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7 Hidden Features Of The Audi Q7

Here are some secrets that your Audi Q7 may have been hiding from you. ...

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2018 Audi Tt-rs In Nardo Grey Spotted

There are plenty of details available on the new 2018 Audi TT-RS. We know how much horsepower it’s packing (400). We know it’s using a t ...

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Top 10 Audi Paint Colors Of All Time

Though black, white and red are Audi\'s official colors, there\'s a whole palette to explore. Here are our 10 favorites of all time. ...

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Mecum Kissimmee 2021: 1965 Shelby Gt350r Fastback – 1

Presented by Mecum Auctions – One of only 34 examples of Carroll Shelby?s all-conquering GT350R SCCA B Production racers, Serial No. 5R106 was ...

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This Is BMW’s Carbon-Fiber Racing Wheelchair for Team

Before the 2014 Olympics, German automaker BMW reimagined the bobsled, building for Team USA a sleeker, lighter ride. In 2016, it’s Paralympic ...

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Porsche Could Revive the 928 as a Panamera-based Coupe

The Panamera certainly isn’t the best-looking car that Porsche makes today, but it definitely sells well. Last year, it actually sold in greate ...

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Smart Fortwo Automatic Tested: A Better Execution of a Still

Driving a Smart Fortwo is an eye-opening excursion into the ?might makes right? psyche of the average motorist. If any car inspires bullying, it?s th ...

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ATLast: Porsche Announces New Car Delivery Experience in Atl

There’s no such thing as a free lunch?unless you’re picking up your new Porsche at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta. As part of ...

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2016 Chevrolet Cruze Manual First Drive: Can a Stick Shift M

Those seeking a compact car with a stick shift usually fall into one of three categories: Budget buyers on the prowl for the best deal (perhaps subsc ...

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Full Road Test, Suzuki Vitara 1.4

What is it" New turbocharged petrol version of competent small SUV from Suzuki. Key features:.Smallest capacity engine but with most performance. ...

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Road Tested: 2016 Audi A6 2.0T quattro

Ordinarily we wouldn?t be terribly enthusiastic about Audi dropping a small engine in a big car. As enthusiasts, we tend to prefer small engines in s ...

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MV Agusta, Mercedes-AMG to separate, MV to scale back produc

In terms of sales, MV Agusta are doing better than ever before. And yet, a severe liquidity crunch is hitting the company's operations reall ...

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2016 Volkswagen Beetle R-Line SEL Review

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Put a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine with 210 horsepower in the Volkswagen Beetle and you have ...

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2016 Jeep Cherokee Review: Charting Its Own Rugged Course

Overview: Most entries in the hot-selling compact-crossover segment prioritize utility over personality, going about the business of transporting peo ...

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2018 Chevrolet Traverse Spy Photos: Going Long

What It Is: Chevrolet?s second-generation Traverse three-row crossover, spied here while testing in swirly camouflage duds. Until now, the Chevrolet ...

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2016 Ford Focus Electric Tested: Could You Live Without Gas

Ford?s announcement that the 2017 Focus Electric will sport an EPA-rated driving range of 100 miles couldn?t have come at a less opportune time: Here ...

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New Options, New Pricing for 2017 Land Rover Discovery Sport

The littlest Land Rover emerges for 2017 with new paint and fancier electronics, its first significant upgrade since launching as a late 2015 model. ...

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Quanto Costa" Fiat 124 Spider Starts $255 Higher Than t

Mazda’s MX-5 Miata has been holding down the affordable-roadster fort for some time now, but the iconic Japanese droptop has now lent its guts ...

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McLaren Selling One of the Last F1s Produced?Bring Arms, Leg

One of the more lasting quotes from the satirical movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby makes almost no sense whatsoever: “If you& ...

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2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Priced, Is a Grand Deal

Maybe you dig Chevrolet’s Corvette Z06, but can’t swing its $80,395 base price" Can you live without its supercharger and extra 195 ...

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Toyota prices up Proace and Hilux

Toyota has released prices for its new Proace panel van  and Hilux pick-up range. The Proace was unveiled earlier this week at the Commercial Vehicle ...

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March 2016 out now!

