| EDAG, Yo: German Engineering Firm Creates Odd “Light Cocoon” Concept |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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What’s EDAG, you ask? It is a German company that specializes in engineering. What’s a Light Cocoon? That’s the rather novel solution EDAG thought up to advance the lightweighting of cars. Obviously. The curious-looking vehicle (which is EDAG’s 16th concept car—here’s one from 2000 and another from 2007) will glow from a display at the 2015 […]
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| A Berlingo Ate My Baby! Citroën Shows Off Funky Mountain Vibe Concept |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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During Deep Purple’s fertile Ritchie Blackmore era, the band went out to Montreux, on the shores of Lake Geneva, to track what would become their rock ’n’ roll monolith, Machine Head. The theater they’d intended to make the album in burned down when some joker fired a flare gun into the ceiling, leaving Purple to […]
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| Inside Connecticut’s Fight Over Tesla Dealerships |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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Tesla Motors has an unconventional sales strategy. Model S buyers deal directly with the manufacturer, typing the exact options they desire into Tesla’s website and receiving their bespoke electric car at a later date—the current wait is about three months. It’s an unprecedented variation on the traditional car-buying process, one that was only made possible by the […]
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| VW Sport Coupe Concept GTE Hints at the Next Passat CC |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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The last time Volkswagen’s swoopy, Passat-based CC “four-door coupe” received any sort of update was back in 2013, and that was a light cosmetic freshening. We know the next all-new CC is due soon—perhaps by the end of this year—and this is your first glance at that car in the form of the Sport Coupe Concept GTE, a Geneva-bound design exercise. […]
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| Ford Working on Apple CarPlay, Android Auto Integration for Sync 3 Infotainment Platform |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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When Ford announced it was scrapping its cumbersome Microsoft-based MyFord Touch touch-screen infotainment platform and starting over with a new Blackberry QNX-based Sync 3 architecture, in the words of Monty Python, there was much rejoicing. Having already sampled Sync 3 at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, we can say it is much improved—and now we’ve learned that […]
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| CPS CEO: Finance Source Ahead of the Compliance Curve |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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Consumer Portfolio Services CEO Charles Bradley laid out the lender’s compliance efforts during a quarterly earnings call last week. The finance source’s subprime lending activities are currently being investigated by Department of Justice.
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| 2015 Jeep Renegade Limited 4×4 Tested: A Veritable Bouillon Cube of Cuteness |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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This little Jeep Toontown trucklet is a veritable bouillon cube of cuteness. From the Jeep Renegade’s big, innocent peepers (bearing a little Jeep grille and headlights logo) to its saccharine-sweet taillights molded with an “X” in the middle to look like the side of a jerrycan, the Renegade is 166.6 inches of concentrated adorableness. Naturally, […]
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| 2015 Jeep Renegade Limited 4×4 – Instrumented Test |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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| Revealed: The Secrets Lurking Out of Sight in Your Car’s Interior |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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From the March 2015 issue of Car and Driver Your car is filled with secrets—behind the dashboard, under the seat upholstery, and below the carpet. Masked by vinyl, leather, and plastic, there’s an intricate world of motors, computers, structure, plumbing, and wiring that automakers hope you never think about. It’s where an airbag lies dormant, […]
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| Honda CEO Stepping Down in June: A Brief Look at Big H’s Recent Triumphs and Troubles |
Feb 25th, 2015 |
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Honda has no time for a summer vacation. Among the items on its to-do list: deliver all-new Honda Pilots and Civic Type Rs, plan the media and market launches for the 2016 Acura NSX, juggle lawsuits and government investigations over faulty Takata airbags, and ace its first Formula 1 season in seven years as the […]
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