New Audi TT coupe sketches revealed

Audi The new Audi TT coupe will make its official debut at the Geneva motor show. Official drawings show sharper-looking TT expected at Geneva motor show Audi has previewed its new third-generation TT coupe in a series of official sketches, revealing a car that continues to draw heavily on the original Bauhaus-inspired design of the original model launched in 1998. Reinterpreted detailing aims to provide the latest TT with a more technical...

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2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class First Drive

When you look at the Mercedes-Benz GLA, do you see a sporty compact crossover or a smallish four-door hatch? Mercedes appears to be hoping that, in SUV-loving America, the GLA will be perceived as a baby G, the most youthful and affordable member of the brand’s SUV family, sitting alongside the GLK, the GL, the G-wagen—and the, er, obviously misnamed M-class. But it also could be seen as a truncated...

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The fastest 4x4s and SUVs on the UK car market at the moment

SUVs and 4x4s aren’t ideally suited to the job of going fast but that hasn’t stopped car manufacturers building a succession of performance 4x4s that possess blistering pace.  With its weighty 4x4 mechanicals, high-riding stance and general, all-round bulk, the average SUV is in a constant war against the laws of physics. What these top performance SUVs show is that a portly kerb weight and garden shed aerodynamics are no obstacle to some...

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Daily News Digest 11-02-2014 | Automobile

2014 BMW X5 Available with M Performance Parts Q and A: Mark Reuss, General Motors' Product Chief Report: Mini to Focus Lineup, Add Differentiation for Fourth Generation Report: Porsche Could Exceed 200,000 Sales in 2015 Thanks to Macan 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe to Debut at 2014 Geneva Auto S...

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2013 Bentley Mulsanne - Little Notes

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2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG - Small Review

Building a bigger CLA   Inside the Mercedes GLA45 AMG. Photo by Mercedes-Benz.   Exterior profile of the Mercedes GLA45 AMG Photo by Mercedes-Benz.   ...

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Daily News Digest 11-02-2014 | RoadAndTrack

A Challenger roaring at full throttle is better than coffee. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe is stunning, has new tricks First Drive: Bentley Continental GT V8 S Watch the spectacular conclusion of Bathurst 12 H...

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Daily News Digest 10-02-2014 | Automobile

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Talks Software Update, Future Plans 2015 BMW M4 Convertible Spied Almost Completely Undisguised Celebrating 25 Years of the Mazda MX-5 Miata Ford, GM, and Chrysler to Adopt SAE Tow Ratings Toyota to Shut Down Australian Manufacturing by 2...

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Daily News Digest 10-02-2014 | AutoWeek

Happy 25th anniversary, Mazda Miata: Mazda debuted the Miata at the Chicago Auto Show 25 years ago Rumor: New Toyota Supra, entry-level sports car confirmed: Toyota PR says no; our hearts say yes Toyota to end Australian manufacturing in 2017: In exit, Japanese automaker will join Holden, Ford, Mitsubishi One Lap of the Web: Metal Machine Mazdas: Automotive goodness from all corners of the Internet Chevrolet is bringing CNG power to the 2015 Silverado HD: Compressed natural gas bi-fuel system saves money, gives trucks 650 mile range Rare 1950...

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2014 Lexus GS 300h - Small Review

The Lexus GS300h is a lot of car for the money. Its starting price of £32k makes it cheaper than the BMW 5-series, Audi A6 and the Mercedes E-class, but it will have the same mechanical set-up as our higher-specced £37k test car: a petrol-electric hybrid drivetrain with impressive efficiency claims of 60.1mpg and 109g/km....

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2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante - Review

Can the Volante compete? Over to Ben Pulman in California for the definitive CAR verdict... Costing enough to make even James Bond wince, the £199,995 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante is the most expensive Aston Martin in the British firm's current range. It's in competition with some serious open-top machinery: everything from the Ferrari 458 Spider and Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster to the Bentley Continental GTC and Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabriolet...

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2014 Toyota Highlander - Small Review

So long, Spongebob: This minivan surrogate is now more stylish.    Toyota doesn’t want its all-new 2014 Highlander to be painted with the same “Mom Bomb” brush that’s ruined sales of minivans. So for 2014, Toyota’s wrapped its huge-selling crossover SUV in more-angular sheetmetal designed to attract more dudes. There’s also a bolder grille that’s slightly reminiscent of the brutish snout of the full-size...

