Nissan Recalls Altima for Third Time to Fix Hood Latches

http://ift.tt/1ntHzUe January 29, 2016 at 4:59 pm by Clifford Atiyeh | Photography by Michael Simari Nissan is recalling 846,000 Altima sedans in the U.S. for faulty hood latches. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the third (and hopefully final) time this problem has surfaced. The 2013-2015 Altima has a secondary hood latch—the one you grab after the hood pops open partially—that may not lock the hood in place. Assembly...

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2015 Honda Fit Long-Term Wrap: Our 40,000-Mile Torture Test Is Over

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2015 Honda Fit EX Manual – Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up

http://ift.tt/1RKKtkj Driven: Ford’s Beastly Focus RS Megahatch! We finally drive America’s first RS model. 2017 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet Driven, Adorably You could see yourself driving one—really! Driven: 2016 GMC Canyon Diesel A truck with clarity of purpose. The Best Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and More for 2016 Our editors' top choices for the best cars, pickup trucks, SUVs, and more for 2016. 2016 10Best Cars: The Envelopes,...

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2015 Honda Fit EX Manual – Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up

http://ift.tt/1RKKtkj Driven: Ford’s Beastly Focus RS Megahatch! We finally drive America’s first RS model. 2017 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet Driven, Adorably You could see yourself driving one—really! Driven: 2016 GMC Canyon Diesel A truck with clarity of purpose. The Best Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and More for 2016 Our editors' top choices for the best cars, pickup trucks, SUVs, and more for 2016. 2016 10Best Cars: The Envelopes,...

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The Long, Long Goodbye: Final Land Rover Defender Rolls Off the Line

http://ift.tt/1P2mgAd You’d be forgiven for thinking that production of the Land Rover Defender ended some time ago. After all, the old-school 4×4 disappeared from the U.S. market in 1997, at which point it was already a relic. And we’ve seen multiple auto-show concepts of its replacement, as the company and its designers wring their hands over how, exactly, to follow up the iconic Landie. There were the obligatory Final Editions, and...

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The Long, Long Goodbye: Final Land Rover Defender Rolls Off the Line

http://ift.tt/1RKKtkj Driven: Ford’s Beastly Focus RS Megahatch! We finally drive America’s first RS model. 2017 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet Driven, Adorably You could see yourself driving one—really! Driven: 2016 GMC Canyon Diesel A truck with clarity of purpose. The Best Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and More for 2016 Our editors' top choices for the best cars, pickup trucks, SUVs, and more for 2016. 2016 10Best Cars: The Envelopes,...

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VW’s Electric BUDD-e Concept—or Something Much Like It—Headed for Production

http://ift.tt/1SgzIXy Rocked by its diesel-emissions scandal, the VW Group is pivoting on its wheels and rushing to embrace battery-electric technology instead. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when the company attempted to change the conversation by rolling out the BUDD-e electric microvan concept at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. And it’s only slightly less surprising that VW wants to put the BUDD-e, or a vehicle...

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Connie Kalitta Interview: We Pick the Brain of a Drag-Racing Legend

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Four-Cylinder BMW 730i—It’s Not Coming Here, and We’re OK With That

http://ift.tt/1QLGt1O In BMW’s new math, four goes into seven—at least in some cases. BMW is putting a four-cylinder engine in its flagship new 7-series, but it’s not for the U.S. market. Instead, it’s buyers in Turkey who will be able to choose the new 730i (not pictured), with its turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder making 258 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque. Somehow, we’re not so envious. The 730i costs the equivalent of $210,000...

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Happy Birthday, Automobile! Karl Benz’s Wheeled Tricycle Is 130 Years Old Today

http://ift.tt/1SgrHlx Like many late-20th-century kids reared in the industrial orbit of Detroit, the standard line tossed about by our well-meaning but somewhat uninterested teachers was that “Henry Ford was the father of the gasoline-powered automobile.” They were wrong of course; Ford was far from first, even in the U.S. If our noble educators had removed their rust-belt blinders even for a minute, they would have made the distinction...

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Happy Birthday, Automobile! Karl Benz’s Wheeled Tricycle Is 130 Years Old Today

http://ift.tt/1RKKtkj Driven: Ford’s Beastly Focus RS Megahatch! We finally drive America’s first RS model. 2017 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet Driven, Adorably You could see yourself driving one—really! Driven: 2016 GMC Canyon Diesel A truck with clarity of purpose. The Best Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and More for 2016 Our editors' top choices for the best cars, pickup trucks, SUVs, and more for 2016. 2016 10Best Cars: The Envelopes,...

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Behind the Scenes at Aston Martin’s Frankenstein Lab for Special Projects

http://ift.tt/1JMvp3l Top-secret engineering facilities shouldn’t draw attention to themselves, but Aston Martin’s skunkworks takes covert boringness to a whole new level. As these things tend to be, it’s in a low-rise building, this one located in the small and uninteresting English town of Wellesbourne, seven miles from Aston’s Gaydon HQ. There are no signs, unsurprisingly, but we soon discover the facility doesn’t seem to even...

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How We’d Spec It: The RS-Kicking-est 2016 Ford Focus RS

http://ift.tt/1OUKtL2 Let’s face it: Folks buying all-wheel-drive, turbocharged hot hatchbacks (and sedans, we aren’t forgetting you, Subaru WRX STI!) aren’t doing so because it’s logical. After all, spending nearly $40,000 on what to most people will appear to be an ordinary compact car could be seen as unhinged, especially considering the  far more powerful Ford Mustang GT and Chevrolet Camaro SS cost about...

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How We’d Spec It: The RS-Kicking-est 2016 Ford Focus RS

http://ift.tt/1RKKtkj Driven: Ford’s Beastly Focus RS Megahatch! We finally drive America’s first RS model. 2017 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet Driven, Adorably You could see yourself driving one—really! Driven: 2016 GMC Canyon Diesel A truck with clarity of purpose. The Best Cars, Trucks, SUVs, and More for 2016 Our editors' top choices for the best cars, pickup trucks, SUVs, and more for 2016. 2016 10Best Cars: The Envelopes,...

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