Car Industry's 2010 Face Off... ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who were technically dead as ... Continue reading >
100+ years since the invention of the self-propelled car, three new engines battle for a place in the automotive future. Which one do you see in your car 10 years from now?
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After we previously stepped in the worlds of AMG and BMW, today we'll continue our debate over sport divisions around the world with a new and well-known unit: OPC. Mostly known as Opel's sport subsidiary, the Opel Performance Center (abbreviated as OPC) has a ...
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We would have preferred not to have to write this piece. It is, in essence, an obituary. This might not tell many of you who or why Pontiac was. A niche brand, built only for those who knew what they want from a car. Pontiac, even if it set out to a volume produced ...
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Sport divisions are undoubtedly playing a key role when it comes to the performance figures of a specific road car because they usually struggle to bring all those high-performance elements seen in races in street-legal vehicles. Today, we'll continue our journey among ...
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Forty-five years ago, on March 9, 1964, Ford's Dearborn plant in Michigan witnessed the production start of what was to become one of the most successful vehicles in the manufacturer's history. No one suspected at the time that what they called the Mustang will ...
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Sport Divisions in the Spotlight - AMGCOVERSTORYWhat's the first thing that comes to your mind when hearing about AMG? We'll start by saying that the correct answer would be high-performance. But AMG is way more than that and you'll perfectly understand that while reading this article. Just from the very beginning, AMG was destined for success. The story began on June 1, 1967 when Hans Werner Aufrecht and his partner Erhard Melcher founded a company whose first goal was to build high-performance and race cars based on the Mercedes-Benz 300 SE. In case you were wondering where does the company's name come from, AMG actually stands for Aufrecht, Melcher and Aufrecth's birthplace - Großaspach. The two men initially worked in an old mill in Burgstall, near Affalterbach, and struggled to design high-performance race cars to compete ... >> Read more |
Ground-shaking, earth-rumbling, ear-popping and heart-pumping Muscle Cars are as American as pearly-white teeth, fast-food establishments, helicopter-filmed car chases in the news and Baywatch. And we mean this in the good way. Some fifty years ago, what later ...
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Some people collect stamps, some bugs, others go for jars, while others simply collect rare miniature high performance cars covered with artwork. Try to read the last part faster and you'll see how strange it sounds. A bit like a comedian's line during a stand-up ...
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... or the cars of the future? This is yet to be determined, but in the last couple of months we have been subject to an all out offensive of the environment friendly all-electric vehicle. It would seem that entrepreneurs all over the world found the answer to ...
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There's no doubt high-performance cars are a very interesting topic but, more importantly, they have become the subject of several companies who struggle to beat the World's Fastest Production Car record. Mercedes, Bentley, Ferrari and Lamborghini are just a few ...
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In the eyes of some people, the life story of Ross Brawn is the epitome of success. From a trainee at the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Oxfordshire, via a job as a milling machine operator for March Engineering to owner of his very own Formula One ...
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What's the first thing that comes in your mind when hearing about Volvo? 99 percent of people would answer "safety". And yes, Volvo is indeed famous for the advanced safety its models provide, with XC 60 often referred to as the most advanced model in the ...
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We can hardly imagine a car without headlamps nowadays, as driving an automobile during night without these now-mandatory parts is surely impossible. However, there were times when people actually drove vehicles without headlamps (sure, they weren't actually ...
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We, not being criminals and all, have no idea what drives a person who commits a crime to choose a car over another. Whatever those reasons may be, the fact remains that since it became available for the masses, the automobile has become as indispensable to the ...
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The Roman supreme pontiffs have a long history of being driven around in bespoke carriages, specially designed coaches and custom made cars. Of all the car manufacturers who at one point have supplied the Pope with a vehicle, Mercedes-Benz stands out as the one ...
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We don't want to spend that much time introducing this article, mainly because the title speaks for itself. The year 2008 has brought us little hush-hush to talk about, but the ones that have made the headlines were simply astonishing. Here's the Top 5, as we see ...
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More than three quarters of a century ago, a name which eventually became synonymous with some of the world's most beautiful and prestigious automobiles was getting its first baby steps in the world of automobile coachworking. A future legend named Giovanni ...
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Aside from the fact that it is one of the most popular roads in the world, there’s no doubt that Autobahn is one of the oldest and interesting things you’ll see in your whole life. Even though Autobahn is the German word for “highway” ...
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The Dakar Rally has always been the scene of some of the most intense and breathtaking tests of bravery in the world. Aside from the fact that it involves several forms of motor racing, this race has always been about something more than just getting to the finish line ...
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Today we're going to start a trivia article about the most important inventions in the history of the automobile. Since there is no such thing as an all-knowledgeable source out there, this text will be in a continuous development, and this is only the beginning. ...
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The interwar period was a time of changes throughout the world. The 1925 Paris exhibition, officially titled “Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes”, marked the starting point of the Art Deco movement. Influencing just ...
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