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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...

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Isuzu Finally Calls It Quits In The U.S. Market

Agent009 submitted on 4/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:01:17 PM

Call it the classic long goodbye. Isuzu has announced it will call a halt to North American SUV sales in January 2009, but the news shouldn’t come as too much of a shock to anyone who’s been watching Isuzu of late. Fact is, Isuzu’s...

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Next-generation BMW Z4 to become a hardtop roadster

omarrana submitted on 4/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:56:30 PM

Spies recently caught the next-generation BMW Z4 around Munich and the biggest upgrade that stands out this year is a folding metal roof. The next-generation BMW Z4 will drop the fabric for a hardtop convertible following in the footsteps of the 3-Se...

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Carbonyte's Smaaart ForTwo Limo

omarrana submitted on 4/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:55:42 PM

Let’s hope Carbonyte doesn’t get sued by Daimler for this one. Creator’s of the world’s first Ferrari limousine now bring you the world’s only stretched SmartCar, the Carbonyte Smaaart. Led by ex-McLaren man Chris Wright, Carbonyte took Benz’s Sma...

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Does The BMW 1 Series Have The Moxy To Become As Successful As The 3 Series?

Agent009 submitted on 4/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:19:33 PM

BMW's 1 Series is a new to the USA line of small, nimble BMWs that offer your choice of really powerful or merely powerful engines mated with a sweet-shifting six-speed manual or non-pareil five-speed automatic.  And they're not, for a change, u...

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2008 BMW M3 vs. 2008 Lexus IS F - Comparison Test

theoptimisticpessimist submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 5:27:07 PM

“Competition,” said John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and an early poster child of the business monopoly, “is a sin.” He’d certainly be horrified by the competition going on these days among the makers of sports sedans. To many, the...

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Is This the New 2012 Lexus Diesel Killer?

Agent009 submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 4:32:08 PM

One of the readers of VWVortex has assembled quite  wealth of information concerning the upcoming Lexus variant of the popular Prius.  Below is a snippet of the details as his interprets it for you to enjoy:Here are a months worth of scans ...

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Lamborghini Murcielago SV with rwd and 680-hp coming later this year

omarrana submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:51:17 PM

Work on Lamborghini’s upcoming Murcielago SV is progressing as planned. The more powerful, lightweight, rear-wheel-drive LP640 is planned for launch later this year. Insiders have told AutoCar that the SV will have more power than the Reventon and...

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Lexus LS fails Auto Motor und Sport braking test - AGAIN

Newsbot submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:56:25 PM

Lexus LS fails Auto Motor und Sport braking test - AGAIN The German magazine Auto Motor und Sport is reporting that a revised Lexus LS has failed the braking test a second time. A few weeks ago the new Toyota Landcruiser V8 Diesel also performed d...

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Cost won’t stop Mercedes: Future cars emphasize diesels, hybrids, Diesotto and fuel cells

omarrana submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:59:32 AM

Unlike GM, Mercedes-Benz isn’t crying about the cost of development when making its lineup go ‘green.’ And of course, with those profit margins, it shouldn’t. Speaking with MotorTrend, CEO Dieter Zetsche says that cost won’t stop Mercedes-Benz from o...

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Volkswagen Snags Top Spots In GayWheels.com Top 10 Most Researched Vehicles

Agent009 submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:15:06 AM

Gaywheels.com, the sole source of information specifically targeted to and about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) car-shoppers, today announced its list of the Top 10 Most-Researched Vehicles during the first quarter of 2008. The Volkswa...

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Toyota Raises Stake In Subaru and Announces New Sports Car for 2011

Agent009 submitted on 4/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 10:23:05 AM

Toyota Motor Corp. will pay $311 million to raise its stake in Fuji Heavy Industries to 16.5 percent, and the two companies said Thursday they will expand their ties and develop cars together. Toyota said the step is part of its plans to revamp busin...

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Recall Wednesday: Toyota recalling 539,500 vehicles

drew630 submitted on 4/9/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 5:15:03 PM

Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 539,500 Corolla and Matrix passenger cars in the United States because the bolts in the power window system can become loose and ultimately cause a window to shatter. Toyota said Wednesday it had received reports of...

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Toyota's Tacoma Falls Under Fire Yet Again

Agent009 submitted on 4/9/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 4:48:11 PM

It's a wonder Frank Visconi walked away from the crash that turned his new Toyota Tacoma pickup into an unrecognizable mush of metal, plastic and dirt. But Visconi has a different wonder -- why Toyota doesn't believe his complaints of sudden accelera...

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2010 Ford Taurus image leaked - Nice, but what’s that in the background?

omarrana submitted on 4/9/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 4:09:23 PM

We were going to stay away from posting anything on the leaked image of the 2010 Ford Taurus that you guys probably saw around the web yesterday since Ford had contacted many sites to take it down. But after getting an interesting tip from ‘Thumper’ ...

43 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

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