Tag: weekend
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Kia’s Georgia plant is making a Super Bowl-sized run of Optimas
The Atlanta Falcons may have new allies in helping stop the New England Patriot’s edge-rushing talent for the Super Bowl this weekend. A new offensive line with a combined weight of 18,000 pounds could do it. This week, Kia’s manufacturing plant in West Point, Georgia, announced it will build sequential runs of the 2017 Kia…
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Report: Porsche planning more potent, V-8-equipped Panamera hybrid
Porsche’s Panamera already comes as a hybrid but there are reports claiming a second, more potent gasoline-electric option will be offered, this one throwing a V-8 into the mix. Last summer Motor Trend came out with a report that a 918 Spyder-inspired Panamera with 700 horsepower was on the way, and now Motoring has learned…
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2017 Ford GT in production guise surprises at Le Mans
There’s an assortment of cars racing around the Circuit de la Sarthe in this weekend’s 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, which at the time of writing is led by Toyota and one of its TS050 Hybrid LMP1s, but one car in particular is creating plenty of excitement off the track. Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F]…
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2016 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix preview
Round five of the 2016 Formula One World Championship is the Spanish Grand Prix, which is on this weekend in beautiful Barcelona. The race is once again taking place at Circuit de Catalunya, a site known well to teams as much of the winter testing is done here. It’s also been home to the Spanish…
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Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese Uber rival
Apple is perhaps signaling its future intentions regarding the auto industry with the announcement it is investing $1 billion in a Chinese rival to ride-sharing businesses such as Lyft and Uber. The investment in Didi Chuxing Technology was announced yesterday and comes just a few months after General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] announced it was…
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1924 Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Claims Pebble Beach Best Of Show Honors
The top honors at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is the Best of Show. This is the award that gets all the tongues wagging, the confetti flying, and the champagne popping. A truly gorgeous and old machine, as you might expect, took home the big trophy at this year’s event, held over the weekend,…
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2016 Fiat 500 Revealed With Revised Styling, More Tech
The current Fiat 500 subcompact landed on these shores in 2010 but it’s been in showrooms overseas since 2007 and thus is getting rather long in the tooth. An all-new new model is still some way off but an updated version is being introduced in the meantime to keep fans satisfied. Fiat unveiled this updated…
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SCG003 Falls Victim To The ‘Ring, Driver Unhurt After 120-MPH Impact With Barrier
During practice yesterday for this weekend’s Nürburgring 24 Hours race, one of Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus’ SCG003 road-going racers crashed into a barrier at a speed in excess of 120 mph. Behind the wheel was American Ken Dobson who was said to be “fine” after the crash. Thanks to the design of the SCG003, most of…
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Google Autonomous Car Public Road Trials Start This Summer: Video
A year since unveiling its own self-driving car, Google has confirmed that the small, pod-like research vehicle is ready for testing on public roads. Google has been testing a fleet of Toyota Prius and Lexus RX vehicles fitted with its autonomous car technology on public roads for some time now, which according to the company…