| 2014 Buick LaCrosse First Drive |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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Suddenly, Buick's full-size sedan is a bona fide luxury car, likely to Cadillac's chagrin
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| 2015 Lexus RC F Spy Photos: The Two-Door IS Gets a New Name and an F Variant |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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What It Is: A coupe companion to the recently launched IS that may be badged as the RC. Lexus holds trademarks on both “RC350” and “RC F,” and such a change to the two-door IS’s moniker would make sense considering the trend in this direction—the coupe version of Audi’s A4 being called A5, and BMW [...]
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| Hyundai Announces 2014 Equus Prices, Other Future Model News |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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It seems like only yesterday that the first Hyundai models started popping up on our shores; actually, it’s been almost 30 years since the first Excel went on sale here in the late 1980s. Today, Hyundai builds three of its most popular models in the U.S., and Sonata sedans that sell for well into the [...]
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| Hammer Down! Juan Manuel Fangio’s Mercedes-Benz W196 Sells for $29.6 Million |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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Auctioneer Robert Brooks rapped the hammer at the Bonhams Goodwood sale, sending a Mercedes-Benz W196 grand-prix race car (detailed here) to a new owner and setting a new automotive record for most expensive car ever auctioned. Just how much will it cost its new owner when it’s all said and done? $29,650,095. What you get [...]
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| 2014 BMW i3 Driven: The Charge of the Light Brigade |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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Regardless of whether the wider driving public has asked for it or not, the electric car is here—and here to stay. Charting the number of new segment entries by model year creates a graph more steeply inclined than a Himalayan ascent. As recently as five years ago, the EPA certified just one electric vehicle for [...]
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| Name That Shifter, No. 137 |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until mid-day Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the Manuals button and sticker.* Good luck! (* Offer open [...]
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| A Thousand Horsepower? Hennessey Outlines Several Levels of Pumped-Up C7 Corvette Upgrades |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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So you think Chevrolet’s latest Corvette is pretty grand, but you want more than its stock 455 horsepower? Pity, the C7 ZR1 won’t arrive any time soon, and neither will the Z06. Mercifully, Hennessey Performance Engineering’s got your back. The tuning outfit has revealed a slew of performance-enhancement packages for Chevrolet’s newest Corvette, and the least [...]
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| Limited-Edition Mazda MX-5 Miata Sport Graphite Debuts for U.K. |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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With the current-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata nearing the end of its production run, and new contenders hitting the market, Mazda is doing what it can to get people behind the wheel of its exceptionally fun-to-drive roadster. To that end, Mazda has just unveiled the limited-edition MX-5 Sport Graphite for the U.K. Limited to just 500 [...]
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| Hennessey Kits for 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Deliver 500-1000 HP |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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Hennessey Performance is no stranger to big power upgrades for machines already potent in stock form, and the tuning firm now has four kits for those that want more than 455-460 hp from their 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The company announced its forced induction plans for the new ‘Vette shortly after the car’s debut in [...]
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| Take an African Safari in a 2014 Subaru Forester on Epic Drives |
Jul 15th, 2013 |
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The 2014 Subaru Forester XT may not be the first pick for adventurers who want to explore the plains of Africa, but host Arthur St. Antoine selects that vehicle for just such a mission in the newest episode of Epic Drives. While Land Rovers and Toyota Land Cruisers are the most common sets of wheels [...]
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