Tuesday 31 May 2011

Review: 2011 Aston Martin Rapide

Mr. and Mrs. Bond (and kids): Your Aston Martin is here. Climb aboard Aston Martin's "least" cosseting offering.

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Honda gets hacked, Biden blows air, and who killed the electric Caddy? [The Morning Shift]

This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important? More »

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Name That Shifter, No. 25: 1993 Mazda MX-6

On Monday we presented this week?s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. The presence of a ’90′s-era Mazda shift knob and leather seats helped many of you recognize the car as a Mazda MX-6. The first commenter to correctly identify the car was repeat [...]

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Pre-Production Review: Toyota Prius V

Once upon a time Japanese cars came to our shores promising high fuel economy and despite feeling small and cheap, buyers flocked to the dealers. Over time however, the Japanese auto industry grew up. ?Small and flimsy? are qualities that modern Japanese imports do not possess but as is the way with the world, better [...]

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New details emerge on all-aluminum Jaguar crossover

You read the title correctly. Jaguar. Crossover. Aluminum. It's apparently real, and it's coming around 2015.

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Top 10 Road Trip Cars: First Real Paycheck

2011 Buick Regal TurboHave you recently entered the ranks of young folks working for the weekend? Aside from moving into a new tax bracket, being a worker bee also means long, parent-subsidized excursions will be replaced with weekend road trips.

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The Best Videos of the Week [Video]

Maybe you're bored because you didn't get out of town for the holiday weekend. Or maybe you're home visiting family and cabin fever now has you searching for a distraction. Well, whatever the case, we've got you covered. Here are some of the most amusing and entertaining videos we watched during the week that was.
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2011 Dodge Durango Crew V6 AWD Tested: Athletic, But Still a Comfortable Cruiser

The V6 Durango offers the R/T?s sportiness without the harshness penalty. What Is It? It?s the third-generation Dodge Durango, and it marks the nameplate?s return from the sabbatical it took for the 2010 model year. Built on a lengthened version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee?s unibody platform?instead of the old body-on-frame underpinnings of its forebears?the [...]

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Monday 30 May 2011

Aston Martin V12 Zagato Race Car Concept No Longer Sketchy, Official Photos and Info Released

What once was a car-shaped smudge of a sketch is now real: Aston has released official images of the V12 Zagato concept, the British marque’s latest collaboration with the Italian design house. One dash beautiful and several jiggers of weird?plus a dollop of Nissan GT-R?the model previews a racer that will compete in the wild-’n'-wooly [...]

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2011 Lexus CT200h Tested: Is It the Japanese Compass or Patriot?

Lexus?s second compact front-drive hybrid makes greater promises, but doesn?t necessarily deliver. In the last few years, there?s been a lot of talk of Lexus becoming an exclusively hybrid brand. Whether or not that will actually come true, hybrids are certainly a tremendous part of the brand?s business and image: It continues to crank out [...]

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2013 Mercedes-Benz GL-class Spied

Mercedes-Benz?s three-row box is headed for a refresh in 2012. The arrival of the second-generation Mercedes-Benz GL-class brute is drawing closer, and today our spies got their best look yet at the next three-row ute at, of all places, the N�rburgring. Keep Reading:�2013 Mercedes-Benz GL-class / GL450 / GL550 Spy Photos – Future Cars

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2012 Fiat 500C Cabrio ? First Drive Review

How the Cinquecento does roofless. The Fiat 500C Cabrio is waterproof. This point was thoroughly confirmed on a recent trip to New York during which we sampled Fiat?s U.S.-market ?convertible,? an event that conveniently coincided with an East Coast deluge. Fiat officially calls the car the 500 Cabrio and uses that other c-word to describe [...]

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Video: Cars 2 trailer gets LEGO treatment

In the middle of all the marketing and promotion surrounding Cars 2, the second installment of the Cars franchise by Disney and Pixar, we sometimes need to step back a little and try to filter out all the information we’ve been getting.

The movie isn’t scheduled to hit theaters for another month - it opens June 24 - but it feels like we’ve been seeing promos, trailers, and what not for what feels like six months now. But if you’re one of those people that can’t get enough of all of it, we have a nice treat for you: the trailer of Cars 2 presented in LEGO.

