| How We’d Spec It: The Rocky-Mountain-Highest 2015 Chevrolet Colorado |
Sep 10th, 2014 |
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The next wave of smaller-than-full-size pickups is coming, and, well, for now it’s flowing exclusively from General Motors. While Toyota and Nissan seem content peddling decade-old rigs in this space, GMC and Chevrolet are reviving the Canyon and Colorado nameplates for a pair of all-new mid-size trucks. We dig the idea of smaller pickups, if […]
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| Toyota—of All Companies—Defends Drivers, Says It Won’t Build a Fully Autonomous Car |
Sep 10th, 2014 |
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Of all automakers, the last one we’d expect to defend the driver’s seat from computers just might be Toyota. And as much as we criticize the Japanese brand for lack of imagination, we’re floored at what Toyota executives said last week at their technical center in Saline, Michigan: Toyota won’t build a fully automated car […]
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| Dodge Viper SRT MSRP Cut by $15,000, A Dealer Says It’s Already Generating Heat |
Sep 10th, 2014 |
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Well, that didn’t take long: Chrysler announces a $15,000 price drop on its slow-moving make that slow-selling 2015 Dodge Viper SRT on Monday morning, and by Monday evening, Bernie Katz already sold three of them. Katz, partner with TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Viper driver Ben Keating in ViperExchange.com, the world’s largest Viper dealer and part of a full-line […]
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| 2015 BMW 2-series Convertible Debuts with Two Turbo Engines, Available AWD |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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With the introduction of the 2-series convertible, BMW’s rear-wheel-drive 1-series is history in the U.S. (The Euro-market hatchback is still available.) But despite the new moniker, the 2-series very much adheres to the formula of its predecessor. Like the 1-series, it is built atop a chassis closely related to that of the 3-series and it is available […]
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| Alumin—Um, Wait a Second: Ford Faces Challenges Putting 2015 F-150 Production in Motion |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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As Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan, plant gets closer to starting production on the new 2015 F-150 pickup truck, the risks involved in moving from steel to aluminum are becoming clearer. The aluminum-bodied 2015 F-150 is said to shave more than 700 pounds off the outgoing model, with the goal being to boost fuel economy as federal […]
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| 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT / GT S Revealed: Aiming Straight for the Porsche 911 |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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The Porsche 911 is no stranger to attacks—and now a fresh one has been whipped up in Affalterbach by Mercedes’ high-performance arm, AMG. True sports cars wearing the three-pointed star are rare; the last two times such cars appeared, the company aimed sky-high with the McLaren SLR and the just-departed SLS AMG. Both were priced […]
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| Model-Year Advances: New Tech for 2015 Including Super-Turbos, Huskier Hemis, and More! |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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Ford and supplier Takata have packed the hardware needed to provide widely varying steering ratios into a conventional-looking steering wheel. A DC electric motor slows down or speeds up normal steering-wheel commands through a 48:1 reduction gear. Steering quickened by up to 35 percent is used for low-speed, extreme-lock parking maneuvers. At cruising speed, the […]
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| 2016 Audi TTS First Drive Review: More Power, More Style, More TT |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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The new 2016 Audi TT is quite competent and good fun to drive, but 220 horsepower just doesn’t cut it for most enthusiasts in today’s performance environment. We’ve become spoiled rotten by affordable coupes and sports cars, many of which pack at least two more cylinders than the Audi. It’s a good thing, then, that […]
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| 24 Hours of LeMons Colorado: Audis Take First Place, Last Place! |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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During the car inspections at the fifth annual B.F.E. GP 24 Hours of LeMons, we saw that we’d be in for an interesting race, what with an unrivaled percentage of the kind of cars we like to see, lots of weird engine swaps, extremely talented drivers on many of the teams, and nearly as many […]
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| Aston Martin Drops Photos of 2016 Lagonda Super Sedan, Details Brutal Hot Weather Testing |
Sep 9th, 2014 |
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Is it possible for a car to be too pretty to torture test? The 2016 Aston Martin Lagonda may just qualify, but it’s undergoing absolutely savage-sounding hot-weather testing anyway. The limited-production Lagonda sedan will be sold exclusively sold in the Middle East, hence the brutal high-temperature evaluations, but more important than the four-door’s (admittedly) expected […]
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