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Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Bridgestone Is Developing a Brand-New Tire for the 1992 Jaguar XJ220
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Jaguar is preparing to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the XJ220 next year, a car that was briefly the fastest in the world with a top speed of 217 mph. Now, to honor the anniversary and to help keep these high-speed collectibles on the road, parts-supplier Don Law is partnering with Bridgestone to develop new tires for the XJ220.
Only 275 of the cars were built, more than the originally announced 220 (the projected...
202-mph Spur: New Flying Spur W12 S Is Fastest Bentley Sedan Ever
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The all-new 2017 Bentley Flying Spur W12 S represents the absolute tip of the Flying Spur iceberg thanks to a modest 10-hp bump that assists in taking the “entry level” Bentley to a claimed top speed of 202 mph. This makes it 2 mph faster than the run-of-the-mill, W-12–powered Flying Spur and grants it standing as the fastest ever four-door produced by the team in Crewe.
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Phone to Throne: Land Rover Shows Remote Control Power Seats
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September 7, 2016 at 3:28 pm by Clifford Atiyeh | Photography by the manufacturer
Land Rover’s 2017 Discovery is still so new that it’s only being shown in camouflage until the official reveal at the upcoming Paris auto show, but we know its power-folding seats can be operated by remote control. Our modern fascination with remote control hasn’t faded since the debut of Zenith’s Space Command wireless television...
Mercedes Vision Van Concept Has Rooftop Drones to Handle the Deliveries
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September 7, 2016 at 10:16 am by Joe Lorio | Photography by Joe Lorio and the Manufacturer
Mercedes-Benz doesn’t want you to think of its business of building and selling commercial vans as a boring, unglamorous corner of its auto-manufacturing empire—albeit one that saw revenue (that old-fashioned metric of business success) increase by 19 percent in the first half of the year, to €6.256 billion. Instead, it...
Tuesday, 6 September 2016
Dodge Releasing AWD, Widebody Challenger Hellcat and AWD Non-Hellfeline Challenger
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When future product timelines are pushed back, fall back to Hellcatting all of the things. That’s exactly what Dodge is doing, according to Automotive News, as it moves to introduce yet another 707-hp Hellcat-V-8–powered model to its lineup next year: A wide-body, all-wheel-drive Challenger Hellcat dubbed the Challenger ADR. Dodge also will introduce, for the first time, an all-wheel-drive non-SRT Challenger....
2018 BMW 5-series Prototype Drive: Fine-Tuning the New 5
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Last spring, BMW invited us to drive the new-for-2018 5-series sedan in what was described as “early-development” form. That’s code for European-spec cars cloaked in camouflage inside and out, with a chassis still using interim calibrations. This experience turned out to be a brain-picking session. Before key settings were finalized for production—scheduled to begin before […]
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Kia Details New In-House Eight-Speed Automatic Transmission for Front-Drive Applications
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Kia announced its all-new eight-speed automatic transmission, designed for front-drive, transverse-engine applications, when it debuted the 2017 Cadenza sedan. However, the transmission was only mentioned in passing—the focus, of course, was on the Cadenza’s overall newness—but we now know more as Kia has offered a deeper look at the eight-speed.
Set to replace the old Cadenza’s six-speed first, the eight-speed...
Bang a Gong, Camion! Nissan’s Micra-Carrying Titan XD Race Hauler
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Nissan Canada turned a Titan XD into a racing support vehicle, built to carry a Micra Cup car to and from the track. By way of explanation, let’s take a hard left turn into the filmography of Rick Moranis, shall we? Imagine if Bob McKenzie had been hit by Wayne Szalinski’s shrink ray, leaving his brother Doug to carry him around, lest he be gobbled up by Audrey II. In this instance, the carnivorous plant is obviously...
Monday, 5 September 2016
Now Free with Purchase of V! Cadillac Offers Performance Customers Track Instruction
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Cadillac’s been serious about playing up the track-ready aspects of the ATS-V and CTS-V—they are indeed quite track-ready—and now they’re taking it a step further, throwing in a two-day track program at the V-Performance Academy at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch for those who pony up the dosh for a new 2017 V car.
While students who shell out the money to attend the school without buying a car get their choice...
Friday, 2 September 2016
Meet the G that Cost Me: 2017 Genesis G90 to Start at $69,050
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With its flagship G90 looming large on the horizon, Genesis has announced the financial layout required, and the spread is actually pretty narrow, with just $4100 separating a V-6 turbo RWD model from a V-8–powered AWD example.
As we’ve noted elsewhere, the G90 comes very highly equipped, without a ton of extraneous available options to clog up the Monroney. A 365-hp, twin-turbo V-6 3.3T Premium with rear-wheel...
2017 Shelby GTE: A Mustang with Stripes and a Bit More Power
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While the Shelby badge usually brings to mind the hottest, highest-performing factory-built Mustangs, Shelby American also turns out its own variations on Ford’s pony car. Here’s the latest: the 2017 Shelby GTE, a lightly modded Mustang that gains about two dozen horsepower.
The “E” in GTE stands for “enhanced,” and it does indeed receive mild enhancements. In 5.0-liter V-8 guise, it puts out 456 horsepower,...
Will Mercedes Put Its Formula 1 Engine in an AMG Hypercar?
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September 2, 2016 at 2:53 pm by Mike Duff | Photography by Daniel Roland/Getty Images
Never let it be said there there’s no competition for the loose change of adrenaline-hooked billionaires who make Tony Stark seem more like Montgomery Burns. Add another to the next wave of somewhere-beyond-hypercars The first of these we told you about is the AM-RB-001 that’s being jointly developed by Aston Martin and...
Win Diesel: 2017 Jaguar XF Arrives with Diesel, Price Cuts, and EPA Estimates
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September 2, 2016 at 1:04 pm by Clifford Atiyeh | Photography by Michael Simari
Outside of Volkswagen dealerships, the stock of new diesel offerings in the marketplace appears to be growing. As it promised, Jaguar has just released two of its first-ever diesel cars for the U.S., the compact 2017 XE and this mid-size 2017 XF.
The XF 20d shares the Jaguar-designed Ingenium 2.0-liter turbo-diesel inline-four with...
Oh the Bachmanity! You Can Rent Erlich Bachman’s Aviato Ford Escape
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September 2, 2016 at 11:22 am by Greg Fink | Photography by Turo
Visionary. Game changer. Expert negotiator. These are terms that have rarely, if ever, been used to describe Erlich Bachman of the HBO show Silicon Valley—except by Erlich himself, of course. But now the founder of Aviato—”the social media aggregation and management software for commercial airlines“—majority stakeholder of Pied Piper, and onetime...
Volkswagen Won’t Attempt to Regain Diesel Leadership In U.S.; Many TDI Models May Never Return
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The big diesel initiative that once saw more than one in five Volkswagens sold in America wearing the TDI label has now kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible. Volkswagen’s new North American operations chief says the company’s push to establish clean, affordable diesel powertrains as its green technology solution is over. That may come as little...