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Friday, 31 March 2017
2018 Mercedes-AMG GT / GT C Roadster – First Drive Review
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Solid-State Batteries Make Strides in the Charge toward the Future of EVs
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The electric car’s role in the future is assured by today’s race among General Motors, Hyundai, Nissan, Tesla, and others to advance range and affordability. With a rising number of startup challengers, these automakers agree that winning depends on making the electric car’s engine—its battery pack—cheaper, lighter, smaller, safer, and longer-lasting.
The current lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have buried previous...
Electrified Audi RS Models Will Happen, But Not until They’re As Good As Regular Versions
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While he admits that creating cars that can cut consumption and hit increasingly tough emission standards is at the top of his list of priorities, Audi Sport boss Stephan Winkelmann believes pure-electric RS models are still some way off.
Electric-vehicle development at Audi has been on and off enough times to tempt us into a light-switch metaphor. As an example, the company axed the R8 e-tron project...
Groovy, Baby! Jaguar Puts the E-type Back into Production (Sort Of)
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Here’s apparent proof that somebody at Jaguar Land Rover is a massive Austin Powers fan. The fictional secret agent/playboy came out of cryogenic hibernation in the late 1990s after 30 years in stasis to discover that women had acquired rights and that free love had got expensive. But also that his Union flag–painted Jaguar E-type—a.k.a. the Shaguar—had remained unchanged.
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Groovy, Baby! Jaguar Puts the E-type Back into Production (Sort Of)
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Proposed Regulatory Changes Mean Electric Cars Could Face a Dirtier Future
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under the leadership of administrator Scott Pruitt, is reopening the review of 2022–2025 standards that had been closed by the previous EPA administration ahead of the original timeline. While that alone could affect the future market—and automakers’ research and development decisions for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids—there’s another dark cloud hanging...
Hail to the Chief: Jeep Quietly Releases Wrangler Chief and Smoky Mountain Limited Editions
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Two years ago, Jeep teased us with its Chief SUV concept. Created for the 49th Easter Jeep Safari, the retro Wrangler-based concept bore a distinct resemblance to the classic Cherokee Chief and wore a slick two-tone paint job.
Although the Chief remains a concept, the blue-and-white SUV’s essential style lives on in the new 2017 Jeep Wrangler Chief. Available in one of three colors (including Chief Blue),...
2017 Honda Ridgeline – In-Depth Review
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2017 Audi Q7 – Long-Term Road Test
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Shelby GT350 Owners Sue Ford for Overheating on the Track
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Three owners of the 2016 Shelby GT350 have sued Ford for what they claim are warranty violations and deceptive advertising after their cars allegedly overheated on the track.
This may seem like a far-fetched claim, but the law firm behind it is none other than Hagens Berman, which successfully won $1.1=6 billion from Toyota for its floor mats, sued General Motors for at least $350 million over defective...
How to Make Your Car Last Longer in Four Easy Steps
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Every driver knows the importance of oil changes and routine maintenance to help keep any car ticking, and air filters clog, brake pads wear out, and serpentine belts stretch as the miles add up. Usually there are warning signs that let you know something is off, but there could be things you’re doing—or not doing—that will shorten your car’s life span.
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Thursday, 30 March 2017
2017 Volkswagen Golf GTI Manual – Instrumented Test
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Jeep Grand One Concept: The 1993 Grand Cherokee ZJ Gets another Day in the Sun
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Twenty-five years after the original Jeep Grand Cherokee arrived on the scene, the ZJ-generation SUV is getting a new outlook on life. Behold the Jeep Grand One concept, part of Jeep’s 2017 Easter Jeep Safari haul that brings a bit of modern off-road equipment to the now-old-school sport-utility. We’re used to seeing...
2019 Mercedes-Benz GLE-class Spied outside the Factory – Future Cars
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New 2015 Model Volkswagen TDI Diesels Are Once Again on Sale!
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The buying opportunity of a lifetime is here, thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of California: You can now buy a brand-new two-year-old Volkswagen or Audi TDI at what should be a cut-rate price.
Volkswagen received approval today to sell new 2015 TDI models with the 2.0-liter diesel four-cylinder, or what’s known as the Generation 3 engine. A software update will delete Volkswagen’s illegal...
Jeep Grand One Concept: The 1993 Grand Cherokee ZJ Gets another Day in the Sun
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2017 Infiniti Q60 Red Sport 400 – Instrumented Test
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2017 Volkswagen Touareg – In-Depth Review
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So Chill: Dodge Demon to Cool Engine’s Intake Air Using A/C System
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The drip of info about Dodge’s drag-strip special, the Challenger SRT Demon, continues, with this week’s tidbit focusing on cooling. Specifically: a special system that cools air entering the engine.
Plenty of performance cars use hood scoops to feed cooler ambient air to an engine in order to increase power output. But the Challenger SRT Demon takes things a step further. When Drag Mode is selected, the vehicle’s...
Watch a Twin-Turbo Ford GT Rocket from Zero to 294 MPH in One Mile [Video]
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How do you get within a hair’s breadth of 300 mph? You can strap into a Top Fuel dragster or any of a number of mid-size aircraft. Or you can send this twin-turbo Ford GT down a mile-long stretch of pavement. From a halt, it’ll get to nearly 300 by the end of that distance.
NCS Designs’ video shows M2K Motorsports’ heavily modified Ford GT obliterating the standing-mile world record at the Texas Mile on March 26....
2016 Nissan Titan XD Diesel – Long Term Road Test
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Proposed Laws May Favor General Motors’ Self-Driving Cars and Sideline Competitors
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A high-profile skirmish between prominent developers of self-driving technology begins next month in a California courtroom, when arguments in Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber over allegations of stolen trade secrets gets underway. Another one, which involves some of the autonomous-vehicle industry’s biggest players, so far overlooked, is already occurring in state capitals across the country.
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Uber Safety Driver: “No Time To React” before Autonomous Crash
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A driver turns left across multiple lanes at an intersection. Traffic obscures his or her view. An oncoming car approaches unseen. A collision occurs.
That’s a scenario that’s all too common among the estimated 6.3 million traffic crashes that take place each year on U.S. roads, and it’s the same one that resulted in a collision last week that involved one of Uber’s self-driving vehicles in Tempe, Arizona.
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Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Ford Recalls 400,000 Cars for Engine Fires, Door Latches, and Driveshafts
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Ford is recalling the current-generation Escape for engine fires, according to the company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This is the fifth such recall, involving some 400,000 Escape vehicles in the United States, since the compact SUV made its debut for 2013.
The 2014 Escape, along with the 2014–2015 Fiesta ST, the 2013–2014 Fusion, and the 2013–2015 Transit Connect, have a turbocharged...
2018 Jeep Wrangler Possibly Exposed on a Forum Ahead of Official Debut
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If you assume a small batch of photos that landed on a Jeep Wrangler online forum today are legit, meet the all-new, fully redesigned 2018 Jeep Wrangler. As we ascertained from spy photos of the new Wrangler, the vehicle seen here appears to be a faithful rendition of the traditional Jeep profile. Can you spot the minor changes compared with the current JK-generation Wrangler?
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Put Other People’s Junk in the Trunk: Roadie Pays Drivers to Take a Package Along for the Ride
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Roadie is a newish mobile app that, at first blush, appears to want to be the Uber of the shipping sector. With the app, you can post a “gig,” which amounts to paying to have an item sent across town or cross-country in a random person’s car or truck. Or you can take on a gig and get paid to transport an object for a stranger in the unused cargo area of your car or truck. To test out Roadie, I decided to...