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• 2014 Corvette Stingray Z51 Brings the Heat On the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition
• Second Picture of New Jaguar C-X17 Sport Crossover Concept Looks Legit
• VW Golf GTI Compared Against its Diesel Alternative, the Golf GTD
• Auto Bild Discovers Water Leak in New VW Golf, Says 300,000 Cars May Be Affected
• Audi Uses One Funny and One Factual Ad to Promote Its Extended Diesel Range in the US
• The Story of How and Why Ford Put a Mustang On Top of the Empire State Building in 1966
• Would We Be Wrong to Say This Driver Got What He Deserved?
• August U.S. Sales Return to Pre-Crisis Levels, Ford Sold One F-Series Truck Every 42 Seconds
• Bulleta Motors Changes Its Tune and Talks About Getting Evoras from the Used Car Market
• Fiat Reportedly Nearing Deal to Build New Maserati Levante SUV in Italy
• New Honda Accord Hybrid EPA-Rated at 50 MPG City
• Scoop: New 2015 Nissan GT-R NISMO will be a Wild One
• Ex-Caterham Boss Announces All-New Zenos Rival for KTM’s X-Bow
• Alfa Romeo Gives Giulietta MY2014 a New Engine and Some Light Tweaks
• Ohio Driver Confesses to Killing a Man While Drunk Behind the Wheel on YouTube Video
• EVO Tests Ford Fiesta R5 Rally Car on Public Roads
• Spied: New Porsche Macan Turbochargers its Way Around the 'Ring
• New Diesel-Powered Alpina D3 Bi-Turbo Races to Frankfurt Auto Show
• Xcar Takes Lexus LS-Based TMG TS-650 to the Track
• New Audi A3 Cabriolet is a Secret No More: First Official Shots
• Audi UK Prices New RS Q3 SUV and RS7 Sportback
• Infiniti and Gilt Design Pair of One-Off Q50 Sedans for $75,000 a Pop
• Rally Co-Driver Gets Sick, Vomits, Bleeds but Ends Up Laughing About it
• Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Get Hybrid Versions, Updates for 2014

2014 Corvette Stingray Z51 Brings the Heat On the 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:09 PM PDT A base Corvette versus the top Nissan GT-R offering? We're all for comparing sports cars from different price brackets, categories and philosophies, but unless you want to stir up the fan boys, this is one test that should have come after we've seen how the Corvette fares against its more natural rivals. Allow us to explain. It is true that the Corvette has always had a unique place in the market, in the sense that it was priced lower (at least in the U.S.) than other pure sport coupes with similar performance numbers and styling, but today, you can find models with which it shares common attributes, including pricing. Read more »

Second Picture of New Jaguar C-X17 Sport Crossover Concept Looks Legit Posted: 06 Sep 2013 05:15 PM PDT Last night, Jaguar uploaded the first uncovered photo of the new C-X17 Sport Crossover Concept on its media website, prior to the study's roll out in front of the public at next week's Frankfurt Motor Show. Today, one of our readers pointed us to an Imageshack picture of what we believe to be the second official image of Jaguar's attempt in designing a crossover model – that or someone is extremely talented with rendering programs… Read more »

VW Golf GTI Compared Against its Diesel Alternative, the Golf GTD Posted: 06 Sep 2013 04:35 PM PDT Eventually, someone had to make a video comparison of the VW Golf GTI Mk7 and its diesel alter ego, the Golf GTD Mk7. While looking almost identical both inside and out, the two "hot" Golfs are aimed at different types of customers. Read more »

Auto Bild Discovers Water Leak in New VW Golf, Says 300,000 Cars May Be Affected Posted: 06 Sep 2013 04:05 PM PDT During a long-term test of the all-new Volkswagen Golf, German magazine Auto Bild discovered a fault in the air conditioning system that lead to water leaking inside the car. The magazine said wrongly installed drainage tubes caused the problem and added that 300,000 VW Group cars could be affected, including the Audi A3 and Seat Leon which share the same platform with the Golf. VW played down the report and said only 46 cars are in need of repair. Read more »

Audi Uses One Funny and One Factual Ad to Promote Its Extended Diesel Range in the US Posted: 06 Sep 2013 03:40 PM PDT Audi, and the VW group in general, is hell-bent on getting the entire world to like their diesel cars, and obviously, spend money to buy them. However, while they had no trouble convincing us Europeans that diesel is the way to go, in the U.S., it's proving to be a slightly more difficult battle to fight – it is a winning battle, though, albeit a hard-fought one as well. Read more »

