Delayed, But Not Gone: The Volkswagen Phaeton Is Being Reworked For Profitability
The Volkswagen Phaeton flagship sedan is an expensive, luxurious anomaly in the automaker’s lineup. Now, it’s being reoworked so that it just might turn a profit.
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BMW 7-Series To Receive A New, Quad-Turbo Diesel For 2016
Yes, four turbochargers, just like a Bugatti Veyron. Except not at all.
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Ford Shelby GT350R Faster Around A Road Course Than Camaro Z/28
Tested back-to-back with a Camaro Z/28, the GT350R was roughly a second faster around Grattan Raceway, and kept pace with the Porsche 911 GT3. Woah.
Tesla Model S Gets ‘Ludicrous’ With New 90-kWh Battery, 762 HP
Tesla makes another trademark “Surprise!” reveal, announcing a new 762 HP mode for the AWD Performance model.
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2017 Audi TT RS To Ditch The Stick: Officially Official
The latest example in a long line of trend-followers: the Audi TT RS says “no, thanks” to a classic manual transmission.
Behind The Alfa Romeo Giulia’s Brief, Two-And-A-Half Year Gestation
From intangible concept to validation-testing prototype, the Giulia sped through development like a bat out of Turin.
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Roadster Variant Of The Lotus Evora 400 Planned For The US Market
The Evora 400 roadster will arrive 6 months after the coupe, says Lotus CEO/French Romance Novelist Jean-Marc Gales.
Chinese Labor Costs On The Rise, May Shift More Production To Czech Republic
Years ago, China looked poised to inherit a lot of global automotive manufacture, but the Chinese-relocation trend is slowing.
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Could The 2016 Mazda Miata Spawn The Next Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ?
Car and Driver seems to think so. What that means for the Scionbaru’s fixed roof remains a mystery.
There Will Be A Lotus SUV, Plus Other Revelations
Strange times are these when the originators of lightweighting in the name of performance talk about building an SUV.
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Volkswagen Group CEO Confirms Bugatti Chiron Hybridization
The hybrid Bugatti Chiron will appear next to a “base” petrol-only version, says Martin Winterkorn.
Volkswagen Budget Car Family On The Way To China, Maybe Elsewhere
While a US arrival seems unlikely, we’ve learned never to say never.
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A BMW M7 May Be On The Way, At Long Last
It’s sort of like building a race car out of a Crown Vic; it’s sick, but you know you’d like to see it anyway.
Tesla Model 3 Deliveries Pushed Back To 2018
It’s a development which many in the industry are calling “not surprising. Not surprising in the least.”
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