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July 11, 2014

Entropy EVSR Breaks Electric Hill Climb Record

Entropy EVSR Breaks Electric Hill Climb Record
Take a ride along to the top of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington in an electric race car. During the recent Subaru Climb to the Clouds driver Tim O’Neil took Entropy Racing’s whisper quiet EVSR pure electric through the course in nearly  just 7 minutes, 28.92 seconds, the fastest time recorded to date in an electric vehicle.…
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July 11, 2014

Volvo Announces XC90 400hp Hybrid Powertrain

Volvo Announces XC90 400hp Hybrid Powertrain
Volvo continues to tease consumers with details of its all-new XC90 SUV, recently releasing details on the vehicle’s new interior and technologies and now lifting the hood, so to speak, on the powertrain options for Volvo’s flagship SUV.…
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July 11, 2014

Fiat and Funny or Die Team up for Ad Campaign

Fiat and Funny or Die Team up for Ad Campaign
Fiat has been making automobiles in Italy for well over 100 years and recently turned to Funny or Die to create a series of ads focusing on the stereotypical views Americans have about Italians.…
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July 11, 2014

From the Vaults: See the USA in Your Chevrolet

From the Vaults: See the USA in Your Chevrolet
Back in the 1950s and 60s, entertainer Dinah Shore was one of Chevrolet’s top spokespeople, so it only made sense that they asked her to sing a song for to promote the brand.…
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July 11, 2014

Renault Twizy Goes Off-Road

Renault Twizy Goes Off-Road
The Renault Twizy is an ultra-compact electric vehicle designed for extreme efficiency and eco-conscious driving. But the vehicle was really designed  for urban usage, running short hauls to and from the office or the grocery store.…
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July 10, 2014

Test Drive: 2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T

Test Drive: 2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T
Back in 2011, Hyundai took their first giant leap to take the Sonata from a middle-of the-road mid-size sedan to a real contender for the best in its class.…
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July 10, 2014

Gone in 60 Seconds ’67 Mustang GT500 for Sale

Gone in 60 Seconds ’67 Mustang GT500 for Sale
If this car looks familiar, it’s because it’s the 1967 Ford Mustang, “Eleanor” that Nicolas Cage drove in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds.
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July 10, 2014

The Bug Movie: A Kickstarter Documentary

The Bug Movie: A Kickstarter Documentary
Filmmaker Damon Ristau is planning to make a full-length documentary movie about one of the most iconic and best-loved cars in history, the Volkswagen Beetle. This film will follow along the lines of his prior movie which focused on the VW Bus, aptly named The Bus Movie.…
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July 10, 2014

Ant-Kahn to Build Aston Martin Inspired Sports Car

Ant-Kahn to Build Aston Martin Inspired Sports Car
Ant-Kahn is the result of the synthesis of two car fanatics: Afzal Kahn, Principle Designer of Kahn Design and Ant Anstead, vehicle engineering and manufacturing expert.…
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July 10, 2014

XCAR Takes the Lotus Exige V6 Cup Around the Track

XCAR Takes the Lotus Exige V6 Cup Around the Track
Lotus certainly knows how to make very quick, lightweight sports cars and the standard Lotus Exige S meets all those criteria with a 0-to-100 km/h (62 mph) time of just 3.8 seconds.…
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July 10, 2014

“RockZilla” Started Life as a Ford Excursion

“RockZilla” Started Life as a Ford Excursion
Like to drive off-road, but don’t want to do it in your everyday SUV or pickup truck? Want to hit the dunes, but don’t want to buy a dedicated sand buggy?…
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July 10, 2014

Exagon Furtive-eGT Goes into Production

Exagon Furtive-eGT Goes into Production
First shown off back in 2010, French automaker Exagon has revealed that its first production car has rolled off the production line. The vehicle is a lightweight carbon composite electric sportscar driven by a pair of electric motors which give it a substantial 400 horsepower.…
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July 9, 2014

Inside the Corvette Assembly Plant

Inside the Corvette Assembly Plant
The C7 Corvette is arguably one of the boldest and most technologically sophisticated designs that Chevrolet has ever applied to a production car. In this clip from TestDriven, we get a behind the scenes tour of Chevrolet’s Bowling Green, Kentucky plant to see how the 2014 Corvette Stingray comes together.…
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July 9, 2014

Students Aim to Break Nürburgring Lap Record

Students Aim to Break Nürburgring Lap Record
Students at the Technical University of Eindhoven and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences have teamed up to create a car to break Stefan Bellof’s Nürburgring Nordschleife lap record of 6 minutes, 11.13 seconds, set by Bellof in 1983 driving a Porsche 956.…
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July 9, 2014

Novitec Rosso Boosts Ferrari 458 Speciale

Novitec Rosso Boosts Ferrari 458 Speciale
German aftermarket tuning specialists Novitec Rosso got their hands on a Ferrari 458 Speciale, which already boasts an incredible 605hp, and boosted the vehicle a bit more to a total of 636 horsepower at 9,250 rpm.…
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