Ford’s desert-clobbering SVT Raptor is already off to a relatively good start, and things are only poised to get better now that the automaker has shoehorned its new 6.2-liter V8 under the truck’s hood. Adding to that, the folks at InsideLine report that a four-door SuperCrew version of the Raptor is also in the cards, [...]
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Chevrolet has announced the availability of 8 extra horses for the 2011 MY Camaro modern muscle car. The horsepower rating in the 3.6-litre V6 engine has now been re-certified for 312hp (233kW/ 316PS) at 6,500rpm and 278 lb-ft (377Nm) of torque at 5,100rpm, both independently verified by a third party.”We are pleased with Camaro’s success [...]
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It’s time for American consumers to stop being scared of small diesel cars. Currently, we can’t think of a single automaker that isn’t shelling out bags of money to research and develop new hybrid powertrains – cars that are efficient first and fun-to-drive second (or third, or fourth). Diesel vehicles, on the other hand, offer [...]
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The opening paragraph in the road book supplied by the Mercedes handlers was, well, interesting: “Driving a car in Mexico continues to be risky and can at times be dangerous,” it read. “This is primarily because Mexicans like to drive very fast and feel almost magically attracted to bends. This preference is frequently at odds [...]
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With all of the reveals and partnership announcements here at the New York Auto Show the most important thing we’ve heard is a number: $25,280. That’s the price that Nissan said yesterday it will sell the Leaf for when it goes on sale later this year (full production starts in 2011), and it’s much lower [...]
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We dig super sedans. You get 94 percent of the performance of a sports car (or there abouts) plus the ability to take a few friends along for the hair-raising ride. Also, cops don’t seem to scrutinize big snazzy sleepers as much as they do bright yellow scissor-doored whatchamacall’em-ardos. It should come as no shock [...]
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What do you do after hitting success with a trial product? Bring it back and make it bigger, of course. That’s just what Mercedes-Benz has done with its AMG Driving Academy, a program that our own Editor Paukert attended the course last fall at Lime Rock to his great amusement and education.This year’s courses will [...]
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Manufacturers used to roll out all-new cars every five-to-eight years. Somewhere around the halfway point – usually year three – much hoopla would be made about new front and rear fascias, the addition of some standard features and some new option packages. (*Yawn*). These changes were designed to give shoppers a reason to look at [...]
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Two years ago, Mazda introduced an advanced new 2.2-liter four cylinder diesel engine in the European market. Since then, we’ve asked Mazda officials on several occasions whether they would offer that engine in the U.S. market. The company has never ruled out bringing a diesel here, but it has also never said it would. Instead, [...]
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