2009 Sneak Preview: 2010 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloceOnly 350 examples will be built, and buyers will choose between two rear wings: either the “Aeropack Wing” shown here, which purportedly allows a top speed of 209 mph, or the smaller, standard wing that enables you to soar to 212 mph.
In the latest iteration of the aging [...]

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A high-performance, five-cylinder engine turns the TT into a veritable sports car.
BY JENS MEINERS

Audi might be the hottest brand among luxury carmakers—more styling-oriented and more sporty than others, but still something of an insider’s tip. What the brand doesn’t have is a history as rich as that of Mercedes-Benz, or even BMW. Audi can be [...]

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More power won’t help the iconoclastic off-roader fit into any categories, but does make it even more fun.
BY JARED GALL

Who says that prestige vehicles have to be modern, that luxury vehicles have to be refined, or that off-road vehicles have to be slow? To those people, the Mercedes-Benz G550 wags a finger and thick coat [...]

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Have we met before? The upcoming X1 reminds us a lot of another BMW.
BY JENS MEINERS

If these barely disguised prototypes look familiar to you, it’s no surprise: This BMW X1 was already shown at last year’s Paris auto show under the rather unimaginative but BMW-typical “Concept X1″ moniker. Now BMW is testing prototypes on the [...]

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The ins and outs of making more power.

More Mods For Our Project WRX
The Subaru Impreza WRX is a performance bargain: A quarter-mile time of 13.5 seconds at 101 mph is as quick as any WRX STI we’ve tested, and the standard WRX model is about 10 grand cheaper. Being power hungry, we have investigated a [...]

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GM Ponders U.S.-Built Fiesta Rival
General Motors said Friday morning, 10 days after President Obama announced new fuel mileage standards and three days before the automaker declares bankruptcy, that it will build a new small car in an idled U.S. plant.

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One way to salvage the American dream.
BY EDDIE ALTERMAN

We are in a time of unprecedented uncertainty as Americans and car enthusiasts. The 17-million-unit-per-year car market was, like housing before it, another bubble propped up by easy credit terms and frothy economic delusions. Now the bubble has burst, the rent is coming due, the clown is [...]

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2009 Sneak Preview: New and Future Porsche CarsThat gnashing of teeth you hear is the Porsche faithful agonizing over another deviation from sports cars.
Just like you, we always want to know what’s coming next from Detroit, Tokyo, Stuttgart, Munich, Los Angeles, and all the other places where automotive engineers and designers dream and scheme on [...]

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Porsche’s CPO program makes these iconic sports cars a little more affordable.
BY TONY SWAN

Solid reliability, a slow and purposeful evolution of sports-car greatness, and an unparalleled sensitivity to driver inputs—what’s not to love about a Porsche 911? Well, they don’t come cheap. Ownership of a new 911 is beyond the resources of most, and when [...]

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VW’s Chattanooga plant gears up to build a Toyota Camry fighter.
BY JENS MEINERS

With Chrysler sales dropping off a cliff, VW hopes to reposition itself as a quasi-American brand and take over the Pentastar’s place in the market. Therefore, production of the “new mid-size sedan”—VW’s Toyota Camry fighter—in its new, billion plant in Chattanooga, [...]

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