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29 May 2007 posted in Etc. 7 views
eBay Find of the Day: 1958 Edsel Ranger Motorhome Click image for photo galleryThe treasure trove that is eBay Motors continues to produce. Today's big find is the 1958 Edsel Ranger motor home conversion you see here. The forward half of the erstwhil ...
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24 May 2007 posted in Spy Photos 8 views
Spy Shots: Ford F-250/350 Harley-Davidson For those complaining that the Ford F-150 Harley-Davidson introduced yesterday wasn't suited for real truck duty, here you go. It's the F-250/450 Super Duty version of Ford's cobranding enterprise wit ...
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18 May 2007 posted in Etc. 2 views
Cerberus could align GMAC and Chrysler Financial No one knows yet what Cerberus is going to do with Chrysler. However, the possibilities probably include quite a few things that wouldn't be normally expected in the car business -- such as GMAC and C ...
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8 May 2007 posted in Aftermarket 26 views
Twin-turbo, mid-engine Corvette Super Coupe headed to SEMA Though rumors are still swirling beneath the surface that General Motors may be working on a true mid-engine Corvette that would be sold alongside the next-generation C7 model, no one really expects s ...
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6 May 2007 posted in Coupes 6 views
It's VW's turn: here comes another 4-door coupe The CLS has begun a trend that simply will not quit, with Volkswagen being the latest to join the express train to a 4-door-coupe. The 4DC trend is not a bad thing, especially since it has lead to the ...
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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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24 April 2007 posted in Aftermarket views
Tunage: Sportech gives a Golf 335 hp and 1,800 watts Sportech is a South African tuner with a penchant for German cars. Out to build the fastest GTI around, they are currently working on a people's missile called the P Cubed Golf. It will have, among ma ...
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20 April 2007 posted in Audio 5 views
Listening to the A5's heartbeat and horn Audi has done a great job of staying in the news lately, and the one product that's gotten the most face time is the brand-new A5. From the minute pictures of Audi's newest coupe were released to the ...
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13 April 2007 posted in Marketing/Advertising 3 views
Jaguar gets in on the webisodes game The Jaguar brand hasn't exactly been setting the world on fire lately, and Ford's British marquee's next major product, the sexy XF, is still a year away. Well, the team from Coventry can't very well ...
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12 April 2007 posted in Green views
BMW might enter the hybrid pool with next-gen 5-series Motor Authority reports that a senior engineer has said that if a hybrid proves to be more economical in the real world than its diesel counterpart, then BMW will build one. Speculation is that such a ...
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12 April 2007 posted in Etc. 1 views
Man's Bristol 411 towed and crushed, even though it's legally parked When you live in a city as densely populated as Lambeth, South London, you have to follow parking laws very closely, or your vehicle will be towed. Mendoza Stewart abided by the law, and it didn't mat ...
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3 April 2007 posted in Auction Action views
eBay Find of the Day: Porsche Cayenne limousine Not everybody goes to prom in a Town Car, the real Players hit the scene in an Escalade or H2. If you really want to be unique, you can make your entrance in this Porsche Cayenne stretch limo. Fourtee ...
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30 March 2007 posted in China 2 views
MG may yet find a home in Oklahoma The first Modern Gentleman has come off Nanjing's reconstituted assembly line in China, but we're getting conflicting reports about whether or not a rumored factory in Oklahoma will happen. Nanjing ha ...
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27 March 2007 posted in Safety 5 views
VIDEO: Eddie Griffin interviewed after Enzo-icide Looks like Eddie Griffin hasn't been coached well enough by the PR people for his film Redline. Griffin missed an obvious opportunity to use the movie's tagline, "Fear Nothing. Risk Everything" to exp ...
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20 March 2007 posted in Safety 5 views
Toyota curious about Tundra's four-star showing in crash test Toyota is a little confused as to how its new full-size Tundra pickup only achieved a score of four stars in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's test for frontal crash performance. Mi ...
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1 March 2007 posted in Earnings/Financials views
Alan Mulally making friends fast, receives a raise Alan Mulally went to Ford to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and now he'll be able to afford more Hubba Bubba. It's really a stock option bump -- from $5 to $6 million -- as a reward for taking FoMoCo by ...
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28 February 2007 posted in Japan 4 views
Honda CRX successor in the works? Our brethren over at Winding Road have it on good authority that Honda is in the midst of developing a new CRX, based off the current Fit's platform. The decision to bring back the much-loved hatch wa ...
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19 February 2007 posted in Chrysler 2 views
Hyundai denies rumor about Chrysler bid as automaker goes on the market "No thank you," Hyundai says to buying Chrysler. "We've got our hands full right now." That's a paraphrase of what a spokesman from the Korean company said in response to a report in a London newspape ...
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8 February 2007 posted in Marketing/Advertising 1 views
Autoblog reader finds the VW R32 microsite Volkswagen hasn't published the link to the new R32's microsite on its homepage yet, but industrious AB reader Curt thought to punch "R32" into VW.com's site search and presto: here it is. The site fe ...
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8 January 2007 posted in Plants/Manufacturing 2 views
Isuzu plans Alabama truck plant When the fruity people at Del Monte closed their Pinson Valley distribution center in Alabama, they were left with 300k square-feet worth of warehouse space and a lot of unsold canned pears. Being in ...
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