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Test Drive: 2015 Chrysler 200 Raises The Bar With All-New Midsize Sedan

Test Drive: 2015 Chrysler 200 Raises The Bar With All-New Midsize Sedan

The Chrysler 200S is The Sport version of the all-new midsize sedan. (Picture: Chrysler)

The 2011 Super Bowl business that introduced The New Chrysler 200 was once remarkable, with exquisitely photographed scenes of Detroit and rap superstar Eminem boasting, “That Is the Motor Metropolis and This Is what we do.”

But The Chrysler 200 grew to become to be so much not up to exceptional,…

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Radical Hydrogen-Electric Car Hits The Road

Radical Hydrogen-Electric Car Hits The Road

With a 120 kilowatt-hour flow-cell, Quant claims a range of 372 miles or more. (Photo: Quant)

So many companies claim to have developed the future of road car propulsion that those making genuine strides run the risk of being ignored. Luckily, German firm Quant is avoiding such a fate, as its innovative ‘flow-cell’-powered vehicle has just been approved for real-world testing by the…

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Movie Legend, Car Guy James Garner Dies At 86

Movie Legend, Car Guy James Garner Dies At 86

James Garner starred in the hit 1966 auto racing film “Grand Prix.” (Photo: MGM)

Hollywood lost one of its truly great actors Saturday with the passing of James Garner at age 86.

Perhaps the best description of Garner came from the New York Times, where it was written, “He was most at home as an iconoclast, a flawed or unlikely hero.”

Indeed.

But Garner was also a serious car guy.

Ga…

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Edmunds Team Sets Coast-To-Coast Driving Record For Electric Cars There’s a new coast-to-coast driving record, but it’s not so fast. A team from Edmunds.com drove a Tesla Model S from the Los Angeles metro area to New York City in 67 hours, 21 minutes, beating Tesla’s own cross-country mark for electric…

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FOX Sports to televise 23 hours of Barrett-Jackson coverage from Reno FOX Sports will deliver 23 hours of LIVE coverage across the FOX family of networks for the Second Annual Hot August Nights Auction presented by Barrett-Jackson in Reno, Nev.

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2015 Mustang Inspired By F-35 Fighter Jet To Be Auctioned Off For Charity The F-35 may have just gotten approval to fly, but this one’s designed to stay on the ground.

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Watch The 1,340-Hp Koenigsegg One:1 Race Around An Abandoned Airstrip (VIDEO)

Watch The 1,340-Hp Koenigsegg One:1 Race Around An Abandoned Airstrip (VIDEO)

The Koenigsegg One:1 can go from 0-248 mph in just 20 seconds. (Photo: Koenigsegg)

The world’s fastest production car on (Guiness) record – the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – produces 1,183 horsepower and weighs more than 4,000 pounds.

Now take the Bugatti, crank up the horsepower, lower its weight and you have the all-new Koenigsegg One:1.

The Swedish manufacturer calls its newest…

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Test Drive: 2015 Nissan GT-R Packs Power, Touts Impressive Price Tag

Test Drive: 2015 Nissan GT-R Packs Power, Touts Impressive Price Tag

The 2015 Nissan GT-R packs 545 horsepower thanks to a 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V6. (Photo: Nissan)

Godzilla is getting soft.

Not the movie monster — although its latest iteration has been criticized for putting on a little weight — but the Nissan GT-R, which has been likened to the famous daikaiju thanks to its nuclear levels of performance.

The numbers speak for themselves: Zero…

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Porsche Used By Steve McQueen In ‘Le Mans’ Film Headed To Auction One of the holy grails of the collector car world and possibly one of the world’s most valuable Porsches extant will be offered for sale at the 

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Test drive: 2014 Corvette Stingray convertible – made for summer fun

Test drive: 2014 Corvette Stingray convertible – made for summer fun

The 2014 Corvette was designed from the start to be turned into a convertible. (Photo courtesy Chevrolet)

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible may look like it’s all about having fun in the sun, but it’s also an expert at crisis management.

No, not the corporate kind that GM is so familiar with these days, and not your mid-life crisis, either. It’s the one where you’re…

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3D-Printed Car Could Lead American Manufacturing Revolution

3D-Printed Car Could Lead American Manufacturing Revolution

The Strati is a 3D-printed electric sports car. (Photo: Local Motors)

Local Motors wants to change the way America makes things. In fact, it already has.

The Phoenix-based automotive and industrial design and manufacturing outfit was one of the pioneers of cloud-based co-creation, where members of a 150,000-member strong online community submit and refine ideas for products,…

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707-Horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Is The Most Powerful American Car Ever

707-Horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Is The Most Powerful American Car Ever

The 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT packs a load of raw American power. (Photo: Dodge)

Dodge has announced that its new supercharged V8 will be rated at an astonishing 707 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque when it debuts in the 2015 Challenger SRT later this year, making it the most powerful mass produced American car ever.

The 6.2-liter Hellcat HEMI engine features an iron block, forged alloy…

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Barrett-Jackson gears up for custom car competition in Reno A $ 100,000 purse in cash and prizes is on the line in the upcoming Barrett-Jackson Cup, with $ 30,000 being awarded to the entrant that brings in the best custom car.

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575-Horsepower Jaguar F-Type Project 7 Revealed

575-Horsepower Jaguar F-Type Project 7 Revealed

The Jaguar F-Type Project 7 will rocket from 0-60 mph in 3.8 seconds. (Photo: Jaguar)

The first undertaking of Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Vehicles Operations personalization department is the F-Type Project 7, the production version of last year’s Project 7 concept car. Yes, Jaguar has confirmed that it will build 250 examples of the stunning speedster, and will present the car…

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Stolen 1979 Corvette Recovered After 33 Years It was only two years old when it was stolen, but after 33 years the police have found a Michigan man’s 1979 Chevrolet Corvette nearly 1,000 miles away.

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1964 Jaguar E-Type Barn Find Has Bugatti Racing Connection

1964 Jaguar E-Type Barn Find Has Bugatti Racing Connection

This Jaguar has been sitting in storage for the past 42 years. (Photo: Auction.fr)

The Jaguar E-Type needs no icing on its cake of sultry vintage speed, but this find has some anyway. Once owned by a Bugatti race driver, this E-Type was worked over by a race mechanic at Bugatti’s shop in Molsheim, France, to extract more power—enough for an extra 7 mph of top end.

Even aside from the…

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Ron Pratte To Auction Off Car Collection At Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale

Ron Pratte To Auction Off Car Collection At Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale

Ron Pratte bought this 1966 Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale in 2007. (Photo: Barrett-Jackson)

Whenever a noted collector puts some of his cars on the block, it’s big news in the vintage-car community.

At the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in March, a number of high-end cars were sold out of the collection of the late Malcolm Pray, who died last summer.…

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