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Review: 2010 Honda Insight EX, familiarity breeds discontent A week with Honda’s new Insight proves there’s more to making a dedicated hybrid than aerodynamic sheetmetal and a miserly mill.
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Daily U-Turn: What you missed on 7.2.09
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Filed under: Euro , Dodge , Earnings/Financials , Alfa Romeo With the ink still wet on the Fiat/Chrysler deal, many auto sites ( including Autoblog ) have had a bit of fun prognosticating which Fiat/Alfa models would be rebadged as Chrysler products. U.K.
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REPORT: Dodges to be rebranded as Alfa Romeos in Europe
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Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative , Green , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Supercars , Rumormill McLaren F1 LM - Click above for high-res image gallery McLaren has put up a job posting for a Senior Engineer for Powertrain Hybrid Technology on its official website, which may offer a few clues as to where the automaker may be heading in the near future for its road cars. As far as rumors go, this one seems pretty solid.
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Rumormill: McLaren planning hybrid supercar
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Filed under: Spy Photos , Sedans/Saloons , BMW 2011 BMW 5-Series - Click above for gallery A year ago, we showed you pics of the next-generation BMW 5-Series doing some high-speed testing on the Nürburgring, but that was pretty much the last we heard about this midsize bahnstormer. Well, intrepid spy photographer Rich Truesdell spotted a similar mule out in the desert last week, and he has filled us in on some additional details. The car he spotted appears to be a 2011 BMW 540i sedan
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Spy Shots: 2011 BMW 5-Series mule caught in the desert
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The annual Goodwood Festival of Speed takes place this weekend, July 3-5. You might not have booked your airfare to England yet, but fortunately you can use your friend the Internet to take a good look at what has become one of the foremost celebrations of automotive culture.
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Goodwood Festival of Speed: Brit-style Burnouts
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Filed under: Motorsports , Hatchbacks , Ford Tanner Foust’s 2009 Olsbergs MSE ROCKSTAR Ford Fiesta - Click above for high-res image gallery Ford knows better than most that the way into an American car buyer’s heart is through motor racing, so the latest step in Ford’s North American “Fiesta Movement” is the deployment of the compact hatchback which we’ve driven and enjoyed on several occasions on America’s most popular rally circuits. Following its entry in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb , Ford will be fielding a team of rally-prepped Fiestas in the upcoming X Games, the 15th running of the famous stunt competition and the first time Ford will participate
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Ford attacking X Games with star-studded trio of Fiesta rally cars
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Filed under: Audi , Lifestyle , UK Goodwood Festival of Speed Audi Sculpture - Click above for image gallery of more GFoS sculptures The Goodwood Festival of Speed takes place this weekend, and every year the Earl of March, who manages the 12,000-acre Goodwood estate that hosts the event, commissions a giant art piece honoring that year’s featured marque. Audi is the featured marque this year, which is timely since the Ingolstadt-based automaker is also celebrating its centennial
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Goodwood Festival of Speed featuring 135-foot monument to Audi
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Filed under: Coupes , Supercars , Spyker 2010 Spyker C8 Aileron - Click above for image gallery Boutique Dutch carmaker Spyker unveiled its elongated and streamlined C8 Aileron back in March in Geneva, and we saw its North American debut in New York a month later. Those were show car versions of the upcoming production model based on the concept car we had seen in Geneva and Pebble Beach the year before. We’ve seen the imposing coupes from every possible angle, inside and out
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New pics of production Spyker Aileron hit the interwebs
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Lost among all the talk about the sparkly "new" GM is the leftover business of the "old" GM. You remember that GM right
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"Bad" GM Likely To Cost $1B or More to Wind Down
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Filed under: Wagons/Estates , BMW According to a report by InsideLine, BMW is set to expand its wagonesque line-up by one in 2011 with the introduction of the 335i Gran Turismo.
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REPORT: BMW 335i Gran Turismo dialed in for 2011
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