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Filed under: Classics , Etc. Celebrating the art of the magazine cover - Click above for high-res image gallery In the high-stakes game of magazine publishing, there’s one critical component that can either make or break an entire issue. What are we talking about?
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In Pictures: Celebrating the art of the magazine cover
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Filed under: Classics , Etc. Celebrating the art of the magazine cover - Click above for high-res image gallery In the high-stakes game of magazine publishing, there’s one critical component that can either make or break an entire issue. What are we talking about?
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In Pictures: Celebrating the art of the magazine cover
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Mar
Review: Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP induces grins, wheelspin and wheelies Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP - Click above for high-res image gallery We’re going to get ahead of ourselves a little bit with our review of the new Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP.
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.11.10
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Review: Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP induces grins, wheelspin and wheelies Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP - Click above for high-res image gallery We’re going to get ahead of ourselves a little bit with our review of the new Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP. We..
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Mar
Filed under: Concept Cars , Sedan , Work , Ford , Specialty Will the new Police Interceptor be a toughened Taurus SHO? - click above for high-res image gallery Just a quick note: The Detroit News is reporting that the next Ford Police Interceptor will be based on the same platform as the Taurus . For you platform geeks out there, that’s the Ford D3 chassis that underpins everything from the the Lincoln MKS to the Volvo XC90 to the Ford Flex (though the Flex and the Lincoln MKT ride on a lengthened version called D4 )
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DetNews: New Ford Police Interceptor to be Taurus-based
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Mar
Filed under: Sedan , Chevrolet 2010 Chevrolet Malibu patent drawings - Click above for high-res image gallery Over the past nine months, we’ve seen the next-generation Chevrolet Malibu twice at General Motors media events that were closed to the public. On neither occasion were we allowed to take any photographs of the styling buck, but now we can finally show you what the next Malibu looks like.
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2012 Chevrolet Malibu design completely revealed in patent filings?
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Mar
2011 Nissan NV High Roof If you need a full size pickup, statistics show that consumers shop Ford, then Chevy, then Dodge.
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The 2011 Nissan NV Commercial Vans Answer A Question No One Was Asking
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Mar
Things are tough all over these days, including things at Lamborghini. Hit hard by the global recession, the companies sales plummeted nearly 38% in 2009, resulting in a pretax loss of $47.6 million. Unit sales fell from 2,430 in 2008 to 1,515 in 2009.
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Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Ford , Volkswagen , Fiat Ex- Volkswagen and Ford executive Laura Soave has gone from creating the events that help sell cars to being the one in charge of selling them. Yes, Fiat has named Soave, the woman who helped put together the 50th Anniversary Barbie New Beetle in charge of reintroducing the Fiat brand to the United States after retreating from North America’s shores more than 25 years ago. Of course, Soave, 37, has also done more substantive things, including being VW’s head of advertising and communications for the company’s large(ish) passenger cars and SUVs.
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Ex-VW exec named head of Fiat North America
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Mar
Report: Porsche intent on building 918, if it’s profitable Don’t rush to your dealer, as it could still take five years.
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AutoblogGreen for 03.11.10
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Mar
First Drive: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet a smooth Spanish Fly(er) Convertibles have long been something of an acquired taste.
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.10.10
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Mar
Filed under: Classics , Convertible 1948 Norman Timbs Special is a Motor Trend Classic - Click above for high-res image gallery We were just talking with a friend about his Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI . “How on earth did you afford that ?” is the highly sanitized version of the question we posed to him
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Motor Trend Classic resurrected, goes quarterly
10
Mar
Filed under: Truck , Work , GM , GMC , Misc. Auto Shows , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above for high-res image gallery For the first time in its history - and considering that the company has been around for over 100 years, that’s significant - GMC decided to make an official appearance at the National Truck Equipment Association show in St. Louis
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NTEA 2010: 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD puts the Heavy in Heavy Duty
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Mar
Filed under: Government/Legal , Chrysler , Dodge Remember a couple weeks back when we told you about Chrysler’s improbable legal battle against little Lake Mary High School in Florida? Chrysler’s legal team put the smack down on the school for using the Ram logo as its school insignia, and the law jockeys in Auburn Hills, MI were giving the school until June 15 to remove all instances of the logo at a considerable cost to the school district and neighborhood taxpayers.
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Update: Texas high school gets to keep using Ram logo
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Mar
Looks like a clean 1969 TR-6 from here Take a classic 1969 Triumph TR-6 and drop in the twin-cam, turbocharged motor and transmission from a mid 1990s Nissan Skyline GTR and what do you get? Is the end result sexy or sacrilegious?
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Rust Or Lust: Triumph TR-6 With A Skyline Motor
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Mar
Filed under: SUV , Renault 2011 Dacia Duster - click above to watch the video after the jump By and large, the Geneva Motor Show isn’t like U.S.
