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The Royal Screw Over? Lexus Plans To Lease All 500 Examples Of The LF-A For 2 Years?

Agent009 submitted on 11/23/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:33:39 PM

When Lexus announced that the official price of its upcoming 2011 LFA supercar was set at $375,000, it’s safe to assume that the collective jaws of every car enthusiast, including Lexus fans, would have dropped in an instant.The new V-10 powere...

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VIDEO: 2010 Lexus LS460 Sport-Has Lexus Launched A Direct Hit On The Mercedes S550 Sport?

Agent001 submitted on 11/20/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:22:45 PM

The Spies were hard at work capturing the first real-life shots of the  2010 Lexus LS Sport and Hybrid.We got a chance to drive them today and although the Sport version of the LS sedan still doesn't rival the drive of a BMW 7-Series, it is a be...

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AROUND THE NATION; Japan's Auto Union Chief Pledges to Help U.A.W.

1UAW submitted on 11/20/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:19:31 PM

The president of the Japan Automobile Workers' Unions pledged today to assist the United Automobile Workers in the United States in organizing workers in Japanese automobile plants in this country. Speaking before the U.A.W. convention here, Ichir...

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Report: Volkswagen looking to avoid job cuts

tryme submitted on 11/20/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:15:25 PM

It has become more likely that Volkswagen will be able to extend job guarantees until 2014 for 90,000 workers in its high-wage western German plants, according to a Reuters report. In an interview with Personnel Director Horst Neumann, VW is confirme...

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Toyota To Create A Model That Emulates The Volkswagen Scirocco

tryme submitted on 11/18/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:04:28 AM

A blogger has said, “Cars are not a mere means of mobility.” A very true statement but what makes it fascinating is that it didn’t come from just anyone. These were written by Akio Toyoda, the president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corpo...

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BMW, Infiniti, Lexus, Toyota All Get Snubbed As Top Safety Picks By IIHS

Agent009 submitted on 11/18/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:18:01 AM

Nineteen cars and 8 SUVs earn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's TOP SAFETY PICK award for 2010 For the first time, good performance in a roof strength test to measure protection in a rollover is required to win. TOP SAFETY PICK recognizes ...

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Car and Driver - 2010 Mazdaspeed 3 vs. 2010 Volkswagen GTI Comparo

TurboSpyder submitted on 11/16/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:55:30 AM

Before you start tickling your Blackberry to tell us we paired these two just a few months ago [“Dirty Speed, Done Dirt Cheap,” January 2009], listen up: These aren’t quite the same as the top two in that seven-way all-skate. Both have undergone make...

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Bmw planning to bring four-cylinder diesel engines to the United States

tryme submitted on 11/11/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:59:31 AM

BMW diesel cars still have a future in the United States. Tom Baloga, vice president of engineering for BMW of North America, said that he was confident that a four-cylinder diesel will show up in a range of U.S.-bound models in the next decade. Balo...

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VW Hits The Mark, Becomes Largest Auto Maker

Agent00R submitted on 11/9/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:15:00 AM

Congratulations, Volkswagen!  In lieu of this monumental occasion I will be taking delivery of a Touareg V6 TDI today.  Probably just a coincidence though.Autocar reports:"Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world’s lar...

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Michigan Discovers They Be The Last Ones Still Buying American Cars

Agent009 submitted on 11/9/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:12:16 AM

Michigan car buyers tend to purchase what their neighbors make, but that doesn't matter as much to the rest of the country, according to an analysis of data from the "cash for clunkers" incentive program."We really are a whole differen...

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REVIEW: Is The BMW X6 A Properly Good Hybrid?

Agent00R submitted on 11/9/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:39:11 AM

BMW doesn't do things by halves. This is their first full hybrid model, the ActiveHybrid X6, and it's the most powerful hybrid in the world. It combines a 407bhp 4.4-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine with a fiendishly complicated gearbox that contain...

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Look At Where The New Lexus HS250h Hybrid Is Showing Up. The Competition CAN'T Be Happy.

Agent001 submitted on 11/7/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:27:17 PM

There has been a lot of debate on AutoSpies.com on whether the new Lexus HS250h would succeed or fail.Comments like- "It looks like a re-badged Corolla" or "Who wants it? The mileage isn't great" or "A Diesel is a way better ...

66 user comments | Category: Spy News

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VW Moves Past Toyota And GM To Claim Largest Global Automaker Spot - Is It 2018 Already?

Agent009 submitted on 11/5/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:16:15 PM

Well, it was quicker and much earlier than expected, and many laughed at the thought when Volkswagen announced that wanted to be the number 1 car maker globally.  Big talk from the typically arrogant Germans, right?VW intially predicted they wou...

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FIRST Look: Ferrari's Latest Monster Comes Out To Play

Agent00R submitted on 11/5/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:40:38 AM

Come one, come all.  The Ferrari 458 may be this year's most exciting launch of a new product you cannot afford AND Evo's Chris Harris had the chance to drive it on the track and the road in Italy.You know, the place with spaghetti, a leaning to...

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GM Pisses Off German Government And Decides To Keep Opel

Agent009 submitted on 11/4/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:32:54 AM

Workers at automaker Opel planned walkouts to protest General Motor Co.'s decision not to sell the European subsidiary, while Germany's government vowed Wednesday to recover euro1.5 billion ($2.2 billion) it loaned GM to finance the sale. Klaus Franz...

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