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2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 / 3500 HD - Review

Mixing power with refinement for heavy-duty excellence. Our initial drive took place in the mountains above Phoenix, Arizona. The Silverado’s snappier sibling, the 2015 GMC Sierra HD, was along for the ride. But don’t be fooled by the General’s commercials and the GMC’s added tinsel. The two trucks are the same brutes underneath, with mechanicals largely unchanged from those of the previous models, which...

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2014 Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography | Little Notes

The R&T staff drives and performance tests hundreds of new cars every year. Because we don't have time to give each one the full review treatment, we share select logbook notes here, in a quick, easily-digested format. Unless noted otherwise, each test car is in the office for two weeks and is driven by every member of the editorial staff. Each staffer spends at least...

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2014 Audi S4 | Little Notes

Snow's no problem, and neither is having fun in it. The R&T staff drives and performance tests hundreds of new cars every year. Because we don't have time to give each one the full review treatment, we share select logbook notes here, in a quick, easily-digested format. Unless noted otherwise, each test car is in the office for two weeks and is driven by every member of...

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2014 Mitsubishi Mirage | Litte Notes

A little odd. The R&T staff drives and performance tests hundreds of new cars every year. Because we don't have time to give each one the full review treatment, we share select logbook notes here, in a quick, easily-digested format. Unless noted otherwise, each test car is in the office for two weeks and is driven by every member of the editorial staff. Each staffer spends...

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5 things - learned driving the 2015 GMC Sierra Denali 2500

Torque in a tux. This is what a $65,000 pickup truck looks like. Sound obscene? It shouldn’t. Big-dollar, heavy-duty trucks are the norm now more than ever. GMC says that one in four of the nearly 500,000 trucks sold in the US last year were HD models, and the company’s products enjoy one of the highest transaction prices of any truck on the road. Pickups aren’t just more...

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8 things - learned driving the Nissan IDx Nismo Concept

Fragile, priceless, and driven. Concept cars are fragile, fanciful, nearly priceless machines intended to demonstrate a design language or test production ideas. But they are never, ever really designed to be driven. At least not very far. But that didn’t stop us from asking if we could slide behind the wheel of the Nissan IDx Nismo concept while it was in Los Angeles...

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2015 Volkswagen Golf R | First Drive

An MQB to rule them all. 2015 Volkswagen Golf R Powertrain: DOHC 16-valve 2.0-liter 4cyl Dricetrain: 6-speed manual Fuel Economy (EPA city/hwy/combined): : TBD, 34mpg (US) on European combined cycle We haven’t even landed the regular Mk7 Golf in the US yet, let alone the GTI, but Volkswagen is torturing us with whiffs of more forbidden fruit, namely the new...

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5 things I learned driving the 2014 Toyota Highlander

The 2014 Highlander makes a lot of sense, but ... It's one half of a two-tiered approach Since it was launched in 2000, the Toyota Highlander has usually occupied the space between the 4Runner and the RAV4, though they've leapfrogged each other a few times as Toyota has introduced new models. Now, the company has positioned the 2014 Highlander and the 4Runner as a two-tiered...

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Bentley Continental GT V8 S : First Drive Test

A more sensibly opulent driving experience. Unseasonably cool weather in the hills around San Diego seemed to chill the bones of thin-skinned southern California locals. Rain seemed certain to quench the drought the area suffered and to keep convertible tops up. No matter. The weather seems a distant, trifling matter to the Continental GT V8 S, Bentley’s newest variant...

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Mercedes GLA 45 AMG 2014 - Small Review

   It’s perhaps best to start this review with a statistic: according to an insider at Mercedes the new GLA 45 took just 8.11 minutes to lap the Nurburgring. That’s just a couple of seconds slower than the lower and lighter A45 AMG did the 14.25-mile course. This means that on the road it will be all but impossible for mere mortals to notice a difference in performance. Really, it will be… • Mercedes A45 AMG review What you will...

