| 2015 Kia Sedona First Drive: Rear Doors Still Slide and Soccer Squads Abide |
Sep 18th, 2014 |
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Kia doesn’t want you to think of its new Sedona as a minivan. Sure, it was a minivan in its previous generation. But now, according to Kia, it’s a “multipurpose vehicle.” It’s interesting, this avoidance of the dreaded minivan label. Yes, the redesigned Sedona is a wee bit more bullish in the nose and slightly […]
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| Stop Scoreboard Watching |
Sep 18th, 2014 |
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His Madness says the only person you need to measure yourself against is you. So stop worrying about what others are doing, and start examining your performance numbers.
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| Ferman Nissan in Tampa Talks About the Nissan Frontier Diesel |
Sep 18th, 2014 |
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The Nissan Frontier Runner with a turbo Cummins diesel debuted at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show.
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| 24 Hours of LeMons Northern California: The Winners |
Sep 18th, 2014 |
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What a race! We saw a record-breaking number of teams show up for the car inspections on Friday, what seemed like most of those cars break down during Saturday’s race session, and exciting battles in all three classes on Sunday. Here’s what happened. Two years ago, we listed Cerveza Racing and their 1983 BMW 533i […]
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| CFPB Proposes New Oversight of Nonbank Auto Finance Companies |
Sep 18th, 2014 |
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Today, the CFPB announced a proposed rule that would allow it to oversee about 38 nonbank auto finance companies. The bureau also plans to release a new whitepaper which details the methodology it uses to determine the presence of discrimination in auto lending.
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| 2015 Lincoln Navigator First Drive |
Sep 17th, 2014 |
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Reviving a '90s staple.
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| 2015 Ford Mustang 2.3L EcoBoost Tested! Less SVO, More American Audi A5 |
Sep 17th, 2014 |
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The 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost is the answer to a question that was asked during the last oil crisis. Which, if you were born later than 1979, was blessedly over by the time you arrived. In the aftermath, Ford took a whack at the challenge of creating a sporty fuel-sipper with the turbocharged four-cylinder SVO, […]
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| Bristol Cars Returns From the Dead |
Sep 17th, 2014 |
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Even by the high standards of eccentricity set by Britain’s small sports-car makers, Bristol was always in a class of its own. This is the carmaker that made Morgan look like Mitsubishi. Bristol’s former boss, Tony Crook, refused to let journalists drive its cars for many years on the (possibly reasonable) grounds that they “wouldn’t […]
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| This Is the World’s Smallest Functional V-12 Engine |
Sep 17th, 2014 |
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You’d never guess it judging by the collection of tiny, intricate works of kinetic art on display in his workshop, but José Manuel Hermo Barreiro, a.k.a. “Patelo,” claims to be a “very impatient person.” A retired naval mechanic, Patelo continues to create after his contemporaries have laid down their tools for the last time, trading […]
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| Trophy Truck Madness: Recoil 2: The Recoil . . . ing |
Sep 17th, 2014 |
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As if you needed further proof of how obscenely cool Trophy Trucks are, here comes the latest video from Monster Energy driver BJ Baldwin. In “Recoil 2,” Baldwin’s 800-hp Chevrolet Silverado Trophy Truck cuts a swath through Ensenada, Mexico—home of the Baja 1000—as he sets out to get from the mountains outside of town to […]
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