Posts Tagged ‘s sports’
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the new Focus RSYesterday brought the sneak peek, but today we've got the real deal. The new Ford Focus RS is is mean and green (we mean that in the literal sense, thanks to its killer-looking paint color), and it will make its debut at this month's London Motor......
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
For Jaguar fans, the one car that's been missing from the lineup for far too long is a direct replacement for the legendary E-Type. While Jaguar tried to compete on volume with Mercedes and BMW by producing cars like the S-Type and X-Type, concepts like the 2000 F-Type were left to whither on the vi......
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Ding, ding... Round Two!Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has made his populous British city a very unfriendly place for motorists, and his latest plant to increase the city's congestion charge to £25 ($48.72 USD) for all gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing vehicles within the city limits has drawn th......
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
click above for more high-res images of the Mitsubishi Prototype-SMitsubishi has given up the goods on what last week we referred to as the Lancer Sportback, but will go by the name of Prototype-S when it debuts this March at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. The car itself is basically a production versi......
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Click image for high-res galleryThe motorheads at CAR Middle East have named the Chevy Lumina SS their 2007 Sports Saloon of the Year. The Lumina SS, as you're well aware by now, is simply a rebadged Holden Commodore SS, the same way that the forthcoming Pontiac G8 GT is. 360 horses and 390 lb-ft o......
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Click the image above for a high-res gallery.Like everything else from the propeller people, AC Schnitzer gets a stab at improving BMW's products before they're even released to the masses. The formula is the same for the new 135i, boosting power output of the 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged six to 360 ......
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
From time to time we've all been tempted to purchase that fake diploma from the endlessly circulating email, right? The last time I checked, though, they weren't offering fake certificates from the Art Center College of Design, or the Academy of Art University. If you still held onto the dream of so......
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
The Scooper of Cars seems to have it on good authority that during Honda's press conference in Tokyo, the Big-H plans to take the wraps off a new compact, rumored to be a successor to the CRX.Originally, it was thought that the Remix concept that debuted in L.A. would foretell the future of Honda's ......
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
click above image to view our first drive of the 2008 Chevrolet CorvetteTorque is good! More torque is better. For anyone who likes to drive, an engine with a stratospheric red-line is fun for a while, but a fat torque curve means acceleration is just a squeeze of the right pedal away. Compared to a......
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Click for photo galleryLooks like the rumor we posted yesterday is true. Porsche will indeed unveil the Cayenne GTS at Frankfurt next week. Positioned between the Cayenne S and Cayenne Turbo, the GTS is the first Cayenne to be equipped with the active suspension (PASM) combined with steel springs --......
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