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Aug 12, 2013 04:00 pm | Nelson Ireson
Jaguar LogoJaguar is once again considering launching a front-wheel-drive compact to help lower its fleet-wide average fuel economy and better compete with its German rivals, all of which already offer such models and have even more in the pipeline. Of course, Jaguar still has to catch up on its rivals by launching a successor to its X-Type...

Aug 12, 2013 02:00 pm | Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Tetsuya TadaPrior to the last decade, Toyota sold a trio of sports cars that catered to a relatively wide spectrum of the new car market. Even now the names of those sports cars, Supra, MR2 and Celica, hold a certain cachet with performance buyers, despite Toyota losing its way and dropping all three model lines years ago. In the next several years, Toyota...

Aug 12, 2013 01:30 pm | Viknesh Vijayenthiran
2015 Audi A8 teaserThe 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show is now just a month away and Audi wants us to get excited about a new car it plans to unveil at the event. This week the automaker released a second teaser video which shows the car under wraps, although the graphic of the lights is shown through the cover. A previous video is featured at the bottom of the post...

Aug 12, 2013 01:00 pm | Viknesh Vijayenthiran
2015 Lexus RC F spy shotsLexus will soon launch a new coupe to challenge the Audi A5, BMW 4-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe, and just as those rivals all have high-performance variants so too will the Lexus. The new Lexus coupe will essentially be a two-door IS but a unique name, in this case RC, and differentiated styling will help set the two apart. The...

Aug 12, 2013 11:50 am | Marty Padgett
The Nine Cars You'll Drive In HellMaybe you take two spots up front near the Best Buy. Or refuse to cede the left lane. Or tailgate, then slow down when we get out of your way. You, sir, are a terrible driver. And for that, you're going straight to Hell. We're not guessing here, we're just taking the word of every driver in a mile-wide radius around you at any given moment. Your...

Aug 12, 2013 10:40 am | Viknesh Vijayenthiran
2014 SRT Viper TAPrices on SRT’s Viper supercar have risen for the 2014 model year, but with most of the car's customers loading them up with fancy options we bet few will be complaining. The 2014 SRT Viper’s base price is now $101,309, including destination, which equates to a rise of $1,919 on last year’s model. Note, both prices exclude the...

Aug 12, 2013 09:00 am | Viknesh Vijayenthiran
2013 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo race carLamborghini is hard at work developing the successor for its Gallardo, a car many are predicting to be called the Cabrera and prototypes for which have already been spotted. A concept version is likely to be unveiled soon and a sales launch is slated for late 2014. Now we have details on the racing version it will eventually spawn. The Gallardo...

Aug 12, 2013 07:00 am | Viknesh Vijayenthiran
2012 Renault Fluence ZE electric car, powered by Better Place in Israel [photo: Brian of London]A major political party in the U.K, the Liberal Democrats, which is part of the current coalition leadership, has proposed banning non-hybrid gasoline and diesel passenger cars from British roads by 2040. Worse still, the party says it would be willing to bring the date forward if the availability and affordability of fuel-sipping hybrids and...

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