March 2016 Click to buy now Only £6.95 Delivered to your door Highlights In the March edition of Racecar Engineering we provide full details of the ...

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Gene Haas, NASCAR vs F1

The Haas F1 team was born in a North Carolina steakhouse (I like to think it was Sagebrush in Mooresville, but it probably wasn’t there) where G ...

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Gravel Trap: Betting tips for Melbourne

Formula 1 is a great sport to bet on, it does not really work in the way the bookmakers think it does. Bookies as we call them in England (unless you ...

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April 2016 is out now!

April 2016 Click to buy now Only £6.95 Delivered to your door Highlights In the April 2016 edition of Racecar Engineering we look at the new crop ...

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Flat four: Powering the Subaru BRZ GT300

Introduced for the 2012 Super GT season the Subaru BRZ GT300 is powered by a four cylinder boxer engine called the EJ20. It is based on the experience ...

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Roborace: Summoning the demon

In the world today almost every single vehicle has a flawed component, a part that if subjected to the same rigorous safety standards applied in the a ...

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May 2016 is out now!

May 2016 Click to buy now Only £6.95 Delivered to your door Highlights Racecar Engineering starts its Le Mans coverage with a detailed look at the ...

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Gravel Trap: A wrong turn for Roborace"

I am unashamedly fascinated by the concept of Roborace. This new international series proposes to remove the human from the loop and have purely auton ...

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F1 cockpit safety

There is an inevitable question raised in the aftermath of any accident where the driver of an open cockpit car suffers a head injury. ?Should closed ...

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8 years, 8 months, 8 days...

and 136,818km and my lousy battery has died!This actually happened last week but the new battery has taken a little sorting...The little battery that ...

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Volvo Plans Extensive Autonomous Driving Test in Britain

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Volvo is planning an extensive autonomous driving trial in the United Kingdom. The automaker w ...

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BMW Unveils Team USA Racing Wheelchair

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); BMW of North America, the Official Mobility Partner of the United States Olympic Committee, re ...

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2016 Subaru Outback Quick-Take Review: The Wag in Wagons? Ta

Overview: The Outback wagon sits atop Subaru?s U.S. lineup and shares underpinnings with the Legacy mid-size sedan. It?s offered in four versions?2.5 ...

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2018 Chevrolet Equinox Spy Photos: New Platform, Less Bignes

What It Is: The next-generation Chevrolet Equinox crossover, seen here in prototype form and covered up for testing. Today, the Equinox exists in a g ...

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Chevrolet Displays TRON: Legacy?Themed Cruze Right Now

Look, we?ll be the first to admit that we have no idea why this car exists, or why we felt the need to mix our ?80s sci-fi fantasy classics by intoni ...

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Make Ours Purpurite: Porsche Announces Cayenne Platinum Edit

It?s hard to believe that the Porsche Cayenne is already six years into its second generation, but it is, and to keep attracting customers?especially ...

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2016 Range Rover Sport Diesel Tested: A Strong Entry in a We

The Volkswagen Group has plunged a dagger into diesel?s image, but the body is still twitching. In larger vehicles, such as this 5335-pound Range Rov ...

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This Classic Documentary On the Making of the Porsche 356 Is

Porsche’s cars have always been expensive, and watching this early 1960s documentary on how the 356 was made, you get a sense of why. Things ha ...

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Ford Working on 200-Mile EV to Fight Tesla Model 3, Chevy Bo

With the recent unveiling of the Tesla Model 3 being greeted like the advent of a perpetual-motion machine that also cures cancer and can do your tax ...

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2017 Honda Ridgeline Fuel Economy Tops Mid-Size Six-Cylinder

A big part of the promise of a unibody pickup truck, as opposed to the traditional body-on-frame designs favored by most every manufacturer, is a lig ...

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Mazda Produces 1 Millionth MX-5 Miata

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Mazda MX-5 Miata (Mazda Roadster in Japan) reached one million units on April 22nd, 2016.� ...

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2017 Bentley Mulsanne First Edition Boasts 350-Year-Old Waln

“I remember my first Mulsanne” might be something you hear in rarefied social circles, among people who might not only order a 2017 Ben ...

