| Gas Prices on Dramatic Rise, and It’s Not Even Summer Yet: Here’s Why |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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Gas prices are already up 45 cents per gallon nationally to $3.75 on average, and we’re not even out of the second month of the year yet. What gives? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, trading prices have quite an impact on gas. The Brent crude oil price–the raw price on the international market–has [...]
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| Audi Builds 5 Millionth Quattro-Equipped Vehicle |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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An Audi with quattro all-wheel drive is like peanut butter with jelly. It’s hard to imagine one without the other. Since 1980, there’s been an Audi available with quattro. Now the automaker is celebrating its 5 millionth all-wheel-drive vehicle rolling off the line, a white 2013 Audi allroad 3.0 TDI that’s destined for some location [...]
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| Video of the Day: Motor Trend Ignition and the Mazda MX-5 |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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Nobody buys a Mazda MX-5 (“Miata”) because it’s reliable. Not anymore anyway. But when the Miata debuted just over 24 years ago, it was hailed as a reliable alternative to the British roadsters of the ’70s and ’80s. The British formula was simple: lightweight, rear-wheel drive, and an open top. The Miata, however, added something [...]
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| Behind the Wheel: 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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When we heard a diesel engine was making its way into Chrysler Group’s portfolio last year, we’ll freely admit it piqued our interest. We were recently given the opportunity to get behind the wheel of this all-new 3.0-liter V-6 turbo EcoDiesel engine with the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and it didn’t disappoint. We flew to [...]
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| Behind the Wheel: 2013 Mini Cooper Paceman S |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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“Hey, I know, how about we take our small crossover and get rid of two doors?” You can imagine in the case of the 2013 Mini Paceman Cooper S, this conversation took place in a bar instead of a boardroom. Or maybe an English pub. Using the Mini Countryman crossover as its the starting point, [...]
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| 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee First Drive |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee comes in multiple flavors, now offers four different engines
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| Name That Shifter, No. 117 |
Feb 25th, 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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| Brabus 800 Roadster: Because the 621-hp Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Is for Wussies [2013 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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When imagining a 6.0-liter twin-turbo V-12, 621 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Mercedes-Benz AMG thinks so, too, and that’s what the SL65 AMG roadster delivers. Bodo Buschmann thinks otherwise. His tuning house, Brabus, has taken AMG’s most powerful roadster and upgraded it to 788 horsepower, or 800 PS (Germany’s [...]
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| Fiat 500 GQ Edition: For the Classy European Gentleman [2013 Geneva Auto Show] |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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The special-edition Fiat 500 models just keep coming, and now there’s another one, for Europe, at least. The latest Cinquecento spin-off is this GQ edition—as in Gentlemen’s Quarterly—and it’s set to debut at the 2013 Geneva auto show. The GQ edition is unabashedly geared toward men, sort of like the 500 Abarth 695 Tributo Maserati [...]
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| Michelin Clio Cup Kits Promise Big Bang For the Buck (Or the Pound, As It Were) |
Feb 25th, 2013 |
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Well up on our list of cars we don’t get here but would love to drive is Renault’s Clio, specifically the current Renaultsport 200 version with its 197-hp, 1.6-liter turbo four and oh-so-French interior. And if we lived in the U.K., we’d be tempted to buy one of the older Renaultsport 197 or 200s and [...]
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