| Honda Ridgeline Super Bowl 50 Ad: Life’s a Treat [Video] |
Feb 1st, 2016 |
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This year’s Super Bowl ad for the new Ridgeline is an indication that somebody at RPA, Honda’s U.S. ad agency, has clearly been smoking doobs while binge-watching Shaun the Sheep, ultimately asking himself, “Bro, what if these animated sheep were like, real? And in America?” In the clip, which touts the redesigned pickup’s in-bed sound […]
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| In Hyundai’s Super Bowl Ads, the Elantra Protects from the Dangers of Bears, Famous Actors [Video] |
Feb 1st, 2016 |
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Hyundai has released the first two of the ads it will run during Super Bowl 50. Both 30-second spots highlight the safety/convenience features of the Elantra, which has been redesigned for 2017. The Elantra’s latest tech features prove just the thing for combating the dangers posed by bears—and by Hollywood hunks. In “The Chase,” a […]
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| VW’s Electric BUDD-e Concept—or Something Much Like It—Headed for Production |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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Rocked by its diesel-emissions scandal, the VW Group is pivoting on its wheels and rushing to embrace battery-electric technology instead. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when the company attempted to change the conversation by rolling out the BUDD-e electric microvan concept at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. And it’s only slightly […]
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| Connie Kalitta Interview: We Pick the Brain of a Drag-Racing Legend |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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C/D: You certainly must be our only interviewee to have foiled a crazed hijacker. CK: Christ, that was 20-some years ago. It was a guy who walked into my office and wanted to charter a Learjet to Washington, D.C. When we asked for a credit card, he opened his briefcase and pulled out a knife. At knifepoint, […]
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| Four-Cylinder BMW 730i—It’s Not Coming Here, and We’re OK With That |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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In BMW’s new math, four goes into seven—at least in some cases. BMW is putting a four-cylinder engine in its flagship new 7-series, but it’s not for the U.S. market. Instead, it’s buyers in Turkey who will be able to choose the new 730i (not pictured), with its turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder making 258 horsepower and […]
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| Happy Birthday, Automobile! Karl Benz’s Wheeled Tricycle Is 130 Years Old Today |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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Like many late-20th-century kids reared in the industrial orbit of Detroit, the standard line tossed about by our well-meaning but somewhat uninterested teachers was that “Henry Ford was the father of the gasoline-powered automobile.” They were wrong of course; Ford was far from first, even in the U.S. If our noble educators had removed their […]
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| Happy Birthday, Automobile! Karl Benz’s Wheeled Tricycle Is 130 Years Old Today |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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| Behind the Scenes at Aston Martin’s Frankenstein Lab for Special Projects |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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Top-secret engineering facilities shouldn’t draw attention to themselves, but Aston Martin’s skunkworks takes covert boringness to a whole new level. As these things tend to be, it’s in a low-rise building, this one located in the small and uninteresting English town of Wellesbourne, seven miles from Aston’s Gaydon HQ. There are no signs, unsurprisingly, but we […]
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| Behind the Scenes at Aston Martin’s Frankenstein Lab for Special Projects |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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| Nissan Recalls Altima for Third Time to Fix Hood Latches |
Jan 29th, 2016 |
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Nissan is recalling 846,000 Altima sedans in the U.S. for faulty hood latches. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the third (and hopefully final) time this problem has surfaced. The 2013-2015 Altima has a secondary hood latch—the one you grab after the hood pops open partially—that may not lock the hood in place. […]
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