The Story of How and Why Ford Put a Mustang On Top of the Empire State Building in 1966 Posted: 06 Sep 2013 03:16 PM PDT Nowadays, the internet has simplified pretty much every aspect of the lives of those who know how to use it efficiently – you now, get targeted ads, news and products, which are shown to you in accordance with your previous searches and supposed interests. It works well, I guess, if you don't have any privacy concerns, that is… Read more »

Would We Be Wrong to Say This Driver Got What He Deserved? Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:44 PM PDT Here's one of those relatively harmless accidents that you kind of wish upon impatient drivers when they poke their nose where it doesn't belong in a kind of a guilty, but completely imaginary, way. Read more »

August U.S. Sales Return to Pre-Crisis Levels, Ford Sold One F-Series Truck Every 42 Seconds Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:18 PM PDT While car sales in Europe continue to decline month after month, things are looking much brighter in the U.S., where August sales have returned to levels seen before the start of the financial crisis. Sales were boosted by low interest rates and job growth, according to automakers, which are increasing capacity and adding overnight shifts to meet demand. Read more »

Bulleta Motors Changes Its Tune and Talks About Getting Evoras from the Used Car Market Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:06 PM PDT After almost a decade on this site, one thing that hasn't stopped bothering me from day one, is when some individuals purposely fail to comprehend what we write and say merely to hide the truth by discrediting us. This happened with Bulleta Motors and its co-founder Mr. Ferris Rezvani who repeatedly chose to cherry pick words to create his own sentences, reality and his own meanings from our texts. What had happened is that we were contacted by the only official authority to tell us whether Mr. Rezvani and his company had an agreement with Lotus for the supply and use of the Evora for their RF22 model, and which of course, is Lotus, with the company's spokesperson repeatedly answering 'no'. The title of our piece was, "Lotus Says Bulleta RF22 is "Vapor" or In Other Words, BS", not "Carscoops' says Bulleta RF22 is "Vapor" or In Other Words, BS". Read more »

Fiat Reportedly Nearing Deal to Build New Maserati Levante SUV in Italy Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:03 PM PDT First announced as a US-manufactured, Maserati-badged Jeep Grand Cherokee with a reskin, the Levante has never managed to build  a picture of itself in my head. At first, it didn't seem that interesting and worth waiting for, sharing all those bits with its Jeep counterpart and not being a real Maserati in that sense. Read more »

New Honda Accord Hybrid EPA-Rated at 50 MPG City Posted: 06 Sep 2013 12:23 PM PDT Honda has started production of the 2014 Accord Hybrid sedan at its Marysville, Ohio, plant with first deliveries scheduled for later this year. The Accord Hybrid has been rated by the EPA at 50 mpg city (4.7 l/100 km), making it the most fuel efficient model among competing 4-door sedans, according to a statement from Honda. Read more »

Scoop: New 2015 Nissan GT-R NISMO will be a Wild One Posted: 06 Sep 2013 11:50 AM PDT Nissan has been telling us that it's revitalized Nismo sub-brand has been a success with the company selling 3,700 Juke Nismo crossovers in Europe, Japan and the U.S. between launch in January and the end of July, while sales of Z Nismo Coupe account for 15 to 30 percent of Nissan Z model sales depending on market. Not bad, but what's a sub-brand without a crown jewel? Be patient because that crown jewel is in the making as we speak. Of course, we're referring to the GT-R Nismo, the ultimate production version of the series, which will be, if not the, one of the last hurrahs of the much lauded R35 before its replacement arrives in late 2015. Read more »

Ex-Caterham Boss Announces All-New Zenos Rival for KTM’s X-Bow Posted: 06 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT Former Caterham boss Ansar Ali has "secured funding to start development on an all-new sports car," according to an Autocar magazine report. It's planned as a rival to the KTM X-Bow, or the hottest Caterham currently being made, the 620R, and it promises to embarrass much more expensive motors at any track day. Read more »

Alfa Romeo Gives Giulietta MY2014 a New Engine and Some Light Tweaks Posted: 06 Sep 2013 11:07 AM PDT The Alfa Romeo Giulietta has undergine some changes for the 2014 model year, the main one being the addition of a new 2.0-liter JTDM 2 turbodiesel engine developing 150 horsepower and 380 Nm (280 lb-ft) of torque. The new unit is equipped with the second-generation MultiJet injection system and uses a small-sized turbocharger that Alfa Romeo says delivers the highest torque in the segment at low revs - 380 Nm at 1,750 rpm. The engine also uses the third generation Common Rail injection system and complies with the Euro 5+ (Euro 6 ready) standard. Read more »

