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Audi to laud A3 TDI “Green Car of the Year” in Super Bowl ad

Monday, January 11, 2010

Few ever mistake a German automaker with spontaneous jokes, frivolity or slapstick humor, however Audi of America will do just that in a Super Bowl ad next month when it spoofs its award-winning Audi A3 TDI with a tongue-in-cheek green theme backed by rock legend band "Cheap Trick."

Tell Santa: What Features Aren’t Automakers Giving You?

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Tell Santa: What Features Aren’t Automakers Giving You?

There’s really a disappointing trend going on in the car industry if you’re a car but, the death of the manual transmission. It’s not just the “average” car that can’t come with the ability to row your own, but some high powered beasts that only mount power through a slushbox...

Insane automotive photography, Part II: Hillbilly HDR, Corvette Z06, Ford GT Burnout, and rigshots

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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We've re-invented our insane automotive photography feature as a weekly format of the best and most amazing automotive related pictures posted to our Insane Automotive Photography Group on Flickr. This week we have hillbilly HDR, Corvette Z06, a Ford GT Burnout, and some amazing rigshots.

Insane automotive photography, Part I: Super cars, american muscle, and even the Eiffel Tower

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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We're re-inventing our insane automotive photography feature as a weekly format of the best and most amazing automotive related pictures posted to our Insane Automotive Photography Group on Flickr. This week we have super cars, super views, american muscle, and European luxury.

IIHS Releases Safest New Vehicles for 2010

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released its list of cars awarded Top Safety Pick. The 27 vehicle list includes 19 cars and 8 SUV's. The Big Winner? Subaru, with five of its cars winning the awards from the IIHS. The Subaru Forester, Subaru Impreza (except WRX), Subaru Legacy, Subaru Outback and Subaru Tribeca were selected, that's almost Subaru's entire lineup. Volvo and Volkswagen also cleaned up with four cars a piece taking home a trophy. Detroit was not to be out done, each Big Three Automaker had at least two cars make the list. The IIHS points out that Toyota and it's subsidiaries were absent from the list after receiving 11 awards last year, as well as BMW, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and Saab for not having qualifying vehicles. Other big surprises include the Honda Accord and Ford Fusion missing the grade for only meeting 'acceptable' standards in the new roof safety standards.

Consumer Reports’ 2009 Reliability Survey- Ford Fusion tops Honda Accord and Toyota Camry

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Ford scored big in this year's Consumer Reports 2009 Car Reliability Survey. As the only Detroit automaker to be labeled with "world-class" reliability, 46 of 51 Ford/Lincoln/Mercury products scored average or above average. General Motors did well with some of its new offerings but Chrysler continued to struggle. Who took home the "most reliable" and "least reliable" titles? Read on and find out...

Top five ways to induce road rage like a pro

Monday, October 12, 2009

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Chet Atkins once said, "Once you become predicable, no one's interested anymore." I don't know who Chet Atkins is, but I do know that mixing up your driving style is an easy way to keep time behind the wheel very interesting.

Hey internet, don’t forget to vote for your favorite car and truck of the year!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Hey internet, don’t forget to vote for your favorite car and truck of the year!

There's a lot of fancy awards going on around the automotive industry. Car and Driver have the 10 Best, Motor Trend has their own car and truck of the year, and there's even the North American Car and Truck of the year, just to name a few. Unfortunately all of these award are voted on by editors and writers, not by you. Now a new award is set to change all that.

Volkswagen recalls 53,300 new vehicles, announces service program to address DSG complaints

Friday, August 28, 2009

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Volkswagen Group of America has announced that it will ramp up an official customer service program to specifically address DSG related issues for Volkswagen and Audi models. At the same time, the company announced a new recall that includes over 50,000 vehicles.

VW DSG reader stories round 2- Failures reported in non-recall models

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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It's time for round two of reader-submitted Volkswagen DSG failure stories. Today we have three stories, each bringing new light to how widespread the DSG failure issues may be while posing an entirely scary question- Is the current recall just the tip of the iceburg? You don't want to miss this.