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Next BMW 6-Series to get two distinct versions-Exclusive info

Agent001 submitted on 12/30/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:03:50 PM

When the next 6-series appears somewhere down the road as a 2010 or 2011 model there will be a big difference in the way the model is marketed. Sources tell the Spies that BMW has identified there are two differnent customers for the 6. A luxu...

44 user comments | Category: Spy News

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Your boss made a mistake and your bonus is only $50k! Which car/cars do you buy now?

Agent001 submitted on 11/26/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:42:07 PM

NOW the game gets harder. The boss just walked into your office and said he made a horrible mistake. The bonus that was supposed to be $100,000 is only $50,000! So you have to scale down your expectations and pick a car/cars with the $50k...

121 user comments | Category: Spy News

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Chevrolet Beat Concept At LA

speedspies submitted on 11/15/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:35:33 PM

A vehicle based on the Chevrolet Beat concept, which swept through auto shows around the globe and the Internet earlier this year, will go into global production, Chevrolet announced today at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show. An online poll that att...

4 user comments | Category: New Cars

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Who needs a Lexus or Mercedes? Get the Chevy Malibu!

Luxurious submitted on 11/14/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:38:53 AM

I’m on the road again this week, but I had to share a quick story I heard from one of our West Coast dealers about the sale of his first Chevrolet Malibu. Seems this particular dealer has a good friend back in suburban Detroit who hasn’t driven a ...

58 user comments | Category: Misc News

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McLaren-Mercedes loses all constructors' points, fined $100m (US).

Agent004 submitted on 9/13/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 5:34:47 PM

In what has to be a record breaking fine, the punishment was handed down today from the FIA. The judgement's reasoning will be released Friday, 9/14/2007 and team head, Ron Dennis, said he would wait to hear that before officially appealing the ruli...

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Lexus Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over ES350 Airbags

kpaxx submitted on 8/1/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:29:34 AM

Business Wire reports that the law firm of Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has hit Lexus and corporate parent Toyota with a class action lawsuit relating to the ES350's airbag sensors. According to Lexusdefect.com, "many own...

39 user comments | Category: Spy News

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Chevrolet Blue Devil Corvette in 2009 – C7 in 2012

Agent009 submitted on 7/31/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:59:55 PM

The infamous “Blue Devil” Corvette, the one that is supposed to pack 650 hp, will be on the market as a 2009 model. It will have styling differentiation from other Corvettes and will sell for $100,000. In other words, GM is doing the ZR-1 over a...

35 user comments | Category: Misc News

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As UAW Negotiates, Toyota Workers Eye Unionization

Agent009 submitted on 7/31/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:52:43 AM

As US auto workers negotiate with the faltering Detroit 3 under intense pressure to surrender benefits, employees at Toyota's flagship U.S. plant want what their blue-collar counterparts in Detroit have: union representation. At least some do. Un...

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BMW Trying To Win Over Chinese Customers After Scandals

Agent009 submitted on 7/31/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:14:34 AM

GERMANY'S BMW has a reputation for producing cars that offer driving pleasure and luxury. But in recent years that reputation has been sullied in China, with BMW owners tagged nouveau riche and a series of scandals including a lottery fraud in the no...

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Lumma Bmw M6 CLR 600 S

baharnu submitted on 7/26/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:59:44 PM

After LUMMA DESIGNed spectacular widening modifications for the BMW M6 tuned as CLR 600 bonding it to racing sports and creating a furore, now the German tuner comes up with a somewhat smaller, but not less imposing version of the body kit....

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2010 Volkswagen Beetle going full modern

Luxurious submitted on 7/26/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:34:28 PM

Amidst the board-room shakeups and in-flux product plans following the quasi-takeover by Porsche, a few things have nevertheless stayed on course at Volkswagen Central in Wolfsburg, Germany. One such project is the replacement for the not so new New ...

21 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

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Mercedes will still share major components with Chrysler

omarrana submitted on 7/23/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:31:45 AM

DamilerChrysler (that’s still the company’s name until October) CEO, Dieter Zetsche, says that Mercedes-Benz and Chrysler will still cooperate after Daimler and Chrysler go their own ways. The main focus of cooperation between the two companies will ...

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Corvette Z06 second fastest to 200km/h in Nardo top speed test

dannyboy2 submitted on 7/10/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:03:43 AM

The Corvette Z06 beat out cars like the Lamborghini Gallardo, Ruf RT12 and Porsche 911 GT3 in accelerating to 200km/h in a test run by Auto Motor und Sport to find the fastest car....

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What's hotter? 2008 BMW M3 or Mercedes C63 AMG

omarrana submitted on 7/9/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:49:50 PM

Finally, the 2008 BMW M3’s rival has broken cover. Shown earlier last week, the Mercedes C63 AMG was unveiled ahead of its Frankfurt debut, mostly to distract the attention of the auto enthusiast world that is focused on the launch of the new 2008 BM...

76 user comments | Category: Polls

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Car Magazine Reviews The New 2008 BMW M3

Agent009 submitted on 7/6/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:01:10 AM

Oh yes. The E92 model is the fourth generation of the M3, a car that first arrived in 1986. Back then it had a four-cylinder engine with around 200bhp. The new car doubles that with a V8 and 414bhp, but the basic ingredients remain the same: rear-whe...

81 user comments | Category: Reviews

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