| Now Leasing! The McLaren 570S and 650S |
Jan 4th, 2016 |
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Eying a British supercar, but not quite ready to take the full financial plunge? Your problems are solved, pal. McLaren just announced a new program with Ally Financial, making it possible to lease a British supercar for the very first time. Yes, the all-new offer will allow you to plop a $185,000 McLaren 570S—the brilliant, […]
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| Is This Insane, 1000-hp EV Hypercar Faraday’s Tesla Fighter? |
Jan 4th, 2016 |
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Faraday Future has been quietly talking for months about making a new electric car—and not just a new electric car but a whole new concept of how to sell cars. The mysterious company has plans for a $1 billion factory in Nevada and is well backed by Chinese investors, but nobody has seen anything that has […]
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| Volvo and Ericsson Partner on the Real Killer App for Autonomous Cars: Streaming HD Video |
Jan 4th, 2016 |
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What will we do in our cars when we no longer have to drive them? Probably the same thing we do with any other downtime: spend more time online. In getting ready for that exciting future, Volvo has announced a partnership with Ericsson to bring high-bandwith streaming to the autonomous Volvos of tomorrow. Volvo, which […]
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| GM Invests $500 Million in Lyft to Create Network of Self-Driving Taxis |
Jan 4th, 2016 |
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General Motors just made a sizable bet on the future of ride-sharing, to the tune of a half billion dollars. The automaker announced today that it’s investing $500 million in Lyft, the ride-sharing app with the cloying pink mustache logo, establishing “a long-term strategic alliance to create an integrated network of on-demand autonomous vehicles in the […]
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| This Merkur-ious Pace Car from the Detroit Gran Prix Is Up For Sale |
Jan 2nd, 2016 |
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| 2016 Volvo S60 Inscription Tested: From China, with a Stretch |
Jan 2nd, 2016 |
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Volvo fans are rightly focused on the excitement happening at the upper reaches of the company’s model range, where the XC90 crossover and the upcoming S90 flagship sedan have been capturing headlines. There’s an addition to the firm’s more mainstream S60 range for 2016 that shouldn’t escape notice, though. Salient facts about this S60 Inscription […]
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| 2016 Volvo S60 Inscription FWD – Instrumented Test |
Jan 2nd, 2016 |
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| One State Has Started Putting Drivers’ Licenses on Smartphones |
Jan 1st, 2016 |
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From the January 2016 issue Imagine you’ve just caught the flash of red lights in your rearview mirror. As you pull over, your smartphone sends an alert, requesting permission for the police officer to view your license on a mobile device. You scan your thumb for verification, and the cop approaches. She greets you by […]
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| Treasure of the Sierra eBay: Merkur XR4Ti Pace Car for Sale |
Jan 1st, 2016 |
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Thanks to Alan Mulally’s “One Ford” initiative, you can go out right now and buy a Focus that’s largely identical to the one your cousin Miroslav picked up last week in Novi Sad. But it wasn’t always that way. The Euro Fords to land on our shores were sparse and not always well-received. Case in […]
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| Animal Farm: Beastly Horns for Your Hoopty [Video] |
Jan 1st, 2016 |
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As conversation occasionally does among the Gen-X cohort at C/D, talk this afternoon turned to the ‘70s-chestnut television variety program Hee Haw. Which sent a certain staffer down a rabbit hole to find something automotively relevant to the show beyond Junior Samples’ used-car commercial sketches. Which is how we discovered Jed, a primitive CGI donkey […]
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