One of the things that has always rung true is that performance costs you. Want the bigger, faster engine? Well, it sips a bit more fuel. What the best, most griping tires? Well, they don’t last as long. The evidence is everywhere, speed costs money. Well Audi can fix at least one of those problems […]
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Posted in Automotive on Aug 31st, 2008
Phil Hill, the first American to win the Formula 1 world driving championship, has died at the age of 81. Hill cemented his legend by winning countless races in dominating fashion. Besides being the first American to win a Formula-1 race, he also was the first to be F1 champion. Only Mario Andretti shares that […]
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Like a perfect signs of how bad things are in Detroit, Volkswagen has just announced that it has surpassed Ford and is now the world’s third largest automaker. The German automaking powerhouse is already the largest in Europe. The company overtook Ford in the first half of the year as the world’s third-largest carmaker based […]
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Posted in Automotive, BMW, Diesel on Aug 31st, 2008
When BMW’s newest face-lifted 3-Series arrives on our shores it will be offered in one new tasty flavor, diesel. One of the companies that have been pioneering modern diesel technology in the recent years, BMW has never offered a diesel model stateside. Things are about to change though. For 2009 the folks in Bavaria have […]
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General Motors could use some good news right now. The company is facing the most dire time in it’s history and is on the verge of extinction. While some say it’s not that bad, others say that it is that bad. One of GM’s recent high notes though is it’s recent results in a series […]
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Posted in Automotive, Luxury vehicles on Aug 26th, 2008
The United Arab Emirates account for a boat load of Rolls Royce sales worldwide. The region is the automakers biggest and most profitable market. More Rolls Royce’s exist per square mile here than anywhere else in the world. So it comes as no surprise to learn that the U.A.E is getting it’s own limited edition […]
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BMW has recently announced they are hiking up pricing on all new 2009 BMW models due to ever rising costs. The company said the increases were “driven mainly by continually rising raw materials costs and ongoing exchange rate pressure,” in a statement released on Monday. “The significant structural and economic changes in the marketplace are […]
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Posted in Automotive, GM on Aug 26th, 2008
Look at the car above. Pretty nice right? I mean, here is a car that one can really lust for, right? But what if I were to tell you that this was a Buick. How is your pulse now? Buick is on a renaissance these days. Obviously somebody up at Buick upper management is […]
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Posted in Chrysler, Dodge, Technology, Trucks on Aug 26th, 2008
If there is one fundamental and basic American thing that hasn’t changed, it’s how pickup trucks get built. Since the dawn of time, pickup trucks have had the same configuration. While cars have moved on into a future of unibody construction and independent suspension systems, the truck has been soldiering on with it’s old […]
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Posted in Automotive, Dodge, Muscle Cars on Aug 22nd, 2008
Hennessey Performance Engineering is at it again. The company has been in the spotlight as of late with the string of lawsuits that have emerged over undelivered and unfinished Dodge Vipers. According to some people, giving your money to Hennessey is like throwing it away. But now it seems that Hennessey is courting another Dodge […]
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