| 718 and Life: Porsche Boxster and Cayman Get New Names |
Dec 10th, 2015 |
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Porsche was alphanumeric when alphanumeric was merely a Teutonic quirk, rather than an industry-wide plague that’s seen the demise of naming creativity across the luxury segment. The German sports-car company has churned out famous automobiles with numbers and/or letters from its very inception, including the 356, 550A, and 928 S4. Then, just as Acura was […]
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| 2017 Genesis G90 Sedan: The Start of Something More Luxurious |
Dec 10th, 2015 |
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Pour a glass of Macallan 30, request that your personal harpist strike some chords, and ease yourself into that nailhead leather chair in your mahogany-paneled library. We’re witnessing the birth of yet another luxury brand. In the mid-1980s, Honda launched Acura in the U.S. market and by the end of that decade, Toyota had yanked […]
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| 2016 GMC Terrain Denali V-6 AWD Tested: Hanging On |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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There are currently lots of fresh players in the white-hot compact-crossover segment. The GMC Terrain, however, is not one of them, having changed little since its debut in 2009 as the smallest of the truck brand’s “Professional Grade” vehicles. While we expect a more compact and efficient redesign to appear within the next year or […]
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| 2016 GMC Terrain Denali V-6 AWD – Instrumented Test |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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| Lotus Exige Sport 350 Adds Lightness, Plaidness—Keeps Not-for-America Badness |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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Lotus is introducing a new Sport 350 version of its Exige two-seat coupe, and it brings more lightness and a groovy new plaid interior among its changes—but it unfortunately will not be bringing them to America. We can, however, look on enviously from afar while soaking up the details. Since Lotus is more weight-conscious than a supermodel in […]
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| Industry Posts 18.19 Million SAAR in November, Autodata Reports |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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The industry sold 1.32 million units in November, a 1.3% increase from a year ago. Year to date, 15.8 million cars and trucks have been sold, according to Autodata Corp.
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| New VW Microbus EV Concept Could Appear Next Month at CES |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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Rumor has it that Volkswagen is getting ready to show an all-electric Microbus concept at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. That’s not terribly surprising in itself—VW has been playing with the idea of an all-new Bus for years, the most recent iteration being the Bulli concept, above, which was revealed at […]
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| Benz’s New Infotainment Interface Test-Fingered, Well, Thumbed Actually |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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| NHTSA Overhauling Crash Tests for 2019 Model Year Cars |
Dec 9th, 2015 |
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The federal government, in its first major update of vehicle safety laws in seven years, wants to toughen crash tests to measure pedestrian impact and to evaluate driver assists such as automatic braking. The U.S. government agency was no doubt spurred into action by the industry group Insurance Institute for Highway Safety—which within the past […]
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| 2016 Jaguar XJ First Drive: Rarely Seen Machine, Now Refreshed |
Dec 8th, 2015 |
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde’s line seems particularly apt when applied to another great eccentric, the Jaguar XJ. Because despite being both a fine luxury sedan and the conspicuously charismatic choice in a part of the market typically more conservative than Texas talk radio, the […]
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