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Daily Drive: Cadillac confirms twin-turbo V6 for 2014 CTS

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Monday, March 18, 2013                 
The 2014 Cadillac CTS will be offered with a twin-turbo V6 rated at 420 hp....
The redesigned 2014 Cadillac CTS sedan that goes on sale this fall will have a 420-hp twin-turbo 3.6-liter V6 as an option, General Motors said Monday. The redesigned CTS will be unveiled later this month at the New York auto show. The intercooled, direct-...

  The legendary Nürburgring racetrack in Germany is up for sale. The track complex could be broken into pieces or sold as a single entity. Jens Lieser, a state-appointed liquidator, confirmed the sale on Monday. The North Loop (Nordshcleife) was built in the 1920s around the village of Nürburg in...

  Mercedes-Benz has revealed the interior for its next-generation S-class in a series of darkly lit photographs aimed at emphasizing...

  What Is It? The 2014 Impala is Chevy's all-new flagship sedan. It's nice looking, has a good ride and it's loaded with connectivity. Chevy's goal is to make you forget the bland fleet-sales plodder-of-a-car that this one replaces -- maybe even make the new

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  Chrysler Group will cut short the Chrysler 200 sedan's 2014 model year to launch a redesigned version in January. Internal Chrysler documents indicate that the 2014 Chrysler 200 will start production in July at...

  Volkswagen is building the business case for a large SUV in the United States. The vehicle is a key to the company's plan to nearly double the VW brand's U.S. sales to 800,000 units by 2018. A three-row, seven-seat concept ...

  The Subaru BRZ and its Scion FR-S cousin have caused quite the stir in the car world with their simple, lightweight, rear-wheel-drive coupe makeup. ...

  How can you tell that Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway took place on St. Patrick's Day? Because it ended with a huge fight and somebody throwing up. More on those things later. Jokes about...

  McLaren endured a disastrous start to the Formula One season in Australia, with Jenson Button and Sergio Perez...

  Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali says that Fernando Alonso’s second-place [finish] in Australia is a...

  We spied this homebrew mudder, which we're dubbing the Ford Grande Torino, while on a maple syruping expedition near Mesick, Mich. We like to think that its owner simply swaps the body back to the original rear-wheel drive chassis...


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