Friday, April 9, 2010

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TheCarLoft: Vanilla Ice's Live-In Social Garage Project

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 10:57 AM PDT

It's a classic first-world dilemma: you have all your dream cars, but you can only drive one at a time, and they live in a garage, out of sight of your friends and family. How to get the full enjoyment of displaying them in a social environment? Rob Van Winkle--perhaps most widely known as Vanilla Ice--and his partner Hans Reinisch have the...


Monterey Motorsports Reunion Celebrates 60th Anniversary Of Formula 1

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:39 AM PDT

This summer will see the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, nee Monterey Historics, head to Laguna Seca for some vintage racing fun, and part of the show will be a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Formula 1. Among the 38 cars to take the grid will be a 1976 Tyrrell P34 six-wheeler, a pair of Colin Chapman's F1 cars driven by Mario Andretti...


For Your Friday Viewing Pleasure: A Short Film About The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:22 AM PDT

Remember that amazing video of Michael Schumacher looping a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG around the wall of a two-lane tunnel? Well, Mercedes has taken that clip,  added some archival footage of previous gullwings in action, plus commentary from legendary German F1 driver Hans Herrmann, and created a short film about the highly anticipated supercar. Even...


Video: BMW, Audi, Volvo Talk About Selling Luxury In A Recession-Wary World

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:50 AM PDT

The world of today is a little different from the one we inhabited just two or three years ago. Free-wheeling credit, a strong housing market, Pontiac: all gone, the dusty excesses of yesteryear. Even luxury consumers -- usually a consistent lot -- have pulled in the reins on spending. But of course, people around the world still need cars. So how...


2011 Lotus Elise Scores 46.6 MPG, Cleanest Sports Car In Class

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:26 AM PDT

The "added lightness" mantra is well-known in performance circles--cutting weight helps everything about a sports car, from acceleration to braking to handling. And it also helps out emissions, it turns out. Lotus today announced the 2011 Elise scored 46.6 mpg US and a mere 239 grams of CO2 emissions per mile, making it the cleanest, most...


Frugal Shopper: For Cost-Conscious Commuters, Sedans Make Sense

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:30 AM PDT

We've recently reported that there are a lot of deals to be had on new vehicles this season—especially on SUVs and trucks. But the flip side is that the costs of vehicle ownership are up significantly this year, and those very same aspects that are making some SUVs looking like such a steal at the dealership could come back to haunt you. According...


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