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Videos: Dacia Duster looks good in motion
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Mar
Filed under: Concept Cars , Sedan , Government/Legal , Work , Ford , Specialty Hold on to your sap gloves and night sticks - it’s that time of the decade! An Autoblog source reveals that Ford is about to release a brand spankin’ new Police Interceptor .
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Source: Next-gen Ford Police Interceptor will debut this Friday in Las Vegas
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Mar
Filed under: Minivan/Van , Work , Nissan , Misc. Auto Shows 2011 Nissan NV2500 HD - Click above for high-res image gallery We’re here in St.
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NTEA 2010: Nissan pulls the covers off NV commercial van
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Filed under: Truck , Work , Nissan , Misc. Auto Shows Nissan NV commercial vans - Click above for high-res image gallery Historically, America’s commercial vehicle marketplace has been dominated by domestic automakers
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Nissan unveils NV commercial van, available in three different flavors
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First it was Toyota, offering 0% financing for many of its cars and trucks. Next came GM, also offering 0% financing on most trucks and selected cars
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It’s A Good Time To Be Car Shopping: Ford Joins The 0% Club
10
Mar
Filed under: Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , GM , GMC , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above to enlarge Not even a month ago, at the end of our post on the 2011 Ford Super Duty engine specs, we wrote: “General Motors, there’s a big ass ball in your court.” Someone at GM has apparently grabbed their big ass racket and said, “Oh, I got this…”, then smacked the ball right back into play. The Ford ’s measurements 390 horsepower, 735 pound-feet of grunt
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GM quickly one-ups Ford with 2011 Duramax diesel ratings, shows off GMC Sierra Denali HD
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Mar
Filed under: Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , GM , GMC , Diesel 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD - Click above to enlarge Not even a month ago, at the end of our post on the 2011 Ford Super Duty engine specs, we wrote: “General Motors, there’s a big ass ball in your court.” Someone at GM has apparently grabbed their big ass racket and said, “Oh, I got this…”, then smacked the ball right back into play. The Ford ’s measurements 390 horsepower, 735 pound-feet of grunt.
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GM quickly one-ups Ford with 2011 Duramax diesel ratings, shows off GMC Sierra Denali HD
10
Mar
Filed under: Classics , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Mercury Classic Mercury Tracer - Click above to watch the video after the break “It’s peppy,” the salesman said as an enticement to buy… It’s not that the Mazda 323/ Ford Laser-based first-generation Tracer was a bad car, but the Escort apparently called stronger for our own hard-earned dollar, so we drove home in a brand new 1989 wagon. Ford apparently figured this out with the second-generation Tracer, which was joined with the Escort as part of a comprehensive redesign in the early 1990s.
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Video: Memory Jog - Revisiting the Mercury Tracer
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Filed under: Classics , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Mercury Classic Mercury Tracer - Click above to watch the video after the break “It’s peppy,” the salesman said as an enticement to buy… It’s not that the Mazda 323/ Ford Laser-based first-generation Tracer was a bad car, but the Escort apparently called stronger for our own hard-earned dollar, so we drove home in a brand new 1989 wagon. Ford apparently figured this out with the second-generation Tracer, which was joined with the Escort as part of a comprehensive redesign in the early 1990s
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Video: Memory Jog - Revisiting the Mercury Tracer
9
Mar
Review: 2011 Jaguar XJ is indisputably British and not afraid of a storm We endure the most powerful storm to ever hit France to sample the all-new Jaguar XJ. And it was totally worth it. Rendered Speculation: Ford Taurus SHO wagon is the apple of our eye We love wagons almost as much as we love pavement pummeling power
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.9.10
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , New York Auto Show , Podcasts , Safety , Acura , Cadillac , Ford , Honda , Toyota , Rumormill Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now! Episode #169 of the Autoblog Podcast has arrived, and it’s Chris, Sam, Alex, and Dan again this week. As usual, the Autoblog Garage starts us off, this time with a couple Suzuki Kizashis , a Ford Transit Connect , and the Cadillac SRX . The first topic for discussion are the latest developments in the ongoing Toyota Recall issue
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Autoblog Podcast #169: Wagons and SuperDuty and NASCAR, Oh My!
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Mar
Filed under: Hatchback , BMW , Luxury Rumors of a front-wheel drive model to slot in below the 1 Series have been circulating for some time, with the most recent report coming last October . Now, Autocar has confirmed with BMW ’s chairman, Norbert Reithofe, that an all-new model is coming from the automaker, designed to compete with the recently introduced Audi A1 and built atop the next generation Mini ’s platform.
