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8 July 2008 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 1 views
GM shrinks Volt's gas tank, range drops from 600 to 360 miles Click above for a high-res gallery of the Chevrolet Volt concept. One of the many things General Motors boasted about when it unveiled the Volt concept at the Detroit Auto Show in 2007 was its 600-mil ...
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8 July 2008 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 1 views
GM shrinks Volt's gas tank, range drops from 600 to 340 miles Click above for a high-res gallery of the Chevrolet Volt concept. One of the many things General Motors boasted about when it unveiled the Volt concept at the Detroit Auto Show in 2007 was its 600-mil ...
Tags: gm, national hot rod association, performance magazine, custom exhaust, humor, initial sketch, mopar, mclaren slr, nba players, video, ElectricCars, motor speedway, manfred, econocar, insurers, fig leaves, pontiac line, cassette stereo, power density, hacksaw, ferrari-dino-mule-nurburgring, hive, TicketRefund, black obsidian, costa mesa california, dealer representative, mopar mile high nationals, MoparChallenger, MoparDodgeChallengerDragRacePackage
2 July 2008 posted in Aftermarket 2 views
Sale of locking gas caps triples in 2008 With the increasing value of gas and the multiple accounts of motorists having their fuel stolen, it's no surprise that people are finding ways to protect themselves from suffering the same fate. Stan ...
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28 June 2008 posted in SUVs views
Kia's new ad strategy: Hey, that's not funny! Hey, remember that Kia ad where the salesman recreated a scene from Flashdance? That was pretty funny. Or the European Kia viral with the tennis-playing aliens? Strange, but definitely unforgettable. ...
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9 June 2008 posted in Aftermarket 3 views
Spy Shots: Tiny Toyota iQ caught testing Though Toyota already unveiled the production version of its diminutive iQ city car at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show last March, this is the first time anyone has seen the vehicle testing out in the wild ...
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13 March 2008 posted in Aftermarket 1 views
Roadster & Toaster: BRABUS SLR with ULTIMATE 112 Click image for a hi-res gallery of the Brabus SLR and its tender Megayachts usually come with fancy tenders, so why not supercars, too? BRABUS has taken the idea and run with it, pairing one of its t ...
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12 November 2007 posted in Convertibles views
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL images leak onto web click above for 34 more high-res pics of the 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL We don't know who is to blame for leaking these scrumdidlyumptious images of the 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL, but we're glad they did. Thes ...
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27 July 2007 posted in mercedes benz views
Racing-spec Mercedes-Benz 722 SLR GTR found in Germany This one kind of crept up on us, but it appears Mercedes-Benz has released a new race-spec version of the SLR supercar dubbed the GTR. It's been revealed that the limited edition 722 SLR released last ...
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19 July 2007 posted in Coupes 1 views
Project Kahn SLR Click the image above for more high-res shots of Project Kahn's SLR. There isn't much left to do with a supercar. That's why they're called "super." Tuners of late, thankfully, seemed to be restrainin ...
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19 February 2007 posted in Convertibles 1 views
Spy Shots: Merc SLR McLaren convertible We've known for a while that Mercedes was hard at work on a drop-top version of the McLaren SLR and now, courtesy of Car and Driver, we get to see it. Clear images they aren't, but there's no mistakin ...
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3 February 2007 posted in aston martin views
The DBX: Aston Martin's forthcoming supercar In the wake of the Aston Martin sale last week, information about the green-lighting of the Rapide and the ramping up of the DBS was accompanied by a moniker that many assumed would be an all-wheel-dr ...
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17 January 2007 posted in Car 4 views
Alonso il nuovo ruote: McLaren SLR Ora che più piace. Il miglior Renault potrebbe sembrare ad offrire i loro guida asso Fernando Alonso è stata una Renault Megane dopo aver vinto due back-to-back campionati del mondo. Ma ora che la dif ...
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19 July 2006 posted in Etc. 1 views
Report: Exotics expensive to own - Related news: Sky blue The Times Online published a fun report this Sunday detailing the so-called "supercar nightmare" -- the cold reality that owning an exotic machine is much more than simply heading down to the local Fe ...
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28 June 2006 posted in Euro 1 views
Report: SLR Roadster Click to enlarge That's what the British magazine Auto Express is reporting. According to them, the Woking, Surrey-built droptop will be unveiled within the next six months. Based on the Vision SLR Ro ...
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7 June 2006 posted in Etc. 1 views
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren captures London Land Speed Record Weekly British automotive mag Autocar recently shut down the London City Airport because they wanted to find out what car was the fastest in London. Amidst a field that included hometown hero Bentley' ...
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3 June 2006 posted in concept cars 1 views
Is this the next McLaren supercar? - UPDATED We reported some time ago that McLaren was already brainstorming its next vehicle that will replace the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR. The SLR is surely awe-inspiring, but it hasn't made a name for itself ...
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2 June 2006 posted in Etc. 1 views
Mercedes-Benz SLR 722 boosts performance, honors past Mercedes has unleashed a more powerful and sportier variant of the SLR McLaren called the SLR 722 Edition. Produced to honor Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson's 1955 Mille Miglia victory, the "722" na ...
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24 March 2006 posted in Coupes views
Updated SLR from Merc due in September? We're hearing from Auto Motor und Sport via eMercedesBenz that the biggest, baddest Merc on the block, the McLaren SLR, may be getting updated as early as this September. The basis for this proclamati ...
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3 March 2006 posted in Coupes 1 views
Crazy Enzo crash guy loses another whip Stefan Eriksson has lost yet another supercar in his dwindling collection of elite automobiles. The first we all recall was his Ferrari Enzo that disintegrated upon impact with a telephone phone on th ...
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13 April 2005 posted in Sports/GTs views
Possible new BMW flagship BMW is talking supercar it seems and the name of the supercar could be Z9. The sketches here were shown in Los Angeles and the 700 hp beauty would probably be powered by the same engine as the M5 with ...
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