| Lightning Lap 2015: 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost – Feature |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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| Lightning Lap 2015: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club – Feature |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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| Nissan Recalls 41,000 More Altima, Maxima Sedans for Fuel-Tank Leaks |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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Nissan is expanding a recall to include 41,388 more cars with faulty gas-tank seals, according to filings posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In total, there are 46,846 cars affected—the list includes 2013–2016 Altima 3.5 models and the 2016 Maxima—since Nissan announced the first recall in August. Only V-6 models are included. The H-seal […]
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| Rotary Redux: Mazda Confirms Sports-Car Concept to Feature New Rotary Engine |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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Last month, when Mazda released this shadowy photo of a new sports-car concept ahead of its Tokyo auto show debut, it served as fuel for the usual rotary rumors. Now, reports originating in Japan say that not only is the concept powered by a genuine rotary engine, but also that the two-door, two-seat concept hints strongly at an […]
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| 2017 Lexus LC Coupe Spied in Production Body: Lexusfalutin, Two-Door-Style |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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What It Is: A prototype of Lexus’s upcoming flagship luxury coupe, which will be positioned far higher up the automotive food chain than the Japanese brand’s only other current coupe model, the RC. The new model was previewed by the California-designed LF-LC concept at the 2012 Detroit auto show, but now running prototypes are plying […]
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| 2017 Lexus LC Spied in Production Body: Lexusfalutin, Two-Door-Style – Future Cars |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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| Fitness Test: Subjecting an Average Car to the Perils of Lightning Lap |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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From the October 2015 issue Every year, without fail, reader response to Lightning Lap includes multiple pleas to enter an everyday car—a Camry, an Accord, a Fiesta without an ST badge. You know, an average ride built for the average commuter. Well, this year we happened to have our long-term 2015 Honda Fit EX present […]
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| Lightning Lap 2015: Our Man Ezra Dyer on His First Lightning Lap, Lawn Chairs, and Lynyrd Skynyrd |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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The moment I joined Car and Driver, I set about scheming my way into the Lightning Lap testing at Virginia International Raceway. From the outside, Lightning Lap looks like everything you dream about at the Academy, when you’re just a snot-nosed QWERTY jockey scrubbing latrines every time you dangle a participle in front of the […]
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| Latka-san Is Pleased: Toyota Shows Doofy-Looking JPN Taxi Concept |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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It’s been 20 years since Toyota launched the Crown Comfort, Japan’s Crown Victoria equivalent, and the rear-drive sedan meant for taxi duty was dated and stodgy-looking then, like a superdeformed vision of a Lexus LS400. No less a man than Akio Toyoda has recognized the Crown Comfort’s importance to the company, awarding it his “President’s […]
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| Tomorrowland: We Drive Honda’s New Fuel-Cell Vehicle |
Oct 27th, 2015 |
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Visiting Japan from the United States means crossing the International Date Line—quite literally traveling into the future. This was not lost on us when we visited Honda’s research and development center in Tochigi in advance of the Tokyo Motor Show for an extremely limited drive of its third-generation fuel-cell vehicle, heretofore known by the inventive […]
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