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Mitsubishi Admits to Miscalculating Fuel Economy Since 1991

In most ordinary automotive scandals, it takes months to years to uncover what drove executives to make poor decisions. Mitsubishi has taken only six ...

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Volkswagen T-Prime Concept: Optimus Crossover"

If you?re beginning to have a hard time sorting out Volkswagen?s recent flotilla of crossover and SUV concepts, just wait. The automaker is in the th ...

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Jaguar Land Rover Incorporates Tile Stuff-Finding App into I

Those among us who are prone to losing stuff?a wallet, a phone, keys, you get the idea?know what Tile is. The Tile ecosystem consists of a smartphone ...

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Infiniti QX Sport Inspiration Concept Previews the Next Swoo

When Infiniti re-did its naming system starting with the 2014 model year, it may have fooled some into thinking that the QX50 and QX70 crossovers wer ...

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Volkswagen Preparing 305-hp Golf GTI Clubsport S, But Not fo

Just because Volkswagen is in the midst of a massive scandal over its emissions-cheating diesel cars, doesn’t mean it can’t party from ti ...

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Ford Recalls 262,000 Vehicles for Transmission, Suspension,

Ford is recalling 261,890 vehicles in the U.S. for a spate of problems including transmission, suspension, and tire defects, the company said Wednesd ...

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Because 600 hp Is Not Enough: Bentley Bentayga “Speed&

Did Grizzly Adams have a beard" Is the Pope Catholic" Will there be a Bentley Bentayga Speed" Yes, yes, and almost certainly. “ ...

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ISee What You Did There: Updated Lexus IS Shows Off New Look

Although Chinese car buyers are known for their propensity toward being chauffeured rather than driving, Lexus took the wraps off what is arguably it ...

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Zuffenyowza! Report Suggests Porsche 960 to Arrive in 2019

Three years ago, we suggested that the world would see Porsche?s new mid-engined Ferrari 488 fighter in 2017. Two years ago, we reported that the car ...

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Returnee LDV electrifies CV show

LDV, once one of the major brands in the UK van market, is returning after a seven-year absence with a pair of unveilings at the CV Show. The G10 pane ...

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CV show ? Ford’s ?game-changer? engine

Ford has debuted its 2.0-litre EcoBlue engine at the Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham. The unit, dubbed ?a game changer? is the first of a new ra ...

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CV Show ? Iveco makes Daily news

The global debut of the Daily Euro-6 range heads the biggest CV Show display yet from Italian manufacturer Iveco. Major updates to the Daily range tha ...

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CV Show ? Fiat stand full of pick-ups

Among a host of new pick-up trucks displayed at the 2016 CV Show, one of the most interesting is on the Fiat Professional stand. On UK sale in June 20 ...

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CV Show ? VW crafts tipper conversion

Commercial Vehicle Show returnee Volkswagen is launching a tipper truck model built on its Crafter chassis cab platform. Developed under Volkswagen Co ...

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CV Show ? SsangYong?s eco Korando

  SsangYong is exhibiting its budget small LCV, the Korando, at the CV Show, while announcing power and efficiency improvements to the model. The ...

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CV Show ? Cartwright racks up

Typical of the commercial vehicle specialists at the CV Show is body and trailer manufacturer Cartwright Group, which is using the event to launch its ...

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Nissan Reveals New Models & Autonomous Driving in China

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Today at Auto China 2016, Nissan unveiled the all-new Tiida, announced a Maxima launch, and fu ...

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Ford Invests $1.6 Billion in U.S. Plants

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Ford Motor Company is investing $1.6 billion to upgrade manufacturing plants in Michigan and O ...

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Mercedes-AMG May Be Considering an F1-Inspired Supercar

It’s no secret that Mercedes-Benz’s AMG division is churning out some great stuff. Sure, you could argue the brand is diluting itself by ...

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Instant Want: Lego Releases 2704-Piece Porsche 911 GT3 RS Ki

When photos of a Porsche 911 “prototype” Lego kit leaked out of a German toy show earlier this year, we figured the swirly camouflaged sp ...

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Beyond the Wind Tunnel: How Automakers Are Maximizing Vehicl

A few years ago, when Jaguar engineers commenced work on the recently introduced XE small sedan, they took what then seemed like a risky break from n ...