Yep, you read that exactly. LEGO. The work was done by a group of people that apparently knew how to work those LEGO blocks to recreate the trailer of Cars 2 in all its entirety using only these blocks to build everything. It’s about as cool as any ’recreated’ trailer we’ve seen in a long time and actually makes us look forward to the movie even more, despite all the buzz we’ve seen and heard about it.

Video: Cars 2 trailer gets LEGO treatment originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 28 May 2011 18:00 EST.

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Video: BMW 1M Coupe throws down with the Audi TT-RS

You remember all those billboard wars Audi and BMW were into about a year and some change ago? In a constant game of one-upsmanship between the two brands, deciding which one is better shouldn’t be tasked on billboards, commercials, or whatever marketing propaganda they can think of. There’s only one place to settle a rivalry like this and the crew from Motor Sport Magazine found the perfect site to do so: the race track.

Taking a BMW 1M Coupe and an Audi TT RS, Motor Sport Magazine brought in the two German sports coupes for a match-up that die hard fans of the two brands have been waiting for. The tale of the tape suggests a slight advantage in horsepower for the 1M Coupe against the TT RS - 340 ponies to 335 - but the Audi sportster certainly makes up for it thanks to its four-wheel drive system.

So who takes the cake in this battle? It’s relative depending on how you see it, really. Motor Sport Magazine actually didn’t race the two fender-to-fender against each other, but the video still makes for good viewing simply because you are able watch these two sports cars in their natural habitat.

Video: BMW 1M Coupe throws down with the Audi TT-RS originally appeared on topspeed.com on Sunday, 29 May 2011 06:00 EST.

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TAG Heuer Limited Edition Indy 500 Centennial Chronograph


TAG Heuer is putting their watch-making expertise to work by creating a special edition chronograph to celebrate a very important time in history. This year marks the 100th anniversary of ?The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,? and in order to celebrate it in style, TAG Heuer has created a special edition TAG Heuer Limited Edition Indy 500 Centennial Chronograph which will be presented to the winner of the Indy 500 on Sunday, May 29, 2011. This chronograph will be produced in a run of 1,000 units, each priced at $1650.

This special chronograph will feature a gray stylized dial patterned after the famed "Yard of Bricks" start/finish line of the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a printed "INDY 500" logo inside the counter at 6 o’’clock. Its distinctive case back marks the 100 year anniversary of the great race. The watch’s dial is inspired by a racecar’s dashboard: a small second at 3 o’clock, a chronograph minutes counter with double hands at 9 o’clock, and a 1/10th of second counter at 6 o’clock. The date window, which is positioned at 12 o’clock, is flanked by hand-applied indexes, as well as luminescent hands and markers for optimum readability.

TAG Heuer Limited Edition Indy 500 Centennial Chronograph originally appeared on topspeed.com on Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:00 EST.

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Test drive: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe

Is it really necessary to write a review of this car? We've already talked about the 556 horsepower Cadillac CTS-V, which has to be one of the best performance cars I have ever driven (and unbelievably inexpensive for what you get). We've also talked about the Cadillac CTS Coupe, which I think is the most beautiful applications of sheet metal ever to grace our roads. And now General Motors has combined the two to form the CTS-V Coupe. How could this possibly go wrong?

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Sunday 29 May 2011

2012 Honda Civic EX Tested: Comfier, but Disappoints

Honda?s new Civic boasts lots of refinements and good fuel economy, but the thrill is gone. It?s been a compact-car sales leader for decades, a pacesetter in technical innovation since the clever emissions-reducing Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion engine in 1975, and a car whose fun-to-drive index has almost always ranked at the top of its [...]

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What car was on your bedroom wall? [Question Of The Day]

Memorial Day weekend is upon us, so let's access those memory banks. Think back to your automotive lusts of childhood. What was the car you wanted so badly you could smell the leather. What car was on your bedroom wall? More »

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2011 Nissan Leaf EV Test Drive: Plug-In Electric Paves Road to 2010 Launch

Nissan continues its EV full court press with an ambitious, all-electric vehicle called Leaf that will be available in 2010. We tested the original EV-02 prototype of this car last year. And now, we've spent some time behind the wheel of a newer model in Japan.

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