Ohio Driver Confesses to Killing a Man While Drunk Behind the Wheel on YouTube Video Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:50 AM PDT Drunk driving is one of the most frequently committed crimes in the United States and other places around the world, and while this is nothing new, what you're about to watch in the following video will no doubt surprise you, and perhaps restore some of your faith in humanity. What the YouTube video shows is a young man from Ohio named Matthew Cordle who confesses to driving drunk on the opposite side of the road and crashing into another car, which to the death of 61-year-old Navy veteran Vincent Canzani. Read more »

EVO Tests Ford Fiesta R5 Rally Car on Public Roads Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:54 AM PDT The Ford Fiesta R5 rally car is legal to drive on public roads, but that's pretty much all it has in common with a road car – that and the shape of the bodywork which is borrowed from the series production Fiesta. The folks at British magazine EVO wanted to find out what it would be like to drive a Fiesta R5 on a public road – albeit a deserted one – and M Sport let them have a go in one of the models they built. Read more »

Spied: New Porsche Macan Turbochargers its Way Around the 'Ring Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:07 AM PDT The new Porsche-branded SUV that many will come to describe as a "baby" Cayenne, and which holds true for the most part, albeit in a cuter and better looking way, the Macan, has been photographed again with very few pieces of camouflage plastered on its body doing some quick laps around the Nürburgring race track. Read more »

New Diesel-Powered Alpina D3 Bi-Turbo Races to Frankfurt Auto Show Posted: 06 Sep 2013 08:35 AM PDT Next week's 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show is the event of choice for Alpina to host the world premiere of it's new BMW 3-Series-based D3 Bi-Turbo saloon and Touring models. The German maker dropped the first photos of the two diesel-powered cars and also released preliminary specifications. The big news is that unlike the outgoing 2.0-liter four-cylinder E90-based models, the F30-based D3s make use of a 3.0-liter straight-six turbocharged diesel, the same one found under the hoods of the XD3 SUV and D5 Bi-Turbo. Read more »

Xcar Takes Lexus LS-Based TMG TS-650 to the Track Posted: 06 Sep 2013 08:10 AM PDT The term super-saloon is not new, and has been used to describe very fast (usually German) sedans ever since they began getting quicker, and more driver oriented. However, most, even the newer ones, pale in comparison when placed alongside the TMG TS-650, a car originally based on the latest version of the Lexus LS – this would do wonders for Toyota's sporty image too… Read more »

New Audi A3 Cabriolet is a Secret No More: First Official Shots Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:43 AM PDT Unless we've been duped (we say this because you can't always be 100 percent sure and that dark shade on the driver's mirror looks suspicious), these should be the first official photos of the all-new Audi A3 Cabriolet that scheduled for an online reveal this Sunday, September 8, before it arrives in the flesh at the Frankfurt motor show floors next week for its world premiere. While the new A3 Cabriolet continues Audi's theme of applying the same design cues on different size bodies, the outcome is sleek and much better looking and proportioned than the first generation of the series. Read more »

Audi UK Prices New RS Q3 SUV and RS7 Sportback Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:20 AM PDT Two new models will soon broaden the Audi RS range of sports cars in the UK to total of eight models based on six body styles. The new arrivals are the RS Q3 sports crossover that carries an on-the-road (OTR) price of £43,000 (equal to US$67,200 / €51,000), and the more premium RS 7 Sportback priced at £83,495 OTR (US$130,600 / €99,100). Both RS models are available to order with first deliveries in Britain scheduled for early next year. Read more »

Infiniti and Gilt Design Pair of One-Off Q50 Sedans for $75,000 a Pop Posted: 06 Sep 2013 06:50 AM PDT Ever heard of the online and special event shop Gilt? We didn't and if it wasn't for the their tie-up with Infiniti, there's a good chance we would have remained unaware of its existence. Gilt and Infiniti held hands together with designers Thom Browne and Zac Posen to build two one-of-a-kind custom-tailored Q50 sports sedan, each carrying a price tag of $75,000 (equal to €57,000), with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital charity. Read more »

Rally Co-Driver Gets Sick, Vomits, Bleeds but Ends Up Laughing About it Posted: 06 Sep 2013 06:27 AM PDT Warning: Some viewers may find the content disturbing This video-recording from a pair of rally car professionals running in last month's Skagafjarðarrally in Iceland will have you shouting "yuck, funny, yuck, funny" in that order for most of the duration of the short clip. Yes, if you don't like watching people vomiting and bleeding, we'd strongly advise you to skip this post altogether. Read more »

Range Rover and Range Rover Sport Get Hybrid Versions, Updates for 2014 Posted: 06 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT Land Rover has announced a series of updates for the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport for the 2014, with the most important being the launch of hybrid versions, the addition of a new diesel engine for the Sport and a new Black Design Pack for the Range Rover. Read more »

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