| Hyundai test centre to open at Nurburgring |
May 24th, 2013 |
. The $7.3 million facility is set for completion by August this year and will be used to lift Hyundai's vehicle development and evaluation program to benchmark levels. Without a proper test facility on location at the ...
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| ConsumerWatch Startup Lets SFO Travelers Rent Out Cars While On Vacation |
May 24th, 2013 |
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – Car sharing has arrived at San Francisco International Airport, and so far more than 650 travelers have tried it out. Flightcar started up operations a few months ago in a large parking lot in Millbrae, a few miles from S.F.O. The start-up helps car owners rent out their vehicles when they go on vacation. Prices for rentals range from $20 to $40 a day; car owners ...
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| Cars that say America |
May 24th, 2013 |
Whether intended to be evocative or in homage, or just because they sound cool, cars named after American places have always been part of the U.S. automotive lexicon. And the number of cars named thus, like the country itself, is vast. Automakers both foreign and domestic borrow names from American cities, regions and towns, from the extraordinary to the downright plain. Some names seem to be a ...
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| 2014 Kia Soul Expected to Yield All-Electric Version Next Year |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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Kia Motors is having a busy year, reloading with seven all-new or refreshed vehicles this year, not the least of which is the 2014 Kia Soul that we first saw at the New York Auto Show. If you believe Kia World, a fan site, an all-electric version of the Kia Soul could be coming as [...]
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| GM Recalls 2013 Cadillac SRX For Loose Lug Nuts |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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Although the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has not yet posted this recall to their website, the recall of select 2013 Cadillac SRX models has been posted on the Transport Canada website and Cadillac dealers have been notified. The vehicles involved in the recall are equipped with 18-inch wheels with potentially loos wheel nuts. [...]
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| Inside the 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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Even though the Mercedes-Benz lineup has received a lot of criticism–from overwrought styling on some models to somehow being too luxurious on others–our colleagues at Automobile Magazine say the new C-Class due in March 2014 promises to get a lot of things right. It will be sleek and sporty, roomier than the previous model, but [...]
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| 2009 Maserati Quattroporte Converted into a “Cincoporte” Station Wagon Heading to Auction |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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If there’s one sedan out there that has just the right amount of style, performance, and sex appeal, it’s the Maserati Quattroporte. So what happens if that sex appeal finds the touchdown line and helps spawn a family? What do you do from there? If you’re former president of Ducati motorcycles, Dr. Carlo Bonomi, you buy [...]
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| McLaren Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Special-Edition 12C Coupe and Spider |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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Whatever happened to celebrating a double-digit birthday with a cake, or a lawn full of flamingos—you know, one for each year the old codger has been around? In the auto industry, birthdays now are celebrated largely with special-edition models, and McLaren is rolling out a pair of them for its 50th anniversary. The limited-production 12C [...]
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| 2015 BMW M4 Spy Photos: The Remaking of an Icon |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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What It Is: This sleek two-door coupe is nothing less than the M4, which will replace the M3 coupe. BMW is renaming the coupe version of the 3-series to 4-series, and a similar fate is in store for the 1-series coupe, which will be known as 2-series in the future—thus implicitly acknowledging that the 6-series [...]
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| The Physics Of Redline: Secrets of Sky-High Engine Speeds |
May 23rd, 2013 |
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The term “Redline” technically refers only to the red hashmarks on a tachometer, but it is synonymous with maximum engine speed. The 9000-rpm Porsche 911 GT3 and Ferraris prove that, even if redlines are dropping with the proliferation of turbocharged and diesel engines, there are still some high achievers out there. In the above illustration [...]
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