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2010 BMW Z2
2007-08-28 12:44:00
BY JUERGEN ZOELLTER New BMW roadster to compete in less pricey MX-5 Miata segment. Z2 should sell for less than $30,000 when it appears, most likely in 2010. According to sources inside BMW, the German automaker plans to launch a roadster priced well below the current Z4, which starts at $36,295. Although the price has not been ...
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BMW Working on a Super-Z
2007-08-28 12:35:00
BY WALLACE WYSS, PHOTOGRAPHY RON WEICKART Hopes its next super-expensive attempt won’t be met with zzzzzzzs. Any BMW with the letter Z in its namesake has, until now, been a two-seater. But BMW wants to get a new Z back into the $140,000 to $200,000 luxury segment. Why? Because since BMW stopped building the Z8 roadster in ...
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BMW M3 GTR
2007-08-28 12:29:00
BY LARRY WEBSTER A V-8-equipped M3 race car enjoys a fantasy season, but it could be its last. Few race cars enjoy the reversal of fortune that BMW’s M3 enjoyed over the past two seasons of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). In 2000, the M3 race car, which is known as the M3 GTR and races ...

2007 Pontiac G5 GT
2007-08-28 12:22:00
BY DAVE VANDERWERP, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFERY G. RUSSELL What happens when you go lobbying for a ‘value leader.’ When the Chevy Cavalier morphed into the Cobalt for 2005, Pontiac said no thanks to a version with a twin-port grille for U.S. showrooms, but in Canada, Pontiac re-upped, calling it the Pursuit. Pontiac dealers here were soon lobbying for ...
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2007 BMW M6 Convertible
2007-08-26 10:32:00
BY STEVE SILER Too much equals not enough? The pricey, portly M6 ragtop trades speed for sex appeal. BMW hasn?t had it too easy from us recently. The Bavarian masters of driving arts once had an easy ticket to a first-place finish in virtually every comparo they entered. But then came iDrive, then active steering, and then ...
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2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG: Official Photos & Info
2007-08-26 10:19:00
BY ERIK JOHNSON The littlest U.S.-market Mercedes becomes one big bad-ass. That?s a fair point, but we?ll counter by simply pointing out that no previous C-class AMG, extra two cylinders or no, has had the dance moves to keep up with an M3 when the twisties get their twistiest. Until, perhaps, now. The 2008 C63 AMG, which is ...
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2009 Volkswagen Tiguan
2007-08-26 10:09:00
BY JARED GALL Volkswagen ’s small crossover SUV will debut on home soil. Volkswagen’s upcoming Tiguan soft-roader will debut at the 2007 Frankfurt auto show. The company released the first official photos of the compact crossover in June. Although the Tiguan will arrive packing an impressive list of off-road options, it enters into a small-SUV segment in which the ...
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Honda Small Hybrid Sports Concept
2007-08-26 10:02:00
BY JARED GALL, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE VALENTE Honda ’s Geneva concept is part Insight, part CRX, part wind-cheating solar race car, and all foam and clay. At the L.A. auto show, we showed you Honda?s Remix concept, a design study we hope spawns another CRX. In Geneva, Honda showed off another compact, sporty two-plus-two, this one with a ...
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2008 Pontiac G6 GXP
2007-08-26 09:50:00
BY HOWARD WALKER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEFFREY G. RUSSELL More show, same go. So how many ?Gs? can an auto maker have in one model line-up? The guys at Pontiac already have a G6 GT and a G6 GTP in the stable. Now they?re adding a third, a G6 GXP which arrives in the fall. Don?t get too ...
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2008 Nissan Altima Coupe
2007-08-26 09:45:00
BY STEVE SILER 2006 Los Angeles auto show: First-ever Altima two-door due by summer, 2007. It?s no secret that the redesigned 2007 Altima sedan, in dealerships now, is better than ever. But one of the car business? best-kept secrets was that the new four-door Altima will be joined next summer by a striking coupe version. The 2008 ...
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2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X - Official Photos & Info
2007-08-26 09:38:00
BY ALISA PRIDDLE Waiting until early next year to buy one might kill us. Teasin? time is over. Here are the first official pictures of the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution ?or Evolution X as it is known back home in Japan. Mitsubishi Motors mixed a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down in Tokyo, releasing first images ...
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2008 Subaru Impreza and Impreza WRX - Official Photos & Info
2007-08-26 09:30:00
BY ERIK JOHNSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY JARED HOLSTEIN The all-new WRX is bigger and roomier?and lighter. (There?s a new base Impreza, too.) Six years ago, when we first looked deep into its big, round bug eyes, we fell hard for the WRX, the ?roided-up version of the basic-transportation Subaru Impreza. Yes, we were smitten, and we emoted to ...
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Tips on Snowplowing
2007-07-07 22:45:00
Author by : Matt Ide Now that you?ve got your new snowplow, what do you do? It?s getting to be that time of the year. Soon the football game is going to be on during Turkey Day and you have just recently put the blade on the truck for the first time. In fact, you just might ...
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