| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTOSHOWS | SUBSCRIBE | MARKETPLACE |  |  | The Lexus GX 460... | | Consumer Reports said on Tuesday that it found the Lexus GX 460 SUV to be a safety risk and urged its readers not to buy the vehicle until it is fixed. The magazine hasn’t branded a vehicle as unfit to buy in nearly 10 years. The magazine says that its testers found that the back end of the GX was prone to swinging out if the driver quickly lets off the throttle in the midst of a... |
|  | | SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: If your tastes run to serious, macho, off-road vehicles, but you need some room for the brood and would like your kidneys to continue functioning past that 72nd payment, this four-door Jeep Wrangler Unlimited is the way to go. I put the vehicle through...
|  | | The 2011 Chevrolet Volt continues to rack up test miles as it streaks toward launch in the United States late this year. Engineers said they have put 250,000 miles collectively on test Volts since November, and have flogged the extended-range electric vehicle in extreme cold-weather conditions....
|  | | Sometimes, hope floats. Other times, it sinks like tungsten. The infamous U.S. F1 debacle of 2009-10, as history will surely remember it, took yet another in a long list of hits on Monday with the news that London's High Court authorized an unnamed U.K. creditor to seize two of the teams...
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|  | | Former Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore has confirmed that he has reached an agreement with the FIA to put an end to the 2008 Singapore GP affair but says he has not admitted any personal guilt in relation to the incident.The FIA issued a statement on Monday afternoon saying that Briatore and Pat...
|  | | Mini USA has confirmed that it will bring a limited number of the John Cooper Works World Championship 50 to the U.S. market after all. Previously, the company said that it would produce 250 of the hatch-based special editions and distribute them only in Europe.Apparently, demand in the United...
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|  | | General Motors says it will spend $8 million to double the size of its Global Battery Systems Lab, which the company claims is the largest and most technologically advanced automotive battery lab in the United States. GM says the expansion will speed up the development of hybrid and electric...
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