AUTO TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 50 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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The company exceeded its initial promise to reduce the truck's weight by 700 pounds compared to the current steel-bodied pickup. A well-equipped four-wheel-drive 2015 crew cab weighed 4,942 pounds, a whopping 732 pounds less than a compa...
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General Motors is planning to invest as much as $800 million in various locations in Michigan and hire up to 1,750 new workers in the coming years as a result of a change to its tax credit agreement approved by the state of Michigan today.
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The 2014 Buick Regal is the second best premium sedan, Consumer Reports said today.
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These were CEO Mark Fields' first moves to put his management team in place. Galhotra will report directly to him. Washington, who begins his new job Aug. 18, and Holland will report to Raj Nair, group vice president, for global product ...
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Volvo premieres new tech on upcoming family 4x4 to make it one of the safest cars... in the world
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It seems that Honda’s constant back-and-forth on whether or not to build a new NSX is over, as we have spy shots of a production version making laps at the Nordschliefe. I bet that last sentence just brightened up your day, didn’t it? Co...
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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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Domino's Pizza said Tuesday its net income increased 15.6% in the second quarter as the company opened its 11,000th store. Domino's earnings were driven both by a 5.4% increase in same-store sales, or sales at locations open for at least...
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A team of drivers from car-shopping site Edmunds.com says it set a record for cross-country travel in an electric car, driving a 2013 Tesla S from Redondo Beach, Calif. , to New York, N.Y. in 67 hours and 21 minutes.
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Ford has been selling the F-Series since 1948, but the F-150 model didn’t arrive until 1975, when Ford used it as a `tweener pickup to span the gap between the F-100 and F-250. When Ford rolled out the Atlas Concept at the 2013 Detroit A...
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Behind the scenes on the latest TG mag as we drive Kimi's 2012 Lotus. Featuring a very special guest appearance…
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Launched for the 2013 model year, the Cadillac ATS sedan was developed as a luxury competitor to the BMW 3 Series , the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and the Audi A4 . Nearly two years later, the GM-owned brand expanded the ATS family to include...
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Surely you’re familiar with the mighty Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and its raucous 6.2-liter Supercharged HEMI V-8 bellowing out 707 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque through a proper, six-speed manual transmission to its massive ...
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The Mercedes G63 AMG has been transformed into the kind of ride that will redefine the way we look at interior luxury we don’t normally see in a car of its size and stature. But INKAS Armored Vehicle Manufacturing has made a habit of blo...
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Beautiful rare Ferraris are coming up for auction at Gooding’s Pebble Beach sale
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2014 has been a busy year for Bentley so far. The Brits have begun testing their upcoming SUV and launched the Continental GT3-R , a high-performance coupe paying tribute to the GT3 race car . The next few months will also see the introd...
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Grosse Pointe said it plans to have its lawyers look into allegations that the Metro Times is in violation of its nuisance ordinance.
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Make room, Beelzebub, there’s a new demon-prince pony car in town, and it’s from the people who once brought you a real Demon. This Challenger brandishes numbers to shame the mightiest Mustangs and Camaros. Known in this mortal realm as...
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Now that the wicked 707-hp Challenger SRT Hellcat is out of the bag, it’s pretty hard to imagine ordering the Challenger any other way. Yet there are several other paths to Mopar bad-assery in the 2015 Challenger lineup. There’s the 305-...
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AK Steel will purchase the factory in Dearborn for $700 million while Steel Dynamics will buy Severstal's plant in Columbus, Miss. for $1.63 billion, the companies said Monday.
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Aha! Just as we suspected, the 2015 Chevrolet SS sedan is getting a manual-transmission option, as GM’s own recently released order guide for the car gives away. Pleasantly, that’s not the only good news for SS fans: The car also gets GM...
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It can be hard to picture a car like the Jaguar F-type R coupe performing everyday duties, but we now know exactly what the ultra-hot sports car looks like toting around a couple of bicycles. That’s because Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Ve...
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Electric car pioneer Tesla was the first to extol the glories of a battery-powered engine with a linear torque curve capable of neck-snapping acceleration. Now, Energica, a company based in Ferrari's northern Italian hometown of Modena, ...
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American Airlines/US Airways schedules are now showing flights resuming Nov. 6, with four nonstops per day.
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Let’s get this disclaimer out of the way: Without knowing the 2015 Ford Mustang’s full technical specs, pegging the car’s acceleration is nothing more than an educated guess. There are many variables yet unaccounted for, including its al...
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The Detroit Downtown Development Authority agreed to contribute $62 million over 30 years to the new Red Wings arena.
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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 correct...
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Filed under: Coupe , Sedan , Wagon , Recalls , Safety , Crossover , Cadillac , GM , Luxury General Motors has issued a stop-sale order on the Cadillac CTS and SRX , both of which were recalled late last month . Why the stop-sale after al...
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As much as we wished this review of Honda’s refreshed-for-2014 Odyssey minivan focused solely on the rig’s awesome built-in HondaVac vacuum cleaner, it wouldn’t have been very useful to those of you actually interested in how well this m...
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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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Jaguar F-Type Repurposed as Bike Carrier by SVO Jaguar Land Rover‘s Special Vehicle Operations division has unveiled a bespoke F-Type coupe. The unique F-Type was built as a high-performance support vehicle to use during Stage 20 o...
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There's a bit of bad news for European eco-friendly motorists. Two insiders familiar with Opel's future plans have revealed that the Ampera, which is basically the Euro-spec Chevy Volt, will be phased out next year, concomitantly with th...
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Subaru will increase its marketing efforts to promote its 2015 Legacy sedan.
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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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Millions of Americans are receiving auto loans they cannot possibly afford, in a lending climate marked by some of the same lack of caution seen in the housing industry before its 2008 implosion.
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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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Opel Ampera sales have collapsed in 2014.
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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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Getting into Le Mans prototype racing will be a bit easier starting 2015, as the Automobile Club de l’Ouest — the sanctioning body that governs worldwide Le Mans series — has just announced the LMP3 category. As the nam...
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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...
