| Video: 813-hp Rotary Engine Spits Flames! |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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If this lumpy, manic-sounding six-rotor monster sounds familiar, you might have seen it before. It’s Pulse Performance Race Engineering’s famous “6B” engine that they ended up stuffing into an RX-4 in New Zealand. This video is new to us, but it’s from before the car was completed. We know from the earlier dyno run that […]
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| How We’d Spec It: The Most Viagra’d 2016 Fiat 500X |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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When Fiat thrust its new 2016 500X crossover in front of the millions-strong Super Bowl audience this year, it chose to do so with a cheeky commercial and a strong dose of male enhancement. Literally—as a blue pill bounces into a 500’s open gas tank and causes the little hatchback to bulge into the 500X pseudo […]
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| How We’d Spec It: The Most Viagra’d 2016 Fiat 500X |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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| Name That Shifter, No. 213 |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until midday 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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| 99,000 Range Rovers Recalled for Bad Brake Hoses |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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Land Rover is recalling 99,327 Range Rover models dating back to 2006 for brake hoses that can rupture, according to filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. There are two separate U.S. recalls affecting the British 4x4s. One includes the 2013-2014 Range Rover and 2014 Range Rover Sport for brake vacuum hoses that may […]
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| NHTSA Wants to Rate Automatic-Braking Systems |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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Automatic-braking systems may get scored by Uncle Sam during a future round of government safety tests. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has submitted a proposal to test and rate this crash-avoidance technology to better differentiate the effectiveness of the systems currently on sale. Specifically, NHTSA wants to create “repeatable performance tests and procedures to […]
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| French Barn-Find Cars Fetch Nearly $30 Million |
Feb 9th, 2015 |
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The numbers are in from the Rétromobile Exhibition, a classic-car auction held in Paris at the end of last week. The Baillon Collection—the 60 cars found rotting in barns, sheds, and other similarly dilapidated buildings on an estate in western France—sold for $28.5 million, according to Artcurial, the auction house handling the sale. The collection, […]
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| 24 Hours of LeMons Alabama: Twin-Engined Minivan, ’59 Studebaker, and an XP-833 Banshee Leading Its Class |
Feb 8th, 2015 |
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We inspected the 76 entrants at the ‘Shine Country Classic 24 Hours of LeMons, held at Barber Motorsports Part near Birmingham, too late on Friday night to do our usual same-day coverage, so we’re combining the traditional car-inspection post with the equally traditional first-race-session update. With so many outstanding racing machines having their debuts this […]
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| UK Car Discount Revved Up For 2015 |
Feb 7th, 2015 |
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After a booming 2014 for the new car market. UK Car Discount is geared up to deliver more new car discounts in 2015.
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| China Tyre Market Anticipated to Grow at Over 11% CAGR Through 2020, Reports TechSci Research |
Feb 7th, 2015 |
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Increasing automobile sales, expanding vehicle fleet coupled with ongoing development in road infrastructure to drive tyre sales in China through 2020.
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