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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Junkyard Gem: 1997 Eagle Vision ESi

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Chrysler's Eagle brand emerged in the aftermath of the purchase of American Motors by Chrysler in 1987, and it was supposed to be somewhat sportier and "European" than Dodge or Plymouth. Renault-based designs such as the Medallion and Premier, plus Mitsubishis such as the Talon and Summit made up most of the Eagle lineup, but the brand also got a version of the Chrysler LH: the Eagle Vision.

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Want to top the neighbor's Model 3? How about a Tesla Model S shooting brake

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Dutch custom builder RemetzCar has released new images and a video of its newly finished Tesla Model S shooting brake, which reportedly will make its debut next month in the Netherlands.

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California begins digital license plate pilot program

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After years in development, California is finally rolling out its digital license plate pilot program. Drivers can purchase and install plate that uses the same E Ink screen technology as an Amazon Kindle or various wearables. The new digital display was developed by Reviver Auto and replaces a traditional stamped plate. It's available for both consumer and commercial vehicles, though at a considerable cost.

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Audi Q8 SUV further detailed in official sketches

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The slow-trickle build-up to the official reveal of the new Audi Q8 continues, with the German brand releasing a pair of sketches on Twitter that show the flagship SUV's front and rear ends.

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Porsche still deciding on one or two new 911 plug-in hybrids

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700-hp flagship would eclipse other models, and that's the problem.

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2019 Mercedes-AMG CLS53 will probably cost over $95,000

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AMG E53 coupe and convertible also go on sale in August.

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Mercedes-Benz eSprinter to get 93 miles of range, launches in 2019

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All-electric cargo van should save tons in fuel costs.

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Watch Zenvo TSR-S's fascinating Centripetal Wing active aero at work

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Device lifts and moves side-to-side to add downforce on inside wheel

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Rolls-Royce Cullinan configurator delivers a near-bespoke experience

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Earlier this month we configured a McLaren Senna with the assistance of two representatives of McLaren Special Operations. In that piece we wrote about few chances there are for the online "shopper" to get a feel for the coachbuilt experience; the Ferrari LaFerrari configurator offered just three color options, for instance, and Bugatti removed the few variables it presented for the Chiron. McLaren didn't build a public configurator for the Senna. It's the Rolls-Royce Cullinan to the rescue &mda

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Nissan to cut North American output by 20 percent to shore up profitability

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Sliding sales of the Altima and deep discounts are blamed

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2019 Acura RDX undercuts rivals with base price of $38,295

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The all-new 2019 Acura RDX will hit dealers on June 1, 2018, and it'll come with a window sticker bearing a base price of $38,295. That's for a front-wheel-drive RDX; adding all-wheel drive brings the base price to $40,295. Standard equipment includes the AccuraWatch safety and driver assistance package, which bundles automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, and road departure mitigation.

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Monday, May 28, 2018

2018 Chevrolet Equinox Buying Guide | Crossover questions answered

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Chevrolet introduced an all-new third-generation version of its flagship crossover for 2018, giving it a sleeker, more sculpted exterior look that's more in line with other Chevrolet car models and shaving 400 pounds off the vehicle's total weight, a 10 percent reduction. Coupled with its efficient trio of newly turbocharged engines, that adds up to impressive gains in fuel economy (more on that later). There's also new technology including a Safety Alert seat, surround-view cameras, low-speed a

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Tesla rolls out Model 3 braking update to tackle reviewer complaints

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Tesla is making good on its promise to improve the Model 3's braking through a firmware upgrade. Elon Musk has confirmed that a fix for the EV's inconsistent brake performance started reaching cars on May 25th. The update should reduce the braking distance by about 20 feet for "repeated heavy braking events," according to the exec. That's no doubt meant to help reviewers like those at Consumer Reports (whose less-than-flattering review prompted the update), but something tells us that drivers wo

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How to wax your car | Autoblog Details

Waxing your car is vital to the protection of paint, but how do we do it properly to get the best bang for our time?

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1931 Bugatti Type 56 Quick Spin | Not the Bug you'd expect

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Bugatti stores a handful of historically significant cars in a picturesque building located a stone's throw from its factory. One doesn't blend in with the rest of the collection. It's a small, yellow and black two-seater named Type 56 that looks more like a horseless carriage than a grand prix-winning machine. It wasn't designed to race. Ettore Bugatti, the company's founder, built the electric runabout in 1931 to drive on his property.

