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2009 Nissan Maxima 3.5 SV vs. 2008 Pontiac G8 GT

cpruitt submitted on 5/29/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:10:48 PM

No doubt some of you are already heading for the drop box marked "hate mail." Front drive versus rear drive? V-6 versus V-8? Why don't you just compare apples and orangutans? As we see it, if you've got around $30,000 to spend on a sport sedan, yo...

50 user comments | Category: New Cars

35 Votes

2009 Ford Escape - First Drive

cpruitt submitted on 5/15/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:06:08 PM

Four-dollar-per-gallon gasoline may be wreaking havoc on sales of the Mustang, F-150 and Explorer, but it comes along at a convenient moment for the facelifted 2009 Escape and Mariner. Six-speed automatics replace four-speed automatics, there's a new...

8 user comments | Category: New Cars

10 Votes

2009 BMW X6: Perfectly pointless

qweasdzxc submitted on 5/1/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 9:26:21 PM

A Ferrari 599GTB has a point. A Toyota Prius has a point. A Ford F-150 has a point. But what, exactly, is the point of a BMW X6? Despite all the clever engineering, it still manages to artfully combine all the disadvantages of a tight-fitting coupe w...

112 user comments | Category: Reviews

53 Votes

Will The BMW 1-Series Make Its PRESENCE Felt Against The Competition?

Agent001 submitted on 4/26/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:11:14 AM

As I was reading through the blogs , I read a comment from a reader saying that the new 2008 BMW 1-Series didn't have any presence.I chuckled to myself because my guess is that he has never seen one close up in person.So I decided to do an informal t...

137 user comments | Category: Report Cards

67 Votes

Who Wins The STUD Test? BMW 135i Or Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR

Agent001 submitted on 4/12/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 9:54:10 PM

"There we found the perfect 135i competitor: a 300-horsepower, two-door, four-passenger, rear-drive sports car that comes in at $28,000, but can hit the mid-30s fully loaded.Then we sobered up and realized that nobody cross-shops a BMW against a...

77 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

56 Votes

Automoblie Tests:BMW 335xi, vs. Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Subaru Impreza WRX STI

theoptimisticpessimist submitted on 4/7/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:36:11 PM

You've no doubt heard endless praise for both Subaru's wicked Impreza WRX STI and Mitsubishi's wild Lancer Evolution. It's well-deserved. With an intoxicating mixture of monster horsepower and magical four-wheel-drive systems, these little rockets ha...

34 user comments | Category: New Cars

25 Votes

2009 Nissan GT-R Acceleration Test

bankhead submitted on 3/31/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 6:42:20 PM

Okay, we've strapped Japan's latest monster car to a four-wheel Dynojet dynamometer and tortured it into giving up a 430.6-horsepower rating at the wheels. That translates to between 507 and 574 horses at the crank depending on how much power one ass...

26 user comments | Category: New Cars

23 Votes

Spycam: Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series

Htay7500 submitted on 3/30/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 8:01:14 PM

First AMG out-AMG'd itself with the CLK63 Black Series. Next up is a car likely to make you forget that Mercedes-McLaren SLR, the SL65 AMG Black Series. ...

27 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

26 Votes

Nissan’s white lie - GT-R Dyno Tested at 507 HP at least!

bankhead submitted on 3/28/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 6:24:21 PM

The hysteria surrounding the impending launch of Nissan's GT-R has prompted a mad rush to judge its performance. Various media outlets have attempted to test well-worn engineering mule cars and Japanese-spec vehicles with 112-mph speed limiters. Some...

30 user comments | Category: New Cars

27 Votes

Lutz floats the idea of a four-cylinder Camaro

5MTenthus submitted on 3/19/2008 Official AutoSpies 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

21 Votes

Comparison: 2008 Honda Civic, 2008 Mazda 3, 2008 Subaru Impreza, 2009 Toyota Corolla

bankhead submitted on 3/18/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:54:03 PM

Associating the word "economy" with air travel is akin to lumping "non-fat" with ice cream. Chances are good the byproduct won't be delectable. After all, there are reasons why the economy section of an airplane is often referred to as a cattle car, ...

25 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

21 Votes

2009 Subaru Forester

bankhead submitted on 3/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:54:43 PM

Among its peers, Subaru's Forester has always been the "character" among its compact sport/ute fellows. You know, funny and erudite and all that, but a bit eccentric in a suspiciously self-conscious sort of way. Styling? Frumpy. Make that, proudly fr...

18 user comments | Category: New Cars

15 Votes

Can A Diesel Hybrid Be A Cost Effective Solution?

Agent009 submitted on 3/3/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:09:17 PM

Volkswagen is the latest car company to announce plans to introduce a vehicle that combines hybrid and diesel technologies. The company says that a diesel-hybrid Golf, to be offered in Europe as early as 2009, will achieve 70 miles to the gallon, and...

13 user comments | Category: Misc News

15 Votes

2008 Lexus IS-F Dyno Run

Ironman273 submitted on 3/1/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:36:28 AM

You're in a compact sedan with a 5.0-liter, 416-hp V-8 with four-valve Yamaha heads that contain titanium intake valves. Where do you head? The dyno, of course. And so we did. The fellas at Ralph Willis Automotive in Salinas, California cleared th...

60 user comments | Category: Reviews

35 Votes

500HP; 1,100 lbs Ariel Atom

Atenza28 submitted on 2/28/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 9:14:04 PM

If you thought the latest iteration of the Ariel Atom was wild, the U.K.-based sports car manufacturer has a new Atom that will likely leave you breathless. In response, no doubt, to the 500 horsepower Catherham 7 RS, Ariel is using the same supercha...

7 user comments | Category: New Cars

11 Votes

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