| The 10 Most Beautiful Cars on Sale Today |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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Similar to Jimmy Kimmel’s Handsome Men’s Club, we like to imagine all the really good-looking cars occasionally gather together to affirm each other’s hotness. Yet until autonomous cars imbued with artificial intelligence—and egos—arrive, the task of sorting the 10 most beautiful cars on sale today falls to us. Before your fingers hit that keyboard to […]
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| Top-Selling, Marginally Improved: 2014 Honda Civic 1.8L CVT Sedan Tested |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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You’ll recall that shortly after the 2012 Honda Civic landed on our collective conscious like a half-pound bucket of Play-Doh dumped onto a tabletop—soft, amorphous, just lying there, and with even less play value—the company hastened a refreshed 2013 model. We characterized the compact sedan’s exterior and interior styling upgrades and tautened steering and suspension […]
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| More Details of Kia’s New Van Emerge—Including Its Name [2014 New York Auto Show] |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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Say hello to the 2015 Sedona, the next-generation minivan from Kia. The automaker recently previewed the van sans a name or much in the way of actual details, but has now released a few choice nuggets of information besides the Sedona name. Kia currently sells a Sedona minivan, but it’s old as dirt by modern […]
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| GM Recall Update: Two Engineers Placed on Leave, Ignition Lock Cylinders Also to Be Replaced |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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As part of its efforts during its ignition-switch recall, General Motors wants employees to “quickly and forcefully” flag potential safety problems, according to a new “Speak Up for Safety” directive from CEO Mary Barra. “We will recognize employees who discover and report safety issues to fix problems that could have been found earlier and identify […]
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| 2015 Lexus NX Crossover Twerks for the Camera [2014 Beijing Auto Show] |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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Yes, we know, this is a familiar story: Photo of a highly anticipated auto-show debut leaks onto the internet days before its official reveal—yeah, real original. And so it goes for the 2015 Lexus NX crossover, which was set to be revealed at the Beijing auto show next week, but has instead unceremoniously appeared on […]
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| VW Issues Stop-Sale Order for 1.8T Jettas, Passats, and Beetles with Automatic |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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VW has stopped sales of all 2014 Jetta sedan, Passat sedan, and Beetle coupe and convertible models built after February 1, 2014 and fitted with the new 1.8-liter turbocharged engine and an automatic transmission. Dealers were ordered to halt sales and test drives immediately according to a bulletin sent out on April 8 and first […]
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| Eighth and Final Sinkhole Corvette Dug Out, Barely Resembles a Car |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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“It looks like the worst one . . . a lot of parts and pieces. It took a lot of punishment from a lot of big rocks.” That assessment of the Mallet Hammer Corvette Z06’s condition is from the CEO of the construction company charged with extracting the cars swallowed by the sinkhole beneath the […]
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| TV Eye-talian: 2015 Fiat 500 Gets Updated Interior, Including 7” HD Instrument Cluster |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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At the New York auto show, Fiat will have the 500 lineup all hopped up and ready to go. Aside from the big news in Abarth transmissions, the main thing is a display. Finally ditching the silly gauge pod and its aughts-retro black-and-amber screen, the 2015 Cinquecentos will offer a high-def, seven-inch TFT screen that […]
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| Microsoft Testing Windows-Branded Infotainment System on Racetrack, Hopes Apple and Google Miss Their Apexes |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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As Apple and Google prep their first real forays into the in-car infotainment world, Microsoft is busy testing its own beta version like actual car enthusiasts. Software engineers are taking laps at Pacific Raceways near the company’s Seattle-area headquarters to try new Windows-branded software that would function similarly to Apple CarPlay and Google’s upcoming Android […]
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| U.S. Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Dropped Chrysler Dealers |
Apr 10th, 2014 |
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The court’s decision will allow the case pitting 148 defunct Chrysler dealerships against the U.S. government to proceed. The dealerships were closed as part of Chrysler’s 2009 bailout agreement.
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