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GM building Minicars for US

dannyboy2 submitted on 8/2/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:03:10 PM

The CEO of GM’s Daewoo Automotive Technology has speculated that a minicar similar to one of the three concepts shown at the New York Motor show earlier this year could be heading to the US and arriving as a 2011 model. This comes despite GM Vice Cha...

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Updated News: More on the 2008 Lexus GS and IS-F, with horsepower numbers!

Luxurious submitted on 7/30/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:14:33 PM

According to the latest issue of Motor Trend (September 2007, Volume 59, Number 9), and in an article about new car buyer's guide, they mentioned this: Lexus IS/IS-F:"...The first offering in the new Lexus F-series of ultra-perfomance cars, expect...

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Audi TT 3.2 Roadster, BMW Z4 3.0si, Porsche Boxster - Compared

bankhead submitted on 7/30/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:36:27 PM

This old too-hot, too-cold, just-right pattern extends through the seats-kind of soft (Audi), kind of hard (BMW), just right (Porsche)-and straight into the heart of each car's driving characteristics. While their six-cylinder engines differ by a mod...

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New 700HP Mercedes Super Car

SUPREMEPIZZA submitted on 7/30/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:34:49 AM

There have been rumors for quite some time of a McLaren/Mercedes-Benz split from building high-end road cars. In fact, after the ambitious but not-very-successful Mercedes SLR McLaren, shared plans for a smaller (and more affordable) super-sports mod...

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Hyundai Leads Both Porsche And Lexus In Overall Auto Brand Value Again?

Agent009 submitted on 7/27/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:36:51 PM

Hyundai Motor Company's brand power continues to rise as it was ranked 72nd in the 2007 Best Global Brands survey jointly conducted by Interbrand, a leading consultancy in branding and BusinessWeek, the New York-based global business media or...

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Who is next to follow BMW's lead into turbo technology?

Agent001 submitted on 7/27/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:36:55 PM

Thanks to a great tip from an internal mole, the Spies were first to announce that BMW was going to jump back in and start producing turbo's in their mainstream product line, almost two years before it actually was announced. And boy has that dec...

52 user comments | Category: Spy News

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BMW Wins Design Team Of The Year Award

Agent009 submitted on 7/26/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:20:17 AM

The exhibition dedicated to this year's winners of the red dot award hosted by the red dot design museum, which is situated on the grounds of Essen's World Cultural Heritage, the coal mine "Zeche Zollverein", was extended until 5 August, 2007. A...

54 user comments | Category: Spy Shots

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Can you guess the average age of G37 and 3-series coupe buyers? Bet you can't.

Agent001 submitted on 7/25/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:42:02 PM

All the buzz, all the ads and marketing paint an image of a handsome/pretty 30 year old, successful executive/entreprenuer who eats sushi, watches reality shows on MTV/VH1 and drinks Red Bull, as the customer of the Infiniti G37 or the BMW 3-Series c...

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Kia Cee’d three-door revealed

baharnu submitted on 7/25/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:23:32 PM

Kia Motors Corporation has released the first preview image of its exciting new Kia three-door hatchback model which will make its World Premiere at this year’s Frankfurt International Motor Show on 11 September....

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F1 Episonage Case Implicates Ferrari Driver

Agent009 submitted on 7/25/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:19:16 AM

In an unexpected twist to the ongoing drama about theft of confidential Ferrari documents that turned up in the possession of McLaren’s chief engineer, it is being reported by Sky Sports in Great Britain that McLaren’s star driver, world champion Fer...

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Audi Blames Lack of Outright ALMS Victories on Restricting Rules

Agent009 submitted on 7/24/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:49:10 AM

Audi believe that they would have beaten the LMP2 Porsches for the first time since the second round of the season if they weren't running smaller fuel tanks. The LMP1 Audi R10s have been unable to fight with the lighter LMP2 cars on most of the ...

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Porsche shows official images of Porsche 911 GT2

omarrana submitted on 7/13/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:27:36 PM

We just brought you the leaked brochure of the new Porsche 911 GT2. Porsche has now answered back with official images of the car. The Porsche 911 GT2 is powered by a 3.6 liter boxter six that produces 530 horsepower with 505 lb-ft. of torque. W...

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2008 BMW M3 beats a Carrera S on the Nurburgring-This document shows you how

Agent001 submitted on 7/10/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 9:17:16 PM

Those are fightin' words! Today, at the BMW press rollout of the 2008 BMW M3 I asked a BMW engineer if he thought the new M3 was better than a Porsche 911. And without hesitation he said yes and that it beat the 911 Carrera S on the Nurburgrin...

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What has gone wrong with BMW "M" cars?

GermanNut submitted on 7/8/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 5:01:24 PM

What has gone wrong with BMW's spectacular "M" division? The 400 horsepower M5 and E46 M3 were undeniably the best in class. They offered handling, feedback, poise and confidence that would make the competition envious. When people simply wanted t...

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