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Small News Digest 07-02-2014

XCAR shares our love for the Fiesta ST  Police car stuck in the snow? Subaru to the WRX-cue!   Remembering when Peter Egan visited Jay Leno  The art of using snowbanks as a driver's aid  This is where BMW motorcycles are made  European Beat: A little problem with British garages...

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Toyota Reportedly Near Settlement with Feds Over False Disclosures Allegations

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2014 Chrysler Town and Country S review notes: Sometimes only a minivan will do

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2015 Ford Mustang | Images Gallery & Video |

The three most important things about the new Mustang; red light cameras today...and tomorrow. And Cooley's car tech wish list for 2014....

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2015 Ford Mustang - First Look

There was no shortage of opinions or ideas when it came to creating the 2015 Ford Mustang. The sixth-generation Mustang marks the 50th birthday for the iconic sport coupe, and nearly everyone within the company—and even more outside of it—wanted to share their thoughts with the 500 executives, designers, and engineers tasked with developing it. Suggestions came from everywhere, insiders told Motor Trend. All-wheel-drive models, wagon variants,...

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2015 - 10 New Cars You Must See at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show

Chicago’s auto show isn’t close to the biggest event on journalists’ automotive calendars, but tons of consumers flood the place once we leave, most of who will skip over the concept cars and pie-in-the-sky supercars and instead focus on stuff they might actually buy. Indeed, we’ve heard the show is a huge generator of sales referrals for the Chicagoland region, which last time we checked, isn’t exactly a small podunk town in the middle of ...

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Bentley Continental GT V8 S Convertible 2014|Images Gallery & Video |

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Bentley Continental GT V8 S Convertible 2014 - Review

When Bentley introduced the Continental GT V8 more than a year ago, the rationale was that the car’s lower-output V-8 engine—which fell short of the output produced by the Conti GT’s W-12—would allow the company to reach new buyers with a less expensive model. Two things muddle this motive: The first is that the V-8 is nearly as powerful as the W-12 and weighs less; the second is that the GT V8’s price tag isn’t far off the W-12’s. Allow...

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NEWS Digest 07 Feb 2014 | RoadandTrack

The RallyCross VW Beetle in Chicago is fake, but we still love it     F1 faces drama with double-points rules and qualifying changes     This Toyota Camry has as much horsepower as eight Veyrons     Photos: The 8000 hp Toyota Camry     How your car can be hacked remotely by a tiny device     Analysis: F1 drivers set for sideways headaches during 2014 season The...

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2014 Audi A6 TDI Prestige - Road Test Notes

Recommend the diesel Audi A6 EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I've been loving the Audi A6 for a while. The diesel makes it more appealing to me. Why? To my mind, it has all the diesel benefits like torque (check out that 428 lb-ft!) and fuel economy without the diesel drawbacks including smell and coarse operation (I couldn't tell I was in a diesel from the sound). This is a fine engine installed in a terrific midsize sedan. The car leaves the line...

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Dubai Police : Bugatti Veyron patrol car

  The Dubai Police are adding a white-and-green Bugatti Veyron to their already impressive cruiser lineup. Their motor pool already includes an Audi R8 V10 Plus, Bentley Continental GT, Brabus B63S, Ferrari FF and Nissan GT-R. The Dubai Police posted a picture of the new car being introduced on their Twitter account Thursday...

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2014 Chicago: The Chicago Auto Show Spotters' Guide

Its organizers say the Chicago Auto Show is North America's largest. It has three indoor test tracks and six outdoor ride-and-drives staged during the length of the show, which runs through Presidents' Day, Monday, February 17. The Chicago show has hosted a number of important global unveilings since 1901, including the first Mazda MX-5 Miata, in 1989. Since the 1990s, Detroit's emergence as the site of the North American International Auto Show has usurped Chicago's primacy, especially over the last decade. The metropolitan Chicago area has a...

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NEWS Digest 07 Feb 2014 | Automobile Magazine |

2014 Honda Civic Si From Forza Video Games Brought to Life at Chicago Auto Show 2014 Chicago Auto Show: Hits, Misses & Revelations Mopar Modifies 2015 Chrysler 200 At 2014 Chicago Auto Show 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stars in "Captain America" Sequel Recall Central: 2014 Ram ProMaster ...

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News Daily digest for 06 Feb, 2014

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