| 100 Porsche Dealers to Become “Classic” Repair Shops, and America’s Getting Two |
Dec 1st, 2015 |
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Air-cooled 911s and 356s stopped being cheap about a decade ago, the 2.7 RS and any winning Porsche race car with the number nine at the beginning of its model designation are pure unobtainium, and yet we’re hopeful we’ll ride the next wave, maybe on a 914 or (likelier) a Boxster Spyder. Obvious fact: Most Porsches that […]
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| On Lancer! On i-MiEV, On to the Great Beyond! Mitsubishi to Focus Energies on Mirage, Crossovers |
Dec 1st, 2015 |
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Dear Lancer, in your most highly evolved form, you’ve offered Americans roughly a decade of turbofied, all-wheels-driven mirth. But you’re long in the tooth, and not long for the U.S. market. O i-MiEV, the only kei car we Yanks could avail ourselves of without resorting to gray-market trickery, you were somewhat beloved by a few, […]
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| Advertising the 1970s: These Car Ads Define a Nation Desperately Trying to Enjoy Itself |
Dec 1st, 2015 |
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As the revolutionary social climate of the 1960s began to lose steam under the weight of its own idealism, the once razor-sharp line between the counterculture and straight-laced America began to blur. By the time we hit the ’70s, the two had melded into an avocado-and-burnt-orange-hued decade of bell-bottomed and puka-shelled self-exploration. For a visual […]
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| IIHS to Begin Attaching Headlight Performance Standards to Safety Ratings |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is working to incorporate a headlight-rating segment into its analysis of cars’ safety performance, and it is working to do so soon. According to Automotive News, the research firm is looking to tie headlight performance to a car’s safety rating as soon as 2017. This means that, in […]
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| ROBORACE: The Fully Autonomous Racing Series That Sounds Cooler Than It’ll Be |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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As if Formula E didn’t already fail at creating so much as a ripple in the racing community, the all-electric racing series has announced its new opening act: Roborace. Think a bunch of near-silent electric race cars whizzing around a circuit is boring? Just wait until you soak in a Roborace event, which will also […]
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| 2016 Mercedes-AMG GLE63 S Coupe Test: Absurdly Awesome |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s also a safe money grab. If you’re a car company and one of your competitors strikes gold with a niche product, you fill that niche in your own lineup. This author recently called the Ram Rebel “a blatant me-too” on account of it basically being a […]
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| 2016 Mercedes-AMG GLE63 S Coupe – Instrumented Test |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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| There’s Snow Place Like Inside to Test Winter Tires: We Head to Finland’s Test World |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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Being headquartered in Michigan, where winters are usually gray, very often snowy, and bitterly cold, we’re major proponents of winter tires. Indeed, if you’ve ever driven a car on winter tires and experience the kind of additional stopping power they provide when ice, snow, and slush cover the roadways, you no doubt feel the same way. Of course, driving or testing winter tires […]
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| The Mercedes-Benz S-class Was the Most Important Car Redesign of the Decade |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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I’m probably out here all alone on this one, but I believe that the most important car redesign of the decade, now that we’re midway through it, is the current Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan’s. READ MORE ››
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| Bugatti Chiron: The 1500-hp, $2.5-Million Veyron Successor’s Name, Debut Are Official |
Nov 30th, 2015 |
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Name it Chiron, and they will come. Or name it whatever you’d like, and so long as it’s the descendant of the mighty Bugatti Veyron, the rich and powerful will toss money at you like so much confetti. We’re talking, of course, about the Veyron’s successor, which Bugatti has confirmed will be named “Chiron” and […]
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