| Cheap leases offered to spur electric-car sales |
Jun 1st, 2013 |
Sluggish sales have dampened high expectations for electric car-use. So Honda is slashing the monthly lease cost of its tiny Fit EV by one third, following similar moves by other ...
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| Tesla Model S gets top score |
Jun 1st, 2013 |
Inside, the car looks like something Marty McFly might have brought "back from the future" in place of his iconic fusion-powered DeLorean. A giant 17-inch touch screen glows in the center of the dashboard, controlling everything from high-res Google Earth maps to opening the sunroof, setting the responsiveness of the regenerative brakes, and adjusting the suspension ride height. In all, ...
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| Campaign warns parents about leaving kids in hot cars |
Jun 1st, 2013 |
Broward County officials launch a campaign to help prevent people from leaving young children inside cars, a leading cause of death from ...
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| Google declines to back NHTSA guidelines on self-driving cars |
Jun 1st, 2013 |
Washington Search engine giant Google Inc. on Friday declined to endorse the Obama ...
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| Auto racing Elko Speedway excited to host its biggest race ever |
Jun 1st, 2013 |
A top-tier NASCAR race has never been held in Minnesota, and there are few signs that will change any time soon. But Elko Speedway is hosting the next-best thing Saturday night with the ARCA Racing Series' Akona 250, and track officials are overjoyed. "This is the biggest race ever at Elko," said Bob Sargent, president of Track Enterprises in Macon, Ill., and promoter of the race. ...
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| Rumor Mill: Audi A7 Fuel Cell in Development |
May 31st, 2013 |
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Audi has been aggressively expanding its range, adding new models, and performance variants of those models. The Audi A7 debuted in 2011 as a 2012 model, and although mechanically similar to the A6, its hatchback styling instantly won us–and most of the industry–over. The S7 soon followed, and the RS7 will be hitting U.S. shores [...]
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| Hyundai Opening $8.3 Million Test Center at the Nurburgring in August |
May 31st, 2013 |
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The Nurburgring has long been considered the benchmark for testing vehicles on a race track. So what better place to set up a full-time testing facility than at the Nurburgring? That’s what Hyundai thought, so the Korean automaker did just that, dropping $8.3 million into a year-round purpose-built facility at the famous Green Hell with [...]
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| Ford to Give Customers First Crack at 2014 Fiesta ST at 13-City EcoBoost Challenge |
May 31st, 2013 |
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If nothing excites you quite like the prospect of a lightweight, turbocharged 2014 Ford Fiesta ST being flung across a wide-open parking lot at speed, we have a treat for you. Ford is bringing back its EcoBoost Challenge, a 13-city tour of turbocharged goodness, to a metropolitan area near you. The premise of the EcoBoost [...]
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| 2013 Ford Hybrid Sales Need Only Five Months to Break 2010 Record |
May 31st, 2013 |
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At Ford, hybrids are apparently becoming a pretty big thing. In 2010 with the help of the previous-generation Ford Fusion Hybrid, Escape Hybrid, Mercury versions, and the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, the automaker sold 35,496 hybrids, setting a record for the company. But just five months into 2013, Ford has already surpassed that record-breaking year. While [...]
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| Video of the Day: World’s Fastest Car Show Takes on World’s Fastest Subcompact |
May 31st, 2013 |
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In case you missed it, the Motor Trend YouTube channel has added another show, and it comes to you in the form of the World’s Fastest Car Show. In the latest installment, host Justin Bell–yes the same Justin Bell who has raced in LeMans–takes the 2013 Fiat 500 Abarth convertible for a spin through the [...]
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