Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 30, 2007
[Image Source: CarbonBodyDesign.com] Just when you thought the land of taste & style couldn't be home to one more house of superlative design, well, not only can it, but it does. Italy's...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 30, 2007
Racing legend Carroll Shelby is at it again. The automotive designer who's produced some of the most ripped muscle cars the automotive world has ever seen, heard, and smelt (the torched brakes...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 27, 2007
Heavily disguised, though in-disguisable in its profile, the video clip shows the Porsche Panamera saloon in the middle of a bout of European winter testing. The details on the final form of the...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 27, 2007
Porsche is set to continue its factorial expansion by announcing the construction of a brand Spanking new "multi-functional facility" at its Zuffenhausen headquarters outside Stuttgart....
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 26, 2007
Somewhere in the Near East, a Humvee owner is crying bitter tears of disbelief. Somewhere in Detroit, the original designers of the Hummer H1 are hanging their heads. One can imagine that the Hummer...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 26, 2007
Honda Motor Company posted a 20% loss in the last fiscal quarter. According to the Detroit News, the Japanese automaker saw profits slide despite doing a record business - global sales rose 9%. So...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 25, 2007
You didn't hear it from Maximum Bob... The title now belongs to... go ahead... guess. No, not Lada. Toyota! According to Robert Farago of the Truth About Cars who claimed to have parroted what a...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 25, 2007
[Image source: CAR] If the BMW X5 is too practical and the X3 too cheap, why not opt for the X6? Well, according to Britain's CAR magazine, in about a year's time, you can do just that. And...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 24, 2007
[Image Source: AutoExpress] Never was a fan of the "emotionalized" styling of Mercedes-Benz's original CLS four-door coupé that premiered back in 2004. As it was, the Benz seemed to...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 24, 2007
[Image Source: Canadian Driver] Perhaps all those catchy Zoom! Zoom! television commercials finally caught on (or paid off), for in F.Y. 2006, Mazda did a gangbusters business. The Japanese...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 23, 2007
[Image Source: Automobile] The partnership couldn't be more bizarre. Toyota joined hands with Fuji Heavy Industries and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (that's the Subaru plant that...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 23, 2007
The 2007 MINI has been awarded the five star crash test rating by the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP). The latest versions of the Cooper model were thrown into deformable barriers...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 20, 2007
[Image Source: AutoBlog] Possibilmente. According to the resourceful blogging over @ MotorAuthority, Alfa romeo (and its parent company Fiat, SpA) is considering a partnership with China's Chery...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 20, 2007
[Image Source: Automotoportal.com] Buyers of the new Saab 9-3 Convertible have had a pretty slim range of choices when it came to choosing the color of the "rag" portion of their...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 19, 2007
Ah yes, the kindness of strangers. In this (00:40) advertisement for the Mars Company (Americans think milky way, Britons think Mars Bar) it appears that overexuberance can carry a price. Especially...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 19, 2007
Schönbrunn palace One would have thought it was a given. There are certain things in life one simply takes for granted. The sun rises and sets. Big Ben rings on the hour every hour (until it's...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 18, 2007
[Image Source: AutoExpress] There are times when they get it and other times when you'd wish they'd get it. Like when FoMoCo's CEO Mulally elected to bring back the Taurus name. That was...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 18, 2007
Poor GM. It seems the world's largest automaker (Toyota's gaining fast on that top spot) has only recently received a respite from the constant media barrage that grabs hold to any news of...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 17, 2007
Audi's iconic TT has won the title "Germany's Most Popular Car." The quad-ringed two seater which comes in hardtop coupé and Roadster guises was picked among 59 other contenders...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 17, 2007
Porsche AG announced recently that to make room for more Cayennes and the upcoming Panamera four door sports-saloon / Maserati Quattroporte rival, the company has invested €150 million ($203...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 16, 2007
Jeremy Clarkson is looking for your input. And by "your", I mean of course, you who's out there surfing YouTube's vast array of video clips for all episodes Top Gear. For those rest...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 16, 2007
DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Renault-Nissan, Peugeot, Citroën, Toyota Motor, Takata Corporation and TRW Automotive are collaborating on the research and development of six...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 16, 2007
Just don't hold your breath. The most evergreen model in Mercedes-Benz's fat catalogue of choices- the Gelaendewagen or "G-Wagen" - has been hand-built at a special factory in...
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Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on April 13, 2007
Feeling a bit out-foxed by Toyota, BMW AG and DaimlerChrysler AG are aiming to play the old American foreign policy game of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," by joining together to...
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