| Former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers ends confinement |
May 17th, 2013 |
U.S. Rep. John Conyers , D-Mich., finished a term of home confinement Thursday. Conyers will remain on supervised release for two years, The Detroit News reported. She was sentenced to 37 months in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to accepting a bribe to change her vote on a sewage contract and served some of her time at the federal prison camp for women in Alderson, W.Va. After returning ...
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| UPDATE 1-Honda to return to F1 in 2015 as McLaren engine supplier |
May 17th, 2013 |
(Adds Honda and McLaren CEO comments, background) By Yoko Kubota TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Honda is returning to Formula One racing in 2015, after a seven-year hiatus, as McLaren's engine partner, the Japanese carmaker said on Thursday. The ...
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| NHTSA’s New Chief Considers Auto-Brake Systems |
May 16th, 2013 |
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David Friedman has been appointed as the new deputy administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and has considered making auto-brake systems in cars a mandatory feature. Friedman has previously pushed for stricter fuel economy standards and lower oil consumption. Automatic braking systems use cameras and radar systems to detect oncoming vehicles, as [...]
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| Spied! 2014 BMW M235i Without Camouflage |
May 16th, 2013 |
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Previously, the only BMW 2-Series prototypes seen were smothered in camouflage, making it harder for us to figure out what the production-ready car would look like. Today, we caught the BMW M235i at an official photo shoot where most of the camouflage has been done away with. Even several months before its official debut, we [...]
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| 2014 BMW 6 Series Adds M Sport Edition |
May 16th, 2013 |
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Available on all 2014 BMW 6 Series models will be a special M Sport enhancement edition that will add features and sportier styling. On the outside the 6 Series will get new 19-inch wheels with a double five-spoke design. A host of dark-chrome accents will make their way on everything from the brake calipers to [...]
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| Video: Is Volvo Teasing the Next-Generation XC90 SUV? |
May 16th, 2013 |
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In this latest teaser video from Volvo, we get 11 seconds of a man walking up to a lighthouse. There are no hints as to what will be unveiled, except for what might be an SUV to the left of him. It’s hard to speculate what we will see in the debut, but it’s possible [...]
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| Behind the Wheel: 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 BlueTEC 4MATIC |
May 16th, 2013 |
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Mercedes-Benz will be the first to tell you that it is the grandfather of the diesel engine. Across the pond, this makes for really good for business as 55 percent of all Europeans drive a vehicle with a diesel engine under the hood. Back in America, that number is incinerated down to around 2.5 percent. [...]
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| 2014 Maserati Quattroporte S Q4 Driven: 404-hp V-6 and AWD Get It Done |
May 16th, 2013 |
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We are literally flying in a Maserati Quattroporte S Q4 at the automaker’s Balocco test track. Former WRC rally driver Alex Fiorio has launched Maserati’s sedan into a dipping left-hander— WHAM, we land, and he deftly cranks the 4500-pound sedan into a rising right. A few corners later, Fiorio purposely misses an apex and slides [...]
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| 2013 Nissan Pathfinder AWD Long-Term Intro: Climbing Aboard for 40,000 Miles |
May 16th, 2013 |
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The Nissan Pathfinder isn’t what it once was. Like the Ford Explorer, this one-time hardbody truck has morphed into a mom-bomb crossover. Towing capacity and cargo volume are now secondary concerns to fuel economy, comfort, and refinement. The V-8 engine has disappeared, the drivetrain has flipped to a front-wheel bias, and the sheet metal has [...]
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| Dial M for Motorsport: BMW Adds M Sport Edition for 6-series, Starts at $80,625 |
May 16th, 2013 |
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Walking into a BMW dealership is no different than entering a five-star steakhouse–everything’s a la carte and you will pay through the nose to get the best trimmings. But sometimes BMW throws us a bone (possibly a T-bone, in this instance), and suddenly, an $80,625 640i coupe is somewhat easier to swallow.The 2014 6-series M [...]
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