Tag: past
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2017 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Convertible Preview
Where Nissan failed with the Murano CrossCabriolet, might Land Rover succeed with a convertible version of its Range Rover Evoque? We’ll get the chance to find out the answer to that very question in the coming years as the British automaker is launching a new Range Rover Evoque Convertible. The vehicle has been spied testing…
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SEMA Is A Massive, Unparalleled Automotive Freak Show
Dante famously included blasphemers among his infamous Hell’s Seventh Circle. And that might be why many members of the media use the analogy to that forsaken bit of real estate when referring to the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas. Because there’s plenty of mechanical blasphemy at the annual automotive carnival, as it’s filled with…
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This Week’s Top Photos: The 2015 Tokyo Motor Show Edition
Easily the star of this past week’s 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda’s RX-Vision concept is simply begging to be put into production. Unfortunately, the RX-Vision is purely a concept Mazda built to preview a next-generation rotary powertrain the automaker says will eventually be put into a production model. The good news is that the…
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Tesla “Totally Cool” With Rivals Using Supercharger Network, Already In Talks With European Firm
This past week, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO and founder Elon Musk has been in Europe where he helped inaugurate a final assembly plant for the Model S in the Dutch city of Tilburg and presented at a business council meeting in Germany alongside Sigmar Gabriel, the German Minister of Economy & Energy. It was during…
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2016 MINI Clubman Priced From $24,950
MINI’s bigger, more premium second-generation Clubman goes on sale in January and we can confirm that it will be priced from $24,950 for the base Cooper, including an $850 destination charge. That’s almost $2k higher than the starting price of the outgoing model, but the new Clubman, which arrives as a 2016 model, is a…
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2016 HSV R8 Ute, 2016 Mercedes-Benz G-Class, 2017 Maserati Levante: This Week’s Top Photos
HSV, short for Holden Special Vehicles, has been building fast four-doors for the past three decades, the huge majority of them based on the Holden Commodore range of sedans, wagons and utes. The company’s latest offerings are now available with General Motors Company’s [NYSE:GM] supercharged 6.2-liter LSA V-8. This ute model is the R8…
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Ferrari 488 Spider, 2016 Cadillac CTS-V, 2016 Mazda MX-5: This Week’s Top Photos
Like the famous gated shifter, Ferrari’s naturally aspirated V-8s are now a thing of the past. But with 660 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque on tap, we can’t imagine drivers will resent the snails on Maranello’s new 488 Spider all that much. Cadillac’s first CTS-V arrived on the scene with all the subtly of…
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BMW Shows Off More Vehicles With Power-Boosting Water Injection
BMW held a presentation at its test center in Miramas, France during the past week where the automaker showed off a number of its upcoming powertrain technologies. The highlight was an i8 technology demonstrator fitted with a hydrogen fuel cell, and alongside it BMW showed a fuel cell-powered 5-Series Gran Turismo, a 2-Series Active Tourer…
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2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe: First Drive
The 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class Coupe is a strange beast if you try to read too much into its form factor. But as we found this past week, it makes a lot more sense if you take it quite literally by its badge. Let’s face it, the term ‘coupe’ has been diluted to the point of…
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2016 Audi Q7, 2016 Chevy Camaro, 2017 Ford GT: This Week’s Top Photos
We drove the all-new Audi Q7 this past week and found it to handle remarkably well given its size. It arrives in local showrooms early next year, initially in gasoline and diesel V-6 guises. Further down the track there will be other variants including an e-tron plug-in hybrid and sporty SQ7. BMW announced this week…