more than 600 degrees Fahrenheit. READ MORE ››
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| Infiniti Q80 Inspiration Concept Debuts, Promises to Deprive You of Oxygen |
Oct 1st, 2014 |
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We hope you had smelling salts ready when you opened this story; Infiniti claims that “seeing this vast and imposing car for the first time can suck the air from your lungs. Like a blow to the stomach.” (We’ll let you catch your breath.) Although that statement paints a somewhat comical image—imagine hundreds of auto […]
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| Subprime Blues: How Auto Lenders Can Track and Disable Your Vehicle |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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We’re not the kind to judge people by their credit scores—life happens, after all—but the auto-lending industry isn’t so understanding, particularly now that they can monitor a driver’s every move and punish late payments by killing a car’s engine. Until we read a recent report on subprime car loans in the New York Times, we […]
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| You *Really* Don’t Mess with the Johan: Cadillac President Rebukes Critics of NY Move, Renaming Strategy |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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When we said “you don’t mess with the Johan,” we didn’t think the Cadillac president would paraphrase us in his defense of his decisions to move the brand’s HQ to New York and change most of the model names. But a recent Facebook post by de Nysschen, which was publicized by the Daily Kanban, was capped by the […]
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| 0 to 150 to 0: The Hottest Tuner Cars Tested from Hennessey, Lingenfelter, RENNTech, and More! [C/D Archives] |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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“Last year, observed and times by the Motor Industry Research Association, Reg Parnell demonstrated the ability of the DB4GT to go from 0 to 100 mph and back to 0 again in 24 seconds.” —Car and Driver, June 1961 That sentence, which appeared 37 years ago in our report on the Aston Martin DB4GT, may […]
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| Decadence, Aston Martin–Style: Official Photos of Production Lagonda Supersedan Released, Including Interior |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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Aston Martin has produced its first suite of images of its gorgeous Lagonda hyperluxury sedan in production form. This follows the release of photos of a prototype test vehicle in Oman a couple of weeks ago, which followed an embarrassing photo drop of the same car by Oman Air shortly after it arrived in the […]
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| Chevrolet Silverado Toughnology Concept Touts Steel’s Supremacy, Somewhat Wrongly |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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Ford’s dramatic switch to an aluminum pickup body for the 2015 F-150 has dramatically outshone the new-for-2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, and the Ford isn’t even on sale yet. Well, hold your horses, Ford fans, because Chevy’s going to tell you why steel is still king. What you’re looking at is a stock 2015 Silverado 1500 LTZ […]
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| Have a Metric Ton of Cash? You Might Want This Bitchin’ Armored Mercedes-Benz Sprinter |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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Listen up, barons of business, arms smugglers, and anyone who actually found a proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: Inkas Armored Vehicle Manufacturing in Toronto, Canada, has created a new armored Mercedes-Benz Sprinter that makes one of our favorite guilty pleasures even awesomer. Using the Sprinter’s bone-stock dualie frame, the Inkas […]
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| YOU GUYS: Lego Releasing McLaren P1, LaFerrari, and Porsche 918 Next Year! |
Sep 30th, 2014 |
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Gah! Unbridled glee! The days of Ferrari having an exclusive hold on branded Lego cars are officially over. Next year, you’ll be able to buy a minifig-scale McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder, and LaFerrari. (Yes, we know about the Mini and VW stuff, but Maranello has been dominant.) We will take one of each, thank […]
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