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06.30.10Report: Toyota must share info on brake override system
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Chris Shunk reports... Filed under: Government/Legal, Recalls, Safety, Toyota The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is still pouring over Toyota's unintended acceleration issues, and right now the group is looking into older braking systems. Automotive News reports that the committee was told by investigators that an investigation of a 2005 Toyota Camry showed that some older model Toyotas were equipped with brake override systems (although not all newer models have such equipment). Toyota, as you may recall, has promised to equip all 2011 model year vehicles with a brake override system. The Japanese automaker ...
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06.30.10Avenge the fallen with The Wraith movie car
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Zach Bowman reports... Filed under: Car Buying, Concept Cars, Classics, Coupe, Dodge, Specialty Let's take a stroll back through time to an era when droves of people, young and old, would willingly pay to watch bad actors and improbable cars join forces to fight evil on the silver screen. No, we're not talking about 2007, nor Michael Bay's Transformers. We're interested in something altogether more pure - 1986's The Wraith. If you've never seen the film, you're missing out on a piece of cinematic car history that uses plot only as a vessel for ...
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06.30.10Mercedes GLC to challenge BMW X4 in 2014 – rumors
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Michael Gauthier reports... Tentatively dubbed the GLC (Geländecoupe), the crossover will feature sporty styling and a coupe-like roofline. Full details inside.
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06.30.10Potential Chevrolet Compact Truck Surfaces in Patent Images
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Automotive News & Auto Blog | Car Industry News & Blogs ~ Wide Open Throttle reports... A recent peek through the United States patent office files revealed images of what appears to be a new Chevrolet compact truck, complete with a distinct Chevy front nose.Unearthed by fan site GM Inside News, the regular cab truck is completely lacking in details but could, more importantly, lay the groundwork for a fresh new offering in the U.S. small truck scene. Unfortunately, the patent filings also list the vehicle's residency as Brazil, which could mean this ...
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06.30.10First Ride: We check out the 2011 Lexus CT 200h in Europe
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Noah Joseph reports... Filed under: Hybrid, Europe, Hatchback, Lexus, Luxury, Quick Spin 2011 Lexus CT 200h prototype - Click above for high-res image gallery Toyota is no stranger to being first - Japanese luxury vehicles and hybrids chief among them. Although Acura may have launched earlier, Lexus remains the only Japanese luxury marque to market in Japan. And having launched in Europe shortly after America, Lexus was also the first to challenge the European heavyweights on their home turf, and with its LS and LFA, it remains the only non-European marque to compete at the ...
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06.30.10Video: Fernando Alonso shows us how to get around Fiorano… and the test ban
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Noah Joseph reports... Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Ferrari Fernando Alonso takes the Ferrari F10 around Fiorano - Click above to watch the video after the jump The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty may have made the world a better place, but the test ban in place in Formula One has had some other rather interesting effects. Take Jaime Alguersuari, for example, who was racing in actual grands prix before getting a chance to actually test out the machinery. Or Michael Schumacher, who had to sharpen his skills in a GP2 car before coming out of retirement. ...
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06.30.10Mazda MX-5 Miyako special edition announced for UK
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Michael Gauthier reports... Mazda has unveiled the limited edition MX-5 Miyako for United Kingdom. It features added equipment and special interior trim.
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06.30.10IPO Or Not, Tesla Won’t Survive As Independent, Analysts Say
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the The Car Connection reports... Quick, name the last automaker to go public before yesterday's Tesla Motors IPO. Stumped? It was Ford Motor Company. The year was 1956. Perhaps buyers of Tesla Motors stock [NSDQ:TSLA] were optimistic because they had little context to assess the comapny. Tesla's stock soared from its offering price of $17 to close at $23.89 by the end of...
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06.30.10Bugatti repaints Galibier sedan concept black, wants to put it into production
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Jonathon Ramsey reports... Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, Performance, Bugatti, LuxuryTop Gear magazine spent some getting-to-know-you time with the Bugatti Galibier at the Bugatti factory in Molsheim, and scribe Jason Barlow was all kinds of smitten. The Galibier he crawled all over was painted black, a "Bugatti insider" avowing that the two-tone hue previously on show was "a distraction." But get this for a real distraction: Bugatti wants to build it and a "top VW engineer" claims the chances are better than 50% that such a thing will occur. A production car would swap ...
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06.30.10Patent drawings reveal new Chevrolet small pickup… but is it for North America?
Car News (0)The latest auto car news written in the Jonathon Ramsey reports... Filed under: Truck, Chevrolet Patent drawings for a small Chevy pickup - Click above for high-res image gallery Chevrolet designers have had some fun with the company Etch-a-Sketch and came up with this, then filed the drawings with the patent office. Any details identifying its place in the Chevy lineup or in the automaker's global marketplace were sadly left out of the filing. Carscoop theorizes that it could be an update for the South American market, or a long-shot replacement for the Colorado. At right is a single-cab Chevy Colorado, whose door handles ...
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