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28 April 2006 posted in Motorsports 5 views
Pontiac unveils Red Bull Solstice GXP drifter to replace GTO UPDATE: GM RELEASED PICS FINALLY (click for high rez)With the Goat about to go bye-bye again, Pontiac needed to cough up another car for its championship drifter Ryhs Millen to pilot in this year&rsqu ...
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20 April 2006 posted in Euro 7 views
Mercedes-Benz unleashes AMG sports package for E-Class Everything new out of Mercedes-Benz doesn’t always reach our radar… that is until the acronym AMG enters the picture. Such is the case with the new generation E-Class. Announced at the Ne ...
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13 April 2006 posted in Sedans/Saloons 7 views
New York Auto Show: BMW 3-Series named World Car of the Year BMW continues its indomitable ways with the 3-Series by taking home the trophy for the 2006 World Car of the Year Award presented by the Midway Group. World Car jurors initially chose 27 candidates, w ...
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4 April 2006 posted in Etc. 3 views
WrestleMania 23 will play at Ford Field in 2007 Next April the biggest event in wrestling will be held at the Blue Oval’s party center in downtown Detroit – Ford Field. Wrestlemania scared up an estimated $13.5 million for the city of N ...
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3 April 2006 posted in Etc. 3 views
CARS character comes alive The upcoming animated feature CARS by Pixar Animations Studio impresses us more and more by the minute. When the studio approached Porsche back in 2002 to obtain the rights to use a 911 in its next fi ...
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25 March 2006 posted in Trends 8 views
Autoblog in the News Listen closely. That’s the sound of our own horn being tooted. And for what does Autoblog stand so proudly before you? The sweet nod we got in Baylor University’s online newspaper, The Lar ...
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14 March 2006 posted in Car Buying 5 views
The Charade is up: Daihatsu pulling out of Australia Japanese automaker Daihatsu is pulling outback out of Australia. The Toyota property had been struggling for some time to find Aussie buyers, particularly in view of the growing pool of discount entri ...
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3 March 2006 posted in Car Buying 7 views
Ten cars for Brokeback boys n' gals in '06 About.com's Gay Life Guide Ramon Johnson compiled what he considers the ten gayest cars in 2006. Johnson himself prefaces the list by saying it's based on a combination of humor, style and sophisticat ...
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13 February 2006 posted in Gadgets 8 views
General Motors to go plastic…as in paint, that is The Automotive Body Repair News reports that General Motors is looking to expand its new paint-replacement program on more of its vehicles.The process, in which a body-coloured film is used instead of ...
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8 February 2006 posted in Minivans/MPVs 10 views
Renault launches new Espace MPV Renault announced the launch of the newest edition of its Espace minivan today. The MPV is available with a wide range of gasoline and diesel powerplants, including a 3-liter V6 dCi diesel with six-sp ...
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1 February 2006 posted in Trends 3 views
Parallel parking is sooo yesterday Lori Borgman of the IndyStar provides an interesting and humorous piece on parallel parking and how today's drivers have been spoiled by their high-tech cars. She describes Toyota’s “Intel ...
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6 January 2006 posted in Car Buying 9 views
GM #1… in China Despite the trials and tribulations of General Motors in the U.S., things are going well for the company abroad, particularly in China where it’s just been announced that GM has edged out VW as ...
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6 January 2006 posted in Gadgets 12 views
Visteon's Focus with Integrated Control Panel Visteon brought a Euro-market Ford Focus C-Max across the Pond for Chris’s perusal at CES. It is one of two prototypes. Visteon's ICP (Visteon-speak: Integrated Control Panel) is installed in th ...
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4 January 2006 posted in Concept Cars 8 views
Favorite Five concepts from 2005 The year 2005 saw some pretty excellent concept vehicles, from cool pre-production one-offs like the Mazda MX Crossport to wacky, far-out doozies like the Jeep Hurricane, which we’re about as li ...
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4 January 2006 posted in Detroit Auto Show 5 views
Calm before the show season storm L.A.… Las Vegas… Detroit… The Autobloggers are being dispatched across the United States as we speak. Some have arrived at their destination and some are still in transit. The nex ...
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30 December 2005 posted in Trends 9 views
Crystal ball predictions for 2006 Inside Line has a great article on the 37th Annual Predictions Lunch, which is a holiday tradition dating back to the late 60’s where a hand-picked group of “automotive experts” asse ...
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23 December 2005 posted in Sedans/Saloons 7 views
Photo tour of Phaeton factory Last February one of the guys over at VW Vortex visited the Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany where the VW Phaeton is built. We thought we’d mark the occasion of the Phaeton’s withdr ...
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14 December 2005 posted in Trends 8 views
Domestic engineers being hired by competition Foreign automotive manufacturers and suppliers from Asia and Europe are scouring Michigan for new engineers and designers. Some, such as Hyundai Motors, are even setting up local research and developm ...
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13 December 2005 posted in Motorsports 14 views
Audi R10: Design Analysis At first glance, the R10 looks very similar to its R8 predecessor. However, the innovations in the new car go far beyond its V12 turbo-diesel powerplant. There are significant changes and innovations ...
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6 December 2005 posted in Coupes 3 views
Upcoming Skyline GT-R to be badged as an Infiniti… maybe   The question over whether the upcoming US-spec Skyline GT-R will be sold as an Infinity or as a Nissan is said to have been answered, with the luxury brand name being attached to the supercar w ...
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