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2 June 2007 posted in Auto News 59 views
Corbin Raven 3-wheeler prototype hits the road There is currently a growing list of three-wheeled vehicles set to be sold in America. One reason for this trend is that by losing out on the fourth wheel, the vehicle is officially classified as a mo ...
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27 May 2007 posted in Auto News 3 views
Welcome to Indiana, home of the $1,000 speeding ticket. And that's just the beginning... States have come up with some neat little quips to get people to slow down for work zones on freeways. "Slow for the cone zone" comes to mind. The Hoosier State has shunned the soft sell and gone stra ...
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23 May 2007 posted in Auto News 3 views
Welcome to the new Autoblog! Surprise! Though I wasn't around three years ago when Autoblog first went live, I imagine requests to update the site's design began almost immediately. Admittedly our little blog has never been the f ...
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21 May 2007 posted in Auto News 5 views
More from Lutz: Maximum Bob pays his blogging dues Whenever we add another blogger to the Autoblog team, I always warn him or her to grow a thicker skin. Part of blogging is exposing your words to a wide audience and having the fortitude to weather wh ...
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14 May 2007 posted in Auto News 4 views
Gunning for Guinness: Ferrari eyes record with parade at Silverstone This year is Ferrari's 60th anniversary, and Ferrari is doing Rossa-themed things all over the world to celebrate. In Britain, the Silverstone race track will play host to Ferrari Racing Days the week ...
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9 May 2007 posted in Auto News 5 views
Report: Toyota FT-HS coming in 2009 Click image for photo gallery The June '07 print edition of Automobile is full of juicy information, and one of the more significant bits of news appears in a sidebar on page 30. According to the maga ...
Tags: liter, toyota, sports car, horses, automobile, debut, hybrid synergy drive, synergy, photo gallery, mid level, sidebar, gasoline engine, spiritual successor, dollar amounts
8 May 2007 posted in Auto News 3 views
Give your own readers the gift of Autoblog Every week we come across about a dozen websites that literally steal our posts verbatim by doing something called "scraping the feed". Basically, a website is set up to "scrape" the content from our ...
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4 May 2007 posted in Auto News 2 views
One of our own involved in tragic accident As some of you have already learned, one of our most valued members of the Autoblog team, Frank Filipponio, was involved in a car accident on Wednesday evening that resulted in the death of a female p ...
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3 May 2007 posted in Auto News 3 views
More Fun at Hamann: BMW X5 gets the business Click image for photo gallery You all know how this works, so we'll keep it simple. Hamann has come out with a suite of upgrades for the new BMW X5. Bimmer's rolling cross-trainer gets some added punc ...
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30 April 2007 posted in Auto News 4 views
Saturn Vue gets a $3k bump in the sticker Well, $3,295 to be exact. The base price of the new and greatly improved Vue will come in at $21,395 (with shipping), placing it squarely in the same pricing segment as the Honda CR-V ($21,195) and To ...
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23 April 2007 posted in Auto News 6 views
In the Autoblog Garage: 2007 Nissan Armada LE click above image to view more high-res pics of the Nissan Armada LE The word 'armada' has its origin in Spanish, and roughly translates to "I've got guns." Nissan aptly named its biggest 'ute the Arm ...
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16 April 2007 posted in Auto News 5 views
Forbes picks the 10 Sexiest Cars We thought it was getting to be a long time since Forbes had put together another Top Ten list, but this time the journal of choice for successful businessmen put a twist on the annual tradition: inst ...
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6 April 2007 posted in Auto News 8 views
Dennis Publishing acquires Octane magazine In the ongoing struggle between magazines and websites, it should be immediately clear to anyone where we stand. With websites like ours getting constantly updated as the news emerges, magazines are i ...
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1 April 2007 posted in Auto News 8 views
Transformers does TV: IGN has scored an exclusive sneak at the first Transformers TV spot. Entitled "Hidden" it gives us a few more glimpses of the 'bots we're all looking forward to seeing this Fourth of July, including a ...
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30 March 2007 posted in Auto News 4 views
Welcome Automóviles to the fold Our little family has grown considerably in the past couple of years, especially since the Weblogs, Inc. Network was bought by AOL back in November of 2005. We've welcomed the AOL Autos channel as our ...
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28 March 2007 posted in Auto News 7 views
In the Autoblog Garage: 2007 Infiniti G35 Sport Click image for a gallery of 39 high-res shots of the G35 sport It's not easy living in the midwest and reviewing vehicles, specifically in Cleveland, Ohio where schizophrenic weather that calls for b ...
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23 March 2007 posted in Auto News 6 views
Influential publisher Robert E. Petersen passes on at 80 Robert E. Peterson passed away today after a short battle with neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 80. Automotive journalists everywhere owe a good degree of gratitude to Peterson, who founded such ma ...
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23 March 2007 posted in Auto News 4 views
Analog OnStar customers offered free year of service A few months back we informed you that many current OnStar subscribers will soon be cut from GM's communications network. The reason for the loss of OnStar service dates back to 2002, when the FCC dec ...
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22 March 2007 posted in Auto News 5 views
O Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo, obey thy father and refuse thy name Shakespeare has proven himself ahead of his time yet again. While Alfa Romeo is making a comeback of epic proportions, parent company Fiat is ordering a new naming scheme for the Torino automaker's mo ...
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21 March 2007 posted in Auto News 3 views
Fiat 500: images and video Click image for a gallery of desktop-sized photos Yesterday we brought you a sneak preview of the much-anticipated Fiat 500. This marks the revival of one of the most iconic small-car designs in autom ...
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