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New Cars Sitting on Dealer Lots Longer Than Expected
New vehicle inventories have risen at new car dealers during the month of April. According to MSNBC ,dealer incentives to move new product have gone up 13 percent to 16.4 billion, yet this has had...
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Exploring Ecuador's Crazy Mountain Roads and Rally Culture
When last we received a missive from Ryan's rallyist adventures, he was following a Porsche GT3 Cup Car through Targa New Zealand. Now, in the latest of a new series of /MY LIFE AS A RALLYIST episodes,...
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Israel Strikes Supposed Arms Depot At Syria's Damascus International Airport
The outskirts of Syria's capital were rocked in the early hours on Thursday by what is now reported to have been an air strike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on a compound located on the...
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Volkswagen Teases New T-Roc Compact SUV
Volkswagen dropped a surprising twist this morning, when the auto giant teases a very camouflaged version of its new crossover, known as the T-Roc. Volkswagen, similar to other manufacturers, has been...
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VW-Backed Ride-Hailing Company Gett Buys Juno for $200 Million
The proliferation of ride-hailing apps may be coming to an end. Gett, a ride-hailing company backed by Volkswagen, is purchasing New York area rival Juno in a deal worth $200 million, the company...
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2018 McLaren 720S: 7 First Impressions, Straight from Rome
I'm still tingling as I write this, having just driven the spectacular, $288,475 McLaren 720S back into the pits at Autodromo Vallelunga, the high-speed Italian circuit that hosted the Rome Grand Prix...
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Henrik Fisker Teases EMotion Electric Car Prior to Summer Debut
The Fisker Karma wasn't what you'd call a sales success. Even though big names celebrities like Justin Bieber picked them up and decked them out in chrome, things didn't pan out like the brand had...
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Sound Comparison: Ferrari 458 Challenge vs. 488 GT3
Many have cried sacrilege since the debut of the not-so-naturally aspirated Ferrari 488 family. The model's downsized turbo engine has increased both horsepower and torque significantly over the 458,...
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Freighter Full of Sheep Accidentally Sinks Russian Spy Ship
A Russian spy ship has sunk after a collision with a freighter carrying sheep near Turkey’s Bosphorus strait. The accident underscores the busy nature of the strategic entry point into the Black Sea...
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Air Force Releases Causes Of Recent B-52 And U-2 Crashes
New information has come to light regarding two major mishaps we covered in detail here at The War Zone. The first has to do with the total loss of a B-52H Stratofortress that was taking off from...
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F1 Driver Daniil Kvyat's New Helmet Antagonizes His Opponent
At the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai International Circuit, a controversial incident between Scuderia Ferrari drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing driver Daniil Kvyat...
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Toyota To Recall 228,000 Tacomas Due To Differential Defect
For nearly 228,000 owners of 2016 and 2017 model year Toyota Tacomas, this isn't the locking rear differential that was supposed to come with the truck, as an oil leak in the rear differential has...
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France Turned the B-26 Invader Into a Colonial Night Fighter
Douglas’ Invader attack aircraft, commonly known by the designations A-26 and B-26, had a prolific, multi-decade service life fighting around the world with a dozen different countries. However, only...
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BMW M760Li xDrive Ad Banned in Britain for 'Condoning Irresponsible Driving'
The BMW M760Li xDrive has run into another snag. Just a day after reporting on an engine-related recall for the not-M7, BMW has reportedly been forced to issue another recall of sorts. Back in January,...
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Ferrari 488 GTO Could Be In The Works, Report Says
Rumors are whirling as a report from Autocar claims we may see a Ferrari 488 GTO model sometime soon. Sightings of a highly camouflaged prototype have been made-an obviously pumped up version of the...
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Runway Acceleration Testing A Techart GT Street R
We, as an automotive culture, are reaching the zenith of possible acceleration figures. Between Tesla's insane four-wheel electric launches, Dodge's demonic wrinkle-wall rear slick tires, and Porsche's...
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2017 Mini Countryman Goes Big and Wins
Bigger-is-better has rarely been a winning formula for Mini, whose entire ethos springs from molecular smallness. Even BMW's reborn Mini Cooper of 2002, though it dwarfed the seminal 1959 Mini designed...
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Mazda Profits Down 44.6 Percent From Previous Year
Mazda's latest fiscal year report is out and the numbers don't look good. Operating profit was down 44.6 percent compared to the previous fiscal year, which ended up being 4.3 percent lower than the...
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Watch Hennessey's "Exorcist" 1,000-HP Chevy Camaro ZL1 Scream On the Dyno
Hennessey Performance's new 1,000-horsepower Chevy Camaro ZL1 known as "The Exorcist" is, at least on one level, a publicity stunt designed to capitalize on the tsunami of attention being attracted by...
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NASA Is Running Out of Space Suits for Space Walks
In spite of President Donald Trump's Mars-shot desires to the contrary, NASA isn't quite at the top of its game these days. America's space agency has been dependent upon the Russians to run personnel...
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