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Report: BMW working on new FWD model below 1 Series
9
Mar
Filed under: Performance , Wagon , Ford , Design/Style Many of us who sit around the Autoblog campfire every day are fans of station wagons. We love cars and love the idea of having some extra utility without giving up the generally superior driving dynamics of cars versus SUVs or crossovers
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Rendered Speculation: Ford Taurus SHO wagon is the apple of our eye
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Mar
Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Toyota After Dave Chappelle threw himself overboard the USS Hollywood, he did an interview in which he said, “When a person tells you something’s… just business, that means some ice-cold [stuff] might be about” to happen. We can imagine that Toyota , doing everything it can to make its case better in the eyes of the American government and public, called its fellow members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers to let them know “Don’t take what we’re about to do personally…” What Toyota did was send a graph of recent recalls and safety complaints to certain Congressional reps on important committees.
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Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in peril over Toyota recalls?
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Ford , Racing Ken Block testing the Ford Rally Focus before last weekend’s Rally Mexico - Click above to watch video after the jump A snowy, icy and muddy Greystoke Forest in England probably isn’t the best place for a new rally driver to practice for the WRC’s Rally Mexico , but that’s where Ken Block had to get his testing done, and he had just one day to do it. Follow the jump to watch the DC Shoes maestro getting to grips with his steed. Having already seen the results of the race , it appears he didn’t do all bad.
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Video: Ken Block’s one and only Rally Focus test before Mexico
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Mar
First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools The F-Series Super Duty is ready for battle and Ford’s all-new heavy hitter is packing more than just class leading power and towing. Report: Honda CR-Z was almost killed twice, U.S. dealers didn’t want it A hybrid hatchback with a six-speed manual?
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.8.10
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Mar
Filed under: Truck , Work , Ford , First Drive , Off-Road 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty - Click above for high-res image gallery It’s a guy thing. Tim Allen understands.
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First Drive: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty brings the biggest tools
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Mar
Mahindra TR; easy to find in a parking lot. Back in the days before pickups and SUVs became rolling-clubroom status symbols, manufacturers used to build simple, no frills, rugged trucks
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Mahindra TR Coming To U.S. Market This Year. Really.
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Mar
Filed under: Government/Legal , GM When U.S. domestic automakers were commuting back and forth between Detroit and Washington while begging for government funds in the fall of 2008, a big deal was made of the fact that their CEOs were traveling in private jets instead of driving company vehicles. The backlash from JetGate was substantial, as each automaker quickly ended the use of expensive airfare for corporate travel and signed on with less pricey charter services.
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Report: GM CEO Whitacre still flies on AT&T jets equipped with golden parachutes
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos Carl Edwards intentionally wrecks Brad Keselowski at Atlanta - Click above to watch video after the jump NASCAR had said it wanted a return this season to the bad boy days of oval racing where drivers settled disputes on the track rather than saying “Aw, shucks” in front of the camera afterward.
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The Wrath of Carl: Edwards intentionally wrecks Keselowski at Atlanta [w/video]
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Mar
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , Performance , Chevrolet , Dodge , Ford 2010 Ford Mustang Boss 302R - Click above for high-res image gallery Last week in The Wall Street Journal , writer Ben Austen publised an article in which he ruminates on why no one appears to be racing the Detroit 3’s neo-muscle offerings - the Ford Mustang , Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger .
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Who says Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers don’t race each other?
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , Performance , Chevrolet , Dodge , Ford 2010 Ford Mustang Boss 302R - Click above for high-res image gallery Last week in The Wall Street Journal , writer Ben Austen publised an article in which he ruminates on why no one appears to be racing the Detroit 3’s neo-muscle offerings - the Ford Mustang , Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger . That the piece succeeds overwhelmingly at, however, is highlighting the myopia of America’s mainstream press when it comes to motorsports
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Who says Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers don’t race each other?
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , Performance , Chevrolet , Dodge , Ford 2010 Ford Mustang Boss 302R - Click above for high-res image gallery Last week in The Wall Street Journal , writer Ben Austen publised an article in which he ruminates on why no one appears to be racing the Detroit 3’s neo-muscle offerings - the Ford Mustang , Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger . That the piece succeeds overwhelmingly at, however, is highlighting the myopia of America’s mainstream press when it comes to motorsports. Many people in media seem to be completely unaware that there are forms of automotive competition other than NASCAR, because the cars the WSJ article focuses on most assuredly are involved in active competition.
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Who says Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers don’t race each other?
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Mar
I’ve always had a thing for Mustangs, which I can trace back to my cousin’s 1970 Mach 1. I know there are faster cars out there, I know there are better handling cars out there, but there’s something about a well built ‘Stang that just sets it apart.
