AUTO MONDAY: Top 50 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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Filed under: Motorsports , SUV , Truck , Crossover , Motorcycle , Off-Road , Racing For if the truth be told there is little more than a single path to all the goals that the undisguised European may reach. - Morocco (1904), Samuel Levy ...
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Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Opel Sales of the Chevy Volt in the US have been fairly stable for the last few months (between a low of 1,478 and a high of 1,777 since March), but in Europe, the Opel Ampera (sister-vehicle of the Vol...
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Tesla recently unveiled the right-hand-drive Model S and began selling the car in the U.K. for a starting price of nearly $89,000 including a hefty $16,000 consumption tax. Now, the California-made all-electric luxury sedan is reportedly...
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Thought you couldn't carry bikes in the Jaguar F-Type Coupe R? Wrong. Check out a specially modified F-Type for the Tour de France. You wouldn't think a Jaguar F-Type Coupe would be an ideal vehicle to transport bikes, but for the sake o...
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Street racing is a messy business. You always run the risk of getting arrested, running over an innocent bystander or damaging/totaling your awesome vehicle. And yet many people still do it because the results can be spectacular, as is t...
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Next-Gen Chevy Malibu Spied with Audi-Inspired Style The next-generation Chevrolet Malibu is shaping up to be one stylish sedan. The 2016-2017 Malibu has been spied testing sporting some major style changes. The familiar split-grille can...
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You may not know who French musician and painter Duaiv is, but you will certainly remember him now. Armed with fierce creativity and unique vision Duaiv has created one of the most striking art cars in recent memory, using the Lamborghin...
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The Opel Ampera, an Opel-badged Chevrolet Volt, will be killed off in Europe due to slow sales. The Ampera will be axed after just one generation – with a new Volt being launched in the second half of 2015, an Opel (and presumably ...
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How does the 2016 Smart fortwo fare in a collision? Mercedes-Benz pits it against an S-Class sedan in this crash test video
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Sébastien Bourdais won his first IndyCar race in six years; J.R. Todd won his first Top Fuel victory since 2008; Tony Stewart took first in a sprint car race.
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Earlier this year, Jaguar released its first-ever Super Bowl commercial showing us the evil side of Britain and why it’s “good to be bad,” but the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency thinks that Jaguar may have gott...
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Filed under: Motorsports , Europe , Infiniti , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Racing , McLaren The 2014 German Formula 1 Grand Prix is the hump-day race in the season and the penultimate chance for drivers and teams to rack up points before t...
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At $90.52 per horsepower, the Challenger SRT Hellcat is a performance bargain Continue reading → 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Priced At $63,995 In Canada is a post from: Autos.ca
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An updated options list from GM reveals the 2015 Chevrolet SS will receive an optional six-speed manual. transmission Good news for fans of the Chevrolet SS; an update from General Motors has confirmed the inclusion of both a six-speed m...
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If you're a fan of endurance racing... actually, I'll stop there because everyone should be a fan of endurance racing. What we're dealing with is a sport that is very nearly the highest level of performance in the world of motorsports. E...
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With already two victories under its belt in the Blancpain Endurance Series, Bentley and its motorsport partner M-Sport are gearing up for the season’s toughest race: the Spa 24 Hours. The classic endurance race this year is taking...
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- Severstal Sheds U.S. Steel Plants - Challenger Hellcat’s Eye-Popping Horsepower - GM Korea Makes Concessions - Opel Ampera Gets the Ax - Tesla Model S Hacked - Rest in Peace - SUVs and CUVs Growing Popularity
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America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new method for determining a vehicle’s true fuel economy rating, including a ‘test track’ component. The new approach would see carmakers first put...
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Tesla-watchers and first-adopters alike last week were agog with news that by 2017 the electric automaker will make a new electric sedan named the Model 3.
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When news came recently of a conference in China dedicated to the hacking of a Tesla Model S, we were intrigued. After all, with the increasing connectivity of modern vehicles—to say nothing of a fully electric ride like the Model S—the ...
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Nanoflowcell drivetrain stores electricity in electrolyte fluids.
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Filed under: Aftermarket , Classics , Convertible , Coupe , Videos , Chevrolet , Specialty , Design/Style Jay Leno gets low in his latest episode of Jay Leno's Garage by showing off two custom lowriders based on a pair of '60s Chevrolet ...
