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2017 Audi TT gets sporty S Line Competition package
Audi’s TT sports car, now in its third generation, remains as brilliant as ever, particularly in high-performance TT RS form. The car is light and agile and manages to belie its front-wheel-drive underpinnings in most situations. Audi is now offering a package for owners of the standard car to improve its athleticism. Called S Line…
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2018 Chevrolet Equinox offers trio of turbo engines, including diesel
The Chevrolet Equinox has been completely redesigned for the 2018 model year. A new Equinox isn’t normally something to get excited about but this third-generation model marks the debut of some significant technologies for General Motors Company [NYSE:GM]. For example, it will be offered with an all-turbocharged powertrain lineup, which is a…
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Let’s figure out who makes the best engine
Congratulations to Jason on his 500th Engineering Explained video. The series has been wonderful in the way it presents technical concepts and brings them down to a language that most of us can comprehend and understand. For his 500th video, Jason is trying to figure out which automaker makes the best engine. He says this…
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Clive Owen returns as The Driver for BMW Films
If you’ve never heard of the the BMW Films series, you need to get off the computer and go ask your parents to revoke your Internet privileges. The series ran under the theme The Hire. It brought Clive Owen to the world. He plays a character named The Driver, and each episode of the original…
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2019 Toyota Supra spy shots
Feast your eyes on a prototype for the new Toyota Supra. This is the car Toyota originally announced in 2011 when it signed a deal with BMW to jointly develop a sports car platform. BMW is using the platform for a replacement for the Z4, thought to be a new model called the Z5. Toyota…
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Lexus to show off Kinetic Seat concept at Paris auto show
The car seat, while receiving safety upgrades over the years, is relatively the same as the one folks have become used to for decades now. A lower portion. An upper portion. Some cloth, or perhaps leather, and if you’re lucky you’ll get multiple-powered ways to adjust it all to your liking. Lexus is looking to…
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2018 Jeep Compass leaked
Jeep’s new SUV to sit between the Renegade and Cherokee has been outed. A handful of photos on Saturday surfaced on Autoo (via World Car Fans) after the compact SUV was spotted in an official photo shoot at a location in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The debut is meant to take place later this year at…
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2017 Audi TT RS first drive review: Overcoming imbalance
If you were going to design a sports car, you wouldn’t start with the layout of the Audi TT. You wouldn’t choose a front-wheel-drive architecture. You wouldn’t turn the engine sideways, and you damn sure wouldn’t locate it ahead of the front axle. Instead, you’d start with a rear-wheel drive platform, mount the engine…
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Aston Martin teases 2018 DB11 Volante
If you follow Aston Martin on Facebook, you may already know this, but the British luxury brand today teased photos of the convertible version of the new DB11 coupe. While the coupe is hitting dealers now, the droptop, known as Volante in Aston Martin speak, won’t be available until 2018. That’s a little odd because…
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Would you be disappointed if Apple gave up its car program? Poll results
One of the worst kept secrets in the auto industry is that Apple is working an a self-driving electric car. According to recent news, though, the project might end before it’s even confirmed. That spurred us to post our recent Twitter poll, in which we asked if you would be disappointed if Apple gave up…