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Testing the 2009 Tesla Roadster One Speed

5MTenthus submitted on 10/31/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:52:28 PM

The Tesla Roadster was beginning to look like vaporware. Silicon Valley failed to deliver its first car on time. The traditional auto industry was sniggering. But let's cut Tesla some slack. Does Motown always get its stuff onto the showroom floor de...

3 user comments | Category: New Cars

5 Votes

Ferrari Enzo Replacement Spied

5MTenthus submitted on 9/4/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:45:01 PM

Think of it as Enzo II. This mule, cobbled together from F430 and 430 Scuderia parts, hides what is likely the successor to Ferrari's Enzo. (The car, not the man.) Codenamed FX70, the new super Ferrari will have to be the best prancing horse yet. ...

11 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

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2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 - "shock and awe"

5MTenthus submitted on 8/20/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:49:38 AM

Corvette engineers, who orchestrated the ZR1 to entertain a driver, a passenger, and neighboring counties with the big-block, side-pipe sounds of the 1960s, describe the usual reaction to any indulgence of this car's throttle as "shock and awe." Y...

9 user comments | Category: New Cars

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2009 Hyundai Genesis 4.6 - First Test

5MTenthus submitted on 8/4/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:08:16 PM

Walk around Hyundai's new Genesis, stare at it from every possible angle, and you'll swear you've seen it before. Not the car as a whole, mind you, but rather the individual styling cues. The front end, for example, especially the grille, resembles t...

46 user comments | Category: Spy News

35 Votes

2009 Chrysler Aspen Hybrid and Dodge Durango Hybrid - First Drive

5MTenthus submitted on 7/25/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:49:23 PM

Chrysler didn't pull the Hemi name off of its new 2009 Chrysler Aspen Hybrid and Dodge Durango Hybrid altogether. "Hemi" no longer is in large-ish red letters: Badges on the front fenders and rear deck proclaim "Hybrid" in blue letters at the top; be...

2 user comments | Category: New Cars

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How Europe lives with $10 a Gallon Gas

5MTenthus submitted on 7/22/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 6:52:09 PM

A couple of weeks ago in France I paid $9.97 for a gallon of gas. Yesterday, in London, I spent $10.14 for a gallon of diesel. Filling the tank of the Mercedes-Benz C220 CDI I'm driving at the moment cost me more than $156. Good thing it's a dies...

27 user comments | Category: New Cars

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2009 Maserati Quattroporte S - First Drive

5MTenthus submitted on 7/18/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:40:12 PM

Maserati has tampered with the Quattroporte, a sedan that inspires visceral, carnal automotive lust wildly out of proportion with its size and door count. Perhaps fearing cries of "blasphemy!" the factory proffered these historic precedents: DaVinci'...

8 user comments | Category: New Cars

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2009 Infiniti FX50 vs 2009 BMW X6 xDrive50i

5MTenthus submitted on 7/17/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:43:38 PM

The laws of physics don't apply in Toontown, where cartoon characters live and SUVs act like sports cars. In Toontown, Infiniti's new FX50 accelerates quicker than a G37, matches its outstanding braking performance, and then - as its pièce de résista...

80 user comments | Category: New Cars

54 Votes

Lutz floats the idea of a four-cylinder Camaro

5MTenthus submitted on 3/19/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 7:40:59 PM

Another auto show, another batch of interesting comments complements of GM vice chairman and quote machine Bob Lutz. This time out, Maximum Bob was opining about the upcoming 2009 Chevrolet Camaro to the folks at Automotive News, and -- gasp -- he br...

21 user comments | Category: Misc News

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First Drive: Pontiac G6 GXP Coupe

5MTenthus submitted on 2/8/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:59:52 PM

Most of America is bounded by farmlands and bisected by highways: flat, fast and straight. Perhaps these are the kinds of driving conditions Pontiac's engineers had in mind when they took the G6 and made it into a GXP. New for 2008, GXP replaces t...

17 user comments | Category: New Cars

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2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 - First Look

5MTenthus submitted on 12/19/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 5:10:47 PM

Asked the question, "Why do a ZR1?" Corvette Vehicle Line executive Tom Wallace shoots back, "Because we can. We have the technology inside General Motors to do a car that can go up against any supercar from around the world," he continues, punctuati...

77 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

41 Votes

Porsche chasing in a Cadillac XLR-V on the Autobahnen

5MTenthus submitted on 12/11/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:25:59 PM

The Porsches don't want to play. Over 1000 hard-charging miles in two days across Germany, Austria, and Italy, and not one appears in the Cadillac's sights. Which is a pity, because our wedgy, quad-piped XLR-V is locked and loaded for 911s. Whoa! ...

23 user comments | Category: New Cars

25 Votes

Chipped MkV GTI vs. R32

5MTenthus submitted on 12/6/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:50:46 PM

In response to Volkswagen's amusing "Pre-Pimped" GTI MkV ad-campaign, one of our bright interns pointed out that half the fun of owning a VW is modifying it. He would know - he had a Mk3 GTI that he lowered. And he knew he'd earn brownie points from ...

14 user comments | Category: New Cars

9 Votes

2008 Toyota Sequoia - First Drive

5MTenthus submitted on 11/16/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 7:44:13 PM

Let this serve as notice that the Detroit Three are not unique in their propensity for bad timing. Toyota fails here, too. The long-awaited, long-overdue real full-size Tundra pickup launched just as the housing market was putting the kibosh on full-...

24 user comments | Category: New Cars

10 Votes

2007 Audi RS4 vs 2008 BMW M3 vs 2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG

5MTenthus submitted on 11/5/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:17:10 PM

For much of the day, the quiet Taunus mountains in Germany -- rolling green hills, prosperous farmland, dark Hansel and Gretel pine forests, Volkswagens driven slowly by well-groomed women on narrow smooth roads -- sound like Darlington raceway. From...

24 user comments | Category: New Cars

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