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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Daniel Ricciardo takes Monaco win despite engine problems

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Daniel Ricciardo brought back memories of Formula One great Michael Schumacher in his prime on Sunday as the Australian nursed a wounded Red Bull to Monaco Grand Prix victory in the team's 250th race. Winning from pole position for the first time in his career, Ricciardo drove for nearly two thirds of the race with a car down on power due to problems that emerged on lap 28.

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Will Power finally wins the Indy 500

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Will Power notched the biggest victory of his career on Sunday when he won the Indianapolis 500 at the famed "Brickyard" just outside Indianapolis. Power moved into the lead on lap 196 when the two drivers in front of him pitted and he closed out the race to record his 34th career IndyCar victory. Power led for 59 of the 200 laps while stomping out his main racing demon.

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2018 Chevrolet Malibu Buying Guide | Answers to your midsize sedan questions

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Chevrolet updated its midsize sedan for the 2016 model year by lengthening it, giving it a sleeker, more upscale design and putting it on a 300-pound diet, thanks to an aluminum hood and the use of high-strength steel in the frame, among other things.

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How to properly clean wheels | Autoblog Details

As cars become bigger and more expensive, so too have our wheels. Keeping them clean and protected takes a few extra steps, but is well worth the effort.

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Dodge to resurrect the Viper a second time

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First came the mourning for the Dodge Viper, which ended production last year. Then came the Viper's continued sales run as a "Zombie Car;" we just wrote about how the Viper has racked up 11 sales so far this year, two of them in April. Now Car and Driver reports that the two-seater snake will return shorty for its second encore after being discontinued in 2009. The mag isn't equivocal about it, either, writing, "trust us: A new Viper is happening." It won't, however, be the same Viper that brou

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Saturday, May 26, 2018

2018 Ford Escape Buying Guide | Compact crossover questions, answered

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The Ford Escape is right in the thick of the compact SUV segment, with rivals including the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Mazda CX-5, and Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. The Escape is perfectly suited to SUV buyers who don't want to give up car-like driving manners. Handling is fun and sporty, something you don't often encounter in the sport-utility segment, no matter size or price point. The ride is firmer than some alternatives, however.

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How to wash your car in 15 minutes | Autoblog Details

Here's how to wash your car quickly and properly in just 15 minutes, without having to break out the tools and buckets.

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Indy 500 offers possibility of something special this year

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A swan song, a quest for history, a hometown boy.

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Friday, May 25, 2018

Jaguar Land Rover data leak reveals employee records, upcoming layoffs

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A massive data leak has revealed the personnel files of hundreds of employees at Jaguar Land Rover's factory in Solihull, England. The documents reveal details such as sick days used, disciplinary issues and — most notably — red lines indicating potential firings in the weeks or months ahead. In total, the personal records of more than 600 workers were released. JLR is scrambling to contain the crisis. The breach was first reported by the Huffington Post UK, with the automaker initia

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4 key changes to the 2019 Ford F-150 Raptor

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From shocks to seats, a more rugged Raptor.

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Porsche re-created the company's original 356 prototype

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Porsche has recently re-created a key piece of its history, the very first 356.

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Fiat Chrysler recalls 4.8 million U.S. vehicles for cruise control defect

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In an "extremely rare" situation, cruise control might be stuck on.

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2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Drivers' Notes Review | King of the hill

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The 2019 Ram 1500 is the newest full-size truck to the market, though the upcoming 2019 Chevy Silverado isn't too far off. We've driven a few models so far, from the base-spec Tradesman up to the kitted-out Limited variant. Modern trucks are expected to do everything from towing a boat, hauling mulch or carrying a family of five on an extended road trip. The days of simple, single-minded trucks have long since passed.

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Honda Civic Type R pickup truck is the absurd and fast brainchild of U.K. Honda engineers

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Following in the footsteps of BMW's custom M3 pickup trucks, engineers at Honda's Civic hatchback factory in the U.K. built their own high-performance pickup out of a 2018 Honda Civic Type R. The car is just as absurd as you would hope. The roof from behind the B-pillars has been chopped out to create a truck bed, one filled with diamond-pattern steel. The engineers managed to retain the curves of the original sheet metal, and shaped the tops of the bed sides to mirror them.

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Daniel Ricciardo: Monaco owes me, and I want that win

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'I feel one got away from me a few years ago.'

