As Apps Move Into Cars, So Do More Distractions

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 26, 2012 1:04 pm Share with others: By JOHN R. QUAIN / The New York Times THERE have been the sexy horsepower wars and dull best-in-class fuel-efficiency battles. Now automakers are fighting an undeclared, escalating war over ...
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Mercedes-Benz 130H - The back story

Source: Business Standard

History can have a twisted sense of humour, sometimes. One day, you wake up and are struck with a brilliant idea, one that could fundamentally change the way things have traditionally been done. You put the ide ...
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Sexless $72,000 Corvette Grand Sport needs hot Ferrari makeover

Source: Detroit News Online

I pull my buddy's Ferrari 458 Italia off the racetrack and into the pit lane, brake dust showering the tire rims like fairy powder. We've been hurtling down the straightaway at Monticello Motor Club at 150 miles per hour an ...
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Sunday Royals Car show is under way at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville

Source: The Register Citizen

LAKEVILLE — The “Sunday Royals Car Show,” which caps off the track’s traditional season-opening Memorial Day race weekend, began Friday, and continues through Sunday, May 27, the day of the show. Lime Rock Park owner and president Skip Barber ...
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Top shelf cars to China's taste

Source: PerthNow

The new Lamborghini Aventador model. Source: AdelaideNow LUXURY car sales have been booming in China while the number of first-time car buyers is also on the rise in small and midsize cities in the country. Although Europea ...
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2013 Cadillac XTS

Source: Hyundai Reports

red throughout the Cadillac lineup over the past several years, is perhaps at its chunkiest, most aggressive, and most polarizing in the CTS sport sedans. It's carved out a new design direction for the Cadillac, but with the XTS, the br ...
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Official: Audi reinvents the rearview mirror for its Le Mans racers

Source: Autoblog

Every year at every auto show we see concept cars that envision replacing the rearview mirrors with digital cameras. They're usually the exterior mirrors and not the central one above the windshield, but whatever the case, and however much sense ...
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BMW Opens Second Chinese Plant

Source: MSN Autos

BMW opened its second Chinese plant in nine years on Thursday and is expected to quadruple production to 400,000 cars per year, according to a company statement. The new facility in Tiexi, operated by Brilliance Automotive, BMW's joint-venture m ...
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Renault Alpine 110-50 Concept revealed in Monaco

Source: Kelley Blue Book Car Reviews

Drawing its inspiration from the original Renault Alpine 110 Berlinette that debuted a half century ago, the Renault Alpine 110-50 Concept made its stunning debut in Monaco today as part of the annual Grand Prix festivities. Finished ...
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