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3 June 2007 posted in Time Warp 11 views
Greenwich Concours d'Elegance - Day 1 Click image for a huge gallery from Day 1 of the Greenwich Concours I'd never been to a Concours d'Elegance prior to Saturday. If the Greenwich Concours is the only one I'm ever able to go to for the ...
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9 April 2007 posted in Driving 5 views
Tog Gear could be U.S. bound with British hosts Is The Stig headed to the States? It appears that the wildly popular automotive TV show, Top Gear, could be heading to these shores (again). The BBC and The Sun newspaper have reported that there are ...
Tags: jeremy clarkson, driving conditions, american cars, blokes, american audience, american roads, lads, million viewers, stig, jet car, richard hammond, car crash, video top gear, international emmy, negative impressions, emmy winner, american cousin, next uk, remarkable recovery, darndest
9 April 2007 posted in Driving 2 views
Top Gear could be U.S. bound with British hosts Is The Stig headed to the States? It appears that the wildly popular automotive TV show, Top Gear, could be heading to these shores (again). The BBC and The Sun newspaper have reported that there are ...
Tags: jeremy clarkson, driving conditions, american cars, blokes, american audience, american roads, lads, million viewers, stig, jet car, richard hammond, car crash, video top gear, international emmy, negative impressions, emmy winner, american cousin, next uk, remarkable recovery, darndest
26 May 2006 posted in Aftermarket 15 views
The Fast & The Furious:Tokyo Drift to feature a Nissan-powered '67 Mustang "The Fast and the Furious" movie series has not been kind to enthusiasts of American cars, with the exception of the moment in the first movie when Dom fires up his dad's Hemi-powered Charger (we won' ...
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17 May 2006 posted in Euro 2 views
Top Gear tests Corvette Zed-06 Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame recently got some seat time in a Chevy Corvette Z06 and was largely impressed with General Motor's best Vette effort to date. In this video Clarkson races the Z06 agai ...
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20 March 2006 posted in Car Buying 7 views
Jerry Flint: Do Ford and GM know how to build 'American' vehicles anymore? In his latest rant, Forbes columnist Jerry Flint questions the design strategies of Ford Motor Co. and General Motors. He thinks their global-strategies for new models will fail, as much of it is base ...
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27 January 2006 posted in Podcasts 9 views
Autoblog Podcast #21 Bill Ford spent enough time talking about his company in front of a mic this week that we felt it only fair to do the same. Autoblog Podcast #21 features myself and Chris Paukert talking about the ann ...
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26 January 2006 posted in Car Buying 9 views
CNN asks: are American cars really that bad? In light of this week's high-profile restructuring announcements (and their attendant job-shedding) by both Ford and DaimlerChrysler, the folks at CNNMoney have attempted to answer a very basic questi ...
Tags: job, ford, cnn, consumers, daimlerchrysler, gap, consumer reports, j d power, reliability ratings, reputation, restructuring, quot, conclusions, american cars, citations, perception gap, quality metrics, cnnmoney, thusly
1 December 2005 posted in Car Buying 6 views
MPH per dollar favors Chrysler's SRT8 trio It was fun to read the list of fastest American cars that was posted by Forbes yesterday, but nearly 99.9 percent of us couldn't afford anything near the top of the list. Right around the #9 spot, how ...
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30 November 2005 posted in Sports/GTs 7 views
Forbes rates the 10 fastest American cars Forbes.com recently searched high and low for the 10 fastest American cars to grace the planet Earth and came up with a pretty impressive list. At the top is the SSC Ultimate Aero (shown), with a trim ...
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11 October 2005 posted in Motorsports 9 views
American muscle cars are winning races again Not since the Pony Car Wars of the early '70s have we seen so many factory-supported American cars on U.S. road courses. The Grand American Road Racing Series, with its stock-oriented rules for Grand ...
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21 May 2005 posted in Car Buying 11 views
Forbes apologizes for not liking American cars even more I love stories about lists: 10 best, best quality, gas mileage, etc. But here's one that baffles me. I don't understand why Forbes, an insightful reputable publication, would write a story about 10 go ...
Tags: gm, ford, gas mileage, mileage, forbes, great cars, american cars, quality gas, best quality, advertisers
2 May 2005 posted in Coupes 6 views
Profile of Hau Thai-Tang From the time that Hau Thai-Tang saw his first Mustang Mach One on a U.S. base in Saigon thirty years ago he has always loved the image of bold American cars. After moving to America at five and getti ...
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27 April 2005 posted in Car Buying 4 views
Quick money to be made in OZ American cars are driving up to the auction block at the Shannons Sydney Autumn classic car auction and getting a pretty penny. The oddest of the lot is a custom converted 1999 Chevy Corvette. The own ...
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