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2018 Nissan Leaf gets a one-off convertible variant

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You won't see this at dealers anytime soon.

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2019 Ford Fiesta ST Quick Spin Review | No zoot for you!

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The driving style required to get the most out of a Fiesta ST requires braking late into the corner to turn the car on its nose. Which sounds fun until you start dwelling on the potential consequences of running out of hairpin to play on, there being little more than a curb-height wall between you and oblivion. The ability not to worry about that is what separates rally champions such as Ogier from the rest of us, but the ST successfully offers a sense of that driving style to those with average

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How to win the Indy 500? ‘Shut up and drive’

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4-time winner Rick Mears advising 3-time winner Helio Castroneves.

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2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback pricing and mileage numbers are out

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What it costs, how far you'll go, and how it's equipped.

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Jaguar laying groundwork for a reborn XK

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There have been rumors about plans to replace the Jaguar XK since before the gentleman's coupe ended production in 2014. Depending on which rumor you read, a reborn XK could remain compact and offer a 3.0-liter turbodiesel, grow a bit and move upmarket to challenge the Mercedes S-Class Coupe, or grow even more and challenge the Bentley Continental GT as "an elegant four-seater coupe." About the only three consistent details have been that the new XK would ride on a reworked F-Type platform, that

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Ford begins move of EV, autonomy employees to downtown Detroit

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Ford has begun moving about 200 employees to a new office in a refurbished hosiery factory in Detroit, the first step in what could be a much larger, consolidated urban campus housing the automaker's electric and autonomous vehicle and mobility operations. That includes a targeted mid-June announcement of a deal to purchase the heavily blighted Michigan Central Station.

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2018 Kia Stinger GT Quick Spin Review | Running the diaper-to-racetrack gamut

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On track and off, it's almost a killer app.

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2019 Audi A4 will get a mild refresh up front

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It's keeping up with the rest of the lineup.

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Twitter still smoldering after Elon Musk gets it all out

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He sets a date for unveiling of Model Y crossover, lambastes the UAW

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NTSB: Uber self-driving car failed to recognize pedestrian or brake in fatal crash

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WASHINGTON — An Uber Technologies self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in March failed to identify the pedestrian or brake, raising serious questions about the performance of the vehicle, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Thursday. The report said the vehicle's radar systems observed the pedestrian 6 seconds before impact but "the self-driving system software classified the pedestrian as an unknown object,

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2019 Mercedes-Benz E 450 gets updated engine and equipment

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This applies to the sedan, coupe, convertible and wagon.

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U.S. tariff threat hits European automakers' stocks

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U.S. national security investigation alarms BMW, VW and Daimler.

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2018 Volkswagen California Video Review | Camper van Tease

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20 minutes. That's how long it took someone to stop and ask me about the cherry red Volkswagen California I was driving.

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2019 Ford F-150 Raptor gets fancy new shocks and off-road cruise control

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Some nice new seats are available, too

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

2019 Mazda6 Skyactiv-D diesel caught in spy photos

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We get it – we're a little sick of getting a few years of assurances that Mazda's much-anticipated diesel engine is just around the corner. First, it was going to go in the 2014 Mazda6. More recently, Mazda told us it'd first land in the CX-5 – and in fact, there's a part of the Mazda USA website devoted to the diesel crossover, which makes it seem more legitimate than previous pronouncements. But the fact of the matter is, there's some unforeseen hiccup in the government approval pr

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The era of the over-the-air-updates is really, finally Here

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Like the weather, everyone talks about over-the-air (OTA) software updates for cars, but no one really does much about it, except for Tesla. Until now. Starting today, Here, the company known for its automotive mapping services, hopes to change this and help keep car electronics current with its new OTA Connect services.

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2019 Audi S8 spied completely uncovered at the Nurburgring

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The extra-fast version of Audi's flagship A8, the 2019 Audi S8, is basically ready to go if these spy shots are any indication. The super sedan was spied without any camouflage at all, sliding around on the Nürburgring. Though subtle, there are a number of visual cues that give it away as the performance version of the full-size Audi.

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Ferrari SP38 is the latest one-off creation from the Prancing Horse

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Surprise supercar! And it looks fast.

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Trump teases ‘big news’ for U.S. autoworkers, offers no details

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No one quite knows, or isn't saying, what he's talking about.

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