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Fiat-Chrysler Recalls 811,000 Sedans and SUVs for Poor Shift

German transmission supplier ZF has taken a lot of flack for its rough-shifting, occasionally misbehaving nine-speed automatic across multiple auto ...

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2017 Audi A4L Debuts for China: Extra Inches Included

Stretched versions of compact and midsize sedans are largely a consequence of China?s protectionist trade policy. Exorbitant import taxes on the real ...

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Acura’s Tiny CDX: A Honda HR-V Dressed Up for Prom (in

If the Honda HR-V subcompact crossover is the dorky, lanky-limbed teenager in Honda’s tall-wagon lineup, where does it leave the Acura CDX, whi ...

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Jaguar XF Goes Through the Taffy Puller to Create the China-

Jaguar is no stranger to long-wheelbase models, but up until now only the big-cat XJ sedan has received the stretched-out treatment. Now, with China ...

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Fancier than Ektorp: Volvo Previews New S90 Excellence Inter

Chinese-market cars are legendarily all about the back seat, making Beijing the perfect show at which to flaunt a passenger-oriented interior. A year ...

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Mazda Builds 1,000,000th MX-5 Miata, Wins at Roadstering, Ex

Mazda’s plucky little MX-5 Miata, a car birthed unto the world in 1989 as a reliable, well-made remaster of the classic British roadster formul ...

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2017 Porsche 718 Cayman and Cayman S Revealed: Turbo, Part I

It would be easy to brush off Porsche?s 718 Cayman as the second coming of a known quantity, old news even as it makes news debuting at the Beijing a ...

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2017 Mercedes-AMG GLS63: Physics Defied, No Waiting

Of all the car guys I pestered in my childhood, I remember only one. While most of the neighborhood gentry contentedly passed their time messing arou ...

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Kodo-licious: Mazda Debuts Sexy CX-4 for China, We Want It H

While crossovers have innate appeal in today?s pragmatic times, such vehicles have pushed other kinds of vehicles we really love?sport wagons and ...

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2017 Jaguar F-Pace First Drive: Jag?s First-Ever SUV Is Late

Jaguar is roughly a decade late to the compact-luxury SUV segment, so it?s no wonder company officials sound a bit reluctant about this whole crossov ...

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E-longated: New Mercedes-Benz E-class Gets LWB Version for C

Built in China and made for China: The long-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz E-class caters to the specific needs of the Far East, where traffic is so bad tha ...

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2018 Audi TT RS Debuts with 400 Horses and No Manual Gearbox

The last-generation Audi TT RS was a desirable but fairly brutal machine, powered by an iron-block turbocharged five-cylinder and available to U.S. b ...

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Slighty Mightier Mite: Smart Debuts Latest Brabus-Fettled Fo

There was a time when Brabus was considered sub-par by Daimler, to the point that the tuner’s high-performance renditions of Mercedes-Benz cars ...

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Opinion – Seven fast estates we want to see built

The number of performance estates seems to have expanded massively in recent years but, here at ESM, that’s not enough for us. No, we’ ...

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CV Show opens with vans to fore

Vans dominate the stands at the annual Commercial Vehicle Show as the event opens its doors at the NEC, Birmingham, and the growth of online shopping ...

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Citroën, Peugeot, Toyota debut van sisters

Leading the unveilings at the CV Show are the trio of mid-sized vans built in a joint programme by Citroën, Peugeot and Toyota. The latest-generation ...

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2016 Lexus NX 300h Review

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Lexus NX is a vehicle of firsts for the luxury brand from Toyota. It was the first compact ...

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BMW Creates Funky Long-Wheelbase X1 for China

Back in the good old days when America was the world?s biggest car market, everybody wanted us to know we were special. All of our domestic automaker ...

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She’s a Real Vixen: The Only Manual-Transmission, BMW-

Low-slung. Sleek. Wind-tunnel-honed aerodynamics. A BMW inline-six. A five-speed manual transmission. A real driver?s vehicle. No, we?re not talking ...

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The World’s First Autonomous-Car Track Day Is Next Mon

Got a hot little self-driving number that you’re just dying to take to the track" Thunderhill Raceway is hosting the track day for you. Jo ...