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So we were incredulous when we heard the 2011 Chevrolet Volt would be crashing the weekly classic car night at Bob's Big Boy, a old-timey hamburger joint in Burbank, California. Bob's isn't the friendliest place to roll up in modern machinery. Yet, we had to see the spectacle for ...
America
Volt
Chevrolet
Bob Lutz
Camaro
Impala SS
Reports out of Florida say Tiger Woods crashed his Cadillac Escalade just after leaving his house last night around 2:30am. He apparently "lost control," hit a fire hydrant and then continued into a tree.
Initial reports said he received serious injuries, but his ...
America
Cadillac
Escalade
Watch of the birth of the 2011 BMW X1 on the automaker's Leipzig, Germany, production line. Watch its death in a German crash test laboratory. Then, watch it frolic in the afterlife in a place curiously resembling the Arctic Circle.
First Drive: 2011 BMW X1
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Germany
BMW
Photo Courtesy of dubdaily.com .
There's an old adage in the car world: If it don't go, chrome it. Well, this Nissan GT-R definitely goes, but the guy chromed it anyway.
Apparently, the British owner of this GT-R likes the shiny stuff, so he chrome-wrapped the ...
America
Nissan
GT-R
GT
So what do you think? Has AdamC3046 solved the mystery or is the guy spending too much time with his inflatable girlfriend?
Italy
Lamborghini
Why be satisfied with a steering wheel, racing seat and pedals in your musty family room? Why not race in your very own E30 BMW M3 with the flat-panel TV mounted on the hood?
Presumably, the car has just GT5 Prologue loaded up (although the car's in Yokohama, ...
America
Turismo
BMW
M3
Yokohama Tire Corporation recently had the U.S introduction of the dB Super E-spec, the first tire formulated with orange oil. Oil from the orange peel, not orange juice, is used to replace petroleum-based oils in the construction.
The citrus (orange) oil is ...
America
Super
Mini Cooper
The second-generation Mazda 3 earned 5 stars in the National Highway Traffic Administration's (NHTSA) frontal-impact crash test , and this week, it achieved the same result in European NCAP testing.
And because we never can seem to get our fill of cars getting smashed, we ...
Japan
Mazda
Traffic
Thousands of stories have been written about the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, but if you read many of them with a keen eye, you realize the author doesn't quite have all the facts about this series hybrid car (with plug-in capability) -- and often inaccurately called an ...
America
Volt
Chevrolet
Matthew K. , official SLS AMG reporter, is back and this time he's riding shotgun in the 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG while Tommy Kendall drives.
And he talks all the way through a lap of Laguna Seca.
First Drive: 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
Germany
SLS
Mercedes Benz
Laguna
Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, California, is a classic hamburger joint, built in 1949. It's also the place to go on a Friday night if you drive anything manufactured before 1973, as Bob's hosts a weekly classic car show. It's the last place we'd ever expect a hybrid car to turn up, let ...
America
Volt
Bob Lutz
Chevrolet
HHR
Ford
BMW has released close to a dozen videos on the redesigned 2011 BMW 5 Series . We've picked out a selection for you here, starting with this neat computer animation that lets you see the F10 5 Series sedan from every conceivable angle in various interior/exterior color schemes.
After the ...
Germany
5 Series
BMW
General Motors announced today that the 2011 Buick Regal will be build at its Oshawa, Ontario, plant starting in the first quarter of 2011. Also starting production there at that time will be the 2011 Chevrolet Camaro convertible ; Oshawa already builds the hardtop Camaro.
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America
Buick
Regal
Camaro
General Motors
Chevrolet
Updated
Just as the Lexus LFA drove into the Cars and Coffee lot in Irvine, California, on Saturday, we turned and noticed that Ken Block's Subaru TRAX STI was already there -- and this time the sleigh was hitched up.
A couple weeks ago Block and DC Shoes released ...
Japan
Subaru
STi
Lexus
Just as the Lexus LFA drove into the Cars and Coffee lot in Irvine, California, on Saturday, we turned and noticed that Ken Block's Subaru TRAX STI was already there -- and this time the sleigh was hitched up.
A couple weeks ago Block and DC Shoes released a video of a ...
Japan
Subaru
STi
Lexus
Indeed, there is more to the Toyota floor mat debacle than floor mats. Toyota announced today it will modify the gas pedal in 3.8 million vehicles starting in early 2010. The modifications will typically involved shortening the pedal to move it farther away from the mat. ...
Japan
Toyota
Lexus
ES 350
Avalon
Camry
This is by far the best video that came out of yesterday's Viper ACR track day at Laguna Seca. Here, Dodge Engineer Chris Winkler talks you through a whole lap of the track in the 2010 Dodge Viper ACR, and some of the handling idiosyncrasies of a hugely powerful rear-wheel-drive car. ...
America
Dodge
Viper
Laguna
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America
Chevrolet
Volt
4.0
General Motors
Inside Line tests hundreds of vehicles a year, but not every vehicle gets a full write-up. The numbers still tell a story, though, so we present "IL Track Tested." It's a quick rundown of all the data we collected at the track, along with comments direct from the test ...