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First half EV sales are up one-third over last year in the U.S., aided by a scorching May and June, with the Nissan Leaf particularly strong.
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Because Europe is the land of diesels! Continue reading → Opel Ampera Cancelled In Europe is a post from: Autos.ca
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A pair of performance car thefts in Queensland, perpetrated during test drives, has moved insurer RACQ to warn owners to be vigilant in selling their car. In one case, the owner of a BMW 335i was left stranded when the would-be buye...
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Fans of the older Volkswagen models and their many tuning projects have probably noticed the 16Vampir before. It's of course the nickname for the special first-generation Golf built by the guys at Boba Motoring and it's fast, really fast...
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Ad encourages dangerous driving, officials say, despite not really showing dangerous driving. Jaguar has made it well known that "Brits make the best villains." Well, now Britain has reminded the world that Brits also make the best nanny...
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New transmission option will only be available on trucks with 6.2-litre EcoTec3 V8 Continue reading → 2015 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra Available With Eight-Speed Automatic is a post from: Autos.ca
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There's no denying that the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is one of the most exciting new American cars in recent years. It's the most powerful muscle car ever created from the factory, it will run the quarter-mile in under 11 second...
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The successful launch of the F-type and the excitement building around its new BMW 3-series fighter, the XE, are notable bright spots for Jaguar, but the company is also going on a technology tear. Just a short while after announcing its...
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Daimler's Smart brand has faced many challenges in the past, but overcoming common perception is probably toughest of all. So used to huge SUVs and pickups are many customers, that they refuse to believe anything as small as the Smart Fo...
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Built on the same platform as Ford Fiesta, this 5-door hatchback is fun to drive - if you avoid steep hills
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A Tata official recently revealed that the relationship between Tata and Jaguar Land Rover will go deeper than just infusing capital in the British marques. Slated to be launched around 2017, the Tata Nexon crossover might share its plat...
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Filed under: SUV , Ford , First Drives While the tide of bigger-is-better SUVs has been in recession since, well, the recession, fullsize utes are still very much with us. Conservative creatures that have been loathe to evolve, fullsize ...
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Beautiful rare Ferraris are coming up for auction at Gooding’s Pebble Beach sale
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Grab headphones, turn up volume and listen to Germany's upcoming V8 sports car
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The Fiat Chrysler family’s new five-year plan, revealed in May, will see Ferrari production capped at 7000 units per year to maintain the brand’s exclusivity. Now, according to business paper Reuters, Maserati will make a sim...
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Meet Tom Karen, the man behind the Scimitar GTE, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder and much, much more…
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Audi's arsenal of efficient plug-in hybrids is about to grow from a single production car and a bunch of studies to a whole family of e-trons. No, it's not something from Kevin Flynn's grid, but the name the Germans have chosen for their...
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One-off concept built to support Stage 20 of the TdF. S’charged 542bhp V8 also wants to help
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Bentley Still Chewing on Possibility of Smaller Model Bentley is peering at the possibility of a more petite model for its product portfolio. Volkswagen Auto Group’s ultra luxury brand envisions a future that includes a massive (an...
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Street courses hearken back to the glory days of auto racing
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Mitsubishi’s fourth-generation Pajero, now into its eighth year on the global stage, has been given a mild going-over. Available only in Japan for now, the modestly updated four-wheel-drive picks up a re-styled front bumper and gri...
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Tata could expand to share platforms with Jaguar Land Rover, but that doesn't mean we'll see Tatas badged as Jaguars and Land Rovers, and vice-versa
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Since BMW decided to attack all possible niches, inventing a couple of its own in the process as well, rendering a new one shouldn’t surprise anyone. That’s why Theophilus Chin’s take on a possible 1 Series Sedan didn&r...
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We’ve seen those prank videos on Youtube before, showing dogs behind the steering wheel or even the same scene in some action movie before but up until now we knew they weren’t for real. Not anymore though, as the guys over a...
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Filed under: Motorsports , Ford If you want to see a Ford racing prototype, you need look no further than the United SportsCar Championship , where the Blue Oval fields two Daytona Prototypes powered by an EcoBoost-branded 3.0-liter twin...
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By now, we’ve all seen the 2015 Ford Mustang from every possible angle and now we know all of the details about the next-gen pony car, but we’ve yet to really see this car in action. The guys over at TorqueNews are helping ou...
