2011 Nissan Leaf SL ? Long-Term Road Test Intro

We embark on three months of short trips in Nissan?s electric car. Welcome to an exceptional long-term road test, and our first all-electric experience. It?s also an exception to our normal long-term program. Nissan agreed to give us a Leaf for an extended, three-month loan, but we?re not going to cram our normal 40,000-mile regimen [...]

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GM Planning New Full-Size SUVs for 2014

GM is planning a major overhaul of its full-size SUV fleet for the 2014 model year. The automaker said today that it will spend $331 million to renovate its assembly plant in Arlington, Texas, home to its current crop of GMT900-family SUVs, including the GMC Yukon, Yukon Hybrid and Yukon XL; the Chevrolet Suburban, Tahoe, and Tahoe Hybrid; and the...


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BMW M1 AHG races again to the auction block [Car Auctions]

As it was winding down its M1 racecar program in 1982, BMW built 10 street-legal, higher-powered copies dubbed the M1 AHG, meant only for its racers. The sole example with BMW's racing colors will hit an auction next month. More »

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Mercedes-Benz Creates Crushingly Expensive Grand Edition GL-class SUV For Wealthy Rock Crushers

Mercedes-Benz has upped the lux factor of its GL-class SUV with a new Grand Edition for those who feel the GL wasn’t private jet-y enough. Starting with a standard GL, Mercedes adds tinted headlight covers, high-gloss black mesh in the grille, LED daytime running lights, and 20-in wheels with a special “Himalayas gray” finish. The [...]

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This sponsor-less F1 car is plastered with fake ads [Motorsports]

Ever since Colin Chapman came up with the idea of selling a race car chassis as advertising space in 1968, race cars have looked like dense mobile billboards. When a modern F1 team cannot sell on-car sponsorship, the result is both amusing and sad. More »

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2011 Nissan Leaf EV Test Drive: Plug-In Electric Paves Road to 2010 Launch

Nissan continues its EV full court press with an ambitious, all-electric vehicle called Leaf that will be available in 2010. We tested the original EV-02 prototype of this car last year. And now, we've spent some time behind the wheel of a newer model in Japan.

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Name that Shifter, No. 24: Subaru XT6

On Monday we presented this week?s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. A few of you were thrown by the lack of a traditional shift boot, but lh415cd was undeterred and correctly identified this week’s shifter as belonging to a Subaru XT6. lh415cd will [...]

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Hyundai?s 429-hp Genesis R-Spec to Cost $47,350, While Other Genesis Sedans Get Price Bumps

Hyundai has released pricing information on its refreshed 2012 Genesis sedan (read a full rundown of the 2012′s cosmetic changes and powertrain updates here), including the brawny 5.0 R-Spec model. The Hyundai with the five-point-oh produces 429 hp and 376 lb-ft of torque, and is rated at 16 mpg in the city and 25 mpg [...]

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Near-Production FT-86 Rubs Shoulders With Supra [Video]

SB Medien may call the forthcoming FT-86 a “Celica replacement,” but in this first video of the latest near-production prototype, the budget rear-drive coupe nearly runs into a Supra which apparently belongs to the development team. The Supra shows up once more in the video’s ‘ring testing footage (about 1:55 in), suggesting again that it’s [...]

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