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Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Final Rolls-Royce Phantom Sails into the Velvet Blue Yonder
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The seventh-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom has sailed off into history. After a life that has spanned the entire length of LeBron James’s NBA career and seen newborn babies age into their teenage years, the ultimate Rolls-Royce limo is finally ready for retirement. The craftsmen in Goodwood gave the final Phantom a nautical theme, which is only appropriate for a vehicle that the...
We Subject GMC’s Non-Minivan to Our Entire Range of Tests and Compare It to Its Rivals
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January 31, 2017 at 1:41 pm by Drew Dorian | Photography by Michael Simari
The Acadia’s standard infotainment amenities, handsome styling, and more than adequate performance should make it a family favorite. Unfortunately, it’s plagued by mediocre fuel-economy ratings, poor real-world efficiency, and snug third-row quarters. READ MORE ››
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Monday, 30 January 2017
Cell Block: GM and Honda Unite for U.S. Fuel-Cell Manufacturing Starting in 2020
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As cars like the Toyota Mirai and the upcoming Honda Clarity Fuel Cell demonstrate, hydrogen fuel-cell technology in passenger cars is ready for prime time. But as the expensive sticker prices on those vehicles underscore, their greater cost of manufacturing is just one of many hurdles to overcome before these vehicles become more than a narrow subset of the green-car niche.
To address this problem, General Motors...
ZR1 and Mid-Engine C8 Corvettes Spied Together in Cold-Weather Tests
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January 30, 2017 at 4:45 pm by Don Sherman | Photography by KGP Photography
Fresh spy photos reveal that engineers for the Chevrolet Corvette are making the best of adverse traction and temperature conditions to complete their tests of the imminent C7 ZR1 and its successor, the mid-engined C8 Zora that we expect will break cover sometime next year.
Seeing both generations in the same shot should convince hard-core...
Mercedes Awards Itself an A: This One Will Come to the United States
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Mercedes-Benz design has reached the next level. The wild surface treatment of the current A-class is history, and the next generation will feature smoother lines and a more purist appearance. At a press event in Sindelfingen, Germany, Daimler opened up its design department to show us the company’s design process—and a few ideas for its future direction, which chief designer Gorden Wagener summarizes as “sensual...
More Details Emerge on Honda’s S2000 Revival
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We’ve been reporting on rumors of Honda’s on-again, off-again, on-again plans to create a three-pronged lineup of sports cars for some time. In 2015, the first of that threesome arrived in the form of the S660 microcoupe powered by a mid-mounted turbocharged 660-cc inline-3. Then last year, the long-awaited NSX supercar, with the mid-mounted twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 aided by a few electric motors, appeared...
Mustache Tax: Magnum’s Ferrari 308 Sells for $181K
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It can be hard to quantify the extra value a celebrity connection gives to a classic car. At the top end, it’s plenty—the Porsche 911 that Steve McQueen drove during the opening sequence of the movie Le Mans sold for nearly $1.4 million back in 2011, a hefty supplement even given the increasingly daft prices attached to early air-cooled 911s.
Now we know that Tom Selleck has a smaller but still significant effect,...
The Love Affair Continues: American Infrastructure and Where We’ll Go Next
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How bad are the highways, bridges, and roads that crisscross this great nation of America? They are in such need of attention that, during the long national nightmare that was our recent election (the most seemingly divided this country has been since Reconstruction), out of all the things that our two presidential candidates butted heads over—Russian operatives and tax returns, accusations of terrible misdeeds,...
Friday, 27 January 2017
Super Bowl Partiers: These Tostitos Bags Can Tell If You’ve Been Drinking
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On Super Bowl Sunday in 2015, 45 people died in drunk driving crashes—nearly half of all traffic fatalities that day—according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. To help prevent drunk driving after the Super Bowl this year, Tostitos created this Party Safe bag that features an alcohol sensor that is able to detect any trace of alcohol on your breath. Before you blow into the sensor, the bag...
Carbon Tax: Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Listed for $4.5 Million on Craigslist
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Before hybrid powertrains invaded the segment, the traditional supercar formula was high horsepower plus low weight equal fast lap times multiplied by evil laughs of joy. A couple of the best to maintain that basic equation are the Pagani Huayra BC, which weighs a claimed 2685 pounds, and the Hennessey Venom GT, which weighs 2743 pounds. But those are hefty compared with one of the most exclusive Lamborghinis...
The Volvo Wagon: How Did Station Wagons Come to Define This Swedish Carmaker?
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From the February 2017 issue
If the Volvo brand were a Rorschach blot, most Americans would see a station wagon. But this didn’t come about as the result of some Swedish plot for domination of the American suburbs. It was an accident.
In the mid-1950s, around the time that Volvo first considered exporting cars to the United States, the brand was unsuccessfully experimenting with selling chassis to independent coachbuilders,...
Here’s Our Wild-Ass Speculation about How Much Horsepower and Torque We Think the Dodge Challenger Demon Will Make
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How much power? How much torque? How much anything? These are all questions that we’ll have to wait eight weeks to answer with regard to the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon. What we do know with certainty today nestles somewhere between the files labeled “jack” and “squat,” but there are some clues. For instance, Dodge indicates the Demon will be 200 pounds lighter than the Hellcat, and the third tease released by the...
New Bipartisan SPY Act Pushes NHTSA on Automotive Cyberthreats
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In our politically toxic capital, there’s a bipartisan effort underway to better protect motorists in a world increasingly aware that automobiles are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation Wednesday called the Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act of 2017, or the SPY Act. It would direct federal regulators to conduct a study that would determine...
2017 Nissan Rogue Hybrid Commands $1000 Price Premium, Undercuts Toyota RAV4 Hybrid
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Nissan is gunning for the Toyota RAV4 hybrid with a new gasoline-electric version of its Rogue crossover that goes on sale this spring. Although Nissan doesn’t have as much experience with hybrids as Toyota, the Rogue is looking to take the RAV4 to task on the numbers, as it achieves slightly better EPA ratings and costs less. The 2017 Rogue hybrid starts at $27,180 for a front-drive SV model and $32,100 for a front-drive...
Aston Martin Vanquish S Knows It’s Hot, Takes Off Its Top
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The Aston Martin DB11 is a newer and better sports car in just about every way, but the Vanquish remains the supreme ruler of Aston Martin’s lineup. The sharper and more powerful Vanquish S stepped out from behind the curtain in November, and we loved the improvements and its unmatched style when we drove it. But Aston felt the urge to click the enhance button one more time, and the result is the...