| America’s 17 Most-American Cars Made In America By Americans For Americans Who Love America |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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Yeah, yeah, yeah… America is different things to different people. But there are still core beliefs and values that almost all of us share. These are things like forthrightness, and appreciation of abundance, and confidence in the future. In sum, we like things bold, big, and bodacious. So here C/D presents, as American stares down […]
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| The Best 30 New Cars Under $30K: Comparisons, Tests, and More! |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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The average new-car transaction price in the U.S. has crept above $30,000, which is about two grand more than it was five years ago, and enough to make inflation look like it’s not even trying. But these escalating MSRPs aren’t solely due to carmaker greed; they are the cost of meeting increasingly tough safety, performance, […]
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| 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT-S First Ride: Large, V-8 Turbocharged, and In Charge |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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A ride-along is the equivalent of a tepid handshake climaxing a hot date. Compared with actually driving a brilliant car, a ride-along evaporates from memory quicker than spit on a hot exhaust pipe. One notable exception is a Mercedes-Benz event I attended about 40 years ago. That triple-header experience involved a spectacular sports car piloted […]
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| Watch Hyundai Demonstrate the 2015 Genesis’s Safety Features Unsafely in a Wild Commercial |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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Awesome car ads are not uncommon, but awesome car ads that demonstrate safety features—well, those don’t pop up every day. Hyundai has released just such a spot that might just live up to our lofty standards of awesometude. The two-minute video, which was put on YouTube by TestDriven, is called the “The Empty Car Convoy” […]
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| Even More Ford-tastic! Ford’s Top 20 Cars of All Time, Part II |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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In our last installment of Ford’s Top 20 Cars of All Time, we paid homage to the 1965 Shelby Cobra 427, the 1955 T-Bird, the 1982 Mustang GT, both the 1939 and 1961 Lincoln Continentals, the 1969 Capri, the 1965 Galaxie and LTD, the 2010 Raptor pickup, the 2005 Ford GT, and last but not […]
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| Fast Company: Scientifically Sorting the Industry’s Biggest Pushers of Speed and Power [Infographic] |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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You’ll find a celebration of speed throughout this issue. Because if cars weren’t fast, they wouldn’t be so thrilling; and if cars weren’t powerful, they wouldn’t be so fast. Here, we’ve compiled a data mountain pertaining to speed and power and the companies that move them in the greatest volume in the U.S. Like most […]
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| The Most Interesting Motorbike in the World? Ariel Ace Debuts at Goodwood |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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We don’t do motorbikes very often, but we’ve got a good reason to do so here. The new Ariel Ace is, as its name suggests, made by the same British company that produces the ultra-lightweight Atom, with the new bike sharing much of its four-wheel sibling’s aesthetic. It’s another of the unveilings at the Goodwood […]
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| Ode to a Skyline: 1995 Nissan GT-R V-Spec Tested in Japan! |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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Saturday, 9 a.m., Hakone, Japan: After two days of rounding up test cars beneath gray skies, it’s our first sunny day. We stop at a Cosmo service station for a fill-up and a carwash. In contrast to the good ol’ U.S., here stations are stocked with cheerful, eager-to-please attendants who apparently have not heard the […]
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| Dune Bug Returns: Awesome VW Beetle Dune Concept Going Into Production in 2016 |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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When the shimmering copper Beetle Dune Concept debuted at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year, our sources at VW suggested the awesome Bug would arrive in dealerships within a couple of years. That strong hint has just been transformed into fact, thanks to confirmation from Volkswagen that the jacked-up compact will indeed go into […]
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| 2014 Fiat 500 1957 Edition First Drive: Costumed Compact Drivery |
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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Good news for those who like to arrive fashionably late to parties: The 1957 Edition of the Fiat 500 survives for the 2015 model year. Introduced for 2014 to commemorate, oddly enough as it was, the 57th anniversary of the model that inspired its design, the commemoration carries on into year 58 because, well, Italians […]
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