| Miatas Gone Wild: In-Depth with the Mazda Miata Speedster and Spyder Concepts |
Jan 25th, 2016 |
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There’s nothing subtle about the Miata-based Speedster and Spyder concepts Mazda built for the 2015 SEMA show. The Speedster is a grab-the-Sawzall-and-cut-your-way-to-lightness exercise that would make a gastric-bypass surgeon proud. The Spyder, for its part, achieves exotic status by flaunting its own impracticality. Neither car has side windows, and neither is an original idea; the […]
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| Miatas Gone Wild: In-Depth with the Mazda Miata Speedster and Spyder Concepts – Feature |
Jan 25th, 2016 |
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| You Can’t Please Everyone: Why Lamborghini, Maserati, and (I Think) Porsche Hate Me |
Jan 25th, 2016 |
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I just finished reading Richard Porter’s And on That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of Top Gear. It’s an entertaining book, partly because Top Gear existed in its own vortex of ridiculous situations, and partly because Porter is the source of much of the absurd humor that informed the show. But the BBC series […]
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| Ford Says “Sayonara!” to the Japanese Market |
Jan 25th, 2016 |
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Ford Motor Company is pulling out of Japan, where it sells both the Ford and Lincoln brands. According to a report by The Detroit Bureau, affected employees were notified of the decision via an email from David Schoch, Ford president of the Asia Pacific region. The company also is quitting the Indonesian market. Ford currently sells […]
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| Updated Volkswagen Golf to Debut This Fall, R400 Maybe Never |
Jan 25th, 2016 |
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The Volkswagen Golf, one of our favorite compacts, is still selling in good numbers—and therefore the company feels no particular rush to come out with its mid-cycle revision. Sources tell us that we’ll see the updated version this fall, at the Paris auto show, and that the car will hit European dealerships by the end […]
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| Here’s One Prius That Won’t Be Stuck in the Slow Lane |
Jan 25th, 2016 |
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For a lot of people, there’s nothing wrong with the Toyota Prius that wouldn’t be cured by dropping in a V-8. Here then is just what the doctor 0rdered, a 2016 Prius with a 3.4-liter V-8. Oh, and it’s still a hybrid. The V-8 is mounted amidships, and parts of the Hybrid Synergy Drive system […]
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| 2016 Volvo S60 T5 Cross Country: Hey, It Worked Before |
Jan 22nd, 2016 |
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Some ideas keep coming back. First, AMC put four-wheel-drive hardware under a Concord station wagon (née Hornet Sportabout) and dubbed it the Eagle—and then doubled down and pulled the same stunt with a sedan (and a coupe!). A decade later, Subaru tried the same thing and created the Legacy Outback wagon; and eventually it, too, […]
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| 2016 Volvo S60 Cross Country – Instrumented Test |
Jan 22nd, 2016 |
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| Takata Airbag Recall: 10th Death Reported, More Recalls Expected |
Jan 22nd, 2016 |
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Defective Takata airbag inflators have seemingly caused the death of a tenth victim, and automakers will be expanding recalls yet again, according to Reuters. An unidentified man in South Carolina was killed on December 22 when he hit a cow in his 2006 Ford Ranger and metal from a ruptured inflator sliced his neck, Reuters said. The death […]
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| Three Motorbikes of Verona: Ducati Displays Tweaked Scramblers |
Jan 22nd, 2016 |
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When the Volkswagen Group’s Ducati unit announced the Scrambler in late 2014, the motorcycling populace went bonkers. The naked Monsters had become more monstrous and less entry-level. The sportbikes had become ludicrously fast machines. The Hypermotard and Multistrada cost real dollars, and the Diavel has a jillion horsepower, looks strange, and now comes with forward […]
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