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Reader’s Rides: Michael’s 2001 Mustang GT Convertible
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Mar
Chip Foose-customized John Deere 4020 tractor - Click above to watch “making of” videos after the jump While Chip Foose’s bread and butter is rodding, building and customizing cars - often models that have distinct and fervent followings, like Camaros and Mustangs - it would appear that he’s more than happy to tackle projects outside that comfort zone as well. Foose has just completed a special project for John Deere (a brand whose followers are as dedicated as any Ford or Chevy might have), and the result is going to be given away. The tractor you see above spent decades as a workhorse like any other John Deere 4020 (a trendsetting model manufactured from 1963 to ‘72), before it underwent transformation in Foose’s shop
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Video: Chip Foose gets agricultural, hot rods a John Deere 4020
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Mar
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Plants/Manufacturing , Chevrolet 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS - Click above for high-res image gallery No matter which side of the Mustang / Camaro divide you fall on there’s no arguing that Chevrolet’s reborn entrant in the pony car wars has been a hit. It’s been less than a year since production of the 2010 Camaro began at General Motors’ Oshawa assembly and the 100,000th example rolled off the line this week. The milestone car was reportedly an inferno orange SS
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Report: GM builds 100,000th Chevrolet Camaro
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Mar
Filed under: New York Auto Show , Spy Photos , Performance , Wagon , Cadillac , GM Well, it sure looks like it. All credit for this one goes to one Aaron P., who emailed the following to us: So I was walking down Grand Avenue in Downtown LA, and they were shooting a Caddy commercial. There was a covered car, which I thought was the CTS Coupe, but the wind blew off the cover and there was a CTS-V Wagon.
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Peekaboo: Cadillac CTS-V Wagon spied in L.A.?
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Mar
Filed under: Aftermarket , Coupe , Performance , Ford 2010 Geiger Cars Shelby GT500 - Click above for high-res image gallery We don’t know why Karl Geiger is fascinated with American performance cars, but we’re sure glad he is. The 2010 Shelby GT500 is the latest muscle car to go under the German tuner’s knife, and the results are nothing less than impressive. Thanks to a larger Whipple supercharger, larger throttle valves, upgraded fuel injection system and ported cylinder heads, the 5.4-liter V8 produces an incredible 799 horsepower and 697 pound-feet torque.
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Geiger Cars takes on the 2010 Shelby GT500 with impressive results
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Mar
Filed under: Videos , Koenigsegg Koenigsegg Agera - Click above to watch the video after the jump There aren’t many humans on this planet who have ever seen a Koenigsegg CCX on public roads due to the exotic supercar’s ridiculously limited production volume. That likely won’t change for the new Agera , either, so we’ll have to settle for the great-looking shots we captured while in Geneva
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Video: All the nooks and crannies of the Koenigsegg Agera
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Mar
The Falcon gets a bad rap. Ford’s ’60s entry-level ride has been called frumpy, plain, and just plain ugly. I love it
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eBay Find: 1963 Ford Falcon Futura
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Mar
Used 4×4 trucks for sale, 4×4 trucks, pickup trucks, small trucks, chevy, ford, dodge, toyota, gmc, used 4×4 trucks, Used Pickup trucks for sale and many More at Super4×4Trucks.com
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Used 4×4 Trucks
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Mar
Report: BMW will offer up to 700 urbanites an electric 1 series lease Who’s ready? CARB approves of Roush’s propane-powered Ford F-250 and F-350 The wait is over, for those of you who’ve been waiting
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AutoblogGreen for 03.05.10
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We obsessively covered the 2010 Geneva Motor Show 66 vehicle introductions covered and counting. What’s your favorite so far? Mustang V6 rates most efficient 300+ HP car ever at 31 mpg The pony car wars are about one-upsmanship if nothing else
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.4.10
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Mar
We obsessively covered the 2010 Geneva Motor Show 66 vehicle introductions covered and counting. What’s your favorite so far
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 3.4.10
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Mar
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos Gran Turismo 5 NASCAR promo - Click above to watch the video after the jump In a word, impressive. Sure, we can go on for paragraphs about how disappointed we are that Polyphony Digital and Sony still haven’t released Gran Turismo 5 ( there is no firm launch date ) or bore you with how little we care for NASCAR, but instead we’ll focus on the fact that the post-jump video looks truly incredible. Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi went to Texas to see his first in-person NASCAR race, and the gaming legend appears to be very impressed with the sheer scope of the Official Sport of the South.
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Video: What NASCAR on Gran Turismo 5 looks like
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Mar
Filed under: Car Buying , Marketing/Advertising , GM General Motors just posted a 12-percent sales increase for the month of February, and now the automaker is hoping to continue its strong sales trend by offering 0 percent financing for 60 months on sales that occur during the month of March. Curiously, this announcement comes just a few days after Toyota started its own 0 percent campaign .
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GM offering 0% financing for month of March
