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Final Buell motorcycle assembled in Wisconsin
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Motorcycle As far as motorcycle manufacturers go, Buell lived a relatively short life. Founded by a former Harley-Davidson engineer in 1993, the sportbike company was acquired by HDMC in 2003. But hard times falling on businesses large and small forced Harley to a …
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Snow Drift: Dacia Duster debuts for Trophée Andros with Alain Prost
Filed under: Motorsports, SUV, Europe, Renault, Specialty Dacia Duster Trophée Andros - Click above for high-res image gallery Let's set one thing straight here. The retirement of a leading Formula One driver is often portrayed as some sort of tragedy - for the driver himself especially. But …
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Hyundai reportedly shopping locations for third North American plant - in Mexico
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Hyundai, Kia Hyundai Veracruz - Click above for high-res image gallery Hyundai is on a mission to expand its American market share. And so far, the going's been good for the Korean automaker, which has been taking the fight to its Japanese rivals with increasing …
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Pole Dance: NHTSA to add new side-impact crash test? [w/VIDEO]
Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Videos, Ford NHTSA side-impact pole test - click above to watch the video Not satisfied with cars that manage crash forces well enough to avoid spilling your drink, and engines that run so clean they'll barely asphyxiate ants, a new crash test is reportedly co …
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REPORT: Toyota U.S. president Lentz believes Prius could supplant Camry as brand's best seller
Filed under: Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery The Toyota Camry has been the best selling car in the US for 11 of the past 12 years, and only a total industry meltdown has managed to slow the Japanese automaker's bread-and-butter sedan. Even with t …
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2010 Top Safety Picks announced by IIHS, new roof strength rule shakes things up
Filed under: Car Buying, SafetyThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has once again announced the winners of its Top Safety Pick award - all 27 of them. This time out, 19 cars and eight SUVs made the all-important grade. To break it down a bit for you, Subaru is the only make to earn top …
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BREAKING: Jenson Button joins Hamilton for twin-champ McLaren "super team"
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, UK It's not every day that you see two World Champions teamed up together - especially not the two most recent. In fact, that bit has never happened before in Formula One history, but that's exactly what we'll see next year as McLaren has announced …
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Officially Official: Toyota launches European Land Cruiser [w/VIDEO]
Filed under: SUV, Europe, Videos, Toyota, Off-Road 2010 Euro-market Toyota Land Cruiser - click above for high-res image gallery Back before SUVs became all the rage, for decades, Toyota built a bruiser of a truck called Land Cruiser. Like its counterparts from America and the UK, the Jeep CJ/Wrang …
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The backstory behind HPP's showstopping Daytona conversion... is a Chevy Camaro next?
Filed under: Aftermarket, SEMA Show, Classics, Coupe, Performance, Dodge HPP Daytona - Click above for high-res image gallery When we saw the HPP Daytona at this year's SEMA show, two things became very apparent. One, we'd really like to drive it. Two, we need better pictures of it. See, the poor t …
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Quick Spin: Superformance MKIII R Cobra kickstarts our hearts
Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Performance, Quick Spin Superformance MKIII R Cobra - Click above for high-res image gallery It's mea culpa time. While it's probably best not to begin a review with an apology, this author would be fairly derelict in his auto bloggin' duty if he didn't admit tha …
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LA Preview: Mazda2 to make its North American debut
Filed under: LA Auto Show, Budget, Hatchback, Mazda 2011 Mazda2 - click above for high-res image gallery Mazda has finally made it official this morning: it will be bringing its B-segment Mazda2 to the North American market late next year. As you are likely aware, the current generation Mazda2 has …
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REPORT: 65,000 seek jobs to build VW's New Midsize Sedan in Tennessee
Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Volkswagen 2011 Volkswagen NMS Sketch No. 2 - Click above to enlarge You probably already know just how bad the employment situation is here in the States, and if you don't, nationwide unemployment is right around 10% - and that doesn't in …
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Rumormill: Subaru version of Toyota FT-86 to be bigger, get substantially more power, AWD
Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Subaru, Toyota Toyota FT-86 Concept - click above for high-res image gallery While sports car fans everywhere are waiting with bated breath for the new Toyota FT-86 to arrive from the Land of the Rising Sun, some of us are a little bit more …
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REPORT: Ferrari figures Raikkonen, Schumacher and Montezemolo to leave their F1 posts
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Ferrari The times they are a-changin' in Maranello. As if the departures of Michael Schumacher, Ross Brawn and Jean Todt over the past few years wasn't enough to shake things up for the Scuderia, a new round of change-ups is looming on the horizon. …
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The Truth About Cars founder Robert Farago leaves the building
Filed under: Etc.We've known for two months this day was coming, yet it's still something of a shock. Robert Farago, the one man wrecking crew of an editor-in-chief over at The Truth About Cars, has hung up his gloves. Why a shock? Love him or loathe him, Farago has been a mega-influence in the auto …
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Mahindra maps out 'potential' U.S. dealer network for forthcoming small diesel pickup
Filed under: Car Buying, Truck, Work, India, Diesel, Off-Road Mahindra 'potential' dealer network - Click above to enlarge No, you're not looking at yet another voting map, or even a topographical depiction of the WalMarting of America (trust us, you don't want to see that). The image seen above i …
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Quattro Shock: Forthcoming Audi A1 lineup reportedly to arrive without AWD
Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Hatchback, Audi Audi Metroproject Quattro Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Audi and Quattro go together like peanut butter and jelly, but Autobild is reporting that the four-ringed automaker's fabulous all-wheel drive system will be excluded from the …
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Five Axis offers up Aerius body kit for 2010 Toyota Prius
Filed under: Aftermarket, Hybrid, Hatchback, Toyota Five Axis Aerius Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery If you don't win the charity auction for the Aemulus-modified Prius, but want something flashy for your 2010 model, take a look at the Aerius Prius that made its debut at SEMA this ye …
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AutoblogGreen for 11.18.09
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VIDEO: New Subaru Forester rally car getting warmed up for Dakar
Filed under: Motorsports, Performance, Subaru, Off-Road Click above to view the video after the jump Put the words "Subaru" and "rally" together, and you'll inevitably be flooded with visions of the Impreza WRX STI campaigning in the WRC. This isn't one of those times. Details are a bit on the sca …
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