| Porsche’s Own Classic Motor Oil Keeps Your Air-Cooled Car Running the Porsche Way |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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If you own an old Porsche, let us say two things: First, we’re jealous, and second, in order to keep it running right, you should regularly change your oil. But you already knew both of those things. Here’s what you may not know: Porsche thinks whatever oil you’ve been using is junk. Okay, so the […]
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| Start Game: Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo Looks Utterly Radical, Could Predict Shape of 2020 GT-R |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Last week, Nissan teased us with a ghosted image of its Vision Gran Turismo fantasy car, which was created for Sony Playstation 3’s popular Gran Turismo 6 video game. Now it has revealed the real (virtual) thing, called the Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo. Available for download starting in July, and looking for all […]
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| Toyota Recalling 844,000 U.S. Cars for Shrapnel-Shooting Airbags |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Toyota is recalling 844,277 cars to swap out airbag inflators that can shoot shrapnel in a passenger’s face. The 2002–2004 Lexus SC430 and Toyota Sequoia, along with the 2003–2004 Tundra, Corolla, Matrix, and Pontiac Vibe (the re-badged Matrix built by Toyota) are included. The automaker is expanding an unprecedented airbag recall from April 2013 that […]
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| Range Rover Sport Stealth Pack Debuts, Does Not In Fact Make SUVs Invisible to Radar |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Land Rover is jazzing up its already pretty jazzy Range Rover Sport with a new Stealth Pack exterior appearance package for 2015. By “stealth,” Land Rover actually means “cooler looking” and not “more difficult to detect,” with lots of sinister satin-black details. These include the grille insert and surround, fog-lamp bezels, hood and fender vents, […]
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| 65,000 Saab, Chevy, and Buick Cars Bring GM Recalls to 38 This Year |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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The Saab 9-3 convertible is back in the news, and not because the semi-revived brand discovered a box of unused canvas tops under a pile of snow. The seat-belt tensioner cables can snap on 28,789 of the Saab droptops from the 2004–2011 model years, which can leave the belt permanently slack and unable to roll […]
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| Audi Clinches 13th Title: 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans Race Recap [w/ Mega Gallery] |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Audi is now just three Le Mans victories away from tying Porsche in the record books at Circuit de la Sarthe. For the 13th time in the last 15 years, Audi claimed overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was a one-two finish for the R18 e-tron racers, with Benoit Treluyer, Marcel […]
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| From Gladiators to Astronauts: Behind the Scenes with Porsche at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans [w/ Gallery] |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Despite massive pre-race downplaying of its chances for victory, Porsche returned to Le Mans with its first factory-backed team since 1998 to run hard. It also came to party hard, having paid to erect multiple glass-lined, air-conditioned, and Champagne-stocked suites for VIPs around the circuit. A fleet of Porsche-stickered vans waited to whisk invited guests […]
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| First Aston Martin on All-New Architecture Will Be DB9 Replacement |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Aston Martin is busy at work on its next-generation sports-car line, and the first model to market will be the successor to the current DB9 (pictured above). According to a report from the U.K.’s Autocar magazine, work on the next-gen Aston GT “is well under way” and the car could be unveiled as soon as […]
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| Supercar-nage: Lamborghini Gallardo Burns to the Ground in England |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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Sad as it is, there’s something riveting about supercar-nage, whether it be a wrecked Ferrari F40 or a classic Mercedes being clipped by a Bimmer—and don’t get us going about the Corvette sinkhole—so we couldn’t resist running these photos of a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera that met a fiery end on Saturday on a roadway in […]
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| All is Fare in NYC: Nissan NV200 Taxi Gets Green Light |
Jun 16th, 2014 |
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In a surprise reversal, an appeals court judge has ruled that New York City can indeed force all of its taxi drivers to buy Nissan NV200 vans, marking yet another stalemate in an 18-month court battle over the city’s “Taxi of Tomorrow.” In October when Nissan rolled the first vans to dealers, a judge ruled […]
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