Phil Berg, The Tornado Chaser Among Us

Car writers who don't use exclamation points as a crutch will do dumb stuff to get out of the office. If I said a certain HGM editor once rode the hood of an Oldsmobile through a wall of fire--twice--for a feature story, would you believe me him? Broken thumbs would have been the worst of that stunt going wrong, but veteran automotive journalist...


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Jeep Celebrates 70: Still Crawlin' After All These Years

On the banks of the Colorado River, with Utah's iconic rock formations serving as a backdrop, you could be forgiven if you imagined Duke Wayne (or Jeff Bridges - your pick) ambling into the foreground.

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2013 Audi S1 Spy Photos ? Future Cars

We won?t be getting the A1, but can we please have the hotter S1? Audi’s European-market Mini fighter, the A1, is selling more slowly than expected. It’s the most expensive and the only premium iteration of a platform that is shared with mundane vehicles like the ?koda Fabia, the SEAT Ibiza, and the ubiquitous VW [...]

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Maserati to Have Five-Vehicle Lineup by 2014: Two GranTurismos, Two Sedans, and SUV (Thanks, China!)

Don?t tell us you didn?t see this coming?after all, isn’t everybody doing it? Maserati is under orders from Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne to make nice with affluent Chinese buyers, a cozying up that also will shape the brand?s lineup globally. Two Four-Door Models, Shared Ferrari Tech What it will affect most are are the brand’s [...]

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2012 Porsche Panamera S Hybrid ? First Drive Review

The sports sedan that?s both a Porsche and a hybrid. As we exited a gas station in Capetown, South Africa, we left behind four confused and disappointed service attend­ants. When we had pulled in, one of ?the guys exclaimed, ?Wow, it?s a Porsche!? Immediately, we were surrounded by three of ?his co-workers, all jockeying to [...]

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2012 Fiat 500C Cabrio ? First Drive Review

How the Cinquecento does roofless. The Fiat 500C Cabrio is waterproof. This point was thoroughly confirmed on a recent trip to New York during which we sampled Fiat?s U.S.-market ?convertible,? an event that conveniently coincided with an East Coast deluge. Fiat officially calls the car the 500 Cabrio and uses that other c-word to describe [...]

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And the Real Winner Is?

GM cars start any 24 Hours of LeMons race with a big Index of Effluency advantage, and when you throw a big couch and handtruck in the bed of your Chevy S10 and spend the weekend hurling the thing around a twisty road course full of much faster vehicles… well, for the Greene County Moving [...]

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Akio Toyoda Talks EVs, Fuels Cells and Racing

Every summer, auto execs land in a small Michigan resort town for the Center of Automotive Research's Management Briefing seminars. This year, one of the most anticipated speakers was Akio Toyoda, the